Innehållsförteckning för May 2016 från Practical Photoshop

Anyone who likes vintage effects (and going by the success of Instagram, that’s just about everyone) will find plenty to enjoy in Analog Efex Pro. There’s a whole host of film-inspired imperfections like light leaks, dust and scratches, messy borders, vignettes and blur effects. DOWNLOAD THE PROJECT FILES HERE http://tiny.cc/rpzyay ON YOUR PC OR MAC STEP BY STEP: BUILD AN ANALOGUE EFFECT 01 CHOOSE A PRESET Open an image in Photoshop. Right-click the layer and choose Convert To Smart Object. Go to Filter > Nik Collection > Analog Efex Pro 2. Click OK when the warning shows. Click Classic Camera then experiment with the tool combinations, each of which opens up several presets to play with. 02 ADJUST THE SETTINGS Once you’ve chosen a preset – we picked Vintage Camera…

Dfine is a simple plugin that helps you fix graininess and color noise in your high-ISO images. At its simplest, all you have to do is launch the plugin and wait a few seconds while it automatically analyses the image and fixes the noise. Job done. But if you want more control, you can work through two stages to fix noise manually, using the buttons on the right of the Dfine interface. Measure can be done either automatically or manually. The Automatic setting works well most of the time. Next, switch to Reduce. Here you can change the amount of Contrast and Color noise reduction. Double-click your image to jump to 100% while assessing the results.…

If you’re relatively new to editing in Photoshop, or you just don’t know where to begin, then this section is the best place to get started. Over the next nine pages, you’ll find an overview of the different versions of Photoshop available; a breakdown of the typical image-editing workflow in Photoshop; an overview of raw file editing; a guide to the six most useful layers; and a glossary of the most useful shortcuts. This guide condenses most of the tools and techniques you’ll use every time you import a new roll of pictures. PHOTOSHOP CC £8.57/$9.99 PER MONTH WINDOWS, OS X Photoshop is the software of choice for most professional and non-professional photographers. Beyond the standard photo-editing features, it boasts a vast array of more creative tools and filters. Layers…

Sharpener Pro, as you’ll have guessed, tackles image sharpening. It actually consists of two plugins: RAW Presharpener, which you run at the start of your workflow, and Output Sharpener, which should be your very last step after resizing a image for a certain medium like a print or a website. While the results are good, there’s little benefit to using RAW Presharpener over Photoshop or Lightroom’s own tools, which are just as effective. The only real advantage is if you want to apply sharpening selectively with Control Points. Sharpener Pro’s Output Sharpener is the more useful of the two, as crucially, it lets you define a specific medium for output, like Inkjet for print or Display for viewing onscreen. Once you’ve made a choice, you can use the sub-menus for…

Love landscapes, but never seem to chance upon the perfect scene? Then why not make your own fantasy location? With a few simple Photoshop skills, you can combine elements from a range of images into a single, perfectly composed frame – and you get to choose exactly where everything goes: a tree here, an animal there, a snowy mountain, perhaps even a few sun rays to add to the drama. If you want to piece together your own personal paradise, the first thing to learn is how to cut out parts of an image. But beyond this, the key to success is matching up the colors and tones so that everything looks like it belongs together. Any old Photoshop dabbler can cut out and combine a few images, but it…

The image-editing process begins as soon as you’ve transferred your photos from your memory card to your computer. 1 The first stage is to begin sifting through your pictures to discover which are the keepers. The image organizer that comes with Photoshop is ideal for this task. Adobe Bridge has controls for keywording, rating and filtering your images, and there are handy tools for batch renaming files, creating panoramic stitches, making contact sheets and more. Launch Adobe Bridge and navigate to a folder containing new images. Use the cursor keys to quickly flick through the images and click below a thumbnail to add a star rating, or use the keyboard shortcut Cmd/Ctrl+1-5. You can then filter your images by the star rating to group the ones you want to work…

D Reset the foreground and background colors to black and white ALT+[SCROLL WHEEL] Zoom in or out of the image CMD/CTRL+SHIFT+ALT+E Create a merged copy of all the layers in the layer stack SPACE BAR Temporarily switch the current tool to the Hand tool, for moving around the image while zoomed in ALT+[EYE ICON] Switch off the visibility of all other layers in the layer stack, for before-and-after comparisons CMD/CTRL+I Invert the color of a layer mask to black SHIFT+[LAYER MASK] Disable the effects of a layer mask X Switch the foreground and background color swatches [ OR ] Resize the brush tip SHIFT+[ OR ] Cycle backwards or forwards through the layer blend modes CMD/CTRL+ALT+Z Undo the last change made to the document. Works multiple times CMD/CTRL+[LAYER MASK] Load…

Whether you like your HDRs natural or super-stylized, Nik’s HDR plugin excels at both merging exposures and tone-mapping HDR Efex Pro (not available within Lightroom) is up there with the best HDR software. It lets you merge a set of exposures (like a bracketed set of three images shot at 1-stop intervals) to create a single frame with increased dynamic range. This is especially useful in high-contrast scenes, as you can tease out details in both shadows and highlights. HDR is known for a certain hyper-real look. With HDR Efex Pro, you can get both natural and stylised results. As well as using the plugin to merge exposures, you can also apply tone mapping effects to a single image to give it the HDR look. DOWNLOAD THE PROJECT FILES HERE…

WATCH THE VIDEO http://tiny.cc/dc8xay Photoshop offers several superior tools for altering colors in your photos. From Lab Color, to Adjustment Layers, Camera Raw and more, with a few simple skills you can alter colors to any shade you like. You can even alter textures and add patterns. In this video tutorial, we’ll show you four ways in which it can be done... PROJECT INFO You’ll learn Four ways to change a dress color or pattern You’ll need Photoshop CS4 or above It’ll take 15 minutes DOWNLOAD THE PROJECT FILES HERE HTTP://TINY.CC/RPZYAY ON YOUR PC OR MAC…

The latest version of the raw file processor included with Photoshop is so powerful that most photos can be processed entirely in the raw processor, with no need for further editing in Photoshop. And by making your adjustments in Adobe Camera Raw rather than in Photoshop, you’ll ensure the best possible image quality, because raw files contain more picture information than bitmap images such as un-layered PSDs and JPEGs. Here’s our reference to the features you’ll use the most in the Basic panel. THE BASIC PANEL IN ACR TEMPERATURE Use this slider to warm or cool an image if the White Balance tool fails to correct a color cast TINT This slider enables you to correct a green or magenta cast, again, if the White Balance tool fails EXPOSURE Controls…