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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)

Summary

In this chapter, we have explored some of Photoshop Elements' "other" features. By this I mean those that are not part of mainstream editing but are still notable—for their ease of use, productivity, and visual impact.

By now we should all be familiar with processes such as using the Camera RAW utility, controlling brightness and contrast adjustments using Levels, and manipulating color intensity using the powerful Hue/Saturation feature.

But there's a great deal more to explore in this application, so hopefully this chapter has inspired you to look further afield—into all the additional menus, panels, and processes, and then to play with some of the very cool features that you'll find there.

In the next chapter, we look forward to an adventure into the world of graphic design. Although this program began life as a simple JPEG photo editing program, it's evolved into a sophisticated image editor and asset management application...