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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

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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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The Auto Selection tool

As with Refine Edge Brush, the Auto Selection tool is relatively new to Photoshop Elements. It combines the action of the regular Lasso tools with the Auto Selection functionality of Quick Selection Brush. What this means in practical terms is that if you want to make a freehand selection of a particular area using Lasso, once you let go of the mouse, having completed the selection as close to the edges as you can, the line snaps to the nearest edge of contrast. In the Tool Options panel, you can also set this feature to Auto Enhance once the selection has finished drawing—sometimes this is beneficial, sometimes not. You'll find the same process in the quirky Whiten Teeth tool in Quick mode.

If you search for examples of how this selection tool is used, you'll probably find it's only applied to a certain type of image. The reason for this is simply that every image that requires a selection is very different...

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