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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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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.
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Mastering contrast: Shadows/Highlights

You'll note that under the Enhance>Adjust Lighting menu, there are two other tools worth mentioning: Brightness/Contrast and Shadows/Highlights.

The former does exactly what Levels does, but without the benefit of being able to see that tone mountain, which for most photographers is enough encouragement not to use this feature. It's also regarded as being a destructive form of editing—too much use might damage the pixels irreparably, so I'd not recommend using it.

The Shadows/Highlights tool can be very useful for rescuing tones that might appear lost in the highlights and the shadow areas, for boosting details in the darkest parts of the file. Some care must be taken with this feature because too much will make the result appear fake.

Remember that if you are doing this on a JPEG file, it has already been processed in-camera, so if there appears to be no tone in the lighter parts of an...

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