Books by Jeff Carlson

Master Adobe's friendliest tool for editing photos and making digital artwork, Photoshop Elements 2022, quickly and easily with step-by-step tutorials and full color images.Visual QuickStart Guides provide an easy, visual approach to learning, using tightly integrated video, images, and text. Purchase of the book includes access to the free Web Edition, which features more than three hours of video, enhancing and expanding the information in the text.Concise steps and explanations guide you through the foundations of using Adobe Photoshop Elements 2022, getting you up and running in no time. Adobe Photoshop Elements has many of the same features as its older brother but with a simpler, streamlined interface designed for both the casual photographer and the serious hobbyist.Learn how to:Use new slideshow stylesExtend photo backgroundsManipulate overlays to fit any shapeApply moving animationsRender your compositions with an art filter

Skylum's Luminar AI is a great solution for both professional and amateur photographers who want to quickly create stunning photos. Luminar's advanced AI-based tools eliminate hours of traditional editing tasks, whether you're applying automatic tone and colour adjustments, replacing dreary skies with more dynamic ones, or retouching portraits to smooth skin, remove blemishes, and accentuate flattering facial features. For those who want to dig into editing, powerful tools give you full control over your RAW and JPEG images, including advanced features such as masks, blend modes, and lens correction. Luminar AI also works as a plug-in for other applications, such as Adobe Photoshop, Lightroom Classic, and Apple Photos, allowing round-trip editing and seamless integration with workflows you may already have in place. In this book you'll learn all about: AI editing: Luminar AI's many AI-based tools eliminate hours of traditional editing tasks. Improve overall tone and color using just one slider, and enhance a sky using another without building masks or layers. Realistically replace the entire sky in one step, even when objects like buildings or trees intrude. Luminar identifies faces in photos, allowing you to smooth skin, sharpen eyes, brighten faces, and perform other portrait retouching tasks in minutes. Expert editing: Take advantage of Luminar's many professional tools to bring out the best versions of your photos. Enhance the look using tone controls and curves, dodging and burning, and tools built for specific types of images, such as Landscape Enhancer, Adjustable Gradient, and B & W Conversion. The Erase and Clone & Stamp tools make it easy to remove unexpected objects and glitches such as lens dust spots. Luminar's RAW editing engine includes real-time noise reduction and advanced color processing and sharpening tools, all completely non-destructive and with the ability to step back through the history of edits. Advanced editing: Use masks, blend modes, and lens corrections to combine edits and effects. Creativity: Open your imagination with Luminar's creative tools, which range from adding glow, texture, and dramatic looks to incorporating sunrays and objects into augmented skies. Presets and LUTs (Lookup Tables): Learn how to use Luminar Looks presets and LUTs to bring the look of simulated film stocks and creative colour grades to your work. Luminar Library: Organise and manage your photos in a central library where your source images can reside where you want them, whether that's on your hard disk, a network volume, or in local cloud services folders such as Dropbox or Google Drive for remote backup. Luminar plug-ins: If you already use other applications to organise your library or for photo editing, such as Adobe Photoshop or Lightroom Classic, Luminar AI also works as a plug-in that allows round-trip editing and seamless integration with the workflows you may already have in place. Sharing images: Whether you're printing your images or sharing them online, learn how to make your photos look their best no matter what output solution you need.