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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

Beauty retouching

In this section, I will show you how to correct the tones, imperfections, and look of a simple beauty shot, step by step. In this process, you'll learn how to use the Clone Stamp tool, one of the original and incredibly powerful retouching tools in Photoshop Elements, as well as the amazing Burn, Dodge, and Sponge brushes (but mostly Dodge and Sponge), tools I consider to be among the many unsung heroes of this application.

The Clone Stamp Tool

The Clone Stamp tool is one of the original retouching tools handed down from Adobe Photoshop in the years before it was Photoshop CC.

Essentially, this is nothing more than a copy-and-paste tool. If any of you have had the opportunity to copy and paste a paragraph of text from one part of a Word document to another part, you'll be able to use this tool. It's exactly the same principle, but because you are also dealing with color, texture, and tone in an image, the process is a little more complex than merely copying...

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