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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

4.1 (7)
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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Advanced selections: the Magic Wand tool

The Magic Wand tool is one of the best selection tools because it selects objects based on their tones; plus, it's so easy to use. If I use the example on an image featuring a blue sky and a dark landscape, clicking on the blue sky with the Magic Wand tool will inevitably select everything that is blue, but if the sky fades from dark blue to light blue, as most skies do, you might find that Magic Wand only selects a band of color, not the entire sky. This is because the pixels that you click on represent a certain shade of blue. The tool will not automatically select every pixel that's blue. Its sensitivity (to the range of blues, in this example) is controlled by the Tolerance slider. The default value for this is 32, so if I were to increase the tolerance value to, say, 100, it would grab a lot more of the sky. If you set it to the maximum value, 255, the tool will select everything in the image, regardless of its color.

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