10 Cool Photoshop Tips and Tricks

By Rafiq Elmansy (admin)   |   February 15, 2009   |   Posted in Photoshop   |   5 Comments  

I doubt that any of us does not use Adobe Photoshop with different levels of use and profession. Adobe Photoshop is a exptended software and can be used in many fields. Tips and tricks help you get more ideas about what can be done using Photoshop.

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In this post, I collected about 10 of the most needed tips and tricks from photoshopsupport.com.

1- How To Fix Overexposed Images

As I mentioned in my “How To Fix An Underexposed Photo” tutorial, the best way to avoid these lighting problems is to adjust your aperture settings, your shutter speed and your film speed when shooting. Ok, so we’re going to pretend we did do all of those things but find that we still have a problem image, which can happen when there is too much flash or too much sunlight…more.

2- How To Fix An Underexposed Photo

The easiest way to avoid underexposed photos is to adjust your aperture settings, your shutter speed and your film speed when shooting. That’s sounds pretty easy, right? Forget it. Photoshop was invented for the “I-can’t-find-time-to-read-the-manual” photographer. Who cares if it’s too dark or too light, we’ve got Photoshop!…more.

3- How To Resize Images And Maintain Original Sharpness

You have a nice big beautiful photo. It is gorgeous. But you need it much, much smaller, and by the time the file is down to the right size, you might find that the image has started to take on a blurry look. This is a real problem with resizing images, but luckily in Photoshop there’s a very simple solution.

This tip will only work with Photoshop CS and CS2. If you don’t have a CS version yet I recommend you try and get one as soon as you can, because they are full of powerful new features. For earlier versions of Photoshop there’s a workaround at the end of this tip…more.

4- How To Wrap Text Around An Object In Photoshop

If you want to take some text and wrap it around an object there are some complicated procedures using the Shear filter that will yield very precise results, but for most uses the following quick and easy technique will produce the desired effect…more.

5- Creating Black And White From Color

Black-and-white photography is as powerful today as it was when color photography was just a distant dream. A different set of skills is required when working with black and white, as the absence of color means the interplay of shape and contrast must work harder to tell the story or set the mood, but when it works, it’s very effective…more.

6- Andy Warhol Pop Art Silkscreen Effect

Almost synonymous with Pop Art, Andy Warhol was a painter, photographer, filmmaker, and publisher. In the mid-20th century he produced iconic silkscreen paintings of subjects as mundane as soup cans and as glamorous as Elvis Presley and Marilyn Monroe. These remain hugely popular, and have sparked countless imitations. Creating your own Pop Art-inspired images with Photoshop is easy, and great fun, too…more.

7- Cubism

Over a period of seven years leading up to 1914 and the outbreak of the First World War, Cubism marked a decisive break from representative painting, reflecting a radical fissure in politics, art, and culture…more.

8- How To Sharpen An Image In Photoshop — Advanced Photoshop Sharpening Techniques

Most if not all digital images require sharpening, even if shot on a state of the art digital megaresolution SLR with pin-sharp focusing. Most cameras or scanners can sharpen as the image is captured but the highest quality sharpening is to be found in the image editing software…more.

9- Selecting & Extracting Hair – Masking Tutorial – Extraction Tips

One of the most challenging montage or masking jobs in the profession of post-production editing is the hair lift. When the model has long flowing hair and the subject needs to change location many post-production artists call in sick. Get it wrong and, just like a bad wig, it shows. Extract filters, Magic Erasers and Tragic Extractors don’t even get us close…more.

10- Pen Tool Tutorial – Creating Selections With Photoshop’s Pen Tool

The Pen Tool is often used in the creation of sophisticated smooth-edged selections, but strictly speaking it is not one of the selection tools. The Pen Tool creates vector paths instead of selections; these, however, can be converted into selections that in turn can be used to extract or mask groups of pixels…more.

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