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Mastering Adobe Photoshop Elements

You're reading from   Mastering Adobe Photoshop Elements Bring out the best in your images using Adobe Photoshop Elements 2024

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781835469385
Length 544 pages
Edition 6th Edition
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Robin Nichols Robin Nichols
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Preface 1. Color keys
2. Chapter 1: Photoshop Elements Features Overview FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Setting Up Photoshop Elements from Scratch 4. Chapter 3: The Basics of Image Editing 5. Chapter 4: Getting Started with Simple Solutions 6. Chapter 5: Easy Creative Projects 7. Chapter 6: Advanced Techniques: Transformations, Layers, Masking, and Blend Modes 8. Chapter 7: Advanced Techniques: Retouching, Selections, and Text 9. Chapter 8: Additional Tools and Features 10. Chapter 9: Advanced Drawing, Painting and Illustration Techniques 11. Chapter 10: Exporting Work, Sharpening, and Plug-ins 12. Chapter 11: Troubleshooting and Additional Techniques 13. Chapter 12: Feature Appendix 14. Other Books You May Enjoy

My background looks too clear (sharp)

Use Elements to simulate the look of a shallow depth of focus by selecting and blurring the background details. There are several ways to achieve this:

  • Guided Edit Mode > Special Edits > Replace Background. A simple tool, enabling you to select the main subject, then replace whatever else is in the frame with a flat color, a texture, or one of your own photos. This makes a complex operation seem easy; providing you choose simple images, the results are stunning—import one of your own out-of-focus shots or, as this process adds the new background on a separate layer, blur it afterwards in the Advanced Edit mode!
  • Guided > Fun Edits > Speed Pan. This feature protects your subject while blurring the background to exaggerate the look of fast-moving subjects.
  • Guided > Fun Edits > Zoom Burst Effect. Protects the subject while adding a zooming effect to the background...
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