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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

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.
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How do I make a dull-looking photo appear better?

While there are many things that can go wrong in our picture making, you'll come to appreciate that a simple brightness and contrast boost might be all that's needed to make your picture look stronger/brighter—even punchier. Here are a few suggestions on how to get this done:

Firstly you might try the simple to use Brightness and Contrast tool:

  • Guided > Basics > Brightness and Contrast (includes step-by-step instructions).

This scene (inset, right) is tonally quite accurate—the evening atmosphere was slightly misty, producing a very soft light. I wanted to add more visual drama to the scene so, I purposely darkened the file using the basic but effective Brightness/Contrast sliders and voila, the color intensified, producing a more dramatic result.

Other tools you can try include:

  • Auto Smart Fix, or Auto Smart Tone (both of these are located under the...

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