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Mastering Adobe Photoshop Elements 2022

You're reading from   Mastering Adobe Photoshop Elements 2022 Boost your image-editing skills using the latest Adobe Photoshop Elements tools and techniques

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803238241
Length 420 pages
Edition 4th 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: 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. Feature Appendix 12. Other Books You May Enjoy

The Content-aware Move tool

A tool that might help fine-tune your compositional skills is the Content-aware Move tool. Essentially, this is a large-scale 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 area. 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 background canvas. Some examples work much better than others.

Elements provides some control over the Healing action (via a slider), plus Add or Subtract modes, for the initial selection process.

After it has performed, however, I find I have to fine-tune the results with Clone Stamp or Healing Brush to tidy up some of Elements' visual mistakes. That said, the Content-aware Move tool is not a bad feature...

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