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Photoshop Tip: Hide Extras with the Type tool
Standard text display… After hiding Extras, original colour can be seen It can be a bit irritating when typing text onto a canvas and the chosen colour has been inverted inside a black highlight. Press...
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Photoshop Tip: Protect skin tones
This is opposed to Saturation, which affects the entire image and disregards skin tones. Use the Create New Adjustment Layer icon in the Layers palette and select Vibrance. Gently increase the slider...
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Photoshop Tip: Additional Gradient Overlays
Not only does Gradient Overlay come with blend modes, but also additional preset gradients such as Photographic Toning. To find these, click on the gradient’s preview in the Layer Style menu, and then...
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Photoshop Tip: Editing masks
When editing a layer mask with the Brush tool, press D to reset your Foreground and Background swatches to black and white. Then press X to flick between adding or removing parts of the mask.
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How to balance skin tone in group shots
Step 1 The first thing to do is to add a new Hue/Saturation adjustment layer via the Layers menu. Call it ‘skin tones’ and hit OK. The adjustment will appear in the Layers palette with its mask as...
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Free Tutorial: Create a colour infrared effect in Photoshop
Before/After Download the start image from www.sxc.hu, taken by Tomislav Alajbeg. Step 1 – Duplicate Open this image from the link above. Duplicate the Background layer by heading to...
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Image Editing: Color Range selections
Original artwork by Sam Brewster On an image such as this where there’s lots of blue and subtle to thick white lines, set Color Range (found in the Select menu) to Blue. No other options will be...
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Free Photoshop Tutorial: Correct colour and brighten low-light images
Before After Step 1 – Duplicate and blend Open up an image taken in low light, and duplicate the Background layer (Cmd/Ctrl+J). Change the blend mode of this duplicate layer to Screen. This will make...
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Project Tip: Save for the web from Photoshop
In the Save for Web menu, for images set them to JPEG, and set Quality to 80. Tick Optimized. Make sure Convert to sRGB (the colour dynamics of most displays) is ticked and Preview is set to ‘Internet...
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Free tutorial: Creative colour distortion effects in Photoshop
Before After Step 1 – New adjustment Start off by going to the Layer menu and down to New Adjustment Layer>Gradient Map. Hit OK in the pop up box. There should an adjustment layer in the Layers...
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How to correct tungsten-tinted images in Photoshop
Before After Colour balancing is another photographic problem, especially when indoors. To offset this, head to the Color Balance adjustment (Cmd/Ctrl+B). To offset an orange tint made by tungsten...
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Photoshop Tip: Batch processing to correct colour
This can account for all the images taken, so to quickly resolve the issue, open one of the images and hit Record in your Actions palette. Go to Image>Adjustments>Color Balance and correct the...
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How to create selective monochrome effects in Photoshop
Step 1 Open an image that has a subject with striking colour. We’ll keep this colour and turn everything else black and white. The Magic Wand tool is ideal to select colour. Choose the tool, and then...
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Photoshop Tip: Change the way your Photoshop looks
Navigate to the Preferences menu and, under Interface, find all the options for changing the behaviour and look of the palettes. Change the colour of different screen modes, open new documents as...
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Photoshop Tip: Mixer Brush tool
One of the great things about the Mixer Brush tool is that you can load not just one colour but multiple colours to paint with. To load multiple colours across the brush tip, all you need to do is...
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Photoshop Tip: Tweak colour in your compositions
Before/After Open up the Hue/Saturation adjustment and click on the hand button. Hold Cmd (Mac)/Ctrl (Wins), then click and drag on any object. Dragging to the left or right will change the Hue...
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How to boost colour with the Sponge tool
Load up your image into any version of Photoshop or Photoshop Elements and duplicate the the Background layer to begin with (Cmd/Ctrl+J). Locate your Sponge tool and in the Options bar set its Mode to...
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Photoshop Tip: Create a traditional grain effect in Photoshop Elements
Start off by duplicating your ‘Background Layer’ by going to Layer>Duplicate Layer, and naming this ‘Film Grain’. Head to the Filter menu and then down to Filter>Texture>Grain. Change Grain...
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Photoshop Tutorial: How to use the Color Range selection method
Before After Before image from www.Sxc.hu Step 1 Find the Color Range option inside the Select menu at the top of Photoshop. As this is not strictly a tool, you won’t find it in the Toolbar. But if you...
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Photoshop Tip: Paint away colour
Using the Eyedropper tool (I) pick out the colour in your image that you want to remove or change. Hit X to swap the Foreground and Background colour swatches, and select the Background Eraser tool. In...
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