6 Advanced Techniques: Retouching, Selections, and Text

With the experience of understanding Layers now safely in your repertoire of skills, it's time to look a little closer at developing your retouching skills. Elements has a range of very high-end tools with which to perfect your work—whether it's portraiture, weddings, or landscapes.

One of the big issues with regular tone editing tools such as Levels and Hue/Saturation is that their effects are global—everything in the image is affected proportionally. To limit the spread of these effects to a specific part of the frame, we look at making selections, using a wide range of tools that come with Elements that are designed for all types of selection scenarios.

And if this is not enough, ...

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