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Mastering Adobe Photoshop Elements 2023

You're reading from   Mastering Adobe Photoshop Elements 2023 Bring out the best in your images using Adobe Photoshop Elements 2023

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803248455
Length 510 pages
Edition 5th Edition
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Robin Nichols Robin Nichols
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Color keys FREE CHAPTER
2. Chapter 1: Photoshop Elements Features Overview 3. Chapter 2: Setting Up Photoshop Elements from Scratch 4. Chapter 3: The Basics of Image Editing 5. Chapter 4: Getting Started with Simple Solutions 6. Chapter 5: Easy Creative Projects 7. Chapter 6: Advanced Techniques: Transformations, Layers, Masking, and Blend Modes 8. Chapter 7: Advanced Techniques: Retouching, Selections, and Text 9. Chapter 8: Additional Tools and Features 10. Chapter 9: Advanced Drawing, Painting and Illustration Techniques 11. Chapter 10: Exporting Work, Sharpening, and Plug-ins 12. Chapter 11: Troubleshooting, Additional Techniques 13. Chapter 12: Feature Appendix 14. Other Books You May Enjoy

The Liquify filter

Fashion photographers, wedding photographers—anyone photographing people for a living—will love this filter. Liquify turns your digital file into a malleable, liquid pool of pixels that can be pushed around as if they were wet oil paints. Its original purpose was to change the physical attributes of models—thinning faces, fixing broken noses, and enlarging eyes. While the fantastic Adjust Facial Features tool (under the Enhance menu) does a terrific job, Liquify offers far greater control over the entire image, whether it's a face or full body.

Of course, this filter can also be used by regular family photographers to wreak mayhem in family snaps. Here's what you can do with this filter:

  • Make noses smaller/larger
  • Change the shape of ears, chins, stomachs, thighs, and waists
  • Change expressions
  • Bend reality

Its tool bar (above left) includes:

  • Warp tool: This is very much...
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