Mastering Adobe Photoshop Elements 2022 - Fourth Edition

Mastering Adobe Photoshop Elements 2022 - Fourth Edition

by Robin Nichols
Released December 2021
Publisher(s): Packt Publishing
ISBN: 9781803238241

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Book description

Become an accomplished photo editor, image retoucher, or creative artist with this well-illustrated, easy-to-understand, and end-to-end guide

Key Features

  • Updated to the latest version of Photoshop Elements 2022 with focused coverage of Adobe's latest AI technology
  • Organize, search, and manage an ever-increasing number of images, videos, and multimedia using expert practices
  • Find solutions to a wide range of photographic and image-editing problems

Book Description

Managing thousands of images while producing perfectly edited results has now become a must-have skill for bloggers, influencers, all social media users, and photography enthusiasts.

Photoshop Elements 2022 has all the right tools to help you manage your growing multimedia assets and significantly boost your creative output.

This fourth edition is updated with Elements 2022's latest features, including Adobe's AI-powered tools that perfectly complement its entire creative workflow. Each chapter is designed to help you get the most from your image files in a simple, easy-to-follow way. You'll find out how to add significant visual improvements to your projects using brilliant AI-driven single-click edits or through more complex manual adjustments, all depending on your skill level and requirements. The book is packed with clear instructions to guide you effortlessly through the hundreds of processes, tools, and features in Photoshop Elements 2022. You'll cover everything from developing your organizational skills through to creating remarkable images using photos, text, graphics, downloadable content, animation, and a range of fantastic AI-driven features.

By the end of this Photoshop Elements book, you'll have learned how to leverage the impressive tools available in Photoshop Elements 2022 with confidence.

What you will learn

  • Identify the five parts of Elements and set up your computer, camera, and color monitor for best results
  • Import, organize, and keep track of your imported media library
  • Add impressive visual effects to your work in seconds
  • Develop advanced picture retouching skills
  • Discover how to add text and graphic elements
  • Cultivate your understanding of multi-image and multi-layered editing techniques
  • Develop illustrative skills using the many drawing and design tools
  • 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 Photoshop Elements book is for creative and enthusiastic photographers who have elementary experience in photo editing. If you are looking to organize your picture collection, make simple yet effective edits, and take control of post-processing requirements, you'll find this book useful.

Table of contents

  1. Mastering Adobe Photoshop Elements 2022
  2. Fourth Edition
  3. Contributors
  4. About the author
  5. About the reviewers
  6. Preface
    1. Who this book is for
    2. What this book covers
    3. To get the most out of this book
    4. Download the color images
    5. Conventions used
    6. Get in touch
    7. Share Your Thoughts
  7. Chapter 1: Photoshop Elements Features Overview
    1. What's New in Photoshop Elements 2022?
    2. How Elements is designed to work
    3. A typical workflow example
    4. How I edit images
    5. The five faces of Adobe Photoshop Elements 2022
    6. The Home screen
    7. The Organizer
    8. The catalog
    9. Photo Editor – the Quick Edit mode
    10. Photo Editor: the Guided Edit mode
    11. Photo Editor: the Expert Edit mode
    12. Working with panels and the Panel Bin
    13. Panel Functions
    14. The Create and Share menus
      1. Enhance menu
    15. Working with video and Premiere Elements
    16. Summary
  8. Chapter 2: Setting Up Photoshop Elements from Scratch
    1. Setting up a photo editing computer
    2. Importing media into the Elements Organizer
    3. Reviewing the media
    4. Media backup
    5. Star rating photos
    6. Searching for pictures using Metadata
    7. Organizing your work – Keyword Tags
    8. Organizing your work – Places
    9. Organizing your work – Events
    10. Organizing your work – People
    11. File formats: JPEG and RAW
    12. File format characteristics
    13. Managing catalogs
    14. Color spaces
    15. Color management options
    16. Screen and printer calibration
    17. Organizer keyboard shortcuts
    18. Summary
  9. Chapter 3: The Basics of Image Editing
    1. The editing workflow and best practices
    2. Overview: editing RAW files
    3. Editing Raw files: the Basic tab
    4. Editing RAW files: the Detail (sharpening) tab
    5. Editing Raw files: Noise Reduction
    6. Editing Raw files: Other Features
    7. 10 ways to open a photo for editing
    8. Understanding picture resolution
    9. Cropping for better composition
    10. Resampling
    11. The Straighten tool
    12. Instant photo-fixing in the Organizer
    13. Saving Files
    14. Version sets
    15. File Formats
    16. Using Auto Correction tools
    17. Mastering contrast with Levels
    18. Shadows/Highlights
    19. Adjusting color using Hue/Saturation
    20. Smooth Skin
    21. Simple retouching – spot removal
    22. Additional resources
    23. Summary
  10. Chapter 4: Easy Creative Projects
    1. Simple visual effects: using Filters
    2. Instant Artistic Effects
    3. Colorize: AI-driven creativity
    4. Photomerge Panorama
    5. Making a multi-deck panorama
    6. Photomerge Scene Cleaner
    7. Photomerge Faces
    8. Slideshows
    9. Creating Photo Calendars
    10. Simple greeting cards
    11. Lomo Camera Effect
    12. Effects Collage
    13. Create menu features
    14. Summary
  11. Chapter 5: Advanced Techniques: Layers and Masking
    1. Introduction to Layers
    2. Other features on the Layer panel
    3. Layer opacity
    4. Merging layers
    5. Adjustment Layers
    6. Adjustment Layer Masking
    7. Layer masking
    8. Transformations: Pictures in a Picture
    9. Smart Objects
    10. Transformations: Correcting perspective
    11. Warp Transformations: Creating a 3D Shadow
    12. Warp Overview
    13. Blend Modes
    14. Keyboard shortcuts
    15. Summary
  12. Chapter 6: Advanced Techniques: Retouching, Selections, and Text
    1. Retouching: Spot Healing Brush and Clone Stamp Tools
    2. The Smooth Skin feature
    3. The Object Removal tool
    4. Retouching: the Burn, Dodge, and Sponge Tools
    5. Blur, Sharpen, and Smudge brushes
    6. Simple selections: Subject Selection
    7. Advanced Selections: Selection Modifiers
    8. Saving a selection
    9. Feathering selections
    10. The Refine Selection Brush tool
    11. The Refine Edge tool
    12. Advanced selections: the Marquee and Lasso tools
    13. Advanced selections: the Magic Wand tool
    14. The Quick Selection tool
    15. The Selection Brush tool
    16. The Auto Selection tool
    17. Adding text basics
    18. Adding text with the Type tool
    19. Text styles and special effects
      1. Custom fonts
    20. Keyboard shortcuts
    21. Summary
  13. Chapter 7: Additional Tools and Features
    1. Image Modes
    2. Adjust Color Curves
    3. Eraser tools
    4. Smart Brush
    5. The Paint Bucket tool
    6. Gradient tool
    7. The Haze Removal tool
    8. The Content-aware Move tool
    9. Recompose tool
    10. Extend Background feature
    11. Move & Scale Object
    12. Moving Photos
    13. Quote Graphic
    14. Convert to Black and White
    15. Duotone Effect
    16. B&W Color Pop
    17. Old Fashioned Photo
    18. Perfect Landscape
    19. Perfect Portrait
    20. Perfect Pet
    21. Adjust Facial Features
    22. Adjust Facial Features – Face Tilt
    23. Open Closed Eyes
    24. Using plugins
    25. Keyboard shortcuts
    26. Summary
  14. Chapter 8: Advanced Drawing and Painting Techniques
    1. The View menu
    2. Controlling Brush behavior
    3. Brush and Pencil tools
    4. Color Replacement brush
    5. Basic drawing techniques
    6. Working with graphic elements
    7. Text graphics
      1. The Cookie Cutter tool
    8. Impressionist Brush
    9. Custom brushes
    10. Adobe vectors
    11. Custom vector illustrations
    12. Using a graphics tablet
    13. Keyboard shortcuts
    14. Summary
  15. Chapter 9: Exporting the Finished Work
    1. Online – web and blogging
    2. Facebook
    3. Instagram
    4. Flickr
    5. Print resolution
    6. Local printing
    7. Page Setup
    8. Save for Web
    9. Unsharp Mask
    10. The Shake Reduction tool
    11. High Pass sharpening
    12. General sharpen filters
    13. Export as New Files
    14. Process Multiple Files
    15. Keyboard shortcuts
    16. Summary
  16. Chapter 10: Troubleshooting
    1. File-saving issues
    2. Finding lost or disconnected files
    3. Using the Find menu
    4. Adjusting dates for different time zones
    5. Reinstating your catalog
    6. Resolution issues: adding pixels
    7. Fixing Skin Tones
    8. Remove Color Cast
    9. The Liquify filter
    10. Using the Help Menu
    11. Summary
  17. Feature Appendix
    1. Home Screen
    2. Organizer – Import
    3. Organizer – its five view spaces
    4. Quick Edit mode: Tool bar
    5. Quick Edit: Adjustments
    6. Guided Edit mode
      1. Basics
      2. Color
      3. Black and White
      4. Special Edits
      5. Photomerge
    7. Expert Edit mode: Tool bar
      1. VIEW tools
      2. SELECT tools
      3. ENHANCE tools
      4. DRAW tools
      5. MODIFY tools
      6. COLOR Picker
    8. Drop-down menus
      1. File menu
    9. Edit menu
    10. Image menu
    11. Enhance menu
    12. Layer menu
    13. Select menu
    14. Filter menu
    15. View menu
    16. Window menu
    17. Help menu
    18. The Panels (Quick and Expert Edit Modes)
      1. Layers panel
      2. Effects panel
      3. Filters panel
      4. Styles panel
      5. Graphics panel
      6. Actions panel
      7. Color swatches
    19. More tabs
      1. Histogram panel
      2. History panel
      3. Favorites panel
      4. Navigator panel
      5. Info panel
    20. Create Menu
      1. Slideshow
      2. Photo Collage
      3. Photo Prints
      4. Quote Graphic
      5. Photo Book
      6. Greeting Card
      7. Photo Calendar
      8. Instant Movie
      9. Video Story
      10. Video Collage
      11. DVD with Menu, CD Jacket, DVD Jacket, and CD/DVD Label
    21. Share menu
      1. Email
      2. Twitter
      3. Flickr
      4. Vimeo and YouTube
      5. Burn Video DVD
      6. PDF Slideshow
    22. Why subscribe?
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Product information

  • Title: Mastering Adobe Photoshop Elements 2022 - Fourth Edition
  • Author(s): Robin Nichols
  • Release date: December 2021
  • Publisher(s): Packt Publishing
  • ISBN: 9781803238241