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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)

Adjust Facial Features: Face Tilt

Since its first appearance a couple of releases ago, Adjust Facial Features has made its mark on the editing community. It works brilliantly to make slight adjustments to the human face—rounder eyes, thinner cheeks, and flatter-shaped eyebrows. Elements 2021 has taken the AI technology one step further with a new feature called Face Tilt, which you'll see at the bottom of the Adjust panel. Of course, like its parent Adjust feature, it only really works if the AI can identify a face, or faces, in the shot.

Then, using AI, and a fair bit of background selectivity and pixel manipulation, you can rotate the face area left/right, up/down, and at a rotational angle. Sounds crazy, yes? I thought so, but soon discovered that it actually works.

Re-compose by warping pixels: I found this cute picture where both babies are not really looking at the camera—and, using this tool, managed to manipulate their angelic...