Summary
As you may well now be aware, it's possible to spend your entire working life immersed in the realms of commercial photography and professional retouching.
All the tools are abundantly present in Photoshop Elements, but if you need to take the control you require to a higher level, this was certainly the chapter for you.
In this chapter, we ramped up the knowledge that this book has explored so far by introducing you to Transformations and how they can help reshape your images, then on to Layers, Warped Layers, Adjustment Layers, and full-on Layer Masking.
You also learned how to enhance images and create powerful graphic effects using Blend Modes, have fun with tool Blend Modes, and much more.
Learning how to use layers like this will enhance your creativity tenfold.
Coming up in the next chapter, we'll take a close look at the intricacies of beauty retouching using the Clone Stamp and Healing Brush tools, as well as learning how to improve...
