Photoshop Image Editing The Complete Manual

Discover the ultimate guide to mastering Adobe Photoshop! If you want to unlock the secrets of professional photo manipulation The Adobe Photoshop Manual is your one-stop guide to a wealth of tutorials and creative projects. It covers basic principles and also more advanced techniques that let you get the most from your images. Whether you’re making simple enhancements, adding creative effects or combining multiple images into exciting new compositions, we’ll show you how. 100% unofficial.

Photoshop Image Editing • Your photo editing journey starts here!

Updates and Improvements • After Photoshop’s latest update. Let’s have a look at some of the features available to you.

Check out these useful new features and tools

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Color Transfer

Landscape Mixer

Style Transfer

Content Credentials

Super Zoom

Colorize

Gradient Tool

Skin Smoothing

Share for Commenting

Select and Mask

Smart Portrait

Depth Blur

Harmonization

Makeup Transfer

Object Selection

Illustrator Integration

JPEG Artefacts Removal

Quick Actions

Sky Replacement

Lens Blur

Welcome to Photoshop

The History of Photoshop • Before we begin, here’s a little background information

Main Interface • This is Photoshop’s graphic user front end

The Toolbar • Let’s take a look at Photoshop’s main editing tools

Menus • One look at the menus and you begin to understand Photoshop’s complexity and versatility

Keyboard Shortcuts • There’s always a quicker way of doing almost everything in Photoshop

Keep Photoshop Up to Date • Reap the benefits of the most current versions of Photoshop

Photoshop Preferences Guide • Here are all the preferences and what they do

The Photoshop Home Screen • We show you what the Photoshop user front end has on offer in the latest versions

Your First PSD Document • Let’s start at the very beginning and walk you through the process of making your very first document

Open and Save Your First Image • A quick guide on how to open new photos and images in Photoshop, and then save your edits

Placing and Importing Images • Now we will show you how to bring content into your document and make it look amazing

Using Layers • Understanding layers is fundamental to Photoshop editing

Your First Composition • This is when you discover the power of Photoshop

Your First Cut Out • Learn how to cut out parts of one image to use on another

Selection Tools • This fundamental technique allows multiple methods for isolating specific areas of your image

Your First Layer Mask • An introduction to one of the key ingredients of Photoshop work

Your First Set of Adjustments • The use of adjustments in Photoshop are another key aspect of non-destructive editing

Your First Type Tool Project • Get to know what the various Type Tool options can do to really lift your artwork

Learn and Improve

Adjusting Exposure • Correcting your exposure mistakes is easy with Photoshop

Contrast and Saturation • Using curves and blend modes to improve colour saturation and contrast in your digital photos

Gradient Fill & Paint Bucket • Fill layers and selections with colours, textures and gradients

Curves and Levels • The most versatile way to adjust brightness and contrast in your digital images

Cropping and Resizing • Changing the size of a digital photograph

Content-aware Fill and Scale • Photoshop contains image processing technology so advanced it looks like magic

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