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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)

Color Replacement brush

You could have a lot of fun with this feature—applying the color change effect to similar-colored pixels so that Elements covers the area with a color wash. How much it changes is mostly influenced by the Tolerance slider.

Main image: I repainted the town hall in the background in a couple of minutes with the Color Replacement tool. I thought that this was a pretty good result.

So, if I want to replace blue with red, provided that all the blue pixels are the same value, it will work very well – but we all know that life in the digital editing realm is not like this, so that's why we have the Tolerance slider to make Elements a bit more or less sensitive when it's applying a color change. Increase the tolerance and it will apply the change to lighter and darker shades of blue. You have different brush styles to choose from: four different Blend Modes (I find Color works best), and the inevitable Contiguous...