Photoshop Elements 14 For Dummies

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 14 for the Mac, including support for placing photos on maps and more consistency with Windows features.

As each software product is upgraded to a newer version, you sometimes find a whole bunch of new features that dazzle you and sometimes you find not so many new features but much more improved performance. Photoshop Elements 14 is focused on the latter. Do you remember Adobe Flash? Well, Flash is dying and much of the interface construction that was formerly based on Adobe Flash is now completely recoded. What this means for you is that you’ll find faster and better performance because Adobe has abandoned old code and given us all new code from the ground up. You’ll find performance and stability much improved, which means faster responses as you whiz through tasks that took more time to perform in earlier versions of Elements.

In terms of features, this version ...