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Mastering Adobe Photoshop Elements 2022

Mastering Adobe Photoshop Elements 2022

By : Robin Nichols
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Mastering Adobe Photoshop Elements 2022

Mastering Adobe Photoshop Elements 2022

4.1 (8)
By: Robin Nichols

Overview of this book

Managing thousands of images while producing perfectly edited results has now become a must-have skill for bloggers, influencers, all social media users, and photography enthusiasts. Photoshop Elements 2022 has all the right tools to help you manage your growing multimedia assets and significantly boost your creative output. This fourth edition is updated with Elements 2022's latest features, including Adobe's AI-powered tools that perfectly complement its entire creative workflow. Each chapter is designed to help you get the most from your image files in a simple, easy-to-follow way. You'll find out how to add significant visual improvements to your projects using brilliant AI-driven single-click edits or through more complex manual adjustments, all depending on your skill level and requirements. The book is packed with clear instructions to guide you effortlessly through the hundreds of processes, tools, and features in Photoshop Elements 2022. You'll cover everything from developing your organizational skills through to creating remarkable images using photos, text, graphics, downloadable content, animation, and a range of fantastic AI-driven features. By the end of this Photoshop Elements book, you'll have learned how to leverage the impressive tools available in Photoshop Elements 2022 with confidence.
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Editing RAW files: the Detail (sharpening) tab

Sharpening is all about contrast—and in particular, edge contrast. If you make the darks go darker and the lights go a bit lighter, you add contrast—and the image appears clearer and sharper. A little sharpening can even make a (slightly) shaky-looking shot appear a bit clearer, and it can make an already clear image look really stunning.

It's also very important to sharpen for specific output requirements. Sharpening for print is different from sharpening for social media. It's even slightly different for different types of paper stock (such as glossy or matte) because each has a varied absorbency characteristic.

The Detail (Sharpening, or more correctly, Unsharp Masking) tab offers some adjustments that don't make a lot of sense until you understand how a sharpening mask actually works:

  • Sharpening: Adds the amount of sharpening effect to the file. Set it to 100 and move on to refine...

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