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Photoshop Simple Ways to Make Them Look Professional
October 31, 2011 | 
Author Do you love photography so much but you just can’t seem to produce great looking photos? Do you want your amateur looking photos to look like it was taken by professional photographers? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then you will need the Adobe Photoshop.
First of all, you need to remember that most professional photographers today use Adobe Photoshop to edit the digital photos they take. You need to remember that not every photo they take is perfect and some will have the common mistakes in photography, such as the red-eye phenomenon, finger over the lens syndrome and even the hand shake syndrome. Poor exposure is another enemy of photographers.
Whatever it is, professional photographers are able to fix these mistakes by just using Adobe Photoshop. In fact, some professional photographers even edit the photos they take of models with Adobe Photoshop. If you read magazines, and you noticed the near-perfect bodies of models and very smooth skin, then you have an idea on how professional photographers manipulate the photos they take with Adobe Photoshop. For example, if you take pictures of someone who has an ugly looking zit on their face, then you will be able to make their face look perfect by removing the zit or pimple with Adobe Photoshop. In fact, you can even use Adobe Photoshop to make someone fat look like a supermodel.
Here are some of the basic ways on how you can make the photos you take look more professional.
The first is by eliminating the red eye from the photos. You need to remember that even if you are using the latest SLR digital camera with red eye reduction, it will still happen. Adobe Photoshop has red eye tool that will identify and completely remove the appearance of the red eye from the photos you take. It will even remove the red eyes from your pet cat or dog.
Secondly, you will be able to create brighter and clearer photos with more vibrant colors. Adobe Photoshop is meant to be a tool to help clean up an image as well as improve its appearance. With the color enhancing tools and adjust brightness and contrast tools, you will be able to turn dark photos in to something that looks like it was taken in perfect lighting condition. Basically, the tool will allow you to manually adjust the image’s color settings that will result in the sharpest and cleanest appearance of the image as possible.
Another great editing feature of Adobe Photoshop is that it will even allow you to remove unwanted objects in the photos you already took. For example, if a seemingly perfect photo was just ruined by a trash can on the background, you can easily remove the trash can and replace it with something else as if the trash can wasn’t even there at all when you took the picture. You can even crop out people from the photos you take and even replace the background.
These are just some of the great things that you can do with Adobe Photoshop. As you can see, even an amateur photographer like you will be able to take professional looking pictures. With the help of Adobe Photoshop, you will be able to make your photos look as if it was taken by a professional photographer.
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In this article you will how to use the 3 must used tools in Photoshop (Magic Tool, Move Tool and the Crop Tool) and once mastered you’ll never be with out them.
Magic Wand:
The Magic Wand Tool (W) selects areas of similar color You can change the tolerance (how close the color values should be to the sampled color in order to be selected) of a Magic Wand selection, and choose whether you want the selection to be contiguous (pixels that are touching) or not (in which case, matching colors across the entire document will be selected)
Tips and Shortcuts for the Magic Wand:
Hold the Shift key to add another selection to the first.
Hold the Alt key (Option key on a Mac) to subtract your new selection from the first.
Hold Shift-Alt (Shift-Option) to select the intersection of your first and second selections.
Use the arrow keys to move the selection pixel by pixel If you feel that this doesn’t move your selection quickly enough, hold down Shift and use the arrow keys to move the selection ten pixels at a time.
Press Ctrl-J (Command-J on a Mac) to copy the selection into its own layer.
To cut the selection into its own layer, press Shift-Ctrl-J (Shift-Command-J)
If this seems familiar to you, it’s because I mentioned earlier how to copy a layer using the same keyboard shortcut Now that you know that not selecting anything sometimes means that everything is selected, it makes sense that simply by selecting a layer in the Layers palette, you can copy the entire layer by pressing Ctrl-J (Command-J)
To deselect a selected area, click outside of it with one of the Marquee tools, or press Ctrl-D (Command-D on a Mac)
To reactivate your last selection, press Shift-Ctrl-D (Shift-Command-D)
The Move Tool:
The Move Tool (V) moves a selected area or an entire layer .
You can invoke the Move Tool temporarily when using most other tools by holding down the Ctrl key (Command key on a Mac)
Tips and Shortcuts for the Move Tool:
For most tools, holding Ctrl-Alt (Command-Option on a Mac) and dragging a selected area will temporarily invoke the Move Tool, allowing you to move and duplicate the selected layer quickly
You can also duplicate a layer by holding down the Alt key (Option key on a Mac) while using the Move Tool,
The Crop Tool:
The Crop Tool (C) is used to trim images Create a selection using the Crop Tool, then double-click the center of the
selection, or press Enter, to crop the image to the size of the selection To cancel without cropping, select another
tool or press the Esc key
Tips and Shortcuts for the Crop Tool:
You can use the Crop Tool to resize your canvas Expand your document window so that it’s larger than the image area, and create a crop selection that includes the image and extends onto the gray areas “outside” the image Applying this crop will resize your canvas to include those extended boundaries, making your canvas larger.
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Easy Photo And GFX Editor
Image and photo editing has been taken to new levels and amazing possibilities with this software allow graphic designers create digital layouts, special font styles, and use brush techniques to get textures that were never possible before the 21st century. Using editor programs that have 3D effect capabilities, depth and shadow can be added to a current picture to convey something completely different than what the original picture did.
Unless you have a degree in graphic design architecture or interior decorating, you will probably not be knowledgeable on what sort of software would suit your needs when it comes to image editing. Usually when one is just starting out the easiest way to learn how to create or edit images would probably be to download one of the free graphics editors to experiment and play around with for the time being.
Once you are a bit more familiar with image editing, you will then probably want to start looking around for something that offers a bit more functionality than most of the free image editors.
Depending on what you want to do, you should use those criteria to select the program that is right for you. In most cases you will probably not need to invest a huge amount in a sophisticated graphics editor program like Adobe Photoshop. There are many other graphics editors on the market that are probably easier to use and will offer you the capabilities that you require.
So, it is a good idea to decide what you need the program to do before you buy just any software. What is it that you want to do with it? Do you want to do website design, headers graphics, 3D designs, digital scrapbooking? Once you have decided what it is that you need the program for, you can then do some research to see which graphic editor program will best suit your needs.
Having the right graphic editor can simplify your life when it comes to creating great graphics, especially if the software itself is easy to understand and simple to use. It can be very frustrating to use software that has a huge learning curve. It is good to know that many of the new graphic editors can do most of what Photoshop can do and they don’t require so much time spent on learning how to use them. Using graphic editors can be fun and don’t be surprised if you find it addictive in the long run!
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