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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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Using a graphics tablet

We have already discussed several uses for the Brush tool, notably in creating layer masks, in previous chapters, but it can also be used as a real brush. To do this, you really need to be very adept at drawing with a mouse, or you might consider buying a graphics tablet or graphics monitor.

Tablet devices are perfect for artists because, instead of drawing with a mouse, you use a pen stylus, which is roughly the same size and shape as a real pen, and draw onto the tablet as if it were the screen itself. Interestingly, tablets are also available as graphics monitors – digital screens onto which you can draw – but these are significantly more expensive.

Tablets come in a staggering range of sizes, though the larger the better since they provide more drawing accuracy and features. But even a $50 model will serve you well. One leading name in tablets is Wacom, which produces a complete range of products, from entry...

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