Improve your Photo editing skills by knowing Photoshop

Improve your Photo editing skills

Editing graphics and photos nowadays turned out to be a very exciting job.

Before revolutionary digital age graphics and photo editing was considered to be a mere hobby. Today graphics designing is one of the most powerful jobs you can go for. Including startup and big software, giant are continuously looking for experienced graphics designer.

Different kinds of tools and software’s have made the job of graphics designing easy and faster.

But it’s known fact that creativity is the main key behind any graphics design business successful. But no one can ignore the importance of graphics design. If someone checks the tools and software used for graphics designing the availability will shock him. There are several tools used for graphics designing.

They can be classified in two ways.

1. Raster graphics editor and
2. Vector graphics editor.

What is the difference between raster and vector graphics?

The main difference between raster and vector graphics I stat raster graphics is made up of pixels and vector graphics are made of the path. Raster graphics are formed on gif or jpg format is basically an array of pixels of various color which together form an image.

And vector graphics software is Adobe Illustrator, Corel drew. And the example of raster graphics is Adobe Photoshop.

Why Photoshop is so known to us?

Photoshop has got many features and tools and plugins to make a photo editor’s work easy. Adobe Photoshop was created in 1998 by john knoll and Thomas Knoll. The software is released by Adobe systems on February 19, 1990. In present time Photoshop is a phenomenon to the digital artist no matter you are an image maker or doing your day Photoshop job.

How to improve your photo editing skill?

All the different feature give diverse highlights that come helpful while editing any picture or illustrations. Any hopeful designs editor must ace to learn the use of these features. These features are referenced below:

• ·         Cropping
• ·         Rotating
• ·         Use of adjustment layer and mask
• ·         Correction of color and saturation
• ·         Sharpening brightness or shadow.

We should talk about these Features in details bellow

Cropping: Unless the photograph that you will edit is perfectly caught, much of the time it is required to trim which fundamentally requires to remove the unwanted part of the picture. Cropping is done to transform great photographs into professional looking ones. Cropping is done in the accompanying cases:

1. If you want to improve the image quality in composition/focus.
2. Crop- to remove details
3. If there is any need to change orientation/framing
4. If you want to change the aspect ratio.

Rule of Thirds is like superimposing a 3×3 grid (i.e. tic-tac-toe lines) on top of an image — many digital cameras and software editing programs have this in-built function as a standard feature. 

We all know it is quite natural for our eyes to gravitate towards the intersection points of the grid. Most of the time common pictures have the subject at the center of the frame. By enabling the Rule of Thirds overlay, you can adjust a crop so that subjects/elements are intentionally positioned along lines and/or at intersection points.

Rotating: Rotating photographs is another fundamental, simple, yet basic expertise to apply when editing pictures. Rotating a photograph simply enough can set the right point of view and dispose of any subliminal distraction. In the wake of rotating, remember to edit the photograph yet again. Scene Rotate photographs so the skyline is even from start to finish (many picture editors can overlay a network of lines to help with precision). He following aspect should be remembered while rotating a photo.

• Landscape: If you are working with landscape photos rotate photos so that the horizon is horizontal from end to end (many image editors can overlay a grid of lines to help with accuracy).
• Portraits: Picture portraits are visible instances where someone is leaning up against a vertical surface (e.g. wall, doorway, building, tree, pole, etc.), rotate the photo so that the object is vertical.

Applying adjustment layer and mask: If you need to change the brightness/contrast, hue/saturation of an image without permanently affecting the picture, at that point you should try applying the adjustment.

Adjustment layers can be thought of as an overhead transparent layer where you can do shading or compose yet whatever is underneath stays ok.

Here are the means by which to make an adjustment layer using Photoshop CS/Elements:

Press 'D' to reset front part/background colors.

Click Layer on the menu bar.

Select New Adjustment Layer.

Select wanted layer type.

Click OK (or hit the Enter key).

Color correction and saturation: Even however present-day advanced cameras are very fit for catching top quality photographs, sometimes it’s tough for photographers to take a perfect picture because of poor lighting or bad environment.

Sharpening: Many picture editing programs and applications offer an Auto Sharpen feature and additionally sliders, which enable users to modify the amount of sharpening. There are many sharpening tools that can help you to perform this task. Accurate sharpening requires a good amount of knowledge, Practice, and application.