Barbara Obermeier - Photoshop Elements 2020 for Dummies

Photoshop Elements 2020 For Dummies

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ISBN 978-1-119-60551-5 (pbk); ISBN 978-1-119-60552-2 (ebk); ISBN 978-1-119-60554-6 (ebk)

1. Chapter 3
2. Chapter 16

1. Chapter 1
2. Chapter 2
3. Chapter 3
4. Chapter 4
5. Chapter 5
6. Chapter 6
7. Chapter 7
8. Chapter 8
9. Chapter 9
10. Chapter 10
11. Chapter 11
12. Chapter 12
13. Chapter 13
14. Chapter 14
15. Chapter 15
16. Chapter 16
17. Chapter 17
18. Chapter 18
19. Chapter 19

Its hard to believe that we are now in the year 2020. Much has changed over the past 30 years in photo editing software and many changes have occurred in the past 20 years with respect to Photoshop Elements. The program keeps getting better and better, and you may wonder, How much more can Adobe add to this program? Fortunately, we havent reached critical mass, and you can look forward finding out about the new improvements and new features in Photoshop Elements 2020.

We live in a photo world. And Photoshop Elements has become a tool for both professional and amateur photographers who want to edit, improve, manage, manipulate, and organize photos and other media. Considering the power and impressive features of the program, Elements remains one of the best values for your money among computer software applications.

This book is an effort to provide as much of a comprehensive view of a wildly feature-rich program as we can. Additionally, this book is written for a cross-platform audience. If youre a Mac user, youll find all you need to work in Elements 2020 for the Mac, exactly the same as when we refer to using Elements on Windows.

In Photoshop Elements 2020, you wont find a huge number of new features. There are a few, but Adobe has spent much time in this release on improvements and adding to existing features. Adobe offers a few new Guided Edits and some fantastic additions to Auto Creations. Performance has been improved yet again, and youll find that many different tasks speed up in this version of Elements. Some new Try This features have been added to the Hub (Welcome Screen). Adobe has added some new Auto Creations, and they are impressive. Photo colorization offers suggestions and speeds up the process for colorizing a photo. A truly marvelous Auto Creation called Select Subject lets you use the computer to wade through the tedious task of selecting subjects in your photos, easing the editing greatly.

New Guided Edits include Pattern Art Brush, which lets you decorate pictures with patterns, and Object Removal, which walks you through steps to remove objects using the Content-Aware technology.

Adobe Premier Elements 2020 offers many new features and improvements. Of course, to take advantage of those improvements, you need to purchase Adobe Premier Elements.

Throughout this book, especially in step lists, we point you to menus for keyboard commands. For accessing a menu command, you may see something like this:

Choose FileGet PhotosFrom Files and Folders.

You click the File menu to open its drop-down menu, click the menu command labeled Get Photos, and then choose the command From Files and Folders from the submenu that appears. Its that simple.

We also refer to context menus, which jump up at your cursor position and show you a menu of options related to whatever youre doing at the time. To open a context menu, just right-click the mouse, or Control-click on a Mac if you dont have a two-button mouse.

When we mention that keys need to be pressed on your keyboard, the text looks like this:

Press Alt+Shift+Ctrl+S (Option+Shift+ +S on the Mac).

In this case, you hold down the Alt key on Windows or the Option key on the Mac, then the Shift key, then the Control key on Windows or the key on the Mac, and then press the S key. Then, release all the keys at the same time.