Basic of Photoshop

 

In this blog we will be learning about very basic of Photoshop

we will be getting all the basic knowledge which is require for learning Photoshop

Photoshop is one of the best and professional tools for graphic designing

By the end of this blog I am sure you will be able to get all the basic things of photoshop

If you are on the path of graphic designer(beginner) you are the very right place.

To begin we must first know about the overview or the looks of photoshop.

If you have used other photo editing apps that will be plus point for you because it has got most of the features. In fact other graphic designing tools are similar editing option as photoshop.

There are so many option or tabs like other software like file, edit, image, layer, type , select, Filter, 3D, View, Window and help.

There are so many dropdown option disable because we have not been selecting any object.

From window tab we can show and hide different window. By default color, layer, library , option tools window are enable or shown.

Tools in Photoshop are very amazing.

Option window changes according to tools.

So lets explore all important tools you need to learn basic of photo shop

Marquee Tool

This is the most basic tool

there are further 4 types of marquee tools

1. Rectangular Marquee tool
2. Elliptical marquee tool
3. single row marquee tools
4. single column marquee tool

we get following option tool for the marquee tool

 

there are so many options like new selection, add from selection, subtract from selection, Intersect from selection and many other from which we can do so many things

we can simple select or draw shape we want and color them easily with the help of marquee toll , foreground color and back ground color

We can simply draw the desire shape , right click , click on fill and fill the desire color and even gradient

short cut for entering foreground color is Alt + Delete

like wire for entering background color is Shift + Delete

in marquee tool ctrl + A is used to select all image

and ctrl + D is used to deselect all image portion

as we have already seen we can change the color after we have select

so we can do lots of color change in photo shop very easily just by selecting the portion of image

Lasso Tools

lasso tool allows the user to draw freehand selections around objects. Beside the standard lasso tool, photoshop provides two other types of lasso tool; Polygonal lasso tool nd magnetic lasso tool

Adding and Subtracting selection

Cropping images