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Beginners to Photoshop: Photo Editing is Easier Than You Think! How To Learn Photoshop In 24 Hrs. Quite a bold statement, Learn Photoshop in 24 hours. Its simple and you can. Stepping into Photoshop at first can be quite daunting, were do you start? With these 20 tutorials we have given you some direction, you will start of with some very basic techniques and build towards the more advanced. By the end of it you will be an expert. Tutorial 1:Combining Two Photos for New Effect – Basic Tutorial running time : 10 minutes.

We’ll start with something basic. Tutorial 2:Grass Texture – Basic Tutorial running time : 15 minutes. In this tutorial, you will learn how to create a nice-looking grass texture. Tutorial 3:Underwater Effect – Basic In this tutorial, you will learn how to create an underwater scene from scratch, using Gradients, Transform and Filters. Tutorial 4:2d Mirror Effect – Basic In this tutorial you will learn how to Duplicate, Flip Horizontally/Vertically, Feathering and Blending.

Tutorial 5:Sony Ericsson Logo – Basic Tutorial running time : 20 minutes. Starting out Digital Painting.

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Ctrl+Paint | Part 1: Introduction. Color Picker Near the bottom of the tool palette, you’ll see two squares of color – potentially black and white. These are called the foreground and background color. The color on your brush is known as the ‘foreground color’. If you want to change this color, click on the foreground square and it opens up the color picker. Getting Set Up Now that you know some of the basics of the interface, it’s time to get set up for painting. The Navigator will serve as your roadmap.

Keyboard Shortcuts for Getting Around Sometimes operating software feels like digging through a dense instruction manual. *I’m a PC user, so if you use a Mac replace each instance of ‘Ctrl’ with ‘command’. Zoom: To quickly zoom in and out, press Ctrl+ + and Ctrl+ -Pan: If you’re zoomed in to a portion of your canvas, hold down Spacebar to temporarily switch to the Hand tool, and left click drag to move your canvas around.Hide the Interface: Need more space? Review Homework: Basic Navigation drill. Ctrl+Paint | Part 2: Brushes. Hard round – This has a circular head and a sharp edge. It’s the most useful brush in all of photoshop.

Soft round – Also circular, this brush lacks the definition of the hard round. It’s more similar to an airbrush or spray paint. It is great for painting smooth transitions and moody atmosphere. Hard flat – This is a variation of the Hard round. Click to download basic 3.ABR brush file Installing the ‘Basic 3′ Custom Brushes: Restart PhotoshopMake a new documentSelect the Brush (B) tool, and reveal the Brush paletteClick on the small Settings iconSelect the “Replace brushes” optionLocate and select the mKohr_basic3.ABR file Congratulations! Brush tool, expanded By now you’ve probably experimented with the brush tool. Changing the color: To change the color without using the color picker, just hold down the ALT key. Alternately, hold down alt+right click and drag the red preview shape to alter the size of your brush (ctrl+option+drag on mac). Ctrl+Paint | Part 3: Mixing Colors. Sample color A and paint a swatch of it in the middle. Sample color B and paint it lightly over top of the middle swatch.

To paint with this middle mixture, sample it with the alt button! This process is known as ‘on-screen mixing’ and is quintessential for digital painting. It’s not similar to painting with oils, but will quickly feel intuitive. When using this on-screen mixing technique, you’ll experience two major bonuses to your workflow: Save tons of time. Create a unified color scheme. Using a ‘Mini-palette’ Traditional painters are required to pre-mix paints on their palettes before starting to work.

When starting a color painting, my first step is to create these pre-mixed colors on what I refer to as a ‘mini-palette’. The specifics of the mini-palette format are up to you. Mixing Productively One of my main goals when approaching photoshop for concept art is efficiency. Homework: Swatches If you only take one thing away from this lesson it should be the power of the Alt key. Ctrl+Paint | Part 4: Layers. Layer Order The order in which the layers exist in your layers palette matters.

You can think of it as a stack of transparent sheets of plastic – those on the top of the stack will block the contents directly underneath. To change this order, simply grab the title of the layer you want to move, and drag it it higher or lower in the stack. Layer Groups These can be thought of as a “bundle” of layers. A group is primarily an organizational tool. Like folders on your computer, they can be expanded or collapsed in the layer palette. To create a layer group, click the new group button on the layers palette.

Blending mode So far the properties of layers have been pretty straightforward – but this gets a bit more complicated. “Normal” layers are used for opaque painting, as in thick acrylics, gauche, or thick oils. “Multiply” Layers are used for glazing with transparent paint – like watercolors or thin oils The downside of a tall layer stack Layers add flexibility. Ctrl+Paint | Part 5: Demo. Beginners' Guide to Adobe Photoshop. Ever wanted to learn how to use Adobe Photoshop, but had no idea where to start? The wall of icons and menus can be intimidating. Most Photoshop tutorials for beginners are really for people who are already familiar with the program. This tutorial goes right back to the DAWN OF TIME! :) ...and is designed to help people who are absolute Photoshop beginners.

This basic, thirty-minute tutorial is not a comprehensive instruction manual. The images in this tutorial are from Adobe Photoshop 7.0, but they're very similar to those from newer versions, like Photoshop CS4. Bookmark this page, load up Photoshop, and we'll begin the tutorial. 1 – Creating a New Image, and Setting Adobe Photoshop's Undo Option Click File > New, and create a new image of any size you desire. Press Ctrl+K to bring up the Preferences window. Change your "Redo Key" to Ctrl+Shift+Z. 2 – Using Adobe Photoshop's Layers window The Layers window shows the various layers that your image is made up of. Continue to Page 2 of 4.