Photoshop Tips and Tricks for Beginners
Photoshop has become the need for almost everyone who loves editing photos. Publicity designers use this fantastic tool to design film covers, song posters, etc. Photoshop is a professional software tool for creating posters, CD covers, and logos. It comes with several tools that a beginner may find confusing. Photoshop’s latest version has witnessed some more changes and is becoming even more difficult for beginners to use. If you are new to Photoshop, you may face a number of difficulties while using it. If you want to prove yourself skilled in using Photoshop, the tips and tricks below will help you do so. Just have a look at the useful tips and tricks.
Transform
To change the size of a picture, you can try out this amazing trick. Click Edit, then click Transform. Now you can change the size of the picture in the way you want. The shortcut way to do this is, hit Ctrl + T. Some lines around the picture will appear. You can resize the picture by dragging these lines using your mouse. It is easy enough, isn’t it?
Magnetic Lasso Tool
The Lasso Tool is considered to be of great use in Photoshop. It lets you detect the edges of any image and makes it easy for you to remove the background in just a few minutes. It works great if you have a picture of good quality. If a picture is blurry, the tool won’t work correctly. In the latest version of Photoshop, The Lasso Tool appears on the home screen of Photoshop. You can click on it and start using it. The Lasso Tool can speed up your workflow and helps you do many difficult things like cutting the edges of an object easily.
Magic Wand Tool
Magic Wand Tool is put to use to add some creativity to the background of a picture. You can add a new color to the background of a picture with the help of this tool. To use it, choose the Magic Wand Tool and select the part you wish to edit using the tool, then select the brightness and contrast accordingly.
Custom Shape Tool
Custom Shape Tool offers various shapes that you can use to design logos. You can add these shapes to your photos and make them look stylish. These shapes can be a lot useful to you when you are designing a logo. Speech bubbles may prove helpful to you if you ever make a YouTube video thumbnail.
Spot Healing Brush
Spot Healing Brush is one of the best tools on Photoshop. It lets you remove imperfections that make you appear dull in a photo. If you have dark spots under your eyes and are afraid of facing the camera, there is no need to worry! Spot Healing Brush will remove spots and blemishes in just a few clicks. To remove the blemishes and spots, all you have to do is place the brush over the part of an image you want to fix and click on the part using a mouse. You can adjust the brush size according to your requirements.
Blur Tool
Blur Tool on Photoshop is excellent and works great. It lets you not only blur the parts of an image but remove wrinkles and add smoothness to your skin so that you look gorgeous in a photo. You can blur the facial imperfections in a photo by using the Blur Tool.
All the tips and tricks mentioned above are for beginners who find it difficult to use Photoshop. Hopefully, you will find these tips and tricks of much importance to you.
Eva winget is a Microsoft Office expert and has been working in the technical industry since 2006. As a technical expert, Bella has written technical blogs, manuals, white papers, and reviews for many websites.
