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Mastering Adobe Photoshop Elements 2022

You're reading from   Mastering Adobe Photoshop Elements 2022 Boost your image-editing skills using the latest Adobe Photoshop Elements tools and techniques

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803238241
Length 420 pages
Edition 4th 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: 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. Feature Appendix 12. Other Books You May Enjoy

Gradient tool

Another greatly underrated tool in Elements is the Gradient tool. The photographers among you that have used a graduated resin filter over the front of the lens from manufacturers such as Cokin, Lee Filters, and B&W will know what I am talking about.

You place the filter over the lens and position the darker part over the sky, with the clearer section at the base over the landscape. This effectively reduces the sky's exposure, thereby balancing the often large exposure disparity that leaves us with an overexposed upper half and an underexposed lower half of the frame. Graduated filters come in 
different colors (such as orange to enhance sunsets or sunrises).

This tool in Elements comes with 16 default gradients and eight gradient subcategories, giving you a choice of 83 in total. I have only ever 
used two or three.

Step one: Here's a nice shot, complete with two figures silhouetted by a bright sunset. Click...

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