Photoshop basics: video learning

...and Gimp, Windows Photo, Windows Paint and Mac Photos apps.

Tirsdag, 20 august, 2013 - 14:35

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Formatted as JPG with a width of 1500 pixels
ALL the Drupal detail fields are filled in and the image has a real, searchable name

Photoshop is the industry standard program, but you can use a variety of other software packages to get the same results if you do not have access to it. All of our videos below in addition to Photoshop, cover the most common available programs for Windows, Mac and Linux, many of them already built in to their systems.

Need some sample images to work with? Click here!

Using Photoshop? BEFORE starting any tutorial, setup your workspace so it looks exactly like our videos!

Setup Photoshop workspace

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Windows Photos

Windows Paint

Photoshop

Gimp

Mac Photos

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Light and colour adjustment

Gray and washed out looking images, blue or orange tones that are way too strong? The Levels tool will fix almost all of the most common problems and it works in multiple software types, not just Photoshop.