Photoshop » Basics

In this tutorial we will be explaining what a Histogram is and how to use the Levels adjustment option. With Levels, you can adjust the highlights, midtones, and shadows of the image.

In this tutorial you will learn how to perform partial desaturating to an image.

With the Curves Adjustment you will begin learning how to manually adjust your images. In the previous tutorial we showed you how you can use the auto enhance features in Photoshop which does a good job.

In this tutorial we will cover ” how to use patterns effectively”. Its basically written for beginners.

Before we get into the manual corrections, we need to show you the different auto correction features in Photoshop. Auto Tone, Auto Contrast, and Auto Color are the areas we will be discussing in this tutorial. You will find most of the time, these 3 tools will improve your image, but most of the time if you manually adjust the settings you will get better results.

In this tutorial, we will be showing you how to use the Crop Tool and the Slice Tool. Most projects you will end up using the Crop Tool which allows you to remove extra unwanted picture information.

It is time to put on your artistic hat and learn how to use the Art History Brush to make some very interesting styles that look similar to a painting effect. Both the Art/History Brush allow you to restore a portion of the image back to a previous snapshot of history.

In this tutorial you will learn how to Load the selection in Photoshop.

So you learned History in school? Well that is not going to help you with the History palette options within the Photoshop program. We will soon be discussing the History Brush and the Art History Brush and we wanted you to get a great understanding of how to take snapshots, delete, add, etc. in the History palette.

In the first quick tips list for Photoshop we will be covering mostly new tips (ok 1 tip from a previous tutorial). There are 10 tips in this tutorial and they are all related to previous tutorials. We want to either show you an easier or even a different way to accomplish a certain task in this graphics program.