Play around with Photoshop elements and let the software suggest useful features for your work. Learn to create advanced graphics using the various features of Photoshop Elements Best practice: Learn to create advanced graphics using the various features of Photoshop Elements There is an Introduction to Photoshop course to help you learn Photoshop the right way.īuild up your knowledge of Photoshop to be able to create images and graphics for a variety of purposes.īuild up your knowledge of Photoshop to be able to create images and graphics for a variety of purposes. Join the community on discord for live training.īelow is a list of what you need to know to become a Photoshop user.
You’ll learn how to add custom commands in the Edit Menu (Edit→Customize Edit Menu), for example, or to learn how to edit your layers by selecting the bottom-most layer from the Layers panel, dragging it to the _beneath_ the image window, and then either double-clicking it in the Layers panel or clicking that layer and pressing the F key to open the Layers panel’s Fill or Stroke Photoshop is a packed toolbox, and you’ll find useful features buried in menus and hidden dialog boxes. From there, a tutorial dialog box opens that explains the ins and outs of Photoshop’s features, including how to use layers, masks, and blend modes.
You can get to the tutorial by starting the program, then clicking the Photoshop button in the Navigation bar. The Tutorials panel (Window→Tutorials) is the interface for this feature. If you want a good intro, you can use Photoshop CS5’s tutorial mode. Learning how to use Photoshop is a big topic for books of its own-I cover it in this book’s Photo Editing For Dummies, Second Edition, for example. * **Learning the ins and outs of Photoshop**. If you ever want to restore an image from an earlier version (or start over with a completely clean slate), you can do so by right-clicking the original image and selecting Save As, clicking the menu item or pressing Ctrl+N (Windows) or ⌘-N (Mac), and choosing from the dialog box that appears. You can also import an image directly into an editing session, saving your progress at any point along the way. Updating an image in Photoshop also lets you play around with changes to the original image, using the Undo button (Windows) or Ctrl+Z (Mac) to undo a change, Ctrl+Y (Windows) or Shift+Z (Mac) to redo a change, or Ctrl+T (Windows) or Shift+Y (Mac) to reverse one or more selected changes. (Check out the box “The history of your work lives in the menu bar,” earlier in this chapter, for more on this feature.) Use the History and Load dialog box (History→Show History) to select and restore an image from an earlier version. Using the history panel (Window→History), you can compare a current working image with an earlier version. * **Updating a previous version of your work**.