Learn Photoshop Now - It's Easy

[Chelsea Sheen]

Click on the Brustic to open the Brush Preset picker, and scroll down
to see the default set of brushes. Towards the foot of the list of
default brushes you'll find a variety of unusually-shaped brush tips,
including brushes shaped like stars and blobs. Click on the picker's
menu icon to access other, specialised sets of brushes. You can use
the picker's menu to display a thumbnail of the brush stroke, or set
it to show the brush tip and name. The numerical value indicates the
brush's initial diameter in pixels. You can customise this to suit
your requirements. When you select a new set of brushes, you can
either replace the existing default set or append the new set to it so
you can use both.
There are few things worse than having hundreds of cool brushes gone
in an instant. It's happened to me on one occasion where my hard drive
fried out and I didn't save all my customized Photoshop stuff. So I'm
going to help you avoid any tragedies and tell you how to save your
brushes. Once you've got an amount of brushes made (I personally like
to create 'sets' of brushes that all kind of work together, or just
happened to fit my mood that day!), go to 'Edit' then choose 'Preset
Manager'. A window with all your current brushes will pop up. You can
click on each little square individually. What you're going to want to
do is shift+right click on the series of brushes you want to save.
Once you've done that, click on 'Save Set', give the set a name and
save it to your computer (of course these brush files are what you're
going to want to back up!). There, you're done!
Whatever you're trying to do in Photoshop, then, the chances are that
your starting point will be either the toolbox or the menus. While the
toolbox contains everyday tools such as selecting, filling and making
shapes, the menus have more complicated functions like blurring,
sharpening, and all the other effects Photoshop can achieve (mostly to
be found under the Filter menu). When you have selected a tool from
the toolbox, you can alter its settings using the toolbar - options
from the menu will generally open a dialog box. Finally, when you want
to go back and alter something that you already put on the image, you
can use the palettes, although they have some other uses too, notably
changing colors.
The problem with many of these applications is that they use pre
designed templates which the user pieces together to form logos that
really are not that original and sometimes appear a little generic.
While these applications allow the user to quickly begin creating
graphic designs and logos they often simply do not produce designs
that are original and in demand by web design clients. If you take the
time to learn adobe Photoshop there will be no limit to the logos and
graphic designs you can put together. Although the interface can seem
a little overwhelming at first, learning Photoshop is not difficult if
you have the right tools and take the time to practice.
Adobe's Photoshop is the number one choice digital photo editing
software application among today's professional photographers, graphic
artists and web designers. It is not only the best but easier to work
with than you might think. Many shy away from Photoshop because there
are intimidated by the complexity. With the help of a good Photoshop
tutorial you can begin to learn Photoshop within minutes and be on
your way to restoring those old photographs and preserving your
family's memories for year to come. There are less expensive digital
editing applications but the problem is that they often have very
limited capabilities when it comes to doing high quality digital photo
restoration. Those cheaper digital photo software packages often
utilize a one size fits all approach to photo restoration and they
just don't have the functions to deal with all of the types of damage
you may encounter in renewing your old photos.
The Caledonian Digital website is user friendly and offers extensive
information relating to the services provided, as well as providing
recent articles on various aspects of digital photography, and links
to sources of hardware, software, and reference material for photo
restoration enthusiasts.For additional information on the launch of
Caledonian Digital's new hassle free photo restoration and enhancement
service contact Charlie Templeton or visit www.caledoniandigital.co.uk.
News photographers routinely process images using Adobe Photoshop
software. But there has been a basic premise in the world of
photojournalism that what was allowed in making prints in the pre-
digital days of darkrooms is all that is acceptable today. Back in the
days of the darkroom, we used very basic tools to develop prints. In
black and white printing, the contrast of a picture was controlled by
a paper's grade. The higher the number of the paper, the higher the
contrast. In the wire agency darkooms I've worked in, we typically
used grades 3,4 and 5. We allowed "dodge and burn" to lighten or
darken areas. A dodge tool was made by taping a small piece of
cardboard the size of a quarter onto a paper clip. A burn tool was a
piece of cardboard the size of an 810 sheet of paper with a hole in
the center.