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Mastering Adobe Photoshop Elements 2021

Mastering Adobe Photoshop Elements 2021

By : Robin Nichols
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Mastering Adobe Photoshop Elements 2021

Mastering Adobe Photoshop Elements 2021

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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.
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In Detail: Noise reduction

Digital noise is the bane of any photographer's life. It's caused (mostly) by using high ISO settings while shooting in poor light. Ironically, high ISO in good lighting usually has negligible noise effects. Smaller sensor cameras are particularly prone to this horrible side effect. Sharpening can also increase the look of added graininess in the file, so we have to use a little Noise Reduction to keep the result looking clean and clear of noise.

There are two kinds of noise: Luminance and Color noise. Both are horrible to look at, but perhaps color noise is worse:

  • Luminance noise is just a graininess in the image, seen especially in the darker, underexposed parts of a scene. The higher the ISO rating, the more it appears. Underexposure will also show noise far more than if shooting in daylight. The Luminance noise slider softens the texture of the picture. Too much, and the image might take on a slightly surreal, airbrushed...

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