Book description
Leverage this well-illustrated, easy-to-understand end-to-end guide to become an accomplished photo editor, image retoucher, and creative artist
Key Features
- Updated to the latest version of Photoshop Elements 2021 with focused coverage of Adobe's latest AI technology
- Organize, search, and manage an ever-increasing number of images and videos using expert practices
- Uncover common solutions to a wide range of photographic and image-editing problems
Book Description
Managing thousands of images while producing perfectly edited results is now a must-have skill for online bloggers, influencers, vloggers, social media users, and photography enthusiasts. Photoshop Elements helps you to manage this easily and boost your creative output.
This third edition is updated with Elements 2021's latest features and focuses on Adobe's AI-powered features along with the entire creative workflow. Each chapter is designed to help you get the most out of your image files in an easy way. You'll learn how to add significant visual improvements to your work using no more than a few one-click edits with AI-driven features and manual adjustments. The book is filled with useful instructions to guide you seamlessly through the often complex processes, tools, and features in Photoshop Elements. Finally, you'll cover everything from developing your organizational skills through to creating remarkable special effects, complex text, image combinations, and eye-popping visual techniques using both AI-driven features as well as manually operated tools.
By the end of this Photoshop Elements book, you'll have learned how to leverage the impressive tools available in Photoshop Elements 2021, and use them to greatly improve your photo editing and image retouching skills.
What you will learn
- Identify the five parts of Elements and set up your computer, camera, and monitor
- Import, organize, and keep track of your imported media library
- Develop advanced image retouching skills
- Discover how to add text and graphics to photographs
- Cultivate your understanding of multi-image, multi-layered editing techniques
- Develop illustrative skills with the many drawing tools available in Elements 2021
- Prepare images and projects for uploading to social media, print, and video
- Find out how to troubleshoot your work when things don't come out the way you hoped they would
Who this book is for
This book is for creative and enthusiastic photographers, who have elementary experience in photo editing. If you are looking to organize your picture collection, have simple yet effective edits, and take control of post-processing requirements, you'll find this book useful.
Table of contents
- Mastering Adobe Photoshop Elements 2021
- Third Edition
- Why subscribe?
- Contributors
- About the author
- About the reviewers
- Packt is searching for authors like you
- Preface
-
Chapter 1 Photoshop Elements Features Overview
- What's New in Photoshop Elements 2021?
- How Elements is designed to work
- A typical workflow example
- How I edit images
- The five faces of Adobe Photoshop Elements 2021
- The Home screen
- The Organizer
- The catalog
- Photo Editor: the Quick edit mode
- Photo Editor: the Guided edit mode
- Photo Editor: the Expert edit mode
- Working with panels and the Panel Bin
- Panel Functions
- The Create and Share menus
- Working with video and Premiere Elements
- Summary
-
Chapter 2 Setting Up Photoshop Elements from Scratch
- Setting up a photo editing computer
- Importing media into the Elements Organizer
- Reviewing the media
- Media backup
- Star rating photos
- Searching for pictures using Metadata
- Organizing your work – Keyword Tags
- Organizing your work – Places
- Organizing your work – Events
- Organizing your work – People
- File formats: JPEG and RAW
- File format characteristics
- Managing catalogs
- Color spaces
- Color management options
- Screen and printer calibration
- Organizer keyboard shortcuts
- Summary
-
Chapter 3 The Basics of Image Editing
- The editing workflow and best practices
- Overview: editing RAW files
- In Detail: the Edit Basic tab
- In Detail: Edit Detail (sharpening)
- In Detail: Noise reduction
- Other features
- 10 ways to open a photo for editing
- Understanding picture resolution
- Cropping for better composition
- Resampling
- The Straighten tool
- Instant photo-fixing in the Organizer
- Saving Files
- Version sets
- File Formats
- Using Auto Correction tools
- Mastering contrast with Levels
- Shadow/Highlights
- Adjusting color using Hue/Saturation
- Smooth Skin
- Simple retouching – spot removal
- Additional resources
- Summary
- Chapter 4 Easy Creative Projects
- Chapter 5 Advanced Techniques - Layers and Masking
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Chapter 6 Advanced Techniques: Retouching, Selections, and Text
- Retouching: Spot Healing Brush and Clone Stamp Tools
- The Smooth Skin feature
- The Object Removal tool
- Retouching: the Burn, Dodge, and Sponge Tools
- Blur, Sharpen, and Smudge brushes
- Simple selections: Subject Selection
- Advanced Selections: Selection Modifiers
- Saving a selection
- Feathering selections
- The Refine Selection Brush tool
- The Refine Edge tool
- Advanced selections: the Marquee and Lasso tools
- Advanced selections: the Magic Wand tool
- The Quick Selection tool
- The Selection Brush tool
- The Auto Selection tool
- Adding text basics
- Adding text with the Type Tool
- Text styles and special effects
- Keyboard shortcuts
- Summary
-
Chapter 7 Additional Tools and Features
- Image Modes
- Adjust Color Curves
- Eraser tools
- Smart Brush
- The Paint Bucket tool
- Gradient tool
- The Haze Removal tool
- The Content-aware Move tool
- Recompose tool
- Move & Scale Object
- Moving Photos
- Quote Graphic
- Convert to Black and White
- Duotone Effect
- B&W Color Pop
- Old Fashioned Photo
- Perfect Landscape
- Perfect Portrait
- Adjust Facial Features
- Adjust Facial Features: Face Tilt
- Open Closed Eyes
- Using plugins
- Keyboard shortcuts
- Summary
- Chapter 8 Advanced Drawing and Painting Techniques
- Chapter 9 Exporting the Finished Work
- Chapter 10 Troubleshooting
-
Chapter 11 Feature Appendix
- Home Screen
- Organizer – Import
- Organizer – its five view spaces
- Quick Edit mode: Tool bar
- Quick Edit: Adjustments
- Guided Edit mode
- Expert Edit mode: Tool bar
- Drop-down menus
- File menu
- Edit menu
- Image menu
- Enhance menu
- Layer menu
- Select menu
- Filter menu
- View menu
- Window menu
- Help menu
- The Panels (Quick and Expert Edit Modes)
- More tabs
- Create Menu
- Share menu
- Glossary
- Other Books You May Enjoy
Product information
- Title: Mastering Adobe Photoshop Elements 2021 - Third Edition
- Author(s):
- Release date: December 2020
- Publisher(s): Packt Publishing
- ISBN: 9781800566996
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