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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)

Basic drawing techniques

Now, let's learn a few drawing basics that anyone can achieve, starting by using a neat point-to-point drawing technique to create a perfect square or rectangle using any of the brush-based tools in Elements. In fact, this technique also works with all Elements retouching and drawing tools.

Step one: Turn on the Grid (Ctrl/Cmd + ').

Step two: Choose a drawing brush (such as the Pencil or Brush tool).

Step three: Mouse-click once on point A.

Step four: Hold Shift and mouse-click point B. The pencil line joins point A to B in a straight line.

Step five: Hold Shift and mouse-click point C. The pencil line joins point B to C in a straight line.

Step six: Hold Shift and mouse-click point D. The pencil line joins point C to D in a straight line.

Final step: Hold Shift and mouse-click point A. The pencil line joins point D back to point A.

(Note that this point-to-point drawing technique works with all the Eraser,...