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Mastering Adobe Photoshop Elements

You're reading from   Mastering Adobe Photoshop Elements Excel in digital photography and image editing for print and web using Photoshop Elements 2019

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2019
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ISBN-13 9781789808155
Length 502 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Robin Nichols Robin Nichols
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Preface 1. Photoshop Elements Features Overview FREE CHAPTER 2. Setting Up Photoshop Elements from Scratch 3. The Basics of Image Editing 4. Image Makeover 5. Easy Creative Projects 6. Advanced Editing Techniques 7. Advanced Drawing and Painting Techniques 8. Exporting the Finished Work 9. Best Practices A. Common Feature Other Books You May Enjoy Index

Chapter 3. The Basics of Image Editing

To many, image editing, or more specifically, the word Photoshop, conjures up ideas of fantastical landscapes, or of portraits of impossibly beautiful people retouched to the brink of plausibility, and beyond.

But if you are not interested in taking your creativity into the realm of photo illustration, or image composites, you'll use photo editing to make your digital files look exactly like they appeared when the shutter button was first pressed.

But why would we need this sort of artificial aid in the first place? It's a frequently asked question, and the simple answer is that what we see is not always what our camera records. This is because we have a brain that can be very flexible when it comes to processing the visual information it receives from any scene, whereas a camera simply responds to the light it is pointed at – with essentially a rather limited ability to translate that information into a faithful, realistic...

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