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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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Old Fashioned Photo

Black and white conversions, despite Elements having an easy-to-use Convert to Black and White feature (under Enhance) can be tricky—it's easy enough to do it, but to do it well, with a richness of tonality, takes a bit of skill. I have included this Guided Edit feature because it does a great job of tinting images—not just "sepia toning" but really offering a cool range of color tones that most would have never thought to create in the past. Now you can!

Step one: This first feature (outlined in red) borrows a few of the recipes from the Convert to Black and White tool under Enhance (such as Newspaper, Urban, and Vivid), allowing you to first off add a bit of contrast "kick" to the converted mono tones.

Step two: Adjust Tones affects the contrast—get it looking good, then on to Add Texture. Most really old photographs actually have less grain and artifacts than we have now—even...

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