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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

Understanding picture resolution

Resolution, and in particular, photo resolution, is a feature that confuses many beginners. This shouldn't really be an issue because the resolution of a camera is a fixed quantity and will only change when you choose a different image size in the camera menu, or if you crop the file on a computer. But to be pedantic, resolution is not only to do with the number of pixels in the camera, or in a file, although this is important. Resolution is also connected to the quality of the glass elements in a lens, the camera's image stabilization technology (indirectly), and the camera technique employed by the photographer. The biggest point of confusion comes with the way the number of pixels per inch (ppi) can vary widely from camera to camera. Note that, in the printing world, dots per inch (dpi) is the same as ppi, which in turn is the same as lines per inch (lpi).

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