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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

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800566996
Length 410 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Robin Nichols Robin Nichols
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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

Move & Scale Object

It's not often that you get to experience a complex, automated photo editing feature that's really exciting—but this is one of those times. In Guided Edit mode, under Basics, you'll find Move and Scale Object.

As the somewhat ambitious name might suggest, this is a copy and paste operation on steroids. But in my experience it only really works effectively on simple images—the process of identifying the main subject and selecting it cleanly using one of two selection tools, then copy-and-pasting it elsewhere in the image, is both a complex operation and one that's fraught with potential editing problems. That said, I chose this simple shot of a woman photographing the pyramids in Egypt as an example. This feature is easy to use—just follow the onscreen instructions!

Photo manipulation woes

In 1982 the National Geographic Magazine got into hot water—the editors liked a proposed...

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