Welcome to this audio lesson on ADOBEPHOTOSHOP.

In this lesson you will hear about the different ways to edit your photos using Adobe Photoshop.

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When we take pictures of something or someone, we will usually do everything that you can to make the conditions for taking pictures perfect.

You might place the subject in an area where the lighting is perfect, and you also do everything that you can in order to eliminate the red eye that can ruin the picture.

Thanks to today’s technology and Adobe Photoshop, even amateur photographers can now take an average digital photo and make it look professional by eliminating flaws.

In fact, most professional photographers use Adobe Photoshop to air brush imperfections in the pictures they took with their digital SLR camera. In many people’s eyes Photoshop is the king of all photo editing software applications. With Photoshop – it will likely contain every tool that you’ll ever need to edit your photographs.

For example, with Adobe Photoshop, you will be able to remove an unwanted object such as a trash can or mail box in a seemingly perfect photo. Also, simple imperfections can be removed. For example in portraits, you can remove scars, wrinkles and even pimples and other blemishes. These techniques are used by studio photographers who want to make their subjects look perfect. In fact, you can even make overweight people look as if they are the sexiest people on earth. That’s the magic of Adobe Photoshop.

With this photo editing software, anything is possible. Red eye that completely ruins a great photo can also be removed in seconds. To access the Red Eye Tool in Photoshop, access the toolbar that contains the patch tool.

Dark pictures can be enhanced with the lighting tool. With this tool you can adjust the brightness of the picture as well as the contrast and dark pictures will look like you took it in a perfect lighting environment. Back lighted pictures are no longer a problem with Adobe Photoshop.

Some say that this photo editing software is relatively easy to use. But whether you’ll find it easy yourself, will depend on your computer skills, and what type of editing you’re attempting. But if you find Photoshop a challenge, then consider picking up Photoshop Elements, which is a lighter version of the big daddy Photoshop, and is perfect for most amateurs. And best of all, Photoshop Elements is a fraction of the price. An OEM version of Photoshop Elements is often bundled with hardware. So if you’re in the market for a new scanner or drawing tablet, be on the lookout for one that comes with a free copy of Photoshop Elements. It might be worthwhile to spend an extra $50, to obtain a better scanner especially if it comes with some free software.

Photoshop documents (PSD files) are cross platform. They can be opened and edited on a MAC or Windows PC, and in just about any version of Photoshop, including the lighter version of the program, Photoshop Elements.

As you can imagine, you don’t need a digital photo studio in order to improve the look of your dull pictures.

Even with an ordinary digital camera, you can be sure that the end result will be great pictures once you have done a little editing.

So, if you love taking pictures and you want to improve how the pictures you take look, then Adobe Photoshop will be able to give you the power to take pictures like a professional. And don’t let those jpg’s collect digital dust. At your local photo developer, or with many reliable online services, you can print your memories for placement into a photo album for as little as pennies a piece. Your keepsakes are treasures forever. Once your editing is complete, turn your digital images into prints, calendars, and photobooks. In fact, there are so many possibilities that you can do with your pictures with Adobe Photoshop.

Photoshop Training
Welcome to an audio lesson on ADOBE PHOTOSHOP.

In this lesson you will hear how you too, can make your photos look professional with Adobe Photoshop.

Have you ever wondered how professional photographers get their pictures to look perfect?

Do you want to create the same quality photos?

Then Adobe Photoshop can help you out!

First of all, Adobe Photoshop is one of the leading photo-editing programs on the market. It’s so good at
doing its job that you have access to the necessary editing tools that professional photographers are using.

But what are the features that make it such a professional product?

Adobe Photoshop has all the editing tools usually found in photo labs. This means you’ll be able to
eliminate redeye, backlight pictures and you can even enhance color.

These days you don’t need an expensive camera to create professional quality photographs. You don’t need
to learn about exposure compensation, white-light balance, or even how to tweak the SLR.

With an ordinary digital camera you can create amazing photos as if you had to know all those things.

You can even edit old, yellowed photos to make them look brand new again.

You can also add new backgrounds to existing photos. For example, you can turn a picture of you in front
of an old house, into a picture of you standing in front of the Grand Canyon and it would still look real.

Another neat thing you can do with Adobe Photoshop is to put your head on someone else’s body.

For example, if you want a picture of yourself standing beside your favorite celebrity, then Adobe
Photoshop can do that for you. The lighting effects can be altered to make one photo match the other.

Something else you can do with Photoshop is turn the color in your photos to turn it to Sepia or Grayscale.

Handshake errors are also very common.

With Photoshop you will be able to correct this problem by sharpening the images with the sharpening
tools in the software, such as the smart sharpen tool.

For that misty feel, you can blur your photos with smart blur.

With practice, you will be able to remove unwanted objects in a great looking photo, like a trash can or a
complete stranger doing wacky poses behind the actual subject.

If you master Adobe Photoshop, you can even make money out of it.

As you can see, Adobe Photoshop can turn an ordinary looking picture in to a high quality picture with
vibrant colors and great effects that looks professional.

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Photoshop Training

Welcome to an audio lesson on ADOBE PHOTOSHOP.

In this audio lesson you will hear why Adobe Photoshop is a must have software for amateurs and
professionals alike.

Whether you’re a beginner or a professional photographer, you no longer have to learn the old ways of
photography.

Thanks to modern technology, such as digital cameras, ANYONE can produce great-looking photos with
Adobe Photoshop.

The good thing about photography today is that it is much simpler than it used to be.

In the past you had to use a film camera, a dark room, chemicals, light meters and the list goes on.

Today it’s all about point, shoot and upload.

Then just edit and print, and you have a photo you can enjoy for many years.

Who says you need perfect lighting to produce a great photo?

If nature doesn’t allow you to take pictures in the best lighting condition possible, then why not make it a
perfect lighting condition?

With Adobe Photoshop, this is possible.

Even if you take dark photos, you’ll be able to edit it with Adobe Photoshop and make it look as if it was
taken in the best lighting condition possible.

That’s just one of the many great things about Adobe Photoshop.

It’s also a fact that the red eye phenomenon is something that we cannot avoid.

Even if your digital camera has the best red eye reduction feature, you’ll still experience the red eye
phenomenon.

With Photoshop’s red eye tool, it will be able to detect and eliminate the red eye on any of your
photographs.

This means that you will always have photos that contain no subject with the red eye.

It’s also true that taking close-up pictures of someone is very difficult to do, especially when they have
marks on their face such as acne, scars, blotches, etc.

In the past, this was almost impossible to edit out, but thanks to Adobe Photoshop, you will be able to make
these imperfections disappear as if it never even existed at all.

You can remove pimples, acne, acne scars, and make the skin of the subject look very smooth.

You may have noticed that models on magazines have such smooth and perfectly tanned skin.

It’s really not the make up that made them look perfect and it’s definitely not their natural skin.

Most of it is all thanks to Adobe Photoshop.

Even people with that extra flab can look like a super model with Adobe Photoshop.

In fact, if you are good enough, you can even make a 23-year-old girl look as if she was already an 80-year-
old grandmother.

These are the potential things that you can do with Adobe Photoshop.

There are a lot more things you can do with Adobe Photoshop and with a little creativity and imagination
you will see what Adobe Photoshop is the right software for you!

Getting Started with Photoshop, A Beginners Guide

Adobe™ Photoshop is arguably the finest image management software available anywhere, and the price reflects its value. When you begin using Photoshop, you will doubtless find the many options overwhelming in their number and scope. You may be tempted to ‘x’ right out of the program and go grab a frosty beverage, but wait. There’s a lot of fun and power at your fingertips, and you’ll want to go through each option and tool one at a time, to learn exactly how you can manage, modify and create images you’d never have believed possible.

This introduction will acquaint you with the BASIC functions of the application, and there will be many more articles in this series, so collect them all, and when you’re finished, you’ll have a complete guide you can refer to often until it all becomes second nature. We’ll use Photoshop v5.5 as the reference release, because many of the current users are using Photoshop CS which does so much of the fun stuff automatically, this hardly has any value in that release.

Well, let’s begin by opening the application. Once you have Photoshop open and running, you’ll notice that on the left is a tall, skinny toolbox with many icons which represent graphically the function(s) they perform. That’s right; many of the tools have multiple functions (just to make things more interesting.)

On the Right hand side of the window you’ll see a ‘stack’ of palettes which allow you to control the characteristics of the TOOL you’ve selected in the Toolbox.

Click on ‘FILE’ and select ‘NEW’ from the drop down menu. When you do, another option box appears with the word ‘NEW’ in the title bar. Below that, you’ll find option boxes where you can enter the parameters that define your new image workspace.

Place your mouse cursor in the NAME space and create a filename of your choice. “TESTPIC” might be a good choice, but that’s up to you.

Next, TAB into the WIDTH option box and type 5, tab to the width UNITS option and click the “DOWN” arrow. A drop-down option box appears with several unit options available. Select ‘INCHES’.

Tab to the HEIGHT option box and type 7, tab over and be sure ‘INCHES’ is selected there as well.

Accept the default RESOLUTION (which should read 72 pixels per inch), and leave the MODE and CONTENTS defaults at RGB and WHITE (background).

Click on OK and an empty, WHITE rectangle will appear in the workspace. It represents a 5×7 inch picture. So let’s create a basic picture in the space. At the same time, you’ll see that a horizontal panel has opened up in each of TWO of the palettes at the RIGHT side of your screen. One is the HISTORY TAB. It has a small rectangle with the title you gave your work.

Below that is a BLUE bar with the word NEW. The HISTORY palette records EVERYTHING you do to your picture. Really handy if you want to change something immediately or dump a whole BUNCH of changes all at once.

We’re going to make a new LAYER to do our work on. What we’ve created so far is just a White rectangle which is the background for our picture. The LAYER is where we’re going to do our work, and incidentally the LAYERS in Photoshop are the things that really give your Photoshop images their flexibility and power.

It’s best to start out by de-mystifying the idea of LAYERS right up front, so here’s the straight information. Imagine each LAYER as a clear piece of acetate that you can draw on and a collection of LAYERS as a stack of acetate sheets each with a different part of the picture drawn on it.

Beneath the HISTORY palette is the LAYERS/CHANNELS/PATHS palette. The LAYERS palette has a blue horizontal rectangle titled ‘BACKGROUND’. That’s your empty picture frame.

At the bottom of the palette are three symbols. A square with a circle in it, a page like icon with the bottom left corner folded up, and a TRASH can icon. (You can guess what it’s for). The page like icon is the ‘NEW LAYER’ icon. Allow the mouse pointer to hover over the icon and its function will ‘pop up’ in a little information window. Click the icon and a NEW layer called ‘LAYER 1′ appears above the ‘Background’ layer. It is BLUE because it is the ACTIVE layer. The one you’ll be working on. There’s a checkerboard pattern in the page area because nothing is on that new layer yet.

The BRUSH symbol means that the layer is ready to receive data, and the eyeball symbol simply means that the layer is VISIBLE.

That’s right. You can have invisible layers. Why? You’ll see in just a few minutes, but you’ve probably already guessed.

You’re ready to start using TOOLS.

In the TOOL palette (at the left side of the workspace) there are 2 columns of 10 icons, a pair of overlapping squares which represent the foreground and background colors, two screen mode icons, of which the left one is ‘depressed’ or ‘selected’ by default, three ‘screen mode’ selection buttons and at the very bottom is a ‘jump to external application’ button, which you’ll only use infrequently, if at all.

Select the TOP LEFT TOOL with your mouse. Left Click and HOLD the button down. A ‘FLYOUT’ menu appears which offers several options. That particular tool is called the ‘SELECTION TOOL’ and it has several modes. Let’s use the RECTANGULAR selection mode first. Click the tool, be sure the rectangular dotted line icon is visible on the button after you release the mouse button, and then click and DRAG from the upper left to the lower right in your picture area, starting about 1 inch from the top and 1 inch from the left side, ending up about 1 inch from the bottom and 1 inch from the right side.

NOW. Click the little black and white squares below the backqround/foreground colors palette (near the bottom of the tool box) and you’ll see the two squares change color. The top left square is BLACK and the bottom right square is WHITE. These are the DEFAULT colors for the foreground (top left square since it’s on top) and background (bottom right square, since it’s on the bottom).

Right above the color display is a hand icon, and just above THAT is a PAINTBUCKET icon.

Click the paint bucket icon to select it. It’s also called the FILL TOOL.

Move your mouse cursor into the area bounded by the rectangular selection you made a minute ago. Click the mouse anywhere inside the selected area. It immediately fills with the foreground color (in this case, BLACK).

Now you will learn why layers can become invisible. Click the little ‘eyeball’ icon beside the image of your picture in the ‘LAYER’ palette.

Your black rectangle disappears (becomes invisible) revealing the contents of the layer beneath it (in this case, the original white background).

This is a lot of information to absorb in one sitting. It’s a lot easier to do if you do it with someone else reading the instructions to you, but you CAN learn Photoshop one tool at a time, by reading one STEP at a time and learning the principles in related groups of operations.

That’s what this series of articles will assist you in doing. There will be another article ready to release soon, so check back often, as the steps build on one another, and you don’t want to miss anything. Keep Photoshop warm. It’s a great application and you’ll enjoy it immensely.