Adobe Photoshop Elements Advanced Editing Techniques and Tricks
The Essential Guide to Going Beyond Guided Edits
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Adobe Photoshop Elements Advanced Editing Techniques and Tricks: The Essential Guide to Going Beyond Guided Edits is a must for those who want to go beyond automated features and Guided Edits and delve into the many advanced techniques that are possible using Adobe Photoshop Elements.

LEARN HOW TO

• Perfect editing portrait images by performing techniques such as skin tone correction, frequency separations, skin smoothing, and enhancing facial features
• Properly edit and enhance a subject's eyes, lips, eyebrows, and facial lighting
•   Apply advanced photo compositing techniques, utilizing rules for controlling perspective
• Use color grading techniques similar to those used by professional motion picture film editors
• Delve into advanced tools not included in Photoshop Elements such as curves, color range, selective color, working with color LUTs, and more

With detailed step-by-step instructions, this book is targeted to intermediate and advanced users who want to take their photography to the next level. Additional tips using Photoshop Elements can be found on Ted's YouTube channel at www.YouTube/tedpadova.

PART I USING PLUG-INS AND PRESETS

1 Using Plug-ins and Presets

2 Using Camera Raw

PART II SELECTIONS AND LAYERS

3 Making Selections

4 Working with Layers

5 Masking Photos

PART III SHARPENING AND EFFECTS

6 Sharpening Photos

7 Using Effects

PART IV PHOTO COMPOSITING

8 Compositing Images

PART V WORKING WITH COLOR

9 Sampling Color

10 Color Toning and Color Grading

PART VI WORKING WITH TEXT AND PHOTO EFFECTS

11 Working with Type

12 Creating Photo Effects

PART VII EDITING PHOTOS OF PEOPLE

13 Editing Vintage Photos

14 Editing Portraits

15 Editing Skin Tones

PART VI SHARING YOUR CREATIONS

16 Sharing Images

17 Working with Brushes, Online

18 Cropping Images, Online

I've been a professional photographer on and off for almost 60 years. I first started working in photography in 1963 at the Army Aviation Test Office at Edwards Air Force Base in Edwards, California. I shot on glass plates using the Fairchild Flight Analyzer, developed the plates, and made contact prints. It was crude but an interesting first introduction to photography.

A few years later, I joined the Peace Corps and spent several years in a Venezuelan fishing village and the Amazon jungle in Ecuador. It was early in my Peace Corps service that I acquired my first SLR and became thoroughly engrossed in photography.

After my tour in the Peace Corps, I went to the New York Institute of Photography in New York City when it was a resident school. After a short time in Manhattan, where I shot all over the city, I acquired a diploma in Commercial Photography and headed off to my home in California.

Throughout the time I was working on my baccalaureate degree and going to graduate school, I shot weddings that paid for my education. When I had time off from school, I worked in a small trailer I converted into a dark room, where I processed B&W film and made enlargements.