Most people want to do special effects with Photoshop, but like all tools, the location of the work, it is the essential basics under your belt to get first. Here is my recommended list of the 6 basic essentials, which should learn Photoshop beginners:
(1) Learn the image analysis tools - the histogram, the eyedropper tool and the Info palette
Important information about your image or photo offer these three tools. The histogram will tell you everything, what you about the exposure of the photography, to know whether it under or be exposed to, and the tonal range. The eyedropper tool gives you valuable information about the colors in the image; in particular, where there is a color cast (a colour cast is a unwanted overall dominant color) you must correct. The Info palette (or window) will provide numerical feedback, when to use the eyedropper tool and also when using other tools. This is an important reference for advanced work value, to know at the beginning.
(2) You will learn how to use just a height-adjustable image - the ruler to find the angle of the slope.
Learn to use with the ruler tool you can exactly the angles which determine a tilted horizon, and this can then be used to quickly correct with the Rotate Canvas command a height-adjustable image. Requires no guesses! With so many people with cameras with only map screens on the back instead of a proper viewfinder, it has all too often come for pictures in your camera with a heavy tend to you. Use learning, the ruler and turn screen combination makes these pictures really easy to fix!
3. Get to the image crop – use the clipping tool
Crop is the process of removing everything from on the edges of photos, that are added to the impact of the photo. The clipping tool should be considered next crop is a very important creative process. There are very few photos that can benefit from them are not truncated. Too many Photoshop beginners accept only the content of photos from the camera without thinking as he, whether the image can be improved visually, by removing unnecessary edges. The additional advantage of the cropping of the image is early that you as the file size which further changes very quickly run reduce much on the image, with less memory and disk space.
4. Learn you remove dust and stains - how to use the spot Healing Brush and Clone Stamp tools
With modern sensor cleaning built-in, you can find that contains your image of dust marks or other marks. These are often in areas which to see smooth sound such as such as a clear sky. These should be removed with the spot Healing Brush tool particularly smooth color and sounds like heaven and the Clone Stamp tool. The Clone Stamp tool is essential for removing or correcting areas of details that the spot Healing Brush can often only messes up. Get a handle on these two important tools quickly, so that you can really clean up your important pictures.
(5) Learn, adjust the tonal values - use levels
The next logical step is to fix exposure problems or tonal range problems. If the image is too light or dark, now is the time to correct. To do tonal corrections, you have to learn to use the levels command. The level command a histogram, used to show the notes so that your previous learn from step 1 above you now really will help. I told you it was a logical learning sequence!
(6) Learn, remove color casts - use the white balance command
Although interpret a decent work, the color of the light reaching the sensor modern cameras, you get it also often incorrectly the color dominant results in a photo with an obvious. This is known as a colour cast and the white balance command removes must. Once a dominant color has been corrected, you're ready to make more creative color improvements, if desired.
You have to learn the six most important things for beginners Photoshop. Each of these steps can be mastered quickly and findings provide a solid foundation for all your future Photoshop work; whether you want to improve a family snap or an advanced special effects work to produce.
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Copyright (c) Les Meehan 2010.
Les Meehan is the author of seven published digital photography books and as a qualified teacher workshops taught for over 20 years.
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