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Mastering Adobe Photoshop Elements 2021 - Third Edition

By : Robin Nichols
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Mastering Adobe Photoshop Elements 2021 - Third Edition

By: Robin Nichols

Overview of this book

Managing thousands of images while producing perfectly edited results is now a must-have skill for online bloggers, influencers, vloggers, social media users, and photography enthusiasts. Photoshop Elements helps you to manage this easily and boost your creative output. This third edition is updated with Elements 2021’s latest features and focuses on Adobe's AI-powered features along with the entire creative workflow. Each chapter is designed to help you get the most out of your image files in an easy way. You’ll learn how to add significant visual improvements to your work using no more than a few one-click edits with AI-driven features and manual adjustments. The book is filled with useful instructions to guide you seamlessly through the often complex processes, tools, and features in Photoshop Elements. Finally, you’ll cover everything from developing your organizational skills through to creating remarkable special effects, complex text, image combinations, and eye-popping visual techniques using both AI-driven features as well as manually operated tools. By the end of this Photoshop Elements book, you'll have learned how to leverage the impressive tools available in Photoshop Elements 2021, and use them to greatly improve your photo editing and image retouching skills.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Perfect Portrait

Elements now has two "Perfect" Guided edits—Perfect Landscape and this one, Perfect Portrait. It's actually an amalgamation of not one, but eight different editing tools and processes, nicely lined up in the panel on the right-hand side of the screen.

Portrait Perfect: The advantage of a feature like Perfect Portrait is not so much that it works really well—it does—but rather that it assembles all the features that you'd need to make a portrait appear perfect. You don't have to use them all, but the relevant ones are there in the toolbox. It's a bit similar to the toolbox a carpenter might take on a job—they're not necessarily going to use everything, but at least they have all situations covered.

To use Perfect Portrait, open your image, and run the feature (Guided Edit>Special Edits>Perfect Portrait). The most important function is the Smooth Skin feature—as...