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Robin Nichols
Robin Nichols
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Robin Nichols

Born in the UK, Robin Nichols has always had a great love for recording the world with a camera. After finishing school, he studied fine art, before moving on to study at Nottingham Trent University, where he gained a degree in creative photography. He subsequently worked in the advertising industry for several years, before emigrating to Australia in 1985. Robin has always worked in photography: as a black and white printer, a cameraman, a stock photographer, and a freelance photographer. During the 1990s, Robin contributed to several photo-centric publications in Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, and the UK.
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Perfect Portrait feature

Elements now has three "Perfect" Guided edits—Perfect Landscape, Perfect Pet and Perfect Portrait. It's actually an amalgamation of not one, but 10 different editing tools, nicely lined up top to bottom in the panel on the right-hand side of the screen.

The advantage of a feature like Perfect Portrait is not so much that it works really well—it does—but rather that it brings all the features that you'd need to make a portrait appear perfect together in one panel. You probably won't use them all, but the relevant ones are all there in the toolbox. It's a bit similar to the toolbox a carpenter might take on a job—they're not necessarily going to use everything, but at least all situations are covered.

To use Perfect Portrait, open your image and run the feature (Guided Edit>Special Edits>Perfect Portrait). The first function to try is the Smooth Skin feature...

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Robin Nichols

Born in the UK, Robin Nichols has always had a great love for recording the world with a camera. After finishing school, he studied fine art, before moving on to study at Nottingham Trent University, where he gained a degree in creative photography. He subsequently worked in the advertising industry for several years, before emigrating to Australia in 1985. Robin has always worked in photography: as a black and white printer, a cameraman, a stock photographer, and a freelance photographer. During the 1990s, Robin contributed to several photo-centric publications in Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, and the UK.
Read more about Robin Nichols