Photoshop Handbook

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First notes on Photoshop, which will help us to give an introduction to the Photoshop Manual.

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We analyze the Photoshop toolbar and recognize its different components.

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A first look at the main tools that Photoshop offers.

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One of the main tools of Photoshop, which is used to move parts of the image.

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What are Photoshop selections, what are they for and how to make them.

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We’re going to look at the most basic Photoshop selection tools, such as rectangular selection, ellipse selection, and single row and column selection.

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What is anti-aliasing and feathering in Photoshop selections and how can we use them to improve compositions.

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What are Photoshop layers and how to work with layers.

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Layer actions: Let’s take a look at the most common things you can do with layers in Photoshop.

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What Photoshop layer styles are and how to use them to perform quick effects on graphic elements in Photoshop.

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What are layer masks, that we can use in Photoshop and other graphic design programs. How to use layer masks in Photoshop.

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Photoshop’s pencil tool is used to paint freehand with strokes without smoothing.

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What are Photoshop brushes, how to use and configure them.

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How to install brushes in Photoshop, to be able to use them in our graphic designs.

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Photoshop brushes are very easy to create. We created a brush with Photoshop CS2 in a few steps.

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The Photoshop brush tool can be configured to provide an endless number of options that will make our designs attractive.

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This Photoshop tool is used to erase the content of the selected layer. The eraser acts on the layer that we have selected.

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The paint bucket tool is used to fill an image or a selected area with color, but it can also fill using a pattern that we could create ourselves.

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Photoshop’s crop tool allows us to remove unnecessary areas of an image, with the possibility of resizing if desired in the same step.

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Let’s see the details of the lasso tool, with its different variants and utilities to make selections in Photoshop.

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Crop an area of ​​the image using Photoshop’s Polygon Selection tool. Polygon selections are the easiest way to crop a silhouette.

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The magic wand tool can always help us make quick selections with Photoshop.

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Photoshop’s pen tool is used to make paths. It is very useful, although learning to use it is sometimes difficult.

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How to make shapes with Photohop such as rectangles, ellipses and other polygons. We can create those shapes as paths or as areas of color.

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We will see the multiple configuration options for shapes and paths that can be created with the different shape tools.

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One of the most used tools in Photoshop, which is used to make lines to which we can put arrowheads.

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Photoshop custom shapes allow you to easily draw all sorts of graphic elements with various looks that can be very useful for web design.

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Now let’s see how to install shapes in Photoshop, with references to get new shapes and to install them on our computer.

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More advanced selections can be made with Photoshop’s pen tool, which allows you to make curves and build the selection in several steps.

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We explain the Photoshop gradient tool and its configuration options to adapt it to our needs.

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We explain how Photoshop’s text tool works, both for horizontal and vertical text, and some ideas to improve the text’s appearance.

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In addition to horizontal text, there are other text tools in Photoshop. We also suggest a text mask practice.

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We will see how to split an image into several pieces to, for example, perform an advanced page layout or to divide a very large image into several pieces so that it loads faster.

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What Photoshop actions are for and how to create an action and then execute it on other graphic files.

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We are going to learn how to create a batch to automatically perform actions on all the files that are in a folder or directory on our hard drive.

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The eyedropper is one of the simplest tools in Photoshop, but no less used for selecting a color to use as a foreground.

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We explain two Photoshop tools, the hand to move around an image and the zoom to enlarge and reduce the view. Fundamentals for our day to day.

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We tell you about the juiciest news that this new version of Adobe Photoshop CS6 includes, in which we highlight an important visual change, more modern and stylized.

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Find out what’s new in Photoshop CC (Creative Cloud), the most advanced version of the Photoshop suite, more integrated with the Internet and the Adobe cloud.

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Meet and experience what’s new in Photoshop CC 2014. The best tools and aids for Web Designers.

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How to create an Animated Gif in Photoshop CC, through the “Timeline” window, optimized for the web.

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The new edition of the Photoshop CC 2015 suite is late, but it’s here at last. We are going to review all the news and improvements that it includes.