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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

Makeover example four

In this example, we are going to see how easy it is to smooth over a person's skin tones, basically making them look 100% better using nothing more than a feature new to Elements 2020 called Smooth Skin.

Here's how easy it is to get a great look in only a few seconds:

  1. Open the image.
  2. Find the Smooth Skin feature under the Expert Edit | Enhance menu.
  3. Add the desired amount of smoothness to the portrait.
  4. Use the Before and After slider to judge how much smoothness to apply to the picture, then click OK and your portrait is done (see the following screenshots for image comparisons).

Because this tool employs Adobe's artificial intelligence algorithms, something that's way above my pay grade, I can only sit and watch this amazing feature produce impressive results. Exactly how it works remains a mystery to me, although it's clear that the feature first analyzes the picture to check whether there's a face...

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