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Barbara Obermeier
Ted Padova
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November 6, 2018

Photoshop Elements 2019 For Dummies

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Turn blah photos into dazzling images Photoshop Elements offers enough of the power you’ll find in full Photoshop to make both basic and artistic edits to your photos. Photoshop Elements 2019 For Dummies helps you learn how to use Photoshop Elements to take your shots to stunning new heights! Photoshop Elements 2019 For Dummies offers photographers of all skill levels the power to turn run-of-the-mill digital pictures into beautiful photographs. This friendly and helpful guidebook directs you on how to harness all the tools this powerful software has to offer.

  • Simple explanations for handling image editing
  • Steps for giving your photos a digital makeover
  • Ways to turn your photos into works of art
  • Guidance on fixing your pics with one click

No matter if you're a photo editing newcomer looking for advice on making the most common fixes or an experienced editor in need of a road map to this version of Photoshop Elements, this book has you covered!

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About The Author

Barb Obermeier is principal of Obermeier Design, a graphic design studio specializing in print and web design, and lead instructor in the graphic design program at Brooks Institute. Ted Padova is an internationally recognized authority on Adobe Acrobat, PDF, and digital imaging. He has written more than 60 books.

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Photoshop Elements 2019 provides you an art curator in the form of the Auto Curate check box in the upper-right side of the Organizer window. Click the Auto Curate check box, and Elements automatically analyzes the images in the Media Browser window. When completed, only the best photos (according to the auto analysis in Elements) are shown in the media browser.
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Adobe has made a couple of changes to the Organizer in Photoshop Elements 2019. The new Auto Curator checkbox (I in the figure) was changed from the old Smarts Picks checkbox, and the Slideshow button (U in the figure) activates a new project called Memories, which displays images as a video. Photoshop Elements 2019 Organizer workspace.
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Guided mode is a marvelous editing feature in Photoshop Elements. With each release of Photoshop Elements, new Guided Edits are introduced. In Elements 2019, a marvelous new Guided Edit has been added to the program. It’s called Meme Creator. This Guided Edit enables you create a meme effect by adding borders, text, or both.
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In Photoshop Elements 2019, the majority of your type entry will most likely be in point type mode. Point type is useful for short chunks of text, such as headlines, labels, logos, and headings for web pages.If you have larger chunks of text, it’s usually more practical to enter the text as paragraph type. Entering paragraph type is similar to entering text in a word-processing or page-layout program, except that the text is contained inside a bounding box.
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If you want to pluck an element out of its environment and stick it in another in Photoshop Elements, or apply an adjustment to just a portion of your image, you need to create a selection around that element. Finding out how to make accurate selections is one of those skills that's well worth the time you invest.
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When you select a tool and open the Tool Options bin below the image window, companion tools are displayed in the bin. Selecting a tool in the Tools panel opens the Tool Options, where you can select additional tools if you're using keyboard shortcut keys.To cycle through tools that share a keyboard shortcut, simply press the key that corresponds to your desired tool until that tool is selected.
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Adobe Photoshop Elements 2019 is a great packaging tool that can deploy your photos and projects for screen viewing — and not just on your computer monitor. You can edit photos or assemble creations that are exported for web viewing, and you can even prepare files to show on your television.Before you choose a sharing activity and ultimately begin work on a creation, you need to ask a few questions: What device(s) are going to display my creations?
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If you like the organic look of a pencil sketch, be sure to check out the new Partial Sketch Photoshop Elements 2019 feature under Fun Edits in Guided mode. This new edit allows you to selectively brush in a hand-sketched effect on your photo.Drawing with the Pencil tool creates hard edges. You can’t get the soft, feathery edges that you can with the Brush tool.
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Image editing is incredibly fun, especially with a tool like Photoshop Elements 2019, which enables you to modify, combine, and even draw your own images to your imagination’s content.In this version of Photoshop Elements, Adobe introduces a completely new Home screen, or Hub as Adobe calls it. After installing Elements, launch the Elements application, and you arrive at the Home screen, shown here.
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Photoshop Elements offers two workspaces — the Organizer and the Photo Editor — and you can toggle between the two. Here is the Photo Editor interface showing the expert editing mode with the Layers panel open. Open an image in the Photo Editor by choosing File→Open. Get information about your image by looking at the status bar.
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Adobe has added a new Photoshop Elements feature to the other fun you can have with the Type Mask tool. If having just one photo inside of your text isn’t enough, check out the new Multi-Photo Text Guided Edit feature (under Fun Edits) where you can put a different photo inside each letter of your text!Using the Type Mask tool epitomizes the combination of type and image.
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