Casey Barre - Photoshop for Beginners Guide: Tutorials, Elements, Art, Backgrounds, Design, Tools, & More

By Casey Barre

Copyright 2019

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Contents

Photoshop for Beginners Guide: Tutorials, Elements, Art, Backgrounds, Design, Tools, & More

Are you a Photoshop newbie? We like to assist.

Learning about Photoshop requires time, and sincerely speaking, if only I had known many things when I first started. For that reason, I am offering you 10 helpful tips for making your design experience in Photoshop a lot more fun! Learn of the essential tools as well as tricks any newbie can be a master of in a reasonable space of time.

This represents Photoshop's Tools panel.

Hit the double-shaped arrow for viewing its toolbar at the one-rowed or the two-rowed view.

Are you aware you can have it customized?

Although a lot of its best tools can easily be seen, when you stay on top the surface of the toolbar, you may not see the hidden extras below the right triangle.

So have the toolbar customized as a reminder to experiment new tools!

Navigate Edit > Toolbar for dragging and dropping your tools. Categorize them based on their various priority levels which is dedicated to actual use or learning.

Customize it using your favorites! Do not have your panel overloaded with never-used tools.

Establish Your Basic Set

You will not need all the tools for all the situation. Hence, it is relevant to develop a reputable foundation with only a handful of flexible tools which can work in different situations.

This is two varying projects: a photo manipulation and a digital painting. See how I have used similar tools?

Although the first work is purely illustration, the other one depends on illustrative skills. Hence, do not fret if you arent familiar with these tools for now! Your basic set ought to reflect your photo, illustrative, or design interests.

Bear in mind, majority of the tools in Photoshop equally serve multiple purposes. You could use a similar Pen Tool for extracting your loved one from a picture that is suitable for vector illustrations.

Implement pen tools for cute cats or a two-faced exposure bird illustrations.

There are some other tools which are necessary too, but consider them to be secondary. The Move and Pan tools, for example, may not be equal to brushes, yet they are still needed (sometimes much more) for better workflows.

What tools are core to you?

When starting out, you probably always have a tool you like the most. But in the course of your working, push yourself to explore new tools.

Control-Shift-N for creating New Layers.

The Layers panel is helpful and efficient. It will change howyou process designs by offering you countless results inside Photoshop.

How it works?

The panel offers you control on many options. Fill, Color and Opacity are among them. These settings could be used to change your layer for several awesome effects.

For example, text effect mostly use fantastic layer styles for achieving their results.

Initially, you will likely employ the layers panel for the regular function, for holding you artwork in different layers, though I advise that you do a further study on it. Find out whatever you should know regarding such panel, and know the recent ways for making comprehensive designs.

It is about time we talkedthe talk of Layer Masks.

Although mostly confusing for newbies, layer masks seems fitting for quick edit.

To use Layer Mask:

How to Employ Layer Masks

Here, I have painted one circle within the masks center to reveal its white background beneath.

Visit the Layers panel and choose a layer.

Click the button for Layer Mask.

Use any tool you like, add black or white on the layer mask for hiding or revealing sections of such layer. In such cases, I applied the Selection as well as Paint Bucket Tool.

Employ layer mask for whatever project! Integrated them with your routine to ensure an editing that is non-destructive.

In most times, the difficult thing with using this option is not knowing when to apply it. Newbies often hunger for Eraser tools rather than for a fast solution.

To Save or Save As? A food for thought.

Quality is important: so before saving and closing, consider some things:

What is the purpose for this file?

Where can the file be stored?

Which format will be best for the file?

How should it be saved when you consider best quality?

Where and What

Whether your design is to be implemented online or not remains a vital answer to that initial question. Images for posts that are made online can compromise some quality, whereas printed materials can only work with files with high resolution. Explore printing guides to know important settings such as Color Modes for learning how to move through the various scenarios.

Files should be stored within a location inside your system where you can easily access. Photoshop could show an error when a files not having basic elements (such as fonts), hence try to keep all together.

Quality and Format

Now that youve discovered what the objectives of the design are for, you could start by having it saved with the correct format as well as size. Most designers will have their work saved in different formats for additional flexibility.

Saving for Web:

Navigate to Files> Export > Save for Web.

Are your designs going to print as expected?

Another reason why your work should be saved in different formats is so that you can understand different print quality. Perhaps you design, paint or edit using bright neon colorations, for example, you are going to be amazed at the result.

Minimalistic designs are becoming trendy, partly due to printing versatility. Cleans designs mostly are easily printed, making it more trendy in such industry.

What may appear great online may not always appear great when seen on paper. A lot of reasons could be responsible for this, though one undisputable factor is the manner in which the ink prints on the paper. Plus acknowledging what differentiates CYMK and RGB color modes can be very instrumental to your success. Design for that situation of yours. To change/access file Color Mode, navigate to Edit > Color Setting