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Mastering Adobe Photoshop Elements 2020

You're reading from   Mastering Adobe Photoshop Elements 2020 Supercharge your image editing using the latest features and techniques in Photoshop Elements

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800204201
Length 544 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Robin Nichols Robin Nichols
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

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: Image Makeover 5. Chapter 5: Easy Creative Projects 6. Chapter 6: Advanced Techniques – Layers and Masking 7. Chapter 7: Advanced Techniques: Retouching, Selections, and Text 8. Chapter 8: Advanced Drawing and Painting Techniques 9. Chapter 9: Exporting the Finished Work 10. Chapter 10: Best Practices 11. Chapter 11: Feature Appendix 12. Other Books You May Enjoy

Content-Aware Move tool

A tool that might help fine-tune your composition is the Content-Aware Move tool. Essentially, this is a big Healing Brush, but instead of clicking repeatedly over an image hoping that it can copy, paste, and blend pixels over a problem area, this tool works on a much larger scale. With this tool, draw around the object you want to move, drag the entire object to a new position, and release it – Elements will do the rest.

Here, the rest means assessing the pixels around the target site and then blending them into the canvas. However, like many of the magic auto-fix tools in this application, some examples work much better than others.

The Cloning process, can at times be a little too aggressive, copying objects into the area to be covered that are inappropriate. That's the nature of the beast. Elements provides some control over the power of the Healing action (via a slider), plus Add or Subtract modes for the initial selection process.

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