Photo Editing Tips

Photoshop Gradient Tool

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Have you tried using the Gradient Editor as a way to customize Photoshop’s default gradients? Before you can do this you must have a good working knowledge of Photoshop’s Gradient Tool if you want to be able to make the most of the possibilities. This simply means you have to be able to master the editing options. A little practice and you should be editing great pics in a breeze. Start off, by selecting the Gradient Tool and then clicking on the gradient preview in the options bar. This will open Gradient Editor. On the opened Gradient Editor, you will see several preset gradients. You can choose the default Foreground, the Background gradient or even the more complex Chrome gradient. You can edit the preset gradients and design new ones. Modify a gradient by changing the color stops. You can click on an image or a sample color for your customized gradient. Practice is the best way to get things right and to master them. Give it a try then.

Some of the tips for Photoshop CS3

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Drawing straight lines without using the line tool
Choose one of the available tools for drawing a line except line tool (Eraser tool, pencil tool, brush tool, etc) and then hold the shift key while dragging the pointer horizontally or vertically.

Drawing straight lines using the brush tool
While the brush tool is selected, click where you want to start the first point to be at. Then hold the shift key and click to the other point where you want your line to end. You may also use this technique mostly to other tools like highlight tool and eraser tool.

Tips at creating shapes
To start drawing from the center, hold alt while dragging. To create perfect shapes of a square, a circle, or when you are using the polygon tool, hold shift while dragging. If you are using any of tools for drawing like the brush tool, or line tool, and you want to move what you are drawing, hold the spacebar and drag it to where you want your drawing placed.

Closing multiple windows of Photoshop
Hold shift while going to the file menu and choose close.

Creating photo borders

Open your image. Click palette and create a new channel.

Create a rectangle using the rectangular marquee tool. Then go to select and choose inverse then edit and fill. Use white.

De select and then go to menu and click filter. Choose distort then ocean ripple. You may experiment on the parameters.

Go back to channel and choose RGB. Now go to menu and choose select then load selection. Choose Alpha 1 . Now go back to menu. Click edit then fill. Choose background color.

You can experiment on the filters. You may also change the background color if you want another color for the border other than white.

Restoring the Old Photos

Over time you will see that photo depreciate due to dilapidation of the photo paper or perhaps poor storage. Now for most, that may seem a sign of antique or aging photos but with the right software and photo editor, you can restore old photos and make them look like new ones.

It may take some time for these photos to bring back the shine and original quality that it once had but the thing is you can. It may take some time and liven up those supposedly old photos and surely they will be a joy to look at afterwards.

Making Great Shots Count

For photographers, taking candid shots can be enhanced in a way to capture great photos and allow them to become pictures that will surely be something out of the ordinary. That is just the thing about photography, it is not always about the shot alone but rather on what you make out of it.

As far as livening them up and coming up with great end image products, you will be surprised at what you can produce. Colors, effects and other potential effect elements in a photo editing software can make all the difference. Everything lies on the person behind the keyboard to enhance it all.

Photography Can Bring Out the Artist In You

While many of us end up staring at pictures blankly, you can do a lot of artistic output on them if you think about it. The controversy about whether photography is art is one that has been raging in the art world for a long time and we are not likely to totally solve it here.

But it can be an important decision you have to make if you are considering a career in photography with the goal of producing quality art works. Now the primary objection to whether photography is art sometimes is that a photograph is often a realistic depiction of a moment taken with a machine and some would say that “anybody can take a picture.”

Recover the Original Images

As far as editing images are concerned, you will encounter problems as far as accidentally saving them to the one you are editing. Software can easily reclaim lost or missing photographs from various cases of accidental losses of data. There are utilities that can help to demonstrate whole recovery process in an easy to use and interactive way.

There are a lot of them out there and you just have to pick the right one. Once you do, rest assured you no longer have to worry about the original file that you erroneously edited. Any software that can recover images can make sure of that.

Better Pixels, Better Images

As far as getting quality images is concerned, the battle is really on the pixels that your digital camera has. Pixels help improve the quality of images. The greater they are the better and easier it is to edit them.

Some people consider pixels only because they want better output. But there is really more to that especially if you love to tamper with pictures and improve them. Lesser speckles make it easier to hide and edit them.

So the next time you buy a camera, go for the higher pixel ones. It will be worth the buy and surely be beneficial once you edit those photos you took.

Adobe Tutorials In Demand

Thanks to the ease in uploading pictures these days, most people are looking frantically for photo editing software to enhance sites based on the actual shot that they had taken. When you talk about image editing software, Adobe Photoshop is bound to be at the top of the list.

For the first time user, it may seem complicated at first. That is why they need reference materials, much of which can be taken from the web. Normally, it will be the professionals who will be making these tips and sharing their knowledge in this software will really be what photo imaging aspirants will be looking for.

Changing the background of a photo

If you have a good photo but you dislike the background, you can change it by using few steps in photo editing. Using Adobe Photoshop Software, you make this become possible.
Here are the steps in changing the background of your photo
1. Open the image that you want to edit and click a selection tool Magnetic Lasso

2. Accurately outline the edges of the photo, you can use ADD or SUBTRACT icon to get a more definite outline.

3. After the image has been selected, Inverse the selection.

4. Press Control A (ctrl A) or select all to copy.

5. Choose a background image or clipboard by making another active window then copy.

6. Then, Place or paste the clickboard image into the selected area
7. You can move the image on the area with MOVE TOOL until the background is at the desires place.

8. Save image layers as a JPG or JPEG file. (file format for photo)

By these simple steps, you can start to change the background of your photos with your own preference making the best out of the photo.