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Mastering Adobe Photoshop Elements 2021

You're reading from   Mastering Adobe Photoshop Elements 2021 Boost your image-editing skills using the latest tools and techniques in Adobe Photoshop Elements

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800566996
Length 410 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Robin Nichols Robin Nichols
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Chapter 1 Photoshop Elements Features Overview 2. Chapter 2 Setting Up Photoshop Elements from Scratch FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 3 The Basics of Image Editing 4. Chapter 4 Easy Creative Projects 5. Chapter 5 Advanced Techniques - Layers and Masking 6. Chapter 6 Advanced Techniques: Retouching, Selections, and Text 7. Chapter 7 Additional Tools and Features 8. Chapter 8 Advanced Drawing and Painting Techniques 9. Chapter 9 Exporting the Finished Work 10. Chapter 10 Troubleshooting 11. Chapter 11 Feature Appendix 12. Other Books You May Enjoy

Advanced selections: the Marquee and Lasso tools

The Marquee Tool has two modes: Rectilinear and Elliptical—with these you can draw a square, rectangle, ellipse, or circular selection shape. In this exercise, I want to shift the door in the following image to the right, copy and paste the left-hand window over the space left by the [moved] door frame, and finally copy and paste an object from another image into the left-hand corner of this scene.

When making selections, it's important to appreciate that all selection tools work together—you can start with one, then if needed work with a second or third selection tool to complete the job.

Possibly the hardest task with selections is to determine which one is best for the job—here I started with the Rectangular Marquee Tool to make a selection of this house's front door:

Step one: The door is roughly rectangular, so the Rectangular Marquee tool is probably the best choice to start...

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