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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)

8 Advanced Drawing and Painting Techniques

This chapter will look at some of the more esoteric design functions that you'll find in Elements. I use the word esoteric simply because these features are more graphic than photographic, more illustrative than documentary. However, as you'll see here, these features can be used to create impressive standalone designs, or they can be incorporated into your day-to-day photography projects to produce outstanding results.

As you'll see in this chapter, it's not so hard to push your experience into the field of basic graphic design—and if that's not your interest, we'll also look at some of Elements' creative brush effects, tools such as the cool Impressionist Brush, and even learn how to manipulate photos using some of the thousands of free custom brushes available online—just to get you started.

Topics that we will learn in this chapter:

  • The View menu
  • Using brushes
  • Brush...