Photoshop Elements 2022 For Dummies

Introduction

We are now in version 20 (Photoshop Elements 2022) of Photoshop Elements. Time to celebrate Elements’ 20th anniversary. As with previous updates, this version has some fascinating additions as well as performance improvements.

About This Book

This book is an effort to provide as much of a comprehensive view of a wildly feature-rich program as we can. Additionally, this book is written for a cross-platform audience. If you’re a Mac user, you’ll find all you need to work in Elements 2022 for the Mac, exactly the same as when we refer to using Elements on Windows.

In Photoshop Elements 2022, you won’t find a huge number of new features. However, some of the new features that are added can wow you. Of particular interest to us is the addition of two menu commands in the Enhance menu. There you find Moving Objects and Moving Photos. These commands add some animation to your photos, and you can save the result either as an animated GIF image or a movie file. This is truly a spectacular addition to help you provide some content to your social media accounts. You find an introduction to the commands in Chapter 3 and an expanded explanation in Chapter 11.

We also see a wonderful addition that has long been requested by users. The Warp tool is a new feature in this release. When transforming objects you can now warp the images in a variety of ways.

When it comes to effects, Elements has a new feature labeled Artistic Effects. You’ll find a number of different effects as ...