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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
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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.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
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Preface
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Preface
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Who this book is for
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What this book covers
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To get the most out of this book
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Download the color images
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Conventions used
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Get in touch
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Share Your Thoughts
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Chapter 1: Photoshop Elements Features Overview
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Chapter 1: Photoshop Elements Features Overview
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What's New in Photoshop Elements 2022?
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How Elements is designed to work
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A typical workflow example
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How I edit images
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The five faces of Adobe Photoshop Elements 2022
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The Home screen
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The Organizer
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The catalog
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Photo Editor – the Quick Edit mode
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Photo Editor: the Guided Edit mode
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Photo Editor: the Expert Edit mode
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Working with panels and the Panel Bin
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Panel Functions
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The Create and Share menus
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Working with video and Premiere Elements
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Summary
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Chapter 2: Setting Up Photoshop Elements from Scratch
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Chapter 2: Setting Up Photoshop Elements from Scratch
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Setting up a photo editing computer
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Importing media into the Elements Organizer
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Reviewing the media
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Media backup
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Star rating photos
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Searching for pictures using Metadata
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Organizing your work – Keyword Tags
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Organizing your work – Places
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Organizing your work – Events
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Organizing your work – People
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File formats: JPEG and RAW
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File format characteristics
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Managing catalogs
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Color spaces
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Color management options
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Screen and printer calibration
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Organizer keyboard shortcuts
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Summary
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Chapter 3: The Basics of Image Editing
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Chapter 3: The Basics of Image Editing
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The editing workflow and best practices
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Overview: editing RAW files
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Editing Raw files: the Basic tab
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Editing RAW files: the Detail (sharpening) tab
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Editing Raw files: Noise Reduction
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Editing Raw files: Other Features
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10 ways to open a photo for editing
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Understanding picture resolution
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Cropping for better composition
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Resampling
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The Straighten tool
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Instant photo-fixing in the Organizer
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Saving Files
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Version sets
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File Formats
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Using Auto Correction tools
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Mastering contrast with Levels
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Shadows/Highlights
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Adjusting color using Hue/Saturation
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Smooth Skin
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Simple retouching – spot removal
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Additional resources
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Summary
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Chapter 4: Easy Creative Projects
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Chapter 4: Easy Creative Projects
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Simple visual effects: using Filters
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Instant Artistic Effects
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Colorize: AI-driven creativity
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Photomerge Panorama
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Making a multi-deck panorama
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Photomerge Scene Cleaner
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Photomerge Faces
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Slideshows
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Creating Photo Calendars
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Simple greeting cards
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Lomo Camera Effect
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Effects Collage
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Create menu features
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Summary
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Chapter 5: 
Advanced Techniques: Layers and Masking
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Chapter 5: 
Advanced Techniques: Layers and Masking
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Introduction to Layers
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Other features on the Layer panel
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Layer opacity
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Merging layers
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Adjustment Layers
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Adjustment Layer Masking
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Layer masking
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Transformations: Pictures in a Picture
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Smart Objects
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Transformations: Correcting perspective
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Warp Transformations: Creating a 3D Shadow
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Warp Overview
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Blend Modes
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Keyboard shortcuts
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Summary
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Chapter 6: Advanced Techniques: Retouching, Selections, and Text
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Chapter 6: Advanced Techniques: Retouching, Selections, and Text
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Retouching: Spot Healing Brush and Clone Stamp Tools
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The Smooth Skin feature
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The Object Removal tool
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Retouching: the Burn, Dodge, and Sponge Tools
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Blur, Sharpen, and Smudge brushes
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Simple selections: Subject Selection
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Advanced Selections: Selection Modifiers
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Saving a selection
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Feathering selections
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The Refine Selection Brush tool
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The Refine Edge tool
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Advanced selections: the Marquee and Lasso tools
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Advanced selections: the Magic Wand tool
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The Quick Selection tool
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The Selection Brush tool
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The Auto Selection tool
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Adding text basics
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Adding text with the Type tool
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Text styles and special effects
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Keyboard shortcuts
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Chapter 7: Additional Tools and Features
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Chapter 7: Additional Tools and Features
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Image Modes
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Adjust Color Curves
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Eraser tools
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Smart Brush
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The Paint Bucket tool
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Gradient tool
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The Haze Removal tool
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The Content-aware Move tool
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Recompose tool
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Extend Background feature
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Move & Scale Object
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Moving Photos
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Quote Graphic
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Convert to Black and White
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Duotone Effect
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B&W Color Pop
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Old Fashioned Photo
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Perfect Landscape
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Perfect Portrait
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Perfect Pet
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Adjust Facial Features
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Adjust Facial Features – Face Tilt
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Open Closed Eyes
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Using plugins
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Keyboard shortcuts
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Chapter 8: Advanced Drawing and Painting Techniques
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Chapter 8: Advanced Drawing and Painting Techniques
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The View menu
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Controlling Brush behavior
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Brush and Pencil tools
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Color Replacement brush
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Basic drawing techniques
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Working with graphic elements
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Text graphics
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Impressionist Brush
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Custom brushes
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Adobe vectors
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Custom vector illustrations
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Using a graphics tablet
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Keyboard shortcuts
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Chapter 9: Exporting the Finished Work
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Chapter 9: Exporting the Finished Work
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Online – web and blogging
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Facebook
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Instagram
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Flickr
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Print resolution
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Local printing
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Page Setup
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Save for Web
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Unsharp Mask
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The Shake Reduction tool
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High Pass sharpening
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General sharpen filters
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Export as New Files
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Process Multiple Files
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Keyboard shortcuts
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Summary
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Chapter 10: Troubleshooting
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Chapter 10: Troubleshooting
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File-saving issues
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Finding lost or disconnected files
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Using the Find menu
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Adjusting dates for different time zones
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Reinstating your catalog
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Resolution issues: adding pixels
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Fixing Skin Tones
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Remove Color Cast
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The Liquify filter
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Using the Help Menu
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Feature Appendix
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Feature Appendix
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Home Screen
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Organizer – Import
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Organizer – its five view spaces
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Quick Edit mode: 
Tool bar
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Quick Edit: Adjustments
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Guided Edit mode
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Expert Edit mode: Tool bar
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Drop-down menus
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Edit menu
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Image menu
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Enhance menu
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Layer menu
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Select menu
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Filter menu
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View menu
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Window menu
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Help menu
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The Panels (Quick and Expert Edit Modes)
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More tabs
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Create Menu
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Share menu
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Eraser tools

Before computers, graphic design studios used a range of analog drawing tools such as pens, pencils, brushes, and charcoals. They also used a range of erasers to remove mess, mistakes, and drawing errors. Photoshop Elements also has a range of eraser tools, the most useful being the Eraser Tool. Use this to remove excess pixels when blending different pixel layers together, for example. The Eraser Brush works with all brush tips, and if used on the Background Layer (the bottom one in the layer stack), it will always erase to the background color (which will be black by default). If you are erasing on a duplicated layer, 
it will reveal the pixels on the layer immediately beneath it.

The Eraser Tool has three brush modes: Block, Brush, and Pencil—although I think the Brush setting is the best for most retouching tasks as it's the softest and most controllable. The speed of the erasing process is controlled by the Opacity slider in the Options Panel...

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