Robin Nichols - Mastering Adobe Photoshop Elements 2022: Boost your image-editing skills using the latest Adobe Photoshop Elements tools and techniques, 4th Edition

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To my wonderful wife, Natalie, whose great love of life has continued to be an immense source of encouragement to me while working on this new book...

Robin Nichols, Sydney, 2021

Born in the UK, Robin Nichols has always had a great love for recording the world with a camera. After finishing school, he studied fine art, before moving on to study at Nottingham Trent University, where he gained a degree in creative photography. He subsequently worked in the advertising industry for several years, before emigrating to Australia in 1985. Robin has always worked in photography: as a black and white printer, a cameraman, a stock photographer, and a freelance pho tographer.

During the 1990s, Robin contributed to several photo-centric publications in A ustralia, New Zealand, Singapore, and the UK. This led to a full-time position as the editor of the Sydney-based Commercial Photography magazine, and later, Australian Photography magazine, a post that he held for 5 years.

In 1997, he founded the critically acclaimed Digital Photography and Design magazine. During this period, he also authored books for Focal Press and Octopus Press, lectured at seminars in Sydney, Melbourne, and Brisbane, as well as in Seattle and Chicago, and ran highly successful photographic workshops in Dubai fo r 7 years.

In 2000, he started his own publishing business, launching what became Australia's best-selling specialist photo publication: Better Digital Magazine. With this publication, he pursued the goal of presenting clear, well-illustrated information written in jargon-free English.

Two years later, he launched a second magazine, also a first: Better Photoshop Techniques . As a publisher during this period, Robin was lucky enough to interview so me of the biggest names in photography, including Elliott Erwitt, David Doubilet, Joe McNally, Gregory Heisler, David Hobby, and even keen photographer and jazz legend Don Burrows, on one occasion.

Both magazines ran for more than 10 years, but as distribution and paper costs spiraled and access to free information on the internet exploded, he made the move into teaching. Robin now concentrates on teaching everything photographic, both locally through Sydney University's Center for Continuing Education as well as through several online institutions, including Udemy, Skillshare, an d Eduonix.

Pandemic permissable, Robin plans, organizes, and conducts specialist small-group photographic tours at a wide range of photogenic locations, locally in Australia and internationally in places such as South Africa, Botswana, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Tanzania, Oman, Japan, Iceland, Bali, Sri Lanka, Madagascar, and Cuba.

David Asch is from Haywards Heath, England. He works as a content designer an d is also an artist with a passion for digital art and t echnology.

David has been working with digital imaging tools for over 20 years. In that time, he has authored several titles on Adobe Photoshop Elements and Adobe Muse, as well as numerous articles for digital photography publications and online resources. He is an Adobe Certified Expert in Photoshop CC and teaches Photoshop and Photoshop Elements.

Authored publications :

• Creative Web Design with Adobe Muse (Focal Press)
• How to Cheat in Photoshop Elements (Focal Press)
• Focus on Photoshop Elements (Focal Press)
• Digital Photo Doctor (co-authored) (Reader's Digest)

Liz Staley is a visual artist and blogger who loves horses, animation, comics, and true crime. She began her digital art journey using Adobe Photoshop, but in recent years has started using Clip Studio Paint. She is the author of Mastering Manga Studio 5, Manga Studio EX5 Cookbook, and Learn Clip Studio Paint. When she isn't creating art, she can be found in a barn taking care of, riding, and training horses. She currently lives in Pennsylvania, USA, with he r husband.