Basic Photoshop tutorial for beginners – The basics of Photoshop Software

Are you a photographer who likes to capture special moments in every time? Are you also looking for an image editing program to enhance your images? If so, What comes to mind first of course? Photoshop! In this article,  we guided step by step about the Basic Photoshop tutorial for beginners.

Which image editing software is suitable for you?

Before you choose Photoshop, please ask yourself what needs and wishes you have regarding the processing of your images. This software offers you an infinitely creative field that can be complicated and expensive for beginners. A simpler solution might be enough for you. If you should now doubt whether Photoshop is the right software for you, you should definitely read our comparison of the different, free photo editing software! Otherwise, our Photoshop tutorial below will be very useful to get you started!

Why will you use Adobe Photoshop?

Adobe Photoshop is one of the leading photo editing software for professionals and passionate photographers and graphic designers. The program’s tool palette and various filters offer numerous options for editing images. But you can also create a professional clipping path, retouching, and any kinds of graphics, such as logos for various documents (e.g. brochure, banner, business card, flyers or posters). Therefore, the software has become an essential tool in the field of photo editing and graphic design.

Also, if you want to remove background from images very professionally, then you should use the adobe photoshop software. The pen tool is one of the best tools for background remover, which is offered by Photoshop.

Photoshop includes a few versions of the pen tool. The pen tool creates precise paths that can be manipulated using anchor points. The free form pen tool allows the user to draw paths freehand, and with the magnetic pen tool, the drawn path attaches closely to outlines of objects in an image, which is useful for isolating them from a background.

The functions and handling are very complex, but the logic and the main features are easy to understand. However, in order to become a professional, only intensive practice helps.

Photoshop is a paid software that is available in an Adobe Suite from $31.99 / month (with Lightroom). To try it out, you can first use a free trial version of adobe cc.

Photoshop Tutorial: The basics of Photoshop Software

Read below how the work area is structured and how the tools are used:

The work area

When you start Photoshop, you come to the desktop. This includes several areas:

• Tools: The tools that can be used to change the image are located here as standard. The tools have several functions and further sub-categories (hold your mouse on a tool to see its variants)
• Document window: In the middle is the processing area for your photo
• Menu (top line): file, image editing, selection, font, filter, display, window, help
• Options Bar: Under the menu, there are specific settings corresponding to the selected tool
• The menu item “Window”: Depending on the selection, different windows appear on the right side. The number depends on the areas you have selected and want to edit (colors, color chart, settings, styles, masks, etc.)
• The Layers Palette: It is an important tool for image processing. A Photoshop document can span one to many layers. The Layers palette shows all layers in a logical order
• Timeline: To use the Timeline tool to animate the Rogue Fitness pictures, open the Window menu and choose Timeline. To open the Timeline panel, select the Timeline from Photoshop’s Window menu.

Tips & Tricks :

Adjust the work area in the main menu> Window> Work area to your needs. The windows are movable and foldable, so you can create more space for your picture. The “Log” is an important tool to be able to return to previous settings at any time.

The logic of the levels

Before using Photoshop, you should study the logic behind it, the basic concept of layers.

A Photoshop document sometimes consists of multiple layers. You can think of it as putting different transparent sheets on top of each other. Each sheet (each level) consists of a separate picture. By “stacking” or stacking all sheets (layers) on the top sheet, all the sheets (layers) underneath with their respective images are visible and when viewed together they look like an overall picture.

A layer can contain different elements: a photo, text, graphics, etc. With each new layer, you can add elements or effects to your image. The levels can also be quickly, individually hidden, merged or deleted.

The menu

The menu is the versatile gateway to all Photoshop functions. It is multifaceted, often allows direct retouching and opens access to numerous submenus and editing windows.

File: New, open, close, save, import/export, automate, scripts, print a photo. “Exit” is also found here to close the software.
Edit: A step forward / backward, copy/paste, undo/redo, free transform, fill, stroke, apply certain changes. Here you also have access to Photoshop settings.
Image: All settings and changes required to develop a photo (mode, size, image quality, image rotation, tonal value, contrast, color, black and white, etc.)
Layer: All functions for managing the layers (creation, duplication, layer mask, vector mask, smart objects, alignment, style, connecting, etc.)
Font: All useful functions for editing a text layer such as font family, font-size etc.
Selection: Functions to select and edit image areas such as color range, refine mask, modify –> feather, select/deselect, inverse etc.
Filters: Different image effects (blur, embellishments, render, liquify, lens correction, vanishing point, noise)
View: Elements for customizing the display such as Zoom in /out, Ruller etc.
Window: To show or hide the various functions (options, tools, videos, menu, colors, layers, characters, brushes, etc.)
3D: for 3d image creation.
Help: Help on the different topics of Photoshop software.

Tools

Use the tools to make changes to your photos:

Selection tools: move, rectangle selection, lasso, magic wand, quick selection
Cutting tool: Crop/define cutouts
Measuring tools: pipette (determining color values)
Retouching tools: corrections, stamps, eraser, water drops
Text and graphic tools: pen, brush, text
Color selection (foreground and background color)

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Photoshop tutorial: Edit a photo with Photoshop

From theory to practice – read how to remove background an image in 6 steps :

1 – Select a photo and open it, File> Open or press CTL+O. Your photo is now in the document window. You have previously adjusted the work area to your needs (menu window). If You don’t know, then click the link, how to open a file in photoshop?

2 – Now use the pen tool (or press P) and clipping path the entire image.

3 – Select the path then press CTL+ENTER from the keyboard. Path selection will look like the below image

4 – Now, add feather for a smooth edge. Press SHIFT+F6 or from top menu click Select–> Modify–> Feather –> Feather radius 0.5 –> OK

5 – Now press CTL+J for duplicate the layer and hide the eye icon from main background image. (See layer section on the below image)

6 – Your photo is ready! Now all you have to do is save it:  press CTL+SHIFT+S or File> Save As> Save PNG format.

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