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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)

Facebook

According to Facebook guidelines, high-resolution images can be as large as 2,048 pixels (wide). This particular dimension will produce the best visual result—even if Facebook's automatic compression algorithms, which are added to every upload, are heavier (more damaging) than most people might be comfortable with. Unfortunately, there's nothing you can do about the compression level. If the images don't appear as good as you hoped, try re-editing them and upload them again—this only takes a few minutes. Facebook is the world's largest repository of images, so, with something like 300 million images uploaded every day, I'm surprised that its compression algorithms aren't even more aggressive.

One typical method of reducing the resolution of an image that is destined for posting on a personal website or social media would be to use the Image Size tool (Image | Resize | Image Size). This is fine for one or two images but tedious...