Innholdsfortegnelse for January 2018 i Practical Photoshop

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1 Use a preset from the dropdown, or adjust the Temperature and Tint sliders to set the white balance. With raw files, you have much greater latitude for altering the white balance after the shoot. 2 Adjust brightness and contrast. The Exposure slider roughly correlates to photographic stops, although it’s more like a tone curve adjustment – it affects midtones over highlights or shadows. 3 The Shadows and Highlights sliders are useful for teasing out extra detail in your photos – especially in raws, which hold greater detail at tonal extremes. 4 Hold Alt while dragging any slider for a grayscale view – particularly useful for checking for clipped pixels with the Whites and Blacks. Drag them to a point just before clipping occurs. 5 Use Clarity to crisp up…

1 These three tabs let you alter the eight color ranges shown in different ways. Hue lets you change the shade; Saturation lets you boost or reduce individual color ranges; and Luminance changes their brightness. 2 This is a great tool for black-andwhite conversions. Check the box to remove color, then start dragging the color sliders to control the brightness of the eight color ranges shown. 3 Click Default to reset any unwanted changes. When you choose the Convert To Grayscale option you’ll see an Auto option for a quick, punchy black-and-white image. 4 Drag the sliders to alter the colors. Alternatively, grab the Targeted Adjustment tool from the Toolbar, then drag up or down over colors in the image to alter the sliders – sometimes altering two or more…

1 This reduces atmospheric haze in your landscapes. (Alternatively, a negative value adds haze.) It can lead to deep shadows, so you might want to increase the Basic Panel’s Shadows slider to compensate. 2 Add a grain effect to your photos here – useful for mimicking the look of film stock, or getting a gritty black-and-white treatment. Control the look of the grain with the Size slider. 3 This sets the regularity of the grain. Drag the slider to the left to make the grain more uniform or drag right to make it more uneven. 4 Add a vignette here to either darken or lighten the corners of the frame. The Feather and Roundness sliders control the softness and shape of the vignette, while Midpoint pushes it inwards or outwards.…

The image-editing process begins as soon as you’ve transferred your photos from your memory card to your computer. 1 The first stage is to begin sifting through your pictures to discover which are the keepers. The image organizer that comes with Photoshop is ideal for this task. Adobe Bridge has controls for keywording, rating and filtering your images, and there are handy tools for batch renaming files, creating panoramic stitches, making contact sheets and more. Launch Adobe Bridge and navigate to a folder containing new images. Use the cursor keys to quickly flick through the images and click below a thumbnail to add a star rating, or use the keyboard shortcut Cmd/Ctrl+1-5. You can then filter your images by the star rating to group the ones you want to work…

D Reset the foreground and background colors to black and white ALT+[SCROLL WHEEL] Zoom in or out of the image CMD/CTRL+SHIFT+ALT+E Create a merged copy of all the layers in the layer stack SPACE BAR Temporarily switch the current tool to the Hand tool, for moving around the image while zoomed in ALT+[EYE ICON] Switch off the visibility of all other layers in the layer stack, for before-and-after comparisons CMD/CTRL+I Invert the color of a layer mask to black SHIFT+[LAYER MASK] Disable the effects of a layer mask X Switch the foreground and background color swatches [OR] Resize the brush tip SHIFT+[OR] Cycle backwards or forwards through the layer blend modes CMD/CTRL+ALT+Z Undo the last change made to the document. Works multiple times CMD/CTRL+[LAYER MASK] Load the currently active layer…

1 Parametric gives you a set of sliders that alter the curve line. Point lets you alter the line yourself by adding anchor points along it. 2 Drag the line upwards to lighten the image, downwards to darken. Wherever the curve line goes above the diagonal, tones will be lighter than before. Wherever the line goes below, they’re darker. 3 Use anchor points to control the curve line. Where you place points is important, especially in terms of the horizontal axis. Points placed near the left will affect shadows; points on the right affect highlights. 4 The histogram displays all the pixels in terms of brightness, with dark pixels on the left, light pixels on the right. Higher peaks on the graph mean more pixels of a certain tonal value.…

1 These sliders let you choose a color to tint either the highlights or shadows. You need to dial in some saturation first to see how they work, or hold Alt and drag to temporarily see saturation at 100%. 2 The two Saturation sliders let you set the strength of the color affecting either the highlights or the shadows. You can control how the Saturation affects the tones with the Balance slider. 3 The Balance slider lets you change the bias between what is seen as a shadow or a highlight, so shift it one way or another to alter the toning effect. You can also use it to restrict toning to very bright or dark pixels. 4 Split toning is usually applied to black-and-white photos, so start off by…

1 The Process version dropdown lets you revert to previous versions of Camera Raw – so if you really miss the old Recovery and Fill Light sliders (replaced by Shadows and Highlights) you can reinstate version 2 here. 2 This lets you choose different looks based on the picture styles available in your camera’s menu. By default it’s set to Adobe Standard, but you might prefer a different look. Choosing a picture style can be a good starting point for further edits. 3 Some cameras will display a color cast in the shadow tones that can be corrected using this slider. It’s similar to the Basic panel’s Tint slider, but with a bias towards darker tones. 4 These sliders allow you to directly alter the three color channels – red,…

1 Amount controls the strength of sharpening, which increases the contrast along edges. Where light pixels meet darker pixels, one side will be lightened, the other darkened. 2 Radius determines the distance from edges at which the sharpening effect occurs. 3 Detail sets the threshold for what is seen as an edge. At 0, only the really noticeable edges are sharpened, while at 100 even the tiniest details are. 4 The Masking slider lets you prevent smooth areas that don’t need sharpening from being sharpened. Alt-drag the slider and the omitted areas will show in black as you drag. 5 Use the Luminance slider to tone down grainy noise in the image, but beware of pushing it too far. 6 A high Detail value will preserve more detail but may…

1 Check this box to fix color fringing, which often occurs along high-contrast edges where light pixels meet dark. 2 This automatically corrects distortion and vignetting by detecting the lens used for the shot and applying corrections for that specific type of lens. 3 When you check Enable Profile Corrections, the make and model of the lens used will show up here. You can also select lenses manually from this list if you need to. 4 Use these two sliders to manually fix distortion or vignetting. If you like, you can save a new preset lens correction under the Setup menu.…

1 Your list of saved presets appears here. Click on any to apply the saved effect to your image. If you need to undo it, press Cmd/Ctrl+Z. You can rename presets in your operating system under Adobe > Camera Raw > Settings. 2 To save any Camera Raw treatment as a preset, apply settings to an image then click this icon. 3 Click the flyout menu to load in presets or save those you’ve created. You can also apply new camera raw defaults or restore the original image defaults here. 4 Snapshots allow you to save your image at different stages of the edit, which helps if you want to try out different effects or looks. Simply click the New Snapshot icon to create one.…

01 CONVERT TO MONO Grab the Targeted Adjustment tool, then right-click and choose Grayscale Mix. Drag up or down over parts of the image to lighten or darken the color ranges. Dragging up over the skin here lifts Oranges; dragging down over the lips darkens Reds. 02 BOOST CONTRAST A boost in contrast goes hand in hand with mono conversions. In the Tone Curve panel, click the Point tab and plot a S-shaped curve as shown. The S-curve is top-heavy here, so the highlights are brightened while the shadows in the shot are preserved. 03 TINT THE TONES Go to the Split Toning tab to add a tint to the highlights and shadows. We’ve added an orange tone to the highlights and a blue tone to the shadows here. Hold…

Photoshop Blend Modes let you create all kinds of wonderful effects, especially when used in combination with images of textures and surfaces. You simply drop the texture on top of an image, so that it sits on a separate layer above, then you experiment with different layer Blend Modes until you hit upon one that you like. Here are a few of our favorites: Lighten, Screen, Darken, Multiply, Overlay, and Soft Light. From here, if you like you can go on to blend other textures, or use layer masks to control which parts of a texture layer are visible. You can even delve into Photoshop’s 3D tools to create your own ‘bump maps’, which allow you to roughen up your photos by applying both texture and lighting effects to make…

If you’re relatively new to editing in Photoshop, or you just don’t know where to begin, then this section is the best place to get started. Over the next 10 pages, you’ll find an overview of the different versions of Photoshop available; a breakdown of the typical image-editing workflow in Photoshop; an overview of raw file editing; a guide to the six most useful layers; and a glossary of the most useful shortcuts. This guide condenses most of the tools and techniques you’ll use every time you import a new roll of pictures. CREATIVE CLOUD PLANS CHOOSE THE PLAN WITH THE COMBINATION OF TOOLS AND STORAGE YOU NEED PHOTOSHOP CC FROM £9.98/$9.99 PER MONTH WINDOWS, macOS Photoshop is the software of choice for most professional and non-professional photographers. Beyond the…

The latest version of the raw file processor included with Photoshop is so powerful that most photos can be processed entirely in the raw processor, with no need for further editing in Photoshop. And by making your adjustments in Adobe Camera Raw rather than in Photoshop, you’ll ensure the best possible image quality, because raw files contain more picture information than bitmap images such as un-layered PSDs and JPEGs. Here’s our reference to the features you’ll use the most in the Basic panel. THE BASIC PANEL IN ACR TEMPERATURE Use this slider to warm or cool an image if the White Balance tool fails to correct a color cast TINT This slider enables you to correct a green or magenta cast, again, if the White Balance tool fails EXPOSURE Controls…