Adobe Photoshop is a powerful program that allows you to manipulate and adjust image in professional way. Photoshop has the tools you need to design website layouts and images product.Here you will find somethings to learn in Photoshop to become familiar with the program.
Brushes
Brushes are a foundational tool in Photoshop. Learning to use the Brush Tool will give you a foundational understanding of other tools in Photoshop, like the Eraser and the Clone Stamp.There are three basic things beginners should learn about the Brush Tool.
First, learn how to use different brushes.
Second, learn to adjust the size and hardness of brushes from the Brush Tool drop down menu.
Finally, learn how to adjust brush opacity and brush flow.
Selection Tools
The two selection tools every beginner should know are the Marquee Tool and the Lasso Tool. The first one allows you to select using rectangles, ellipses, or one-pixel rows and columns. The second one allows you to freehand draw around areas you wish to select with the Lasso Tool, Polygonal Lasso Tool, or the Magnetic Lasso Tool.
Selections are also a simple way to isolate parts of an image and remove image backgrounds.
The selection tools allow you to select areas of varying shape for focused editing.
Layers
Layers allow you to choose the order in which images display and let you keep parts of your project separate . Learn how to work using layers, keeping parts of your project organized . Learn how to toggle layer visibility and editability using the eyeball and lock icons. Also learn how to duplicate, merge, and group layers with the Layers menu or by right clicking on selected layers.
Layers provide greater control over your design and layout.
Blending Modes
You can change a layer’s Blending Mode to have it affect the layers visible beneath it. Understanding Blending Modes give you access to a number of advanced image editing effects.
Blending Modes change the behavior of layered images and affect the appearance of lower images.
Transform Tools
The Transform Tools allow us to manipulate and resize images. The the Free Transform tool, which is the best for me combines the functionality of the Scale, Rotate, Skew, and Distort tools. When using the Free Transform tool, experiment using the Alt, Shift, and Ctrl keys while transforming the image. You may also want to learn how to use the Scale, Rotate, Skew, and Distort tools independently as well.
The Transform Tools allow you to resize, rotate, and distort images.
Masking
Masking uses the Brush Tool or the Selection Tools to isolate portions of an image. The important part about masking is it leaves the original image completely intact, allowing you to easily make changes later. A Layer Mask is a gray scale map on top of a layer that displays the layer where the map is white and hides the layer where the map is black.
Masking allows you to selectively render parts of your image invisible.
Filters
I will admit that filters are not for beginners but it's good to know them. some Filters, like the Render and Blur Filters, can be used in advanced techniques later on in your Photoshop professional career.Take some time running through the different Filters from Photoshop’s Filter drop down menu. My advice would be pick an image and try out each of the Filters on it.
Filters re-render your image in a variety of styles.
Filters re-render your image in a variety of styles.