Project 2

Basic Retouching

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Gas Station, Nevada. Mark Galer

Sometimes it is not enough just to optimize an image in Adobe Camera Raw (ACR). To achieve maximum performance from our editing software we occasionally need to fine-tune the optimization process by opening the image in the main Edit space of Photoshop Elements and finishing the job using some localized, rather than global, editing techniques.

This tutorial guides you through the process of editing non-destructively using a series of adjustment layers, image layers and layer masks. By adopting a non-destructive workflow we can maintain maximum quality and ensure that for every adjustment ...

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