Photoshop for Beginners
Aspyn Lim’s Blog Post #2
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🌱 Figma - 30 Time-saving Tricks from Figma Experts[Photoshop]
🌱 Envato Tuts+ - Photoshop for Beginners (CURRENT)
🌱 Photoshop Tutorial by Envato Tuts+ on YouTube.
Table of Contents
1) Layers
2) Color & Adjustment Layers
3) Text
4) Layer Styles
5) Cropping & Resizing
6) Selections & Masking
7) Smart Objects
8) Transform & Wrap
9) Retouching
10) Exporting
[ Shortcuts ]
- Zoom In/Out :
Ctrl
++
or-
- Move around the canvas : Hold
Shift
- Quit editing :
Enter
- Move Tool :
V
[ 0. Workspace Settings ]
[ 1. Layers ]
1.1 How Photoshop Layers Work
1.2 Combining Multiple Images
- Move images into a new file by clicking the images and dragging them to the new file.
- Edit > Transform > Scale
When you finish editing, press Enter
.
[ 2. Colors & Adjustment Layers ]
2.1 Tone Adjustment with Levels
2.2 Color Adjustment
2.3 Hue Adjustment
[ 3. Text ]
3.1 How to Work With Type
- Move images into a new file by clicking the images and dragging them to the new file.
- Edit > Transform > Scale
3.2 Warped Type and Type on a Path
[ PART 1 ]
[ PART 2 ]
[ PART 3 ]
[ 4. Layer Styles ]
To change the name of a layer, double click the layer.
4.1 Layer Styles and Effects
[ PART 1 ]
[ PART 2 ]
[ PART 3 ]
[ PART 4 ]
[ PART 5 ]
[ 5. Cropping & Resizing ]
5.1 How to Crop
[ PART 1 ]
[ PART 2 ]
5.2 Resizing and Resolution
[ 6. Selections and Masking ]
6.1 Rectangle and Elliptical Marquee Tool
[ PART 1]
[ PART 2 ]
6.2 Clipping Masks
[ PART 1 ]
- We can scale up/down or move around the roses background.
[ PART 2 ]
[ PART 3 ]
6.3 Quick Selection Tool
[ PART 1 ]
[ PART 2 ]
[ PART 3 ]
Click the image with the Move tool & drag it to where you want to move the image to.
[ PART 4 ]
6.4 Layer Masks
[ PART 1–1 ]
[ PART 1-2 ]
[ PART 1-3 ]
[ PART 1-4 ]
Click the image with the Move tool & drag it to where you want to move the image to.
[ PART 2–1 ]
[ PART 2–2 ]
Click the image with the Move tool & drag it to where you want to move the image to.
[ PART 2–3 ]
Click the “link” icon.
We can move around the image.
6.5 Select and Mask
[ PART 1 ]
[ PART 2 ]
[ PART 3 ]
[ 7. Smart Objects ]
7.1 Understanding Photoshop Smart Objects
[ PART 1 ]
[ PART 2 ]
If you’d like to edit the smart object. you can rasterize the layer.
Rasterizing a Photoshop layer converts a vector layer to pixels. Vector layers create graphics using lines and curves so they maintain their clarity when you enlarge them, but this format leaves them unsuitable for artistic effects that use pixels. … To add any of these filters, you must first rasterize the layer.
[ PART 3 ]
[ PART 4 ]
When editing the image in Illustrator, changes are reflected in Photoshop.
[ 8. Transform & Warp ]
8.1 Transforming and Warping Layers
We can use a logo made in Illustrator in Photoshop by placing it embedded.
[ PART 1 ]
[ PART 2 ]
We can use a logo made in Illustrator in Photoshop by placing it embedded.
[ 9. Retouching ]
9.1 Retouching With the Photoshop Healing Brush
9.2 Content-Aware Scale
[ PART 1 ]
[ PART 2 ]
[ PART 3 ]
> The paper in the middle got stretched.
Let’s try another way.
[ 10. Exporting ]
10.1 Exporting Images
[ PART 1 : Photoshop PDF ]
[ PART 2 : JPEG ]
[ PART 3 : Social Media ]
[ PART 4 : Social Media ]
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