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Mastering Adobe Photoshop Elements 2021

You're reading from Mastering Adobe Photoshop Elements 2021 Boost your image-editing skills using the latest tools and techniques in Adobe Photoshop Elements

Product type Paperback

Published in Dec 2020

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800566996

Length 410 pages

Edition 3rd Edition

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Table of Contents (13) Chapters

Preface

1. Chapter 1 Photoshop Elements Features Overview

2. Chapter 2 Setting Up Photoshop Elements from Scratch FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 3 The Basics of Image Editing

4. Chapter 4 Easy Creative Projects

5. Chapter 5 Advanced Techniques - Layers and Masking

6. Chapter 6 Advanced Techniques: Retouching, Selections, and Text

7. Chapter 7 Additional Tools and Features

8. Chapter 8 Advanced Drawing and Painting Techniques

9. Chapter 9 Exporting the Finished Work

10. Chapter 10 Troubleshooting

11. Chapter 11 Feature Appendix

12. Other Books You May Enjoy

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Layer menu

Not surprisingly, everything pertaining to the use and the modification of Layers is found under this menu:

Layer>New>Layer - This simply adds a new (blank) layer to the Layer panel (Shift + Ctrl/Cmd + N).
Layer>New>Layer from Background - converts the background layer into a regular layer.
Layer>New>Group - Creates a new (empty) group - this is a method to tidy up a busy layer panel by placing common layers together into a folder (as a group).
Layer>New>Group from Layers - collects all selected layers automatically into one group.
Layer>New>Layer via Copy - this takes the content of a selection and converts it into a new layer (Ctrl/Cmd + J).
Layer>New>Layer via Cut - The same as the previous command but by removing the cut layer rather than copying it (Ctrl/Cmd + Shift + J).
Layer>Duplicate - Copy (duplicate) an existing (selected) layer.
Layer>Delete - Delete a selected layer...

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Authors (1)

Robin Nichols

Robin Nichols

Born in the UK, Robin Nichols has always had a great love for recording the world with a camera. After finishing school, he studied fine art, before moving on to study at Nottingham Trent University, where he gained a degree in creative photography. He subsequently worked in the advertising industry for several years, before emigrating to Australia in 1985. Robin has always worked in photography: as a black and white printer, a cameraman, a stock photographer, and a freelance photographer. During the 1990s, Robin contributed to several photo-centric publications in Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, and the UK.

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