Getting Started with Photoshop Article

You’ve heard of Photoshop, right? Of course you have — you wouldn’t be reading this otherwise! You’ve probably heard of Photoshop’s sidekick, Fireworks, too, but you might not be quite sure of what it does or where it fits in. Photoshop and Fireworks are two of the most commonly used tools in the web designer’s arsenal. From the preparation of initial design comps to generating optimized graphics for a web page, most web designers rely heavily on these two programs. In this introductory chapter, which has been adapted from The Photoshop Anthology, 101 Web Design Tips, Tricks and Techniques, I’ll cover some of the basic tools and tasks that we’ll draw on in the later chapters. So what are you waiting for? The Photoshop Workspace Photoshop’s “out of the box” workspace consists of the following components: menu bar – You will probably already be familiar with the menu bar from other programs. Customizing your Workspace changing the look of the menu bar moving the options bar moving the toolbox

Quick Tips: Instagram your images using Photoshop Instagram reinvented the photo sharing on our social media structure. It's a fast, beautiful and fun way to share your pictures to friends and family. And what I like the most about Instagram, are the various schemes that offers you to filter your pictures with your own little touch. My all-time favorite Instagram filter is the "Nashville" and today, I will show you a quick tutorial about how to achieve that same effect on your images. Step 1 Open your image in Photoshop and double-click on the background layer to make into a layer and named it Nashville. For this tutorial, I've used an image from Patrick Smith from Patrick Smith Photography. Step 2 Create a new layer and fill it with the color (Red: 247 , Green: 217 , Blue: 173) and leave the opacity to 100% and your blending options to "Multiply". Step 3 Click back on the "Nashville" layer and click Image > Adjustments > Curves. Step 4 After click Image > Adjustments > Levels, change the gamma (the middle) to 1.36 and the input to 236.

How To Give Your Photos a Dark Processed Lomo Effect This post was originally published in 2010 The tips and techniques explained may be outdated. Follow this step by step post processing guide to give your photos a dark lomo style effect with high contrast, blue tones and vignette burns. The effect is based on the popular lomographic technique and is similar to the processing effect used in many fashion shots and advertisement designs. Overall this effect does a great job of adding impact to a plain photography with cool colour casts and unusual saturation. View full size photo effect Begin by opening your photograph of choice into Adobe Photoshop. Go to Image > Adjustments > Levels and tweak the tones of the image. At the bottom of the Layers palette, click the Adjustment Layer icon and select Curves. Change the drop down menu to Green and tweak the graph for the green channel to further alter the tones of the image. Finally alter the Blue channel, creating an inverted ‘S’ shape to enhance the blues to give a cool colour cast.

33 Photoshop Photo Editing Tutorials Photoshop makes it possible to edit your photos in countless ways. With endless possibilities the challenge is knowing how to use the photo editing tools effectively. In this post we’ll feature 33 tutorials that teach different photo editing techniques and tricks. You’re sure to find at least a few that can be put to good use in your own work, whether it be on your photos or on those of your clients. Looking for hosting? WPEngine offers secure managed WordPress hosting.

45 Photo Editing Tutorials for Photoshop This post was originally published a few years ago, and since that time many of the tutorials that were featured in the post are no longer online. So we’ve revamped the article with a fresh selection of tutorials, some old and some new, that should prove to be very helpful. Photoshop allows designers and photographers to improve photos in countless ways. Some photos are edited in a subtle way that the viewer may not even notice unless it is side-by-side with the original photo, and others are edited in more drastic ways. Telling Stories with Shadows Create Vignette Effects with the Radial Filter in Photoshop CC Water Reflection Effect in Photoshop CS6 How to Add Reflections to Sunglesses with Photoshop Learn How to Remove a Person from a Photo Remove a Person and Recreate a Busy Background Using the Clone Tool Black & White Adjustment How to Replace a Sky Using Photoshop Dark Grunge Photo Effect Vintage Cross Processed Photo Effect in Photoshop Six Ways to Create a Vignette in Photoshop Gritty HDR