Photo editing

Even in professional photography it can be difficult to control the background, let alone an amateur one. A dull background can make a good picture look dull, and too colorful can distract attention from the main object in the frame. You can fix this problem by changing the background in any advanced photo editor. In this article we'll show you how to replace the background in Photoshop step by step and also tell you about a simpler and faster way - the Photo to Documents program. Change image background online Adobe Photoshop remains the most popular photo editor for many years. This can be explained by the practically unlimited possibilities of the program. With it you can, among other things, blur the background or insert any picture in its place, even if you just took a picture at home. To change the color of the background in Photoshop you need to separate the main object from the background. It should be noted that this method is suitable for Photoshop CC 2019, 2020 and 2021 ...

In this part, we finally move from general reasoning to practice. We have dismantled all the tools. We have processed our photo and shrunk it correctly. All that remains is to sharpen it. Resize image online Although there are nuances of sharpening when shrinking a photo, in general, this procedure is easier than working with the original. It is easier because when you shrink a photo 3-4 times or more, the difference in optics is largely leveled out. The degree of blurring in the resize becomes considerably less and practically equal for different cameras and lenses. The width of the real border of blur does not exceed one pixel. There is one, ridiculously simple answer to the question, "So, what is the best way to sharpen resize? Unsharp Mask with an impact force of 500% and a radius of 0.2. Yes, that's right. I foresee a surprised exclamation: "Quiet, is that all?!?!!" (c) (a phrase from the cartoon "Jack in Wonderland"), "And for this we read so man...

 If a site or artist uploads an author's image to the Internet, very often a watermark is placed on it. It helps to indicate authorship and promote your own resource, guaranteeing an increase in reputation and attendance. Watermark on photos online Watermarks are often automatically placed on images uploaded to free and paid hosting and servers. If you want to make a watermark yourself, you'll need to use the program Photoshop (Photoshop). And in this tutorial, we'll go through the process of creating and applying a watermark to an image in detail. Let's go! After starting the program, you need to select the "File" tab and click on the "Create" option. You can also open a new document with the "CTRL+N" combination. For example, let's choose a file size of 600x300, leaving the background transparent. If you want to put a certain phrase as a watermark, select "Horizontal Text" in the tools. Also there you set the most suitable f...

Pixel pattern or mosaic is a rather interesting technique that you can apply when processing and styling images. This effect is achieved by applying the "Mosaic" filter and represents splitting the image into squares (pixels). Pixelating photos online To achieve the most acceptable result is desirable to choose a bright, contrasting images, which have as little as possible small details. Take, for example, a picture of a car: You can limit yourself to simply applying the filter mentioned above, but we'll make it harder for ourselves and create a smooth transition between different degrees of pixelation. 2. On the topmost copy in the Layers palette, we go to the "Filter" menu, section "Appearance". This section contains the "Mosaic" filter we need. 3. In the filter settings, we set a rather large cell size. In this case - 15. This will be the top layer, with a high degree of pixelation. When the settings are finished, click the OK button.

 Any Photoshop function implies application in image processing, but giving the negative effect sometimes seems inappropriate, incomprehensible and left unaddressed. So, in this tutorial, let's see how you can apply the above effect. Select the image (example). Create a duplicate of the original layer. Apply to it the actions shown in the pictures. Negative photos online Apply the Camera raw filter to the layer that becomes a negative. Lines of the original layer should be made sharper and the shadow work should be enhanced. The part of the girl's body and her face should be taken out of the shadow area, but so as not to be faded. To do this, go into the channels, take the visibility off RGB and pick a more appropriate channel with a clear pattern. Next, you need to use the "Color Range" function: the "Selection" tab to select the desired part of the image. Copy the selected part. Make all channels visible again. De-visit the duplicate channel. Return to the...

 Good time to you all! Today in Photoshop we are going to learn how to rotate pictures. We may not need this feature very often, but when you are doing photomontage or creating collages, rotating photos or pictures is indispensable. Personally, I've always been fascinated by how well some people can make spectacular posters and postcards by placing several images on one. Rotate photo online You can rotate a picture in different ways. It can be a rotation of 90 or 180 degrees, as well as any other value. So it can be a mirror reflection, or horizontal and vertical, or rotating around its axis. We will consider each of these options and apply different tools. How do you rotate an image in a mirror image? The mirror image is mirrored in two planes: horizontally and vertically. There is nothing complicated about this procedure. It's just a couple of clicks. But in the beginning... We load the picture in Photoshop and duplicate the layer with it. We did the same thing in the last ar...

 Using the color tone/saturation tool for color correction provides excellent options for easily changing the desired settings (hue, saturation, brightness) together or individually, as well as for "global" changes. At the heart of the tool algorithm is the HSB color model, which can be found here. I will use Hue/Saturation as a Hue/Saturation tool. Once it's created, the Settings panel will open, and you can find the basic settings at the link above. The Hue/Saturation Layer Control Panel Hue/Saturation Layer Control Panel Change saturation online The parameters responsible for the correction are easy to understand: below the list of presets and saved settings, you'll find a drop-down list of six seven items for color selection. The six sectors of the color wheel, plus Master (default) which has the same effect on all colors in the image To select the desired color spectrum, it is convenient to use the keyboard shortcuts indicated next to the names in the list. For d...

 Hi all! In this article we will learn how to adjust the brightness and contrast of images in Photoshop. Let's look at how to edit an image directly, as well as using adjustment layers. Directly decreasing/increasing the brightness and contrast Pros of this method. Quick editing of an image or layer. Great for amateur photo editing. Cons. If you have a complex, multi-layered project, this method is not recommended because once you apply the settings, you won't be able to change them. And in large and long projects, very often in the middle of the whole work it turns out that this or that photo is too bright or dull. We end up deleting it and uploading it again. Change contrast online We load into photoshop the image that needs to be edited. Next, we need to select "Brightness/Contrast": Brightness and Contrast settings window should open: Now we only have to edit the values by moving the sliders: Example of a ready-made banner Edit the brightness and contrast with the...

 Too dark or, conversely, too bright photos are quite common. When a photo is not that important, you can leave it unchanged. But in order to get exactly the result you want, it is often necessary to lighten or, on the contrary, to darken the photo. Let's see how this process is done in Photoshop. Darken Photos online We will work with the image below as an example. Photoshop has special tools of the same name that can be used to brighten or darken an image. Here's how to work with them: Select the desired tool on the sidebar (for example, "Lighten").Tools Lighten and Darken in Photoshop Expand on the top line of settings, where you choose the size, shape, and hardness (like for a normal brush). The other settings are rarely adjusted.Parameters of the Lighten tool in Photoshop Hold down the left mouse button and drag the mouse over the areas you want to lighten or darken. Then release the button and, if you want to get a more pronounced effect, repeat the action (as m...

 How to lighten a photo in Photoshop In this tutorial I will show you how to quickly lighten a shaded photo. I'll be working in Photoshop CC, but this tutorial is fully compatible with the CS6 version. Lighten photos online Today's digital cameras, smartphones, and other devices make taking pictures of family, friends, and anything else that pleases our eyes easy and effortless. As long as there is space on the memory card or internal memory of the device, nothing limits us, we will take as many photos as we need. But what to do if some photo doesn't turn out as well as we'd like. It might be darkened (underexposed) or too bright light (overexposed). If you're a professional Photoshop user, you know that you can fix this with Levels and Curves, which will allow you to make tonal corrections at the highest level. But if it's a photo taken just for fun, and you don't care how it should look through the eyes of a pro photographer. You just want it to look a lit...

 Sometimes the pictures you take don't turn out the way you thought they would. They may be too bright or too dark. To make photos more pleasing to the eye, sometimes, you need to use a graphics editing program, such as Adobe Photoshop, to change the brightness settings of the image. Using this kind of program, you can balance out lit photos and add brightness to dark photos. Change brightness online Open the Adobe Photoshop CS3 program. Go to the menu on the left side of the screen and click on "File." Click on "Open" and select the image file you want to work on. Click on the "Image" option at the top of the menu bar. Select "Image" - "Adjustments" and "Brightness and Contrast." Click on this option. A dialog box opens. Change the brightness of the image by moving the sliders in different directions. Moving the slider to the left will make the image darker, and moving it to the right will make it brighter. Set the desire...

 In the Photoshop Sharpness menu, you'll find four filters that I ignore: Image Stabilizer, Sharpness, Sharpness+ and Edge Sharpness. Let's see why. Sharpen images online Image Stabilization is a powerful filter with a very specific purpose: removing blur from camera shake. This topic can be dealt with in a separate lesson, but it has nothing to do with sharpening. In my opinion, however, to avoid camera shake, it is better to use a suitable shutter speed rather than relying on Photoshop. The Sharpness filter is the base filter for Sharpness+ and Edge Sharpness. All three of these outdated filters are not recommended by Adobe. They apply an amount of sharpness to the image that is set automatically. You have no control whatsoever. Sharpness applies a small amount, Sharpness+ is a little stronger, and Edge Sharpness focuses only on the edges, ignoring the rest of the image. These filters have no place in a good post-processing process. Now let's take a look at the filters th...

 Reading articles about Photoshop, I'm often surprised at how many writers complicate essentially simple processing tasks. Many "monumental" writers, like Dan Margulies, suffer from this as well. But he can forgive that - his task is to write about all the subtleties and nuances of the processing process, to consider it from all angles and sides. Although it is this peculiarity of the presentation of material in his books that repulses many readers. In fact, the roots of such methods of "sharpening in 40 actions" grow out of a very simple thing - the people who write these lessons have never worked with a large volume of photographs. That is, they usually have a couple of photos and are willing to kill an evening or two in processing them. But when you have regular orders and you have to process dozens of frames at each photo shoot, you start thinking about simpler and more convenient ways of processing. About them we will talk today. I will tell you about five ...

 It's best to replace unfortunate images rather than thinking about how to improve the quality of the photo in Photoshop. However, the designer doesn't always have that option. There are several tools in Photoshop that allow you to improve the quality. Enhance photos online Tools for sharpening in Photoshop In the Filter/Filter window, you can find a whole block called Sharpening. Of all the filters, the most popular is Smart Sharpen, which allows you to adjust several parameters: Effect/Amount is responsible for the strength of the effect. Radius/Radius increases the number of pixels affected. Reduce Noise helps to smooth the picture and get rid of some imperfections. When sharpening a photo in Photoshop, there is always the risk of overdoing it. To make your work more comfortable, we advise you to create a copy of the working layer and do all the manipulations with the duplicate. In the case of "over-sharpening", you can simply change the transparency of the whole l...

 A detailed tutorial about blurring in Photoshop. You will learn how to create blurring of any objects and images. Adjust colors of photos online The group of blur filters has existed in Adobe Photoshop since the early versions, the group includes many options for blurring - Gaussian Blur, Motion Blur, Surface Blur and many others, this group of filters is in the Filter-Blur menu. Beginning with the CS6 version, there are new types of blur, with a wider range of settings, open a subset of the new filters, you can go to the menu Filter-Gallery Blur (Filter-Gallery Blur). In this tutorial we will get acquainted with the most popular blur type - Gaussian Blur and you will learn how to use it in Photoshop. Gaussian Blur produces a blurred effect on the whole image and you can get access to this filter through the menu Filter-Blur-Gaussian Blur. Let's open the photo with the girl (https://cloud.mail.ru/public/C9Q6/jDda1wyej). The background and the girl in the image have the same degree...

Before you begin your introduction to color correction, it is worth clarifying that this topic is very broad. To do color correction on a proper level, it is better to take special courses, where you will be taught the basics of color harmony, how to combine colors correctly and how to use the existing methods and techniques of color correction. And it is desirable to get a certificate. In the age of digital technology, photo processing is very profitable. And the most profitable investment at all times was and still is education. Adjust colors of photos We are going to consider a basic universal method of color correction. Before you do color correction in Photoshop, you need to understand what it is and what purpose it is used for. Color correction is a change in color, tone and saturation of the image, it is used either to improve the picture, or as a creative technique. To the first case, we can relate the need to get more realistic colors or make the photo lighter. After all, at c...

 Posterization is not only a Photoshop correction that allows you to specify a number of tonal levels (brightness values) of the image, needed, for example, to create large monochrome areas in photos, but also an unwanted artifact that occurs when some settings and filters are abused. Posterization online This artifact appears when the color depth of the image is greatly reduced, so that it is observed visually. The term comes from the word "Poster", as this effect is similar to the result of printing a poster with a small set of colored inks. That is, with a smooth transition from one color to another, as well as a change in brightness, we have jumps instead of a smooth transition. You can observe this effect in photos that use many color tones, such as sky, fire, etc. In all digital images, color levels are discrete, and the effect of a smooth continuous transition between them is achieved by a large number of these very levels. We can get this undesirable effect by abusing...