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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)

Unsharp Mask

We looked at the sharpening process in Chapter 3, The Basics of Image Editing, but I think it's worth going over some of the more important points again to ensure that your output quality is 100%.

The regular Unsharp Mask filter from the Enhance menu has three sliders and a small preview window:

  • The Amount slider is the amount of enhancement that's added to the edges of the contrast.
  • The Radius slider controls how much attention is spread either side of the contrast edge.
  • The Threshold slider has the effect of blending or softening the contrast edge.

If the Amount and Radius sliders are increased too much, the sharpening effect looks very gritty and unpleasant to the eye. Adding a Threshold amount will help to soften the overall result.

Unfortunately, the downside of using this particular filter is that it's not possible to control the unsharp mask. We can do this in the Camera RAW window.

The Unsharp Mask...