Innholdsfortegnelse for July 2018 i Practical Photoshop

The ‘broken backdrop’ effect to the right is easier to create than it looks. If you’re new to blending and combining photos, it’s a good introduction to Photoshop features like layers, masks and selections. You could use the images we’ve supplied to practise the technique, but it’s much more fun to go out and shoot your own pictures. We need three shots for this effect. For the first shot, ask your subject to stand behind a fence (or any other surface with holes that you think might work), holding their hands up to grasp it, fingers splayed to cover more than one opening. For the next shot, ask your subject to keep their hands and fingers in exactly the same position, then crouch down so that the rest of the…

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 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…

01 PREPARE YOUR ASSETS First, let’s search for and download a few images to use alongside our start files for the composite. We found ours at pixabay.com, a good source of rights-free photos. We chose astronomy-1869760 for the moon and pirate-ship-1719396 for the sailing ships. 02 DROP THE MOON Open all the start files – including your downloads – into Photoshop and go to the moon image. With the Move tool, drag the image up to the tab of the main comp_before image, then down and in. Use the Move tool to roughly position the moon; press Cmd/Ctrl+T if you need to resize it. 03 SELECT A CIRCLE Grab the Elliptical Marquee tool. Hold down both Shift and Alt as you drag outwards from the center of the moon to…

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…

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…