5 best Adobe Photoshop Tips and tricks for Beginners
Adobe Photoshop is a powerful photo designing platform. If you’re into any digital workplace, Adobe Photoshop learning can be a great help. Nowadays Photoshop is surely a centre of creativity to which almost every digital domain, from website designing to animation, from photography to digital magazine, is deeply connected. Today, when it comes to Photography, it is not possible to imagine it without Adobe Photoshop.
Best Adobe Photoshop skills can not make a middling picture perfect unless you’re into manipulation. However, it can surely help you to improve your best photo into an amazing masterwork. Learning Adobe Photoshop is a slow process, and you should try it with more practice, after all it is a digital painting.
Now I will walk you through some basic Adobe Photoshop retouching skills. Here 5 easy Adobe Photoshop tips for beginners that will increase your productivity overnight.
01. Learning Keyboard Shortcuts
Learning key shortcuts will assist you to speed up your processing workflow. There’re some keyboard shortcuts for different tools in the tool bar. Some most widely used keyboard shortcuts are:
1. V = move tool
2. F = toggles through display screen modes
3. Space bar = temporary hand key
4. B = paintbrush tool
5. D = sets the foreground/background colors to default
6. X = swaps between background and foreground color
7. E = eraser tool
8. S = stamp or cloning tool
9. W = quick selection tool
10. Ctrl+j = duplicates the selected layer
There are some most regularly used Photoshop shortcuts. When you begin using the program more, your keyboard shortcuts knowledge will gradually increase. One time you are conscious of the most used shortcuts retouching pace will be quicker than ever.
02. Color Enhancing, Saturation versus Vibrancies
Color is a different domain you can try while enhancing your photographs. Normally when you’re starting in photography, enhancing the color of every picture looks fine, as if the colors are talking out of the photographs. It will be more useful if you can understand the dissimilarity between how saturation and vibrancies works. Go to picture menu and select adjustment under the menu.
As shown in the picture to the right, choose the Vibrancies option. You’ll get two options under the menu bar, vibrancies and saturation. Vibrancies increase the Saturation of less saturated colors. This option keeps away from yellow and orange skin tones. Basically vibrancies works best for portraits.
On the other hand, Saturation increases the power of all the colors in your picture equally. This may not be a best option for portraits or peoples pictures. What I can Suggest is this, slowly start with vibrancies for the color enhancement and use Saturation later if you would lilke to pump up the color more.
If you compare the two pictures below, you’ll understand how vibrancies is only responsible for rising the intensity of less saturated colors, where as saturation raises the intensity of all colors equally.
03. Adding a Vignette
Vignette is a technique to darken the edges of your frame so that the eyes move to the subject simply. This process works best when you’ve a subject in the center. Our eyes tend to move towards the brighter part of the picture and move away on the darker side. This system will result in dark space around the subject.
There’re lots of manual ways you can add vignette in your pictures but I will speak about how to easily add vignette in your images via Adobe Photoshop. Go to Filters menu at the top and choose "lens correction", then select the Custom Tab on the right. The 3rd section down is for adding a vignette. Slide the amount to the left to darken, and middle to adjust the size of the circle.
04. Adding Sharpness and Details
Adding sharpness is a different method for beginners in Adobe Photoshop. This will make your picture look more detailed. I would recommend detailing most of your pictures with appropriate values. But make sure you sharpen or detail your pictures with a small value if you’re going to upload pictures on Facebook because it compresses the pictures and adds some details to build it took a bit sharper. So when an already sharpened picture is uploaded in Facebook, there is a change of it looking too edgy.
Like any other method, there are many ways you can add details in Adobe Photoshop. I will show you a very easy method. Once you understand how this works you can experiment with some of the other methods.
2. Step 2: Open the High Pass filter- Filter > Other > High Pass on the top layer
3. Step 3: Apply an appropriate value (just to see the edges in the image) and click ok
4. Step 4: Change the blending mode of the top layer to overlay
5. Step 5: Adjust the opacity of that layer to your taste
(Layer blend mode)
5. Photoshop Filter Gallery
Filters are basically automatic effects that you apply to your pictures with a few clicks. Filters can help you to achieve certain special looks or effects. There’re various filters in Adobe Photoshop, which you can choose individually, each filter results in another effect when applied to different pictures. You an also apply more than one and stack them. Though I do not use filters much, it is good to explore if you’re just starting out in Adobe Photoshop. Later, when you’re more known with advanced tools and techniques you can try to create the related effect from manual options and controls.
To apply a filter pick the layer and go to Filter>Filter Gallery. When you apply any filter in the gallery make sure to change your picture to 8 bit. You can do that by going to picture > Mode > 8 bits/channel.
I hope these 5 basic Adobe Photoshop tips will help you to retouch and enhance your pictures. If you’ve others suitable for learners please share in the comments below.
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