Photoshop® Elements 15 For Dummies®
Photoshop® Elements 15 For Dummies®
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Photoshop® Elements 15 For Dummies®
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Introduction
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.
About This Book
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 you’re a Mac user, you’ll find all you need to work in Elements 15 for the Mac, exactly the same as when we refer to using Elements on Windows.
Here we are now in version 15 of Photoshop Elements. Imagine, 15 versions of the program! You won’t find huge changes to an already refined user interface, nor will you find some extraordinary, out-of-this-world, new features. What’s new in this version of Elements are refinements of the feature-rich program and some helpful new features that permit you to express yourself artistically in just about any manner you choose.
In terms of the new features, this version of Elements brings you some nifty enhancements to facilitate ease in working with the program and some very nice tools and methods for editing your photos:
❯❯ Touch Support: Most of the new Windows laptop computers shipped today have touchscreens that permit you to use your fingers instead of a mouse for menu commands and actions. The Mac has been slow to adopt this technology. Elements 15 supports some features for using touchscreen technology when working on a Windows laptop. The Organizer and Quick Edit modes have migrated to more friendly touchscreen behavior.
❯❯ Layers: You can now group layers in Elements. You can also color-code layers.
❯❯ Perspective Crop: You can crop images using perspective control.
❯❯ Content Aware Move Transform: Content Aware lets you move pixels around an image while blending the edges with background content so the result appears much less artificial. Now you can use Content Aware when transforming selections such as scaling and rotating.
❯❯ Enhanced Search: Searching for people, places, and events has been revamped to help you quickly and efficiently add tags to images. Finding special moments becomes much easier and it’s all included in a single panel.
❯❯ Auto Tagging: If you’ve found tagging images with keywords or identifying people and events individually to be burdensome and take up too much of your time, this new Auto Tagging feature helps you breeze through managing your Organizer library.
❯❯ Enhanced Auto Fix: If you want to quickly make some fixes on images but you don’t want to launch the Photo Editor, you can now select multiple photos and apply fixes directly in the Organizer.
❯❯ Import from Cloud Services: Storing your pictures in the cloud has become commonplace for most users. If you use Dropbox, One Drive, iCloud, or one of many other cloud services, you can now directly import photos into the Organizer from your cloud service.
❯❯ Face Aware Liquefy: This new features enables you to detect an area on a face such as lips, nose, eyes, or chin; use sliders in a panel to make adjustments (something like changing frowns to smiles); and apply the edit to all images with the same face tags.
❯❯ Filter Gallery: Filters have always been a fun experience for users of both Photoshop
