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Mastering Adobe Photoshop Elements 2023

Mastering Adobe Photoshop Elements 2023

By : Robin Nichols
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Mastering Adobe Photoshop Elements 2023

Mastering Adobe Photoshop Elements 2023

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By: Robin Nichols
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Overview of this book

Produce impressive, high-quality pictures to influence your audience, grow your brand, and market your products and services. With its impressive range of sophisticated creative capabilities, Adobe Photoshop Elements 2023 is all you need to create photos you’ll love to share. Elements 2023 extends its AI capabilities by simplifying complex editing processes. Learn to stitch widescreen panoramas, remove people from backgrounds, de-focus backgrounds, re-compose images, and even create a range of calendars and greeting cards for your friends and family. The fifth edition of this widely acclaimed series will help you master photo-editing from scratch. Start by learning basic edits such as auto tone correction, image resizing and cropping, then master contrast, color, sharpness, and clarity. Take your prowess to the next level by learning how to correct optical distortion, re-shape images, exploit layers, layer masking, and sharpening techniques—create the perfect picture or imaginative fantasy illustration. You’ll also learn the online realms of animation, video creation, and third-party plug-ins. By the end of this book, you'll learn how to leverage the incredible features of Photoshop Elements 2023 with complete confidence. Note: All the images featured in the book can be easily downloaded via a direct link or from the GitHub repository link specified in the Preface.
Table of Contents (15 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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Color keys
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Color keys
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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 2023?
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How Elements is designed to work
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A typical workflow example
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How I like to edit images
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The five faces of Adobe Photoshop Elements 2023
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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: Quick Edit mode
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Photo Editor: Guided Edit mode
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Photo Editor: 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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The Enhance Menu
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Working with video and Premiere Elements
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Create menu features
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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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Organizing your work: Star rating photos
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Organizing your work: Picture search using Metadata
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Organizing your work: Keyword Tagging
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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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Understanding JPEG and RAW file formats
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Saving Files
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Saving Version Sets
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Managing catalogs
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Digitizing Photos with a Scanner
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Digitizing Photos with a Camera
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Color management: Understanding color spaces
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Color management: Color settings
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Color Management: 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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The Straighten tool
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Increasing or decreasing file size: Resampling
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Instant photo-fixing in the Organizer
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Using Auto Correction tools
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Mastering contrast: using Levels
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Mastering contrast: Shadows/Highlights
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Mastering color: using Hue/Saturation
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Simple retouching: Smooth skin feature
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Simple retouching: manual spot removal
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Additional resources
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Summary
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Chapter 4: Getting Started with Simple Solutions
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Chapter 4: Getting Started with Simple Solutions
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What's that strange-looking graph?
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How do I make a dull-looking photo appear better?
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My contrast looks 'greyish', what's wrong?
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My colors look weak or 'desaturated'
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My photo looks boring – how can I add interest?
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I want to make my complexion look better
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I look a bit overweight in photos. Help!
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My kid looks too serious in family photos. Help!
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I want to remove people from my picture
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I want to move a person/object to make a better composition
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My picture looks 'messy'—how can I clean it up?
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My pictures never look 100% level
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My photo needs cutting (cropping)
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My background looks too clear (sharp)
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How can I add a person from another picture?
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My picture doesn't look sharp
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My picture looks great on screen but dark once printed
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How can I make my scans look perfect?
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Chapter 5: Easy Creative Projects
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Chapter 5: Easy Creative Projects
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Simple visual effects: using Filters
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Instant Artistic Effects
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Lomo Camera Effect
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Effects Collage
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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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Creating Slideshows
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Creating Photo Calendars
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Creating simple greeting cards
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Chapter 6: Advanced Techniques: Transformations, Layers, Masking, and Blend Modes
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Chapter 6: Advanced Techniques: Transformations, Layers, Masking, and Blend Modes
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Transformations: Correcting perspective
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Transformations: Pictures in a Picture
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Transformations: Warping shapes for a 3D Shadow
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Transformations: Warping text
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Introduction to Layers
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Other features on the Layers panel
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Layer opacity
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Merging layers
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Pseudo Layer Masking
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Layer Masking: Adjustment Layers
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Layer Masking: the basics
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Layer Masking: advanced techniques
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Blend Modes
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Tool Blend Modes
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Layers: Smart Objects
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Keyboard shortcuts
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Chapter 7: Advanced Techniques: Retouching, Selections, and Text
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Chapter 7: Advanced Techniques: Retouching, Selections, and Text
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Retouching: Spot Healing Brush and Clone Stamp Tools
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Advanced Retouching techniques
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Retouching: the Object Removal tool
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Local Retouching: the Burn, Dodge, and Sponge Tools
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Local Retouching: the Blur, Sharpen, and Smudge brushes
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Simple selections: Subject Selection
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Advanced Selections: Selection features
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Saving selections
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Advanced Selections: Feathering
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Advanced Selections: The Refine Selection Brush tool
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Advanced Selections: 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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Simple Selections: The Quick Selection tool
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The Selection Brush tool
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The Auto Selection tool
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Basic Text: Text Styles
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Basic Text: The Type tool
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Basic Text: Styles and effects
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Advanced Text: Custom Text
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Keyboard shortcuts
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Summary
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Chapter 8: Additional Tools and Features
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Chapter 8: Additional Tools and Features
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Image Modes
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Adjust Color Curves
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The Smart Brush
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The Paint Bucket tool
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The Gradient tool
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The Haze Removal tool
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The Content-Aware Move tool
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The Recompose tool
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Extend Background feature
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Move & Scale Object feature
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Moving Photos feature
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Quote Graphic feature
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Convert to Black and White feature
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Duotone Effect filter
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B&W Color Pop filter
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Old Fashioned Photo filter
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Perfect Landscape feature
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Perfect Portrait feature
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Perfect Pet feature
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Adjust Facial Features
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Adjust Facial Features – Face Tilt
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Open Closed Eyes feature
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Keyboard shortcuts
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Chapter 9: Advanced Drawing, Painting and Illustration Techniques
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Chapter 9: Advanced Drawing, Painting and Illustration Techniques
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The View menu
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The Eraser tools
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Using Brushes: Controlling Brush behavior
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Brush and Pencil tools
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The Cookie Cutter tool
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Color Replacement brush
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The Impressionist Brush
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Basic drawing techniques
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Working with Vector Graphics
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Text graphics
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Adobe Vectors: greeting card project
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Custom vector illustrations
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Filter FX: Texturizing & Artistic Effects
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Scrapbooking techniques
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Collages: Auto Page Layout
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Custom brushes
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Technique: Photobashing
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Using a graphics tablet
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Keyboard shortcuts
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Chapter 10: Exporting Work, Sharpening, and Plug-ins
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Chapter 10: Exporting Work, Sharpening, and Plug-ins
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Posting online: web and blogging
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Posting online: Facebook
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Posting online: Instagram and Flickr
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Inkjet printing: general features
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Inkjet printing: Page Setup
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Images online: Save for Web
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The Sharpen tools: Unsharp Mask
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The Sharpen tools: Shake Reduction
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The Sharpen tools: High Pass sharpening
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The Sharpen tools: Sharpen filters
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How a plug-in works:
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Exporting work: Export as New Files
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Exporting work: Process Multiple Files
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Keyboard shortcuts
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Chapter 11: Troubleshooting, Additional Techniques
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Chapter 11: Troubleshooting, Additional Techniques
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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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Remove Color Cast
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Fixing Skin Tones
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Altered reality: Adding lens flare
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Altered Reality: Correcting lens distortion
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Altered reality: Creating depth of field FX
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Altered reality: Changing Eye Color
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The Liquify filter
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Using the Help Menu
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Summary
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Chapter 12: Feature Appendix
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Chapter 12: 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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(Quick and Expert Modes)
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More tabs
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Create Menu
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Share menu
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Glossary
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Working with Vector Graphics

Photoshop Elements is not Adobe Illustrator by any stretch of the imagination, but it does contain a reasonably good range of graphic elements that can be added to images to enhance their design—these are located in the Graphics Panel (right of the main screen).

The illustration above was made from the range of (free) graphics available through Photoshop Elements—encompassing backgrounds, frames, symbols, and images. All elements have to be downloaded from the Adobe servers first, but as they are vectors, file sizes are small so it takes no time at all.

At left: Vector graphics can be reduced or enlarged significantly without loss of quality—just grab a corner handle and drag in or out. These graphics fall into the following groups:

  • Graphics that can be added to existing semi-automated creative projects, such as Photo Book and Greeting Card, found under the Create menu. These features...

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