Photoshop from Scratch: The beginners guide to Photoshop

356 Pages·64.2 MB·English

by  Deep Kumawat

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Want to learn
Photoshop? Read this
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DEEP KUMAWAT
ISBN: 9798553459468
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Dedicated to my father.
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Contents
How to Download Sample Images and files? . . . . . . . . 16
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Conventions used in this book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Chapter - 01 � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � 1
What an image actually is? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
RGB vs CMYK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Bit Depth? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Colour Spaces? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Different Formats of an Image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Why Does Photoshop Exists? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Chapter - 02 � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � 21
The Home screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Creating a new Document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Place Any Image in . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Photoshop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Smart Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Selections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Chapter - 03 � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � 39
What are Tools? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
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Move Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Brush Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Mask . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Marquee Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Lasso Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Magnetic Lasso Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Polygonal Lasso Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Object Selection Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Quick Selection Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Magic Wand Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Select Subject . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Select and Mask . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Remove Background . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Crop Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Frame Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Eye Dropper Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Spot Healing Brush Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Healing Brush Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .100
Patch Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .102
Content Aware Move Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .114
Chapter - 04 � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � 128
Color Replacement Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .130
Pencil Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .130
Mixer Brush Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .134
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Clone Stamp Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
Pattern Stamp Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
History Brush Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
Art History Brush Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
Eraser Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
Background Eraser Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
Magic Eraser Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
Gradient Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
Paint Bucket Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
3D Material Drop Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174
Blur Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174
Sharpen Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
Smudge Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
Chapter - 05 � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � 184
Dodge Tool. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186
Burn Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188
Difference between . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
Saturation and Vibrance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
Sponge Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
Pen Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198
Delete Anchor Point Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210
Add Anchor Point Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210
Freeform Pen Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210
Curvature Pen Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210
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How to Save a Path . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211
What I Recommend? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211
Convert Point Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211
Horizontal Type Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212
Vertical Type Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218
Horizontal Type Mask Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219
Vertical Type Mask Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219
Path Selection Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219
Direct Selection Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220
Rectangle Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220
Hand Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
Rotate View Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222
Zoom Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222
Chapter - 06 � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � 225
Difference Between Fill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227
and Opacity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227
Opacity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227
Fill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227
How to Separate Subject from The Background . . . . . 230
Clipping Mask . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231
Modify Selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235
How to Create Custom Shapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241
Chapter - 07 � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � 245
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Layer Adjustments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .247
Brightness/Contrast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .247
Levels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .248
Curves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .252
Exposure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .266
Vibrance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .266
Hue/Saturation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .267
Color Balance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .283
Black & White . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .289
Photo Filter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .293
Channel Mixer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .295
Color Lookup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .302
Invert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .303
Posterize . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .304
Threshold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .306
Gradient Map . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .307
Selective Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .311
Chapter - 08 � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � 317
Adjustment Layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .319
Custom Keyboard Shortcuts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .321
How to Apply Blur . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .322
Non-Destructively . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .322
How to Apply Sharpening . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .323
Non-Destructively . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .323
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Quick Mask . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .325
Color Range . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .326
Layer Styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .328
Properties Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .340
Note from me for you! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .344
Introduction

Photoshop is an industry-standard software for editing
photos. After using Photoshop for five years, I realized that there is
nothing that can’t be edit in an image with photoshop!

In the twenty-first century, every company, start-up, or any
business is moving towards digital marketing. This is because now
everyone uses their social media applications for communicating
to one another. Therefore this is the best time to become a graphic
designer.

In my opinion, the best software to start with graphic design-
ing in photoshop.

Although Photoshop is the software to choose for graphic
designing, it can get complex at times. So, this book guides you
through photoshop and helps you to master it at a beginner level!
How to Download Sample Images
and files?
You can download the sample images and photoshop doc-
uments by going to www.deepkumawat.com, scrolling down, you
would see a button that says, “DOWNLOAD SAMPLE IMAGES”, click
it to download.
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Conventions used in this book
In this book you will find some helpful convention pictures
which would give you tips, cautions, shortcuts etc. And they
are as follows:

An easier and better way to the same thing
Caution:- Do not do this!
Notes from me.
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