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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 Smooth Skin feature

If you are stuck for time, or don't want the effort of learning the basics of retouching using the Clone Stamp or Spot Healing Brush tools, use the Perfect Portrait feature or, maybe simpler still, use Elements' new Enhance>Smooth Skin feature. As you can clearly see in the screen grab on the left, Perfect Portrait also allows you to increase the contrast (which I did in the following image), use the retouching tools, and add a beautiful glow, all in the space of a few minutes. It's a great feature that, like most of Elements' semi-automated processes, works almost flawlessly, as seen below.

The new Smooth Skin feature, found under the Enhance menu, is simpler than Perfect Portrait. It isolates the face automatically (as you see here in the inset screen) and offers a degree of softening effect and a preview On/Off slider. The result that you can see in the second image here is impressive (see below), but note that it doesn...

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