Essential articles for getting started: explanation of 10 commonly used functions in ps
Tip 1: Erase everything you don't want
To remove the girl paper in the picture below from the screen, select the [Lasso] tool and make a selection for it. Then click [Edit Fill], select [Content Aware], and click OK. The character is erased in an instant!
Students can use this trick to remove watermarks in photos, or random passers-by, or even the ex-boyfriend/girlfriend in the group photo. However, the accuracy of content recognition is not particularly high, which is suitable for simpler backgrounds. Can be debugged multiple times.
Tip 2: Protect copyright device--embed pictures
To avoid stolen pictures, many photographers now put their watermarks on the pictures before publishing them. But what if the watermark is wiped off? The editor will teach you another way to embed copyright information into the source data of the image itself.
How to embed copyright information into pictures in ps? Press [Ctrl+Alt+Shift+I] or click [FileFile Introduction], and the following source data window will pop up. Then enter your information according to the prompts, and then click OK to save.
Tip 3: Dual-window monitoring images
Have you encountered such a situation when editing pictures in ps? When repairing details, always zoom in and zoom out to observe the picture, in case the proportion is out of balance when adjusting. If you can use two windows to monitor the same picture at the same time. The specific operation is as follows: Click [Window Arrange New Window for XX (picture file name)], and then click [Window Arrange Double Vertical]. At this point, the two windows are aligned vertically.
You can magnify the details of a picture and display the whole picture. Editing pictures under such monitoring, no matter which window you adjust the picture, they are all synchronized.
Tip Four: English Spell Check
Some simple spelling mistakes often occur when forgetting words or typing.
When you use PS to do some typesetting, [Spell Check] can help you quickly find incorrect phrases and provide correct references, but this function can only recognize English at present. Click [Edit Spell Check] to find it.
Tip Five: Batch Editing
What if you have a large number of photos that need to be edited immediately, and you don't have Lightroom on your computer? Just save the photos in the same folder on your computer. Then you can first open a photo and record an action [Window Action].
After creating the action, click [File Auto Batch Process], select the action you just recorded, and then click OK, PS will open and apply the action to all photos in this folder, saving time and effort.
Tip 6: Close all images with one click
After the picture is edited, there may be countless sheets of material in the window, and it is a waste of time to close them one by one.
As long as you hold down the [Shift] key and click the [Close X] of any picture, you can close all pictures with one click.
Tip 7: Record steps--History prompt document
As the saying goes, a bad pen is worse than a good memory. When you are editing a group of photos, for the sake of the unity of the image, the steps of editing each image should be roughly the same. What should I do if I suddenly forget the steps? At this time, the "historical text" function of ps comes in handy.
It is different from the "action" function, and its position is equivalent to help you take notes, helping you recall some steps and details of retouching. Click【EditPreferencesGeneral】to open this function.
Tip Eight: Quickly Bring Up Better Black-and-White Photos
In PS, you can convert a color photo to black and white with one click. Go to [Image Adjustments Desaturate] to finish.
If you want to take this black and white film to a higher level, you might as well use a "black and white adjustment layer" to adjust it. You can use the 6 color sliders to control the main color of the image, and you can use the small hand tool to click any area, and make regional adjustments.
Skill 9: Finish the post-production in one minute!
Although this seems to be no secret, it is also the most frequently used by photographers, so it is necessary to introduce it. Camera Raw is a Raw format image adjustment plug-in embedded in Photoshop.
Almost in PS, the most helpful plugin for photographers! Clarity, light and shade, light and shadow, color...all can be easily adjusted with one button. Just click [Filters] to find [Camera Raw].
Skill 10: Powerful Regret Medicine--Unlimited Undo
The default number of undoes in ps is 20 (or 50), and this may not be enough for us to "regret". However, as long as you adjust the number of undoes in the preferences, you can achieve 1000 undoes.
The picture below is the picture adjusted within 1 minute using Camera Raw~but the processed picture needs to be in RAW format (the new version of PS supports JPG format).
