Photoshop Beginners Tutorials

Like it or not, lighting is almost never perfect when you’re clicking. Result: pictures with colors that have gone out of whack, pictures that need to be digitally restored to their original colors. Working with the Color Balance tool can help you remove unwanted colors and restore the originals. This tutorial takes you through the finer nuances of color balancing. Use it to introduce lighting effects/image effects, digital photo restoration, digital photo editing, and more.

Curve Tool in Photoshop is used to make adjustments in the tonal range of an image. This tool can be used to make much finer adjustments, as compared to the Levels tool, that are needed on a professional level. You can truly call yourself an expert of this tool once you’ve had extensive experience of painting with light: Tone and Contrast in pictures. This tutorial will help you master the inner secrets of Photoshop’s Curve Tool.

Levels is a tool in Photoshop used to move and stretch the brightness levels of an image. The tool isn’t all that tough to master, it’s basically menu-driven and adjusting sliders. The trick lies in developing an eye for knowing just the amount of brightness, and red, blue, and green tinges you need in your photos, and for that it’s just experience that’ll work. You’ll need this tool for digital photo restoration, enhancing bad lighting, or for teaching yourself professional photo editing.

In this tutorial, you shall learn the use of the Crop and Zoom tools The Crop tool allows you to select an area of an image and discard everything outside this area. With the help of Zoom tool, we can magnify or reduce our view.

In this tutorial we will explore how to use the pen tool. First, we will learn the pen tool's basic controls. We will learn how to create paths, modify curvatures and adjust anchor point adjustments. We will also learn how to cut out images and create custom shapes.

Magic Wand tool is a selection tool in Photoshop that can be used to select similarly colored areas. This tool is one of the easiest to use but most important tools which you need to master if you want to become a Photoshop pro.

Lasso Tool is a freehand selection tool, used to cut or select specific sections of an existing picture. This tutorial will tell you about the three variants of the Lasso Tool: Basic Lasso Tool; Polygonal Lasso Tool; and Magnetic Lasso Tool.

Using Marquee tool we can select a portion of the image with different shapes. With this selection we can apply different color effects like gradient tool, stamp tool, etc. to further enhance the image effect.