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By russell, September 4, 2009 4:16 pm

Adobe has its own Photoshop tutorials that run the gamut of instruction.
You can find Photoshop tutorials on the Adobe site on abstracts, automation, animation, the basics of using Photoshop, buttons and brushes, using color effectively, digital art, drawing, creating desired effects with drawing or photos, retouching photos, photography in general, scripting, textual effects, Photoshop patterns and textures, graphics for the Web, and layouts for the Web.
One of the most basic of Photoshop tutorials is a complete explanation of all you’ll find on the Photoshop toolbar.
You’ll learn lessons that include the use of the marquee tools. There are several: the elliptical, the single row, the single column and the rectangular.
The rectangular and elliptical marquee tools lets you expand or reduce an area that is shaped as the tools indicate. You can use a tool to size one row or one column with the appropriate marquee tool.
These basics will be taught in this Photoshop tutorial, along with the use of the move tool which lets you create movement of a layer, the lasso tool which lets you capture a specific area, and the magnetic lasso tools, which lets you change the location of images with varying colors.
The polygonal lasso tool, in contrast, will go from point to point in a straight line or lines. You’ll even learn how to use a magic want with Adobe Photoshop tutorials. This magic want tool lets you click inside a one color area and move only that area.
The Photoshop crop tool, part of this tutorial, lets you delete parts of a photo.
Wit h this Photoshop tutorial you’ll learn other basic tools such as the spot healing tool, the healing brush tool, the red eye tool, the patch tool, the brush tool, the pencil tool, and the color replacement tool.
With the clone stamp tool, you’ll learn how to use Photoshop to copy only parts of a particular image, while the pattern stamp tool will teach you how to take an image and brush a pattern on to it.
The Photoshop tutorial will teach you the mechanics of history brush tool use, how it is used to undo what you’ve created by simply brushing over the image you’ve altered and taking it back to the image it was before.
It has an even more advance use, though, in that, you can actually undo the image change in only the specific parts from which you wish to remove your latest alteration.
The art history brush, another tool taught in Photoshop tutorials, is much the same as the history brush except that it also lets you style at the same time.
Photoshop tutorials teach three eraser tools – the standard eraser, the background eraser and the magic eraser tool. With the first you can do just as its name suggests – erase part of the image you’ve created with Photoshop.
With the background version you can erase only the image background, while the magic eraser which lets you make even more varied choices of what to eliminate from the image.

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By russell, August 6, 2009 5:16 pm

Adobe Photoshop is one of the most popular imaging software packages around, but it’s expensive! Here are five ways you can earn money using Photoshop or Photoshop Elements — either as a business enterprise, for some extra money, or just to recoup your investment. 1. Offer a Photo Restoration Service. I’m sure just about everyone has a photo or two that hasn’t stood the test of time all that well, especially really old ones. Using the Healing Brush, Spot Healing Brush, and Patch tools, you can make old or damaged photos look like new again. 2. Become a Photograph Doctor. Whether it’s “red eye”, “pet eye”, poor exposure, or “finger over the lens syndrome” Photoshop can transform a ruined image into a pristine one. You can also use Photoshop to make a colour photograph look like a black and white one, or colour tint a black and white one to make it colour. Not everyone is a good photographer, so you need never be short of “patients”. 3. Design Greetings Cards. With the photo enhancement and graphic design qualities of Photoshop, designing greetings cards has never been easier. You can enhance photos, make them into drawings or paintings, combine photos for humorous cards, the possibilities are endless. Birthday cards, get well soon cards, condolence cards, Christmas cards or cards for other holidays like Mothers’ Day, the list goes on and on. You can easily find card blanks and envelopes from specialist suppliers. 4. Design T-shirts. Ever seen something and thought “that would look great on a T-shirt”? Well, you’re not the only one! With Photoshop you can make it a reality. You can get transfers from stationery shops, and plain, cotton T-shirts can be purchased from low cost suppliers and even some supermarkets. 5. Web Design. Whether it’s a full website, or just a few buttons or banners, web design is a skill that’s in demand right now. You could take commissions, or design some generic “boilerplate” designs that people can download from a website and customise themselves. Of course, you may need to get some extra equipment — like a colour printer, scanner, and digital camera — but you can usually pick this type of equipment up inexpensively on eBay or other websites. A DVD of royalty free images is also a must — although check the terms and conditions to make sure you’re allowed to sell products derived from them. Word of mouth is always the best form of advertising, so ask friends, relatives, work colleagues, and other acquaintances if the need (or know anyone who needs) your products or services. You could also approach retailers with a portfolio of your work, and offer them commissions on any work they send your way.

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By russell, August 3, 2009 11:38 pm

Click on the ‘File’ menu, then select ‘Open’ and browse for the image file you wish to work on.

If you are unhappy with the result you can click on the ‘Edit’ menu and select the ‘Undo’ option to go back a step. Ctrl+Alt+Z will take you back further steps.

With the appropriate image open and cropped (if necessary) you can resize the image by clicking on the ‘Image’ menu and selecting ‘Image Size’ to open up the image size window.

Here you can choose the new size for your image, in pixels, for use on your website. Keep the ‘Constrain Proportions’ option ticked to stop your image becoming stretched. Click ‘OK’ to resize your image once you have chosen your size.

Once you have prepared your image, to save it click on the ‘File’ menu and select ‘Save for web.’

The ‘save for web’ preview window will open, where you can select the optimisation settings for your image and preview the result (under the ‘optimised’ tab.For the majority of photographs, using the preset settings ‘JPEG High’ or ‘JPEG medium’ will be fine. You can select a preset from the drop-down menu located under the ‘OK’ ’Cancel’ and ‘Output Settings’ buttons on the right hand side.

Once you have selected the optimisation settings that you are happy with, click ‘OK’ to save your file under a suitable filename. This command is similar to using ‘Save As’ and will not overwrite your original file as long as a different name or folder is used.