Photoshop

How to Zoom In on Photoshop

To take a closer look at your photos or for precision editing, you may want to zoom in on your images. Luckily, Adobe Photoshop offers various ways to enlarge your photos, including on-screen options and keyboard shortcuts. W…

Mahesh Makvana Oct 28th, 2022

How to Clear the Recent Files List in Adobe Photoshop

If you’ve been using Adobe Photoshop and you don’t want to leave your recent work visible on the opening Home page when you launch the app, you have a few options for clearing the list or hiding it. We’ll show you how….

Benj Edwards Jun 25th, 2022

Adobe Photoshop Might Soon Be Available for Free

Adobe Photoshop has been a paid product for its entire lifetime (unless you sail on the high seas), but now the company is testing a free version accessible through the web.

Corbin Davenport Jun 14th, 2022

How to Curve Text in Adobe Photoshop

Want to make your straight text curved without much hassle? If so, Adobe Photoshop has the exact feature you need. You can use it to curve your text in your specified bend level, and we’ll show you how to make use of it….

Mahesh Makvana Jun 6th, 2022

How to Outline Text in Adobe Photoshop

Adobe Photoshop makes it extremely easy to add a border around your text in an image. You can outline your text with the choice of color, position, and size. Here’s how to do just that on your desktop….

Mahesh Makvana Apr 13th, 2022

What Is Frequency Separation in Photography?

Frequency separation is a Photoshop technique that allows for more control over photographic retouching work. It’s predominantly used to touch up skin, but can also be used on other elements of an image….

John Bogna Mar 9th, 2022

How to Deselect in Adobe Photoshop

Deselecting areas in photos and layers in Adobe Photoshop is actually easier than selecting them. We’ll show you how to deselect items using multiple ways in this photo editing tool.

Mahesh Makvana Nov 21st, 2021

How to Change the Color of an Object in Adobe Photoshop

Do you prefer a different color for an object in your photo? If so, use Adobe Photoshop’s Replace Color tool to change the color. It’s easy, and Photoshop does the heavy lifting for you. Here’s how to do it….

Mahesh Makvana Nov 6th, 2021

How to Flip an Image in Adobe Photoshop

Whether you’re looking to fix your mirror selfies or you just want a flipped version of an image, Adobe Photoshop makes it easy to flip images, both horizontally and vertically. We’ll show you how to do it….

Mahesh Makvana Nov 3rd, 2021

How to Resize a Layer in Adobe Photoshop

Need to shrink that large logo that has its own layer on your photo? Make use of Adobe Photoshop’s various options to resize your layers. We’ll show you how to do just that.

Mahesh Makvana Nov 1st, 2021

How to Rotate an Image in Adobe Photoshop

If you’d like to rotate your digital photos, Adobe Photoshop offers various tools to do that. We’ll show you how to rotate your photo with predefined, custom, and freeform options in this app.

Mahesh Makvana Oct 25th, 2021

How to Download, Install, and Run Photoshop Actions

Photoshop actions are extremely useful tools. They’re especially helpful if you’ve learned a bit of the program, but not enough to take on complicated edits yet. Actions can also seriously streamline your editing workflow and…

John Bogna Sep 25th, 2021

What’s the Difference Between Opacity, Flow, & Density in Photoshop?

Adobe Photoshop often has a few different tools that handle the same things in subtly different ways. Opacity, Flow, and Density all control the visibility of certain layer aspects, but each is a little different. We’ll expla…

Harry Guinness Sep 23rd, 2021

What Is Calibration in Adobe Camera Raw and Lightroom?

The Calibration Panel in Adobe Camera Raw and Lightroom Classic is one of the most underused and misunderstood tools in either app. So, if you’ve ever wondered what this mysterious panel does, let me explain….

Harry Guinness Sep 18th, 2021

How to Dodge and Burn in Photoshop (Or Any Other Image Editor)

Dodging and burning are photo editing techniques where you selectively brighten (dodge) and darken (burn) different areas of your image. It allows you to control what people will see first and generally make your images look…

Harry Guinness Aug 31st, 2021

What Are Dodging and Burning in Photography?

Dodging and burning are two of the oldest—and most important—photo editing techniques. It’s where you selectively brighten (dodge) or darken (burn) different areas of your image. Let me explain.

Harry Guinness Aug 19th, 2021

Adobe Photoshop’s Sky Replacement Tool Gets Even More Powerful

Adobe has been rather busy working on Photoshop for iPad and desktop. The company announced many new features designed to make creating beautiful images on iPad and desktop a more streamlined experience….

Dave LeClair Aug 17th, 2021

How to Add Lightroom Presets to Photoshop

Lightroom Presets are a popular way to edit images, but if you prefer to use Adobe Photoshop, there’s a way to use them in Photoshop, too—using Adobe Camera RAW (ACR). Let me explain.

Harry Guinness Jul 16th, 2021

How to Remove a Background in Photoshop

Adobe Photoshop gives you multiple ways to remove the background from an image, each with varying accuracy. Here, we’ll show you two of those quick ways to remove your photo’s background.

Mahesh Makvana Jul 12th, 2021

How to Change Keyboard Shortcuts in Photoshop

Adobe Photoshop lets you change the keyboard shortcut for any function. We’ll show you how to do this, and also, how to reset the keyboard shortcuts on Windows and Mac to their default values.

Mahesh Makvana Jun 29th, 2021

How to Reset Photoshop’s Tools Back to Their Defaults

Adobe Photoshop is an insanely big, incredibly customizable application. Sometimes, some of the (many) tools can stop working as you expect them to, either because of something you did deliberately or by accident—or a bug. …

Harry Guinness Jun 5th, 2021

How to Set up and Use Photoshop’s Quick Export Feature

Photoshop has a quick export feature that, by default, saves a PNG file. It’s pretty handy but, if you use Photoshop a lot, there are a couple of ways that you can make it better. Let’s dig in.

Harry Guinness May 30th, 2021

How to Resize an Image in Photoshop

Is your image too big or too small to fit your needs? Using Adobe Photoshop on Mac or Windows, it’s easy to resize a photo quickly and precisely. Here’s how to do it.

Mahesh Makvana May 29th, 2021

How to Add Metadata to a Photo in Photoshop

A photo’s metadata is the information embedded in the file that tells you (or your computer) about it. It includes things like when a photo was taken, what camera and settings it was taken with, the resolution of the image, a…

Harry Guinness May 23rd, 2021

How to Crop an Image into a Circle in Photoshop

In Adobe Photoshop, it’s easy to quickly crop an image into a non-rectangular shape such as a circle, which can come in handy when visualizing round social media headshots. Here’s how to do it.

Mahesh Makvana May 22nd, 2021

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