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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)

Adobe vectors

As we have already seen, Photoshop Elements comes packed with vector clip art that you can use in your various projects. Actually, these assets are not in the Elements application when it's first downloaded, but every time you pick a vector item from the Graphics panel, it will automatically download from Adobe. Since these are vector graphics, their size is tiny, so they take no time to download. Vectors are made from mathematical formulae and not pixels. Photographs are made up of individual pixels, so they take up a lot more space.

To appreciate just how easy vectors are to work with, let's make a custom greeting card:

Step one: To make your own custom greeting card, create a new document (File>New>Blank Document). Before you start the design process, I recommend that you search for envelopes that match your cards. It's annoying if you go ahead and design a card and then find that no one makes envelopes to match the size of the...