Photoshop User - USA (2021-02)

One simple but effective practice is to look at a

task through the eyes of Photoshop: How would

Photoshop do it? For example, rather than thinking,

“I have to remove this person from this photo,” it’s

better to think, “I need to cover up this person so

it looks like he was never there.”

This does a couple of things: (1) It makes you

realize that it’s usually not just a simple matter of

“removing” someone in one step, and (2) it gets you

thinking about which tool (or tools) would be best

suited to covering up the person, and the process

you’ll need to use.

In this example, that could mean using a variety

of tools such as Content-Aware Fill, the Spot

Healing Brush tool, and the Patch tool to end up

with pixels on a layer to cover up the person that

needs to be “removed.”

Another example of this would be thinking about

the long-term impact of how you work in a Photoshop

document. Remembering how Photoshop layers

work might remind you not to be too quick to merge

layers: Photoshop can’t “recover” separate layers

after they’ve been merged, the document closed,

and then saved (see “Work Nondestructively” below).

THINK LIKE PHOTOSHOP

When you zoom in really close to work on details,

sometimes you might forget how much smaller the

final product will be. One solution is to use the

command Window>Arrange>New Window for [name

of your document]. This will create a second window

of the same document. Then go to Window>Arrange

and choose one of the tiling options. Zoom in on one

view but keep the second view at the “final” size. Any

changes you make in the zoomed-in view will also

show in the actual size view.

Dave Cross

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