It is often difficult to select like fur and hair. Photoshop's select and mask features make it quite easy to make even difficult selection, and enable us to restrict our changes to only the background. This article discuss how to work with soft edge in Photoshop. Selecting Soft Edges In [...]
Photoshop has a number of tools to help us make selections in order to draw and paint, to mask objects, and make changes to isolated areas in an image. The most common selection tools are the marquee tool and the lasso tool. Marquee Tool Select the marquee tool, in this [...]
Photoshop has a number of selection tools that can help us select objects in the image based on the contents of the image including the colors, the tones and the edges. Object selection is an important aspect of image editing. This post discuss about various ways to select object in [...]
Layer masks in Photoshop allow us to non-destructively hide and show selective portions of our image. This article discuss about working with Layer masks in Adobe Photoshop. Creating Mask To create a elliptical mask, Tap m key and select Elliptical Marquee Tool. It's going to be easier to drag out [...]
This article discuss about working with Brushes in Adobe Photoshop. We will go through various brush related configuration in Brush Settings panel and contextual configuration in Option Panel. Working with Brush Settings Panel Tap the B key to select the Brush tool. To change the brush attributes, Go go Windows [...]
There are a number of ways to select colors in Photoshop. This post discuss about Color Picker panel, Color panel and Swatches panel. Working with Color Picker Click the foreground or the background color swatch as shown in the below image. It will bring up the Color Picker. If I [...]
As your documents begin to contain more and more layers, sometimes those file sizes will grow to be quite large. To reduce the file size, we can merge layers or flatten images. These operation are destructive and remove some of the flexibility. If we have any layers, that extend beyond [...]
As you work with more and more layers, layers panel might get a bit out of control. So in order to organize your layers you can use layer groups. A layer group can also help Move all of the layers in a group at one time.Scale or transformChange opacity and [...]
Layers panel Adobe Photoshop allows us to work with multiple images in a single document. To move through the open documents, press CTRL + Tab key. In order to tile all the open documents Go to menu, Window -> Arrange, and then select Tile. We can tile in various ways [...]
Crop can add canvas size around the image area, when we're working on a background. To increase the canvas size Open a image in PhotoshopTap the c key to select the crop tool. Start dragging out the crop marquee, until it is bigger than the image.Because we started with a [...]