Chapter 1

Using Plug-ins and Presets

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Chapter Goals

Photoshop Elements is a professional photo editing program. Although it’s not as powerful as Adobe Lightroom or Adobe Photoshop, if you’re not a dedicated photo editor and you want to polish up and perform some essential edits on photos, the program offers you more than enough in terms of functionality and feature-rich tools and menu options. However, there are a few things you might want to use that the program doesn’t support. For example, you may like working with features that are found in Photoshop but not in Photoshop Elements, such as Curves, Color Balance, Channel Mixer, or Layer ...

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