Photoshop Tutorials by picturesocial.com





How and When to Use Layer Comps in Photoshop
Layer comps let you assemble multiple image variations or even independent pieces of artwork inside a single Adobe Photoshop file. The Layer Comps palette gives you the freedom to explore.





How and When to Use Fill Functions in Photoshop
Many of Photoshop's best features can only be accessed from the keyboard. Like, how would you know Alt+Backspace (or Option-Delete) fills with black? Watch. It gets better.





How and When to Use the Healing Brush in Photoshop
Be they pits, pock marks, or pimples, we all suffer blemishes that we wish we didn't. Or so we would were it not for Photoshop's Healing Brush. This amazing tool grafts good skin onto bad--and heals the seams in between.





All the Functions of the Photoshop Crop Tool
Since the first daguerreotype, photographers have cropped their images to hone in on the details that matter most. The crop tool does that, as well as straighten and more. Check it out.





How and When to Use the Refine Edge Tool in Photoshop
Photoshop offers lots of tools for automating selections, but two stand out from the pack: The first, Refine Edge, lets you modify your selection using five different parameters and preview the results in five different ways.





How and When to Use the Pen Tool in Photoshop
Many folks select images in Photoshop with the likes of the Quick Select and Magic Wand tools. Highly automated, but these tools rarely work accurately.





The Many Uses of the Brush Tool in Photoshop
The modest brush tool is one of the deepest, most versatile tools in Photoshop. It's not only a terrific painting tool, but it is also invaluable for masking, as this video demonstrates.





How to Use Hue and Saturation in Photoshop
Hue/Saturation not only spins colors and intensity values, it lets you modify one color independently of all others. And it does so in such a credible way, you would never know it was there. Perfection.





How to Use the Actions Palette in Photoshop
The Actions palette lets you record your work on effects in Photoshop so that you never have to do it again. Plus, you can build up complex visual effects and share them with others, as Deke demonstrates in this jaw-dropping video.





How and When to Use the Liquify Tool in Photoshop
The Liquify filter lets you paint in distortions so you can perform digital nips and tucks. You can slim people down, edit their posture, and make them look exactly how you want them to.





How to Dodge and Burn in Photoshop
Photoshop offers two tools that paint with luminance: The dodge tool paints in brightness, the burn tool paints in darkness. Crazy useful, and they've gotten so much better in Photoshop CS4.





How and When to Use Curves in Photoshop
Where luminance correction is concerned, no feature gives you greater control than Curves. This one command lets you rein in highlights, open up shadows, and reveal all points in between. Curves takes a bud of an image and makes it blossom.





How to Add MetaData into a Photo in Photoshop
Want to let the world know who made your photo? Then choose File Info. Here you can assign a title, an author, a copyright, and a Web site. No image should go out without a visit to File Info.





How and When to Use the Gradient Tool in Photoshop
Not only can you paint a soft transition from black to white, you can also soften the transition from one image to another. The gradient tool fades, swipes, and more.
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