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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)

High Pass sharpening

Another useful way of applying sharpness to an image is to combine a fairly obscure filter, High Pass, with a layer Blend Mode. The High Pass filter applies a mid-gray mask over the image, which highlights differences in edge contrast—much like the masking feature we saw in the Unsharp Mask tool. The gray areas are exempt from sharpening while the lighter edges that you see in the gray field get sharper. If you really want your images to pop, try this using the Hard Light blend mode, although Soft Light and Overlay also work.

Step one: To achieve this technique, first duplicate the layer (Layer>Duplicate) and choose the High Pass filter from the Filter>Other menu.

Below: This is what the High Pass filter looks like at a value of 10 pixels. Weird. In essence, the popping effect we are about to see is added to the parts of the image that are not mid-gray—essentially, the highlighted edges of the subject only.

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