How to Use Photoshop - Tutorials

How to use Photoshop | Crop Tool

Ahmad Raza — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 11:04:23 +0000

How to use Photoshop’s Crop Tool: Photoshop has an amazing tool to crop photos with great flexibility. You will learn in this basic Photoshop tutorial about how to use Photoshop‘s crop tool and get most out of it. We often need to reduce the size of the images or cut away some thing we don’t want in our image. Photoshop has a wonderful tool to do it and this tool has some wonderful features. You can rotate the area you want to crop and also change the perspective of the image before cropping. An amazing option is that you can specify a certain ratio for example 1:3 or 2:3 to crop your image to perfection. 1:1 is used for perfect square. you can take advantage of another great feature if you know how to use Photoshop crop tool. That is the option bar where you can put your own dimensions of am image and set resolution of your choice to the image. You can also select from a number of presets already created in Photoshop of different print sizes. There is another little gem, from image button which is also useful at times. Lets start a beginners Photoshop tutorial and do everything in steps. Cropping an Image: Firstly, press C key on the keyboard to select crop tool. This is how it look likes: .You can also select it from the tools bar. Now select area you want to crop by clicking, holding and dragging your left mouse button. It works almost same like rectangular marquee tool. You can move the selected area and place it where you want. Once the selection is complete you can double click it or press enter key to crop the photo. You can also rotate an image while cropping. This is very useful when you want to straighten the images as well as crop them. After pressing enter you would see the image straightened and cropped. You can move it by holding any corner of the image. Crop Tool Options: There are some of the options of crop tool you must know. 1. You can always use already given presets if you want to print the photos and you can also create custom preset and add it in the collection. 2. You can specify width and height in the boxes given which can be interchanged with each other by the button in center. 3. You can also give resolution which can increase the quality as well as size of the image. So be careful if you want the size of the image to be low. That was the beginners Photoshop tutorial where you learned how to use Photoshop‘s crop tool. Keep an eye on the Photoshop Tips and Techniques section. We will post some other tips about how to Photoshop.

Wooden Photoshop Frames

Ahmad Raza — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 03:49:47 +0000

Wooden Photoshop Frames Tutorial: Here is another tutorial in the Category of Photoshop Borders and Photoshop Frames making. We are going to make natural looking Wooden Photoshop frames in Adobe Photoshop. In the last tutorial we made Simple Photoshop Borders. Making Wooden Photoshop Frames: Lets start making our first of wooden Photoshop frames. If you follow the instructions properly, There will be o problem in making this Photo Frame. It is no very difficult tutorial. First step of creating wooden Photoshop Frames is to create a new document. Icreated a 600×600 pixels document. Press Ctrl + N in PC and Command + N in Mac for creating a new document. For full toturial please visit Photoshop Frames.

Photoshop Techniques | Marquee tools Shortcuts

Ahmad Raza — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 18:02:59 +0000

Photoshop Techniques | Marquee tools Shortcuts: Here are some Photoshop techniques and shortcuts to work efficiently with Elliptical and Rectangular Marquee tool. We have already discussed both tools with detail. Before reading Photoshop techniques related to these tools you should take a look at the previous basic Photoshop tutorial on these tools. This will help you a lot in understanding Elliptical and Rectangular Marquee tool very well. Photoshop Techniques |Perfect Circles and Squares: You can make a perfect circle with elliptical marquee tool or a perfect square with rectangular marquee tool in two ways. First one is by setting the style to fixed ratio and filling the ratio boxes with 1:1. The second way you can do it is an easy one. Hold down shift key and make selection, it is important that you release the shift key after completing selection otherwise you will not be able to get a perfect selection. Photoshop Techniques | Options made easy: We have already seen how the options are used in Marquee tools. Now we will see how we can do it by using keyboard. If you want to add to the selection, hold down shift key and make another selection which you want to add to existing selection. If you want to subtract from selection, hold down Alt key and select the area you want to deselect. If you want to intersect with the selection, hold down Shift+Alt and make the desired selection. Photoshop Techniques | Deselect , Move and delete: To deselect the selection already made, press Ctrl+D. You can move your selection by your keyboard arrow buttons. You can also do it by first bringing the cursor within the boundaries and then holding down right mouse button and move the selection. If you want to move the selected pixels of the layer select move tool first then move the selected pixels to desired area. If you are in the process of making a selection and realize that it should be moved to some other place you can hold Space key and move it while making selection. Release Space key and continue selection. If you want to delete the selected pixels of the layer, you can simply do it by pressing Backspace or Delete key on the keyboard. Use these Photoshop techniques as specified and you will not experience any problem. Hope you found these Photoshop Techniques useful and gained some knowledge about how to use Photoshop tools in this basic Photoshop tutorial.

How to Use Photoshop’s Elliptical Marquee Tool

Ahmad Raza — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 10:15:49 +0000

How to Use Photoshop’s Elliptical Marquee Tool: In the process of learning how to use Photoshop here is another Basic Photoshop tutorial. In earlier Photoshop tutorials for beginners, we have learned about some useful Photoshop basics and tools, some of which are as follows. A detailed tutorial about how to use Photoshop’s Pen Tool: Tutorial | How to Use Pen Tool in Photoshop Tutorial about how to Photoshop with Magnetic Lasso Tool: Photoshop Tools | Magnetic Lasso Tool A very useful guide about how to use Photoshop‘s cool feature of Smart Objects: How to use Smart Objects in Photoshop How to Use Photoshop | Elliptical Marquee Tool: Today we are going to learn about Elliptical marquee tool which is another selection tool in Adobe Photoshop. We have already discussed How to Photoshop with Rectangular Marquee Tool. Elliptical marquee tool is very useful and one of the basic tools in the Adobe Photoshop. You can find elliptical marquee tool in the tools palette as shown below. The keyboard shortcut for selecting it is M key.Use Shift + M once to select elliptical marquee tool if you were using rectangular marquee tool before. Elliptical Marquee Tool | Options: There are some options you can use up in the options bar as shown below. The option highlighted in purple color is known as new selection. It is selected a s default. With this option selected, there will be new selection every time you create a new ellipse for selection. If the second option highlighted in blue, add to selection is selected, you can ad to your already selected area. For example you have made a selection with elliptical marquee tool and add want to select some more area with the tool, simply make another selection and this will be added to the earlier selection. The option highlighted with orange is subtract from selection. With this option you can deselect any part of already selected area. The last one highlighted in yellow is intersect with selection. This is used to intersect with the selection. You can make a fixed ratio ellipse by first selecting Fixed ratio and the assigning the desired values. Ratio shown in the image width: 1 and height: 1 will get you a perfect circle. You can also create fixed size ellipses by first selecting fixed size from the styles as shown in the image below and then assign your desires values. Every time you will click on the working area of document a new specified sized selection will appear. Anytime you want to deselect the selection press Ctrl+D in PC and Cmd +D on Mac to deselect the area already selected. This was today’s tutorials about how to use Photoshop’s elliptical marquee tool with flexibility. You should certainly have a look at Photoshop techniques for marquee tools. As tools are essential in learning how to use Photoshop, Tips techniques and shortcuts are also useful for efficient and fast working on Adobe Photoshop. Hope you did like today’s basic Photoshop

Tips and Techniques | Magnetic Lasso Tool

Ahmad Raza — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 10:58:45 +0000

Tips and Techniques | Magnetic Lasso Tool We have discussed Photoshop Tools | Magnetic Lasso Tool in other section of How to Photoshop. In this post of Photoshop Tips and Techniques, some tips about Magnetic Lasso Tool will be explained. Here are some very essential Photoshop Tips and techniques about Magnetic Lasso Tool you must know to use Lasso Tool with its full potential! Magnetic Lasso Tool | Photoshop Tips 1 Tip number 1 about Magnetic Lasso Tool is, if you are selecting an object and you pointer goes far away from your object creating new anchor points where you want them to be. Would you press ESC and start a new selection? If yes then don’t do it. You can delete recent anchor points by using Del key on the keyboard. It will keep deleting anchor points from the most recent to the first if you keep pressing Del key. You can also use Backspace for the same purpose. Tips and Techniques | Tip 2 Do you know there are two icons for Magnetic Lasso Tool? Yes there are… Many of guys don’t know it! First select Magnetic lasso tool and then press Caps Lock key on the keyboard and you will see the other icon of magnetic lasso tool.It is used for more accuracy in the selection. We learned in the last tutorial about the Pen Width option in Photoshop tool options. This tool exactly tells Photoshop where to look for the edges. The bigger the size of Pen Width option bigger will be the size of the icon and also the area will be increased where it will look for edges. Tips and Techniques | Tip 3 You can use the free hand Lasso Tool anytime by holding Alt key on PC or Option Key on Mac and when you want to revert back to using Magnetic Lasso Tool, release Alt key! You can also use Polygonal Lasso Tool. While using Magnetic Lasso Tool hold Alt Key if you are using Pc or Option key n Mac, Click (don’t drag) at some point and you will see the polygonal lasso tool icon appearing instead of magnetic lasso tool. Tips and Techniques | Tip 4 After making first selection down Shift key and make another selection if you want to Add the new selection to existing selection. To subtract new selection from existing selection, hold Alt/Option key while making new selection

Photoshop Tools | Magnetic Lasso Tool

Ahmad Raza — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 17:33:48 +0000

Photoshop Tools | Magnetic Lasso Tool We are continuing from the last Photoshop Tools Tutorial about Lasso Tool. We are carrying on our journey to learn how to use Photoshop and how to Photoshop photos properly. We shall learn how to use Photoshop’s Magnetic Lasso Tool in today’s tutorial. Magnetic Lasso Tool is really an amazing selection tool in Adobe Photoshop. It makes perfect selection if it is used properly. You have to hover your cursor around the borders of your object. Magnetic lasso tool will automatically find the edges of your object by the difference of colors of edges and background. It will work more accurately if the difference between colors of background and object is bigger. If there is a minor difference between colors then the accuracy may drop but the change of settings may still increase the performance. Magnetic Lasso Tool | Selection Lets make a selection with Magnetic Lasso Tool… Press L key on the keyboard to select Lasso tool and then press Shift + L two times to select Magnetic Lasso Tool. You can also directly select it from the toolbox. Create first anchor point from where you want to start selecting your object. Keep creating anchor points on the border of the object until you reach to the first point. Lastly click on the first anchor point to make the selection. See how accurate and perfect the selection is made. This is the magic of Magnetic Lasso Tool. Now if Move Object: If you want to Move your object click V key on the keyboard and move the object wherever you want. You can also use arrow keys on the keyboard for this purpose. Now you can move, copy, cut, delete or whatever you want to do with your selection. Magnetic Lasso Tool | Options There are some options in magnetic lasso tool options bar which can be altered according to the requirements. Option highlighted with orange color is frequency which indicates how frequently you want to use the anchor points while selecting. Contrast option is highlighted in green. Contrast tells Photoshop that how much contrast should be regarded as a border of the object. Option highlighted with red is for changing pen width by using tablet pressure. Pen Width option (highlighted in blue) tells the Photoshop about the area in which it has to look for the borders of the object. How to Photoshop | Extra Other options works same as explained in the previous tutorials. Photoshop Tips and Techniques for Magnetic Lasso Tool are shared in Photoshop Tips and Technique section of How to Photoshop.

Photoshop Tips and Techniques | Lasso Tool

Ahmad Raza — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 07:34:53 +0000

How to Photoshop Tips and Techniques Useful Photoshop Tips and Techniques are very important in learning how to photoshop properly our pictures properly and how to use photoshop. Todays Photoshop Tips and Techniques also relate our last tutorial about Photoshop Tools How to Photoshop | Lasso Tool. Photoshop Tips and Techniques | Lasso Tool Here are some Photoshop Tips and Techniques for Lasso Tool in Adobe Photoshop. These Photoshop Tips and Techniques can increase the efficiency of working in Photoshop. Efficiency is very important factor to consider. When we are in the phase of learning how to Photoshop our photos and how to use Photoshop properly, this ability is very important. Tip 1: This Photoshop tip apply whatever variations of Lasso Tool you are using. At any point in the process of selection press ENTER key on the keyboard to complete the selection. The point where you press enter will automatically be joined with the starting point. Tip 2: There are four options for selection in the option bar. You can add to selection subtract from selection and intersect with selection. These options work same as we saw in Rectangular Marquee Tool tutorial. Tip 3: You can simply hold Shift key on the keyboard when starting a new selection to add the selection to the existing selection. Photoshop Tips and Techniques | Polygonal Lasso Tool The Photoshop tips and Techniques stated above are general for all variations of Lasso Tool. A special Photoshop tip particularly for Polygonal Lasso Tool is explained below. Tip: While using Polygonal Lasso Tool you can revert back to simple Lasso Tool by holding Alt key on the keyboard. When you stop holding Alt key Polygonal Lasso Tool will be in operation again.

How to Photoshop | Lasso Tool

Ahmad Raza — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 18:28:21 +0000

How to Photoshop | Use Lasso Tool Lasso tool is selection tool available in Adobe Photoshop. We will now see how to use lasso tool to select area in our image. In learning how to Photoshop this is our continuing tutorial in the section of Photoshop Tools Tutorials. We previously talked about Rectangular Marquee Tool and Pen Tool in detail in the Photoshop Tools Tutorial section. Basically there are three Types of Lasso Tools. Lasso Tool Polygonal Lasso Tool Magnetic Lasso Tool The image below shows the location and types of Lasso Tools. Lasso Tool: Lasso tool is a free hand selection tool and is very easy to use. The shortcut key forselecting Lasso Tool is L key on the keyboard. If you want to select any object or area you can hold mouse button and drag mouse around the object or shape you want to select. Its same like drawing a shape once you close your shape and free the pressed mouse button the selection is done. Be careful to close your shape otherwise the ending point will automatically be connected with starting point via straight line on leaving the pressed muse button. Polygonal Lasso Tool: Polygonal lasso tool is used for straight sided area selection. Press Shift+L to change from Lasso Tool to Polygonal Tool To select area… Create a new anchor point as a start point by clicking left mouse button. Click left mouse button whenever you want to create a new anchor point. Join your last anchor point to the first anchor point to close the area. You can see your selection is made! Some of the Photoshop Tips and Techniques about Lasso Tool are given in the Tips and Techniques section. There are differences between Lasso Tool and Polygonal Lasso Tool. The use of both tools is different. Polygonal tool can be used effectively where we need a polygonal selection. We use anchor points in Polygonal lasso tool as compared to simple lasso tool. Magnetic Lasso tool will be discussed in next tutorial…

Photoshop Borders Tutorial

Ahmad Raza — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 04:35:59 +0000

How to Photoshop | Make Photoshop Borders Today we shall learn How to Make Photoshop Borders in the continuous series of basic Photoshop tutorials of how to photoshop. It is the easiest way to make Photoshop Borders in Photoshop and the simplest Photoshop Borders will be produced. Photoshop styles will be utilized for this purpose. Photoshop Borders | Basic Tutorial Step 1: First make a new document by clicking Ctrl + N on PC and choose width and height that suits you. I have chosen 800×600 to make this Photoshop Border. Step 2: Click Layer Styles icon as indicated in the photo below and select Stroke in the list of styles you can add to your Photo. You can also select styles by going to Layer > Layer Styles in the menu bar. Step 3: Follow the points shown in the Photo below, First set size to 20 px for this specific Photoshop Border. Change blend mode to Inside and then lastly set the color of your liking. I have selected #f40168 for this basic Photoshop tutorial series to learn how to photoshop. Click OK and see a simple Photoshop Border we have made. Same simple frames can be used in any of your photos just duplicate your photo background and repeat step 3. More Photoshop Borders Our next Photoshop Borders we are going to look are also made using Layer Style Stroke. This is not as simple as the first we learned is. Step 1: To start making this go through first two steps as explained above. Step 2: Now you need to first set the size according to your will. For this tutorial i have selected 60px. Step 3: Select the position to center as highlighted in the below photo. Step 4: After changing position you would have to change fill type to gradient and then choose the gradient of your choice. Step: 5 Your style will be shape burst with align with layer checked. See our beautiful looking photoshop border. The variables can be changed according to the size of the picture and according to your will. These are just techniques about making Photoshop Borders, you can apply the techniques to serve your purposes. These Photoshop borders can be transformed and more enhanced, combination of techniques can make the borders more beautiful. We will learn how to make more Photoshop borders and frames in the next tutorials with different tips and techniques. That’s all for today in this tutorial of learning how to Photoshop .

How to Photoshop

Ahmad Raza — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 16:16:02 +0000

Adobe Photoshop is probably the most famous and popular image editing computer software. The reason of the popularity of Adobe Photoshop is its features and interface. It has most advanced features among all the photo-editing software. The interface of Photoshop makes it very easy to use indeed. How to Photoshop Knowing how to Photoshop, can do wonders for you. It is very easy to learn how to Photoshop your photos properly and how to use Photoshop for other purposes. It can enhance your photos and add awesome effects to your photos. You can make your images brighter, cleaner and glamorous. Changing background is a simple job for Photoshop. To do all this you must have to complete knowledge of Photoshop. Our Purpose for starting this website is to provide a source for Photoshop beginners to learn from a series of basic how to Photoshop tutorials and professional level Photoshop Tutorials. Learning how to Photoshop is a gradual process and you need continuous practice to master this software. You must be thinking where do i start to learn how to Photoshop? Start from the tools… How to Photoshop | Tools Photoshop has many tools and each one has its own importance. These are the basics when you want to know how to Photoshop. Start from knowing the function of each and every tool. When you start understanding the capabilities of all tools you will be able to create new shortcuts and techniques for you. Having knowledge is one thing and applying that knowledge is another thing. Make sure you apply what you learn. For example when you know everything about Rectangular Marquee Tool can apply this to move a rectangular part of image by accurate selection using Rectangular Marquee Tool and then select Move tool by pressing V key and move that part of picture from one location to another. Another application of selection by Rectangular Marquee Tool is if you use brush tool, it will not go outside of your selection… There are many applications of one tool. This was the first step to the journey of learning how to Photoshop. How to Photoshop | Techniques You can follow different approaches to Photoshop your photos. When you get into it, if you have not already, you will know that one task can be done by different techniques for example, selection can be made through pen tool, rectangular marquee tool, lasso tools, magic wand tool, quick mask mode and by other means. Your next step in learning how to Photoshop is to follow different approaches and find out the best for yourself and master that technique. It’s totally up to you to select how to Photoshop your photos. Another example: When you want to brighten your image you can do it by many techniques and tools e.g. curves, adjustment layers, dodge tool etc… How to Photoshop | Filters There are a number of filters in Photoshop which can add different kinds of effects to images which can assist you in the