Practical Photoshop - UK (2020-03)

Issue 108 March 2020 LEARN PHOTOSHOP CC & LIGHTROOM TODAY! TOP TOOL TRICKS | SELECTION SKILLS | RAW EDITING TIPS Craft incre ...

James Paterson, Editor • [email protected] HIGHLIGHTS: WHAT’S INSIDE... http://www.digitalcameraworld.com OLD TOOL, N ...

DOWNLOAD THE PROJECT FILES HERE http://bit.ly/pho_108 ON YOUR PC OR MAC Over the next 15 pages, we’re on a mission to uncover ne ...

The Pen Tool is the go-to choice for smooth, precise cutouts, which makes it useful for numerous design and photographic tasks. ...

02 ADD POINTS Sometimes you might want to make a sharp angle that removes the curve and sends the line back in the opposite dire ...

You probably know that you can create all sorts of basic 3D shapes in Photoshop - but did you know you can also animate those sh ...

01 EXTRUDE TO 3D Select the main fish shape layer and go to 3D > New 3D Extrusion From Selected Layer. Go to the Properties P ...

The Merge Panorama command in Camera Raw and Lightroom is one of the best ways to stitch several files into a detail-rich panora ...

The Brush Tool offers far more than just the simple circular brush tip that many of us use day to day. There are all kinds of wo ...

01 CREATE CUSTOM BRUSH TIPS You can turn any shape, any image, or any part of an image you like into a brush tip. All you need i ...

02 PLAY WITH SCATTERING AND SPACING The Brush Settings Panel is home to a whole host of settings that change the way the brush l ...

03 HAVE FUN WITH SMOOTHING AND SYMMETRY The Smoothing setting in the Brush Tool options creates smooth curved lines as you paint ...

Available by clicking the gradient preview when the Gradient Tool is selected, the Gradient Editor is a great tool for customizi ...

From realistic lens flares to trees, flames and clouds, Photoshop’s Render Filters offer plenty of hidden delights RENDER FILTER ...

03 TREES This lets you create 34 types of tree from scratch, and also lets you change things like the number of branches and cov ...

Hidden beneath the normal Crop Tool in the toolbar is the Perspective Crop Tool. This lets you crop in perspective. So if you wa ...

11 QUICK TOOL TIPS 1 When you make a selection with the Marquee tools, hold Alt to start it from the center - it’s usually much ...

The Quick Selection Tool is arguably the best selection tool Photoshop has to offer. It works like a paintbrush, snapping on to ...

1 SELECT SUBJECT If the aim is to select a subject, like the bird here, begin the selection by pressing the Select Subject butto ...

4 SAMPLE ALL LAYERS This button is useful if you are working on a multi- layered document: you won’t need to target a specific l ...