You probably know what the big-name Adobe Photoshop software is for. It's not just an image editing app - Photoshop is a huge playground for ideas and creativity related to picture, photo and drawing files. Here you can not only modify existing files, but also create a completely new and unique product.
Welcome to Adobe Photoshop!
Indeed, Photoshop is used by almost all designers: from simple drawings to content to a full supply of illustrations for books, games and other products. To the delight of users, the developers are constantly improving the program, adding new functions and capabilities to it. Therefore, it is important to keep an eye on the updates that are released by Adobe. Now, after a little tour, let's learn how to use Photoshop.
Where to get the program from?
You can download the electronic version of the software on the official Adobe website at the download page https://creative.adobe.com/ru/products/download/photoshop?promoid=61PM825Y&mv=other. Here you must first register with Adobe to obtain your AdobeID. Then fill in the fields that the download page offers and, after logging in, download the installation file and go through the installation procedure. It is important to note that you can use your copy of the application for free for the first 30 days. After that, having tested the product, you will be prompted to purchase a license.
The developer provides several options for using the program
Adobe offers its users quite acceptable prices for their products. So, you can purchase Photoshop for a certain price per month, that is, by subscription. The same option is offered for the CreativeCloud suite, which includes several Adobe programs... The cost and composition of the kit should always be checked on the official website, as they may change. Please also note that the system has special conditions for students and teachers, as well as corporate clients... So, you can save a decent amount when using Adobe services.
First launch of the program
After installation, you should launch the application from the shortcut created on the desktop. When you open it for the first time, a window will appear with a description of the program and a notification about the start of a 30-day trial period. Click on "Start trial period" and wait for the program to open. Now let's move on directly to how to work in Photoshop.
The work area is very convenient and can be customized
The main menu of Photoshop
At the top is the main menu with the following items:
- File. Here you can perform all operations to save a file, create a new one, print photos, import.
- Editing. As the name implies, this paragraph contains tools for changing various kinds of settings, of which there are a huge number. For example, here you can change the color setting. There is also a "Step back" function, which will answer your question about how to undo an action in Photoshop.
- Image. Here you can find options such as image color correction, trimming, rotation, cropping and much more.
- Layers. In general, if the file being edited contains many different elements, then each of them is done on a separate layer. For example, if you put text on top of a picture, it will automatically be created on a new layer. They are located at the bottom right. The item of the top menu "Layers" controls all the settings with regard to the issue under discussion by layers. Here you can create a new one, delete an existing one, add effects to it, and so on.
- Text. From the name it is clear what exactly is regulated by this tab. All operations on the added text field are controlled in this item.
- Selection. Here you can select various objects (for example, layers). This is also important to know in order to learn how to work in Photoshop cs6.
- Filter. All filters and effects like blur, distortion and others are located here. You can also find other filters on the Internet by clicking the corresponding menu item "Filter".
- 3D. Here you can set up 3D layers and scenes for a photo or any other image.
- The "View" menu has all the options for displaying information on the screen: here you can show auxiliary elements (grid, ruler and others), and set up guides.
- Window allows you to add new panels to the work area. For example, if you need a histogram, then you just need to check the box next to the corresponding menu item "Window".
- Well, the last point "Help". This is where you find all product information, support center, and an AdobeID login tab for more options.
The main functions are accessed through the menu hierarchy
Toolbar
The next thing you see below the main menu is the field with the settings for the tool that is currently selected. These tools are located in the left pane. Let's take a look at each of them. The button for quick access to the function is indicated in brackets (all letters are in English). Also described additional features when right-clicking the mouse.
- Move (V). Allows you to move the selected object or area in any direction. Also with the help of it you can twist this object, rotate, reflect.
- Rectangular area (M). Selects in the shape of a rectangle. You can also select in the form of an oval, horizontal and vertical lines.
- Lasso (L). Also is a selection tool. You can choose from regular lasso, straight lasso and magnetic lasso.
- Magic Wand (W). Selects an area within a specific box. There is also a fast selection.
- Frame (C). Cropping the image. It also contains cutting, perspective cropping and fragment selection.
- Pipette (I). Recognizes the color when you click on the photo (the pixel you hit is taken into account). There is also a ruler, a commentary, a counter, a color standard and an eyedropper for 3D material.
- Healing Brush (J). It also contains the point tool, patch, content-aware move, and a tool for removing red-eye.
- Brush (B). It lets you paint over a photo, or it can help you create a new image. Has quite flexible settings. In addition to the brush, there is a pencil, a mix brush and a color swap.
- Stamp and pattern stamp (S).
- Archival Brush (Y).
- The eraser (E) erases the area you are driving over. The background eraser removes everything, including the background (that is, when saving in certain formats, the background will be transparent).
- Gradient (G) and fill fill the selection with color or gradient.
- The action of the blurring and sharpening tools is clear from their names, while the finger moves the area like plasticine. You can, for example, move your eyebrow higher or lower your eyes.
- As in the previous case, the names of the tools coincide with their direct purpose: clarifier, darkener and sponge. You can quickly access them by pressing the letter O on the keyboard.
- The feather (P) is positioned below the clarifier in various variations. Helps with drawing, adjusting and other operations performed on the image.
- Next is the tool for adding a text field. Is an essential part of understanding how to use Adobe Photoshop.
- Selection of the contour (A).
- A tool with various shapes allows you to add an object of any shape that is in the program's collection to a new or existing layer.
- Next is the "Hand", which makes it possible to move the photo. For example, if you have increased the zoom and want to edit the image in such an approximate form, then this tool will help you to move, for example, from one eye to another.
- The magnifier increases the zoom in the photo.
- The two squares with black and white are the colors that are currently being adjusted. That is, if the color in the nearest square is red, then the brush from point eight will paint in red. The far square is responsible for the color of a regular eraser.
Many tools contain sub-tools
As you can see, there are a lot of tools and it is quite difficult to learn all of them at once. Therefore, try to devote some time to each of them. Then you will know how to work with Photoshop cs6 for example.
Right program area
This area of the workspace is governed by a dedicated tab where by default it says "Main Workspace". There will be a color palette, a field with adjustments and styles, as well as a window with layers, channels and paths. You can change the environment to a space for photography, drawing, movement and other adjustments.
Additional panels for work
Outcomes
Now you know how to work in Photoshop and have learned the basic tools of the program. And from now on, you can fully use various instructions on the Internet, which describe many interesting lessons on creating amazing effects. From now on, your imagination will work for you, and all your ideas will find their embodiment. Share your first work in the comments. Fruitful work, dear friends!
Graphic editor is a program that allows you to create and edit photographs. With the help of a graphical editor, you can draw, paint, make inscriptions and even get a three-dimensional image of objects.
Adobe Photoshop CS5 is one of the latest versions of the famous graphics editor. The program is distinguished by a wide range of functions, high efficiency and speed of work. As an example, let's try to learn how to use Adobe Photoshop Photoshop CS5.
Fast navigation through the article
Creating a new project
When getting started in Adobe Photoshop CS5, the first step is to create a new project. To do this, you should:
- In the drop-down list, select the "Create" item;
- Specify the height and width of the future document;
- Click on the "Create" button.
Image editing
If you need to edit any image, then, first of all, it should be opened in Photoshop. For this you need:
- In the menu located at the top of the program, click "File";
- Select the "Open" item in the drop-down list;
- Specify the file and click "Open".
Or right-click on the photo file and select "Open with ..." -> "Adobe Photoshop CS5".
Instruments
The toolbar is located on the left side of the screen. To use them, you should:
- Left-click on the corresponding icon on the toolbar;
- If necessary, change the properties of the selected tool on the panel below the file menu.
Layer management
A layer is a document element. To get started with it, you need:
- Open the "Layers" window (F7 key);
- Select the required element by clicking the left mouse button.
Photo size
Photo resizing is one of the basic functions Photoshop programs... To do this, you need:
- In the "Image" menu, select the "Image size" item;
- Specify the required value in the "Width" field (the height will change automatically);
- Click "Ok".
Pruning
Cropping photos is another commonly used Photoshop feature. To complete it, you must:
- Select the "Frame" tool;
- Select the area to be left;
- Press "Enter".
Error correction
There is a special function for correcting errors in Photoshop. To use it, you need:
- Click the "Window" item;
- Select "History".
Saving work
After the work is completed, it should be saved in the desired format. This requires:
- Click "File";
- Select "Save As" (you can use the key combination "Ctrl + Shift + S");
- Specify the path to save the image and the desired file type (eg. Jpg);
- Click on the "Save" button.
Good day, dear readers. Are you seriously looking to learn how to work in Photoshop and hope you can do it? Hundreds of people every day, inspired by video miracles in three-minute videos, open this program and forget about it a week later.
“They teach and teach at school, and yet here, in adult life, they piled on!” - a quote from a Soviet cartoon appears in my head. After a week, everything is forgotten, a person begins to think that he already knows how to do everything, and how much further, you still can't apply it anywhere.
As a rule, all this knowledge remains unfinished with useless talents No. 7463. Why do you think that you will succeed? Well, at least you still haven't stopped reading this article, and that's a good thing. So you are partly a realist, this is wonderful, which means we have something to talk about. Then, let's find out how to work with Photoshop, or rather from which side it is better to approach it, so as not to leave everything halfway.
How not to be satisfied with what has already been achieved
Motivation is the most important thing in life, especially for beginners to comprehend something. You can start writing a book and quit in a month, leave the cross-stitching after a week, and usually forget about the work on creating websites after about six months. Why it happens? Initially the wrong approach to business.
You must constantly work on your own motivation. How to do it? First things first, figure out what you want from Photoshop?
Play and edit a couple of your own photos?
Don't even bother learning. Find YouTube tutorials for dummies, or dig deeper into Photoshop yourself. These are some interesting drawings you can get with just a few buttons.
Which ones exactly? "Image" in the top toolbar. Pay special attention to corrections. There are a lot of gizmos here that can surprise your friends and diversify your leisure time.
Some of the most interesting instruments here, in my opinion, are "Curves" and "Juicy".
Also, you will definitely like the "Filter Gallery".
You don't even have to download the program itself and spend money on it. There is a lovely online service with a program in Russian ( https://editor.0lik.ru ), it is less functional when it comes to work, but ideal as a toy. In addition, you can work with it for free. Be creative.
Have tried, got interested and want to move on
Wait. It's too early to work with layers and other advanced features. First, decide why you need it, otherwise you will just waste your time.
If you don’t feel sorry for days, weeks, months - this is good, but when you start one thing, do not finish, take on the second or third, then in the end you do not get anything.
How many more roads you have to go to make real money from your hobby. Don't you really need it? Many people take on something stupid and create something incredible, making millions from the project. And in the end, you will remain the person who knows a little more than others in each area.
How can you make money with Photoshop?
- Sell cool photos of your own production through photo banks.
- Create your own page and offer photo processing services.
- To create illustrations for books, of which there are now about a million.
- Make logos for companies.
- Web design.
Don't you believe that someone will really pay for this? Pf, don't hesitate. You can find a bunch of suggestions on the Weblancer website ( https://weblancer.net ).
Don't worry about not having enough strength or not enough experience. Take more time to complete the project, and less money, so that the complaints against you are not too serious. You can always justify your own actions later: “What did you want for 1,000 rubles? If you don't like it, don't take it, I completed the work on time, and it's up to you to refuse or take the results. "
You are a beginner and that's great. Keep your ambitions with you for as long as possible. For a corporate identity, professionals can take at least 5,000 rubles. Don't think about big money while studying while gaining experience. Over time, good orders will come and then you will be able to set your own prices with all responsibility. In the meantime, set yourself tasks and solve them through educational articles and videos, of which there are a million on the Internet.
Start creating projects as early as possible. Make them for yourself, create projects for any money. No one will know how much you were paid, but you will have a great portfolio. Over time, you will learn to complete tasks faster, which means you will be able to fill more orders.
Ambition is very strong and you want to make a lot of money
If you have hard work and impressive performance, then you need to make money on this and start doing it as soon as possible. There is a lot of money in design. You can pay about 80,000 for a good website design, 30,000 for a corporate identity, 1,000 for a cool illustration. Just to get that kind of money and find clients, you have to really try.
Of course, you can't get by with tutorial videos, articles, or typing. It will take real, professional training. You will need to understand the intricacies of art, quickly learn the wisdom of business, see how the specialists work, what they use when creating, study, so to speak, the case to the maximum and do it quickly.
Talent alone is not enough; experience is also required. Whatever industry you start in, you need to grow to a professional. Until we have no time for this! If you are very hardworking, then you are ambitious, and if the earnings do not work, you, again, will abandon what you started without completing it. You need to do everything so that the work done by you is liked by others, and especially by customers.
I recommend you the course of Zinaida Lukyanova ( https://photoshop-master.org/disc15 ). It costs about two and a half thousand rubles and gives everything you need for work. All knowledge in 18 hours. A day will not pass as you reach good level... Of course, it will have to be improved, but at least you will know the basics. Further - a matter of technology, it remains only to look for your options. Nobody will tell you where to put this or that element, but you will know how this can be done and will not waste time on the technical side. It is not difficult to figure it out, if you have already seen how one or another tool of the master is used, you will be able to snatch out a lot of useful chips.
You will know specifically what can be done in Photoshop and what you can do, and therefore you will be able to find quick ways creation. Why spend an hour brilliantly highlighting a shape when you can perfectly and quickly insert it into another object?
Which photoshop to choose
Naturally, in this case, there will not be enough online versions. She is only interesting as a toy. On your own, you can set your own gradients, brushes, stamps, fonts. By the way, the last time I was able to download as many as 4000 options. Take a look at some of them. Can you imagine how they simplify the life of a designer?
Naturally, you can install them on any version. By the way, let's talk about software. First came Photoshop CS5, this version is slightly less functional compared to latest version CS6.
And the coolest is CC 2015. I have it. Of course, it is better for a designer to choose this one. There are a bunch of additional features here that you probably won't need. For example, support for 3D printing. But what do you want from her, is it bad? There is and is. But besides that, you use smart sharpness, perspective deformation, improved layer correction. CC just can't dance!
Do not think that you will not understand such a cool version or it will be more difficult. All Photoshop is generally the same. There is just somewhere additional functions and buttons that you are not required to use. But what options the latest versions perform a little better. For example, add glow or sharpness.
Learn one Photoshop - you will understand all the rest. The main thing is to understand the logic of the developers, and it will not be difficult to figure it out further.
Finally, I'll leave you a motivating video, where can you go without them. Cool, the girl is turned into a robot. It's great, by the way, if you remove the acceleration, then I think it took him from two to eight hours to work. Agree, not so much. Just a day, and this is the result:
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- Cancel: Go back one step, in other words, undo the last action.
- Run again: Move one step forward, undo the canceled step.
- To help in working with undo / redo actions in the right corner of the window there is a "History" tab, by clicking on the lines with actions in this tab, you can move or go back a few actions forward and backward, up to the initial state of the image.
- Cut Copy Clear Paste: These actions are clear to any computer user. If the image has a selected area, then the actions are applied to it.
- Image size: Allows you to resize the edited image in pixels in width and height. Moreover, the size can be changed both with preserving the original proportions, and without, it depends on the checkbox next to the "Maintain proportions" parameter.
- Canvas size: The canvas is an area where you can draw or edit an image. With this function, it can be increased and decreased. When zoomed out, part of the image will be clipped.
- Items Rotate 180 degrees, Rotate 90 degrees clockwise and Rotate 90 degrees counterclockwise understandable without comment.
- Flip vertically and Flip horizontally: Mirror the image.
- Crop: Cropping the image, the cropping field is set with the mouse.
First, let's figure out what are layers in Photoshop?
The concept of "layer" in Photoshop has exactly the same physical meaning as in life - it is a layer or layer, which is an integral part of something whole.
In Photoshop, as in other graphic editors, this is an extremely useful and irreplaceable thing; to some extent, layers are the main working tools in online photoshop... They allow you to work with each of the image elements separately, without affecting the rest of the image. You can think of them as a stack of transparencies or cripples, on each of them you can draw and if there is no image on the film, then through it you can see the layers that lie under it.
For the convenience of working with layers on the right in the working window of the program there is a tab "Layers", it is shown in the figure on the right. The active layer in this tab is highlighted in blue. The visibility of the layer is regulated by the presence of a checkbox on the right; to turn off the visibility, you must uncheck the checkbox. Layers can be dragged up and down with the mouse. The purpose of the buttons at the bottom of the panel, from left to right: changing the opacity, turning on the layer mask, adding layer styles (outer shadow, inner shadow, bevel, outer glow, inner glow), new layer, delete active layer.
For now, let's move on to the "Layers" menu items.
- New layer: Creates a new layer.
- Duplicate layer: Duplicates the active layer and places it above the active layer.
- Remove layer: Removes a layer.
- Open Image As Layer: Opens an image from your computer and displays it as a layer, placing it above the currently active layer.
- Open Image URL As Layer and Open from library as layer performs the same actions as the previous paragraph, only the image is taken from a third-party site or online library.
- Merge layers: Merges the active layer with the layer below it.
- Merge visible layers Combines the currently visible layers of the document, in the layers tab they are marked with a checkbox.
- Move Layer Up, Move Layer Down Moves the position of the layer in the layers tab.
- Layer styles They will allow you to add decoration for the layer, such as:
- Cast a shadow
- Inner shadow
- External glow
- Inner glow
- Rasterize a layer Converts vector objects, such as text, to a regular image of dots.
- Add Layer Mask, Remove Layer Mask, Apply Layer Mask Working with masks is similar to layer masks in Photochop.
With the rest of the items Rotate Layer ..., Flip ... like everything is clear.
● Correction
This tool gives us the ability to change the brightness and contrast of the image, its color saturation, tonality, and also change each color level of the 3 primary colors separately.
Another one useful function, which is called Automatic levels will allow you to do automatic correction Images.
Below in the menu are a number of options with pre-configured and modifiable parameters. For example, they allow you to make a negative out of a photo or apply a sepia filter to the image in order to make the photo look like an old photo in light or dark brown tones.
An interesting option called Cross process... It makes digital photography look like "photos from the 80s", that is, taken with a film camera.
● Filter
This menu has a rich set of all kinds of filters for processing and overlaying them on an image or photo. Moreover, the very names of all these filters will eloquently tell us what will happen to the image if we apply them.
● View
- Zoom in, zoom out Zoom in / out the display of the pattern.
- Actual Pixels Displays the picture in real size.
- Show all Display the image in scale to fit the window.
- Navigator Show / hide the navigator tab on the right upper corner window.
- Layers, Journal Show / hide tabs and Magazine located on the right side of the window.
- Tool Options Shows / hides the tool options tab located at the top of the window, under the main menu.
- Full screen mode A very useful option. Allows to arrange the working window of the editor over the entire monitor window.
- Change the location of the palette The option is still under development.
The toolbar is located on the left side of the editor window.
It is on it that all the most basic and often used tools for working in online Photoshop are located.
The functions of the tools are similar to those in regular Photoshop.
Here is a cycle of lessons that teach you how to use graphic editor Photoshop is an incredibly popular and indispensable tool in web design, with the help of which not only buttons, banners and logos are created for the site, but even entire layouts. The design of almost any site you visited was originally drawn in Photoshop, so knowledge of this program will be definitely useful for a webmaster, although the skills of image processing and creating your own drawings simple user PCs don't hurt either. Digitizing photos, retouching old pictures, creating postcards and collages are just the beginning of a long list of useful actions that the editor allows you to do, and a series of lessons will help you get comfortable with it.
Bookmark this page so as not to lose the table of contents and consistently study article after article, comprehending more and more new techniques of working in Photoshop.
But what will you learn in these lessons?
- 1 Getting Started in Photoshop - Quick Selection and Filling
Here you will get acquainted with the program interface, learn what the main interface elements are for, learn how to create documents and save them, master the selection of areas on the canvas. Also from the lesson you will understand how to fill areas with color, you will understand the principles of working with the program. Once you have mastered the information, you will learn how to perform simple actions and will be able to independently explore other editor tools.
- 2 Layers and text
Everything Photoshop images are built on layers. That is why editing in the program is so convenient. The lesson will tell you what layers are, why they are needed and how to work with them. In addition, it describes techniques for creating and processing labels, as well as moving objects on the canvas. After completing the lesson, processing multi-layered documents will not be a problem for you.
- 3 Filters
You will become familiar with a huge library of image-changing scripts. The filters of the editor can not only give the finished image this or that effect, but even create new objects and frame the photo.
- 4 Working with images
The article provides the basics of processing existing graphic files... Editing several images at once, moving objects from one drawing to another, resizing and removing unnecessary parts - this is just an incomplete list of lesson topics.
- 5 Transformation
The lesson will teach you to scale image elements, change proportions, skew, distort and deform them
- 6 Drawing - brush and pencil
The first in a series of articles about tools for creating your own masterpieces. Already a long time ago, computer technology has developed to the point that it allows you to simulate drawing on paper. You will learn how to create with a virtual pencil and brush - sketches and watercolor paintings can now be easily drawn and distributed on electronic media, making an unlimited number of copies and without worrying about the safety of labor.
- 7 Drawing - Shapes
Freehand creation of objects is one thing, and accuracy and speed are sometimes paramount. The lesson tells about the tools with which you can create perfectly straight geometric shapes in just a few clicks. given sizes... From a simple square to an ellipse, a star, and even a musical note, this article covers everything.
- 8 Drawing - paths and bitmaps
You will remember once and for all how a vector differs from a raster, what pros and cons both approaches have, and you will also learn why shape outlines are needed in Photoshop and what pixel mode does.
- 9 Drawing - Pen tool
Continuing to work with paths, explore the tools of the Pen group. Purpose, method of application, description of parameters, and as a result you will learn how to draw atypical contours and create complex geometric objects.
- 10 Drawing - Magnetic pen tool
The Magnetic Pen tool has become so popular that it is called the Magnetic Pen, although there is no such separate tool in Photoshop. What this function allows you to do, why users love it so much and how it will help you personally - read the article.
- 11 Image Retouching Tools
To use these editor functions for the Internet, you do not need to be a layout designer, or a designer, or a webmaster - no one at all. It is enough to be an active user social networks... How to make your face more beautiful, remove moles and freckles? How can I process an old scanned photo so that the colors become brighter, and scratches, spots and dust particles are not so noticeable? How to carefully cut an object, move it or clone it? Where is the tool that will help you get rid of the red-eye effect from a photo in just a couple of minutes? Look for answers to these and other questions in the article.
- 12 Image correction tools
You already know so much that mastering new tools is not a problem. All I had to do was make an overview with a description of the possibilities to improve the quality of pictures - to lighten where it is too dark, darken where it is overexposed, blur and sharpen, mix and smear colors. In general, additional information on how to make the image better is waiting for you in the tutorial.
The pinnacle of creativity for the web is rendering site templates. When most of the tools are mastered, and the skills are enough to draw and dividers with shapes, and buttons for menus, and logos, and beautiful inscriptions, nothing prevents you from creating a good, complex layout. The article tells what a standard template consists of, describes the principle of creation, and also teaches you how to cut a layout using tools that are previously unfamiliar to you.
Paying attention to each of the lessons, analyzing practical examples and experimenting on your own, as you master the course, you will go from a beginner to an advanced user of Photoshop and you will be able to delve into it yourself, moving to a new level of development, and a strong and reliable foundation will help you with this. laid down by the cycle of our articles.
