You're still here? Well congrats, you've survived the boring basics and now you can finally get into the slightly more complicated tools that Photoshop has to offer. removing entire people from pictures, selecting highway traffic by the car.
Oh the memories me and Quick Select have. This little move becomes useful when you want to get rid of a background or something big. You may be thinking "WHOA" after that last sentence, but don't worry, it is merely a way to delete all of the unwanted pixels outside of the original selection. Once you have what you want selected, you can right click the box, choose Select Inverse, and Command+X to cut away what you didn't originally select. With this selected, you can create a box who's ratio between sides will NEVER FALTER! I chose a 1:1 ratio in order to make a perfect square selection. Once you have the Marquee tool selected, you can either.Ī) hold shift and drag the box around your car to create a 1:1 ratio boxī) drag without the shift to make a non-ratio selectionĬ) OR look up in the Style drop-down menu, and select Fixed Ratio. You can then cut, copy, paste, or delete what is inside or outside of this box. The Marquee Tool will allow you to create a box with marching ants (the moving dashes). Now that you have the image re-sized to the correct size, you can chop your image down to size with the Rectangular Marquee Tool (the shortcut for the Marquee tool is M). This will cause the image to scale properly without stretching the image. VERY IMPORTANT TIP-Now before you do anything you regret, such as guessing the correct dimensions so as to avoid stretching the image, it is important to HOLD SHIFT before you start to drag the corner out. To re-size your picture, simply click and hold on a box located at the corner of the picture. Selecting the Move Tool (the shortcut for the Move Tool is V), will cause boxes to show up at every corner, and in the spaces between the corners. You should be familiar with he Move Tool if you have ever put a picture into a Microsoft Word document. Ok the first, and most basic tool that I am going to cover in this tutorial is called the Move Tool. Once you find the right image, copy and paste it into the canvas (Ctrl+V for PC, Command+V for Mac) I find Photoshopping something with hair to be more difficult, and not suited for a basic tutorial. It is easier to Photoshop because you do not have to worry about hairs. I looked up puppies in Google images, and was about to make this Instructable about the basics of Photoshop, with puppies being my lab rats, but decided a car would be much easier for demonstration purposes. I chose to re-size my canvas size to 1000x1000 pixels just to make it a nice box to put whatever comes to mind into it. If you copy a 345x892 pixel image from the interwebs, that is going to be the size offered to you in the New. Tip- If you copy an image from the internet, the size of the canvas will be the EXACT same size as the image you coppied. It is looking a bit sparse right now, but I plan on expanding in the very near future.įirst things first, you can't Photoshop a picture without first creating a Photoshop document.
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If you find this Instructable helpful, feel free to visit my forum topic with other tutorials that I have created in order to help you figure out the basics of Photoshop. (or) Gimp - I know it isn't as good as Photoshop, but it is a FREE ALTERNATIVE to Photoshop, I have provided a link to their website. And- Photoshop - You have a higher chance of not owning this as it is quite pricey if you don't get a student discount.
Materials: Computer - You probably already have one of these I will also cover some tips and tricks that I have learned I will use a possible Photoshop project to further explain the uses and importance of certain tools. An in-depth look at the basic tools, as well as more advanced usages of these tools (marquee tool, zoom, move tool, quick select tool, crop tool, brush, and erase). OK, now I will tell you EXACTLY what I will cover in this Photoshop Instructable! It is also unlikely that you would be reading this Instructable if you didn't at least have access to a computer. All you need is a computer, and according to a Opinion Research Corporation's CARAVAN poll, 76% of American adults own their own computer. In this Instructable, I will attempt to teach you the basic tools that Photoshop has to offer!įear not, the world of Photoshop is less daunting than one may think. One such misunderstood technological wonder in today's world is known as "Photoshop". Since the dawn of time, man has been both fascinated and confused by technology.
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