Innehållsförteckning för Summer 2015 från Practical Photoshop

The world around me By Chris Devour Using Photoshop CC 1 2 3 I’m a 23 year-old photographer and graphic designer based in Bucharest. I focus on editorial/conceptual photography, usually trying to mix the two with graphic design and illustration. I usually take black-and-white photos because for me black and white better expresses the mood and the subject I like to present in my work. http://tinyurl.com/qbg6dnv “Interesting and unsettling on many levels. Keep up the good work, Chris!” James Paterson, Editor Does anything look odd? By DesignCrowd Using Photoshop CC 2014 4 5 6 Ever wondered what it would look like if The Colosseum replaced the Opera House in Sydney? Or if the Statue of Liberty replaced Brazil’s Christ the Redeemer statue? DesignCrowd designers from around the world have done…

AVAILABLE FOR: IPAD, ANDROID WATCH THE VIDEO http://tiny.cc/qwzjzx Mix enables you to merge two photos together to create a composite image. It offers a simplified compositing process that makes it very easy for beginners to start combining an object from one image with a background from another. You can then send the composite to Photoshop for further edits. If you like you can also use Mix to edit a single image. It offers a few simple tonal adjustments and more complex edits like Content-Aware Fill, which can be used to remove objects or people from your photos, or shake reduction to fix camera shake. STEP BY STEP: COMBINE PHOTOS WITH MIX Tap the plus to start a new composition. You can choose your images from various locations, such as your…

WATCH THE VIDEO http://tiny.cc/ypujzx As well as enabling you to sort your shots and overcome problems with colour, tone and composition, Lightroom Mobile is geared up to enable you to share your photographs with friends, family and followers in a variety of ways. If you want to make a presentation from your iPad’s screen (to a client at a wedding fair for example), then you can set up a slide show in a few taps, and even add animated transitions between each shot. If you’re under pressure to keep your Twitter feed updated with a constant flow of new content, Lightroom Mobile will resize a photo automatically to suit Twitter’s requirements and upload it to your Twitter account. You can also add your Lightroom Mobile processed pictures to newsletters or…

AVAILABLE FOR: IPHONE, IPAD, ANDROID WATCH THE VIDEO http://tiny.cc/rzzjzx Adobe Brush enables you to make your own custom brushes from photos or sketches for use in Photoshop, Illustrator or the Sketch app. The most successful subjects are usually those that can be easily isolated, like a splash against white, or a leaf against the sky. You can capture objects for your brush tips using your device’s camera, choose from your camera roll, or use your Creative Cloud library. Once captured, you can then fine-tune the look of the tip and apply lots of fun brush settings such as scattering or spacing effects. STEP BY STEP: MAKE A BRUSH To start work on a new brush, tap the plus icon 1 . You can choose from your camera roll or you…

WATCH THE VIDEO http://tiny.cc/8mujzx Once you’ve created collections in Lightroom or Lightroom Mobile, you can begin to sort your shots to flag up favourites, or mark some files for rejection. You can also highlight images that you’re proud of using star ratings. If you flag a file or add a rating in Lightroom, then these changes are added to the file’s metadata and automatically synced to the version of the photo in Lightroom Mobile’s equivalent collection. In the same way, if you rate a photo in Lightroom Mobile, the assigned rating or flag badge will appear by the same photo in the Lightroom collection. This versatility enables you to start rating on your desktop computer and then continue reviewing, rating and flagging your files on your iPad or smartphone. If…

WATCH THE VIDEO http://tiny.cc/1vujzx Those with a Creative Cloud subscription have access to two recent innovations in Camera Raw. The first is a Dehaze feature. Found in the Camera Raw FX panel, Dehaze cuts through atmospheric haze to improve image clarity in your landscapes, transforming the effects of a humid day with limited visibility into a clear scene where you can see far into the distance. You can also use it to creatively add haze if you wish. We’ll show you how to use it here to remove the distant haze in a seascape image. You can apply Dehaze directly from the Camera Raw plugin, but rather than do that here, we’ll use another of Adobe’s recent innovations instead: the Camera Raw filter. The filter is almost identical to the…

WATCH THE VIDEO http://tiny.cc/8oujzx Once you’ve rated and sorted your synced collection of photos using Lightroom Mobile, you can enjoy using the app’s array of tools to process your pictures’ colours, tones and composition without being tethered to your desktop PC. This means that you can edit your photos on the go and then sync the adjustments that you’ve made in Lightroom Mobile to your Lightroom collection when your iPad is connected to Wi-Fi. You can even apply one-click creative presets to your Lightroom Mobile collection’s photos, to experiment with different looks. The photos in a Lightroom Mobile collection aren’t the raw files stored on your PC. They’re smaller Smart Preview files. Your iPad would soon fill up if you tried to store and edit the original raw files on…

Photoshop has many types of layers and adjustment layers available, but there are six that you’ll find you need to use again and again. Learning how they should be used may seem a little daunting for beginners, but once you’ve got to grips with them, you’ll find they play a part in the creative process of almost every image you make. 01 LEVELS This should be the first layer you add to an image, because it fundamentally alters the tonal range of the entire image. Create a Levels adjustment layer, drag the Black Point slider inwards until it touches the left-hand edge of the histogram, and drag the White Point slider inwards to the right-hand edge. This remaps the tones of the image to make more of the available tonal…