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….
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….
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.
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….
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….
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.
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.
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…
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…
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….
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…
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.
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….
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.
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.
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.
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. …
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.
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.
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…
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.
How to Reset Adobe Photoshop Preferences
If Adobe Photoshop doesn’t work the way it should, you might be able to fix it by resetting its Preferences (Settings). There are two ways to do it, and we’ll show you how.
How to Copy Layers from One Photoshop Document to Another
Adobe Photoshop on Mac and Windows offers several different ways to copy image layers between documents so you don’t need to recreate your hard work from scratch. Here’s how to do it.
How to Switch between Light and Dark Themes in Photoshop
Adobe Photoshop defaults to a dark theme when you first install it, but it’s easy to quickly switch to a light theme (or somewhere in between) on Windows and Mac. Here’s how to do it.
How to Turn off Photoshop’s Large Animated Tooltips
By default, Adobe Photoshop displays large animated tooltips (called “rich tooltips”) when you hover over tools. They’re handy at first, but can quickly become annoying. Here’s how to turn them off.
