What Is Focus Stacking?
A big part of photography is coming up with creative ways to overcome the limits of the laws of physics. One of these techniques is focus stacking.
How To Make Perfect Perspective Shifts In Photoshop For Images And Logos
It’s easy enough to superimpose a logo onto something in Photoshop. But what if your base photo isn’t head-on, so a square logo (or any other image) will look skewed? Here’s how to get your top image aligned with the corr…
How to Search for Cool Wallpapers Online
The default wallpapers that come with your computer, phone, or tablet aren’t necessarily terrible, but if you want to give your device a unique look, using a custom wallpaper is the best option. Here’s how and where to find c…
When You Shouldn’t Use Photoshop
Here at How-To Geek, we’re big fans of Photoshop, but there are times when it’s not the right app for the job. Here’s how to tell when you should consider an alternative.
What Are Photoshop Plug-ins, Extensions, and Add-Ons?
Photoshop is already a powerful and versatile app, but you can make it even more powerful, more versatile, and easier to use with Photoshop Add-Ons.
How to Open (or Convert) a Photoshop File If You Don’t Have Photoshop
Photoshop is a popular and powerful graphics editing tool, but what do you do if you need to open a PSD file and don’t have Photoshop? We have several solutions for you that don’t involve buying (or renting) an expensive copy…
How to Easily Remove People from Your Photos With Photoshop
There are few things more annoying than tourists ruining an otherwise great photo. You can painstakingly edit them out by hand but, with a bit of forethought, you can get Photoshop to do it automatically….
How to Learn Photoshop
Photoshop is the biggest name in image editing, but it has a reputation as a complicated and difficult app to use. While it’s certainly feature packed, it’s nowhere near as difficult to get the hang of as it first appears…
How to Remove Almost Any Image From a White Background In Two Quick Steps
Cutting an object out from a white background can be a pain. Photoshop’s automated tools give uneven results in a lot of case. However, we do have a technique that, while not perfect, gives great results more than 90% of th…
How To Set the Default Font in Photoshop and Illustrator
Photoshop and Illustrator are powerful, but not exactly intuitive. That goes double for their text tools. If you’re tired of seeing the wrong default font at the wrong time, here’s how to set it manually….
Stupid Geek Tricks: How to Fake a Web Page Screenshot (without Photoshop)
With April Fool’s Day coming up, now is the time to start thinking about some good ways to play pranks on your friends. One of our favorites is to create fake screenshots of the news. Let’s look at how to do it….
What Are the Photoshop Express, Fix, Mix, and Sketch Mobile Apps?
Adobe’s approach to mobile apps seems to be “The More, The Better”. Right now, there are five Photoshop branded apps available for iOS and Android.
How to Blur Faces and Text in Photoshop
There are plenty of reasons you might want to blur some part of a photo in Photoshop. Maybe you’re sharing a photo and you want to anonymize some people, or perhaps you want to show off how bad your passport photo is withou…
How to Use Emoji in Photoshop
In the last few years, Emoji have become a huge part of pop culture. There’s even a movie about them (although I’m trying my best to forget that). With Photoshop CC 2017, Adobe added proper support for Emoji, so let’s l…
What to Do If You Can’t Find the Layers Panel (or Any Other Panel) in Photoshop
Photoshop is an incredibly flexible program. To keep the interface flexible, Photoshop uses “Panels” for each tool or feature.
How to Add Falling Snow to Your Photos With Photoshop
Taking photos in the falling snow is hard. It’s cold, your gear gets wet, and everyone ends up grumpy. Why bother going outside at all when you can fake it in Photoshop? Here’s how.
How to Change the Interface Background Color in Photoshop
Photoshop is the best image editor around, and it’s packed with thousands of tiny little features you didn’t know you needed. One of these features is being able to change the background color of the interface. Sometimes,…
How to Extend History States in Photoshop (and Ctrl+Alt+Z Forever)
Photoshop is a fantastically complicated raster image editor, and it’s possible to lose yourself in hours of work when you’re editing photos. But if you do a lot of little tasks and then later realize you’d rather go back, yo…
How to Manually Clear Out Photoshop’s Massive Temp Files
Adobe Photoshop is taking up more room than you think. But Photoshop also uses massive temporary cache files, many over a gigabyte each, which don’t always go away as they should when you close the program….
How to Open Multiple Images in One Document in Photoshop
Photoshop isn’t just a photography app; it’s a powerful design tool. Opening a single image is easy, but what happens if you want to put together a poster with multiple different images?
How to Crop an Image in Photoshop
Cropping photos is one of the most basic, but important, photo editing skills. A crooked horizon or something distracting on the edge can ruin a great image.
How to Make More Precise Selections with Photoshop’s Select and Mask
Making selections and masks is one of the most fundamental Photoshop skills. If you want to change your model’s eye color or remove a pesky photobomber, you need to be able to select only the area of the image you want to e…
Is Photoshop Worth the Money?
For years, the only way to get Photoshop was to pay hundreds of dollars up front for a license, or take to the dingier corners of the internet and pirate a cracked version. Now, through the Adobe Creative Cloud, you can get P…
The Best Cheaper Alternatives to Photoshop
Adobe Photoshop is the professional image editor. It’s name is now a verb for image editing (which is something that Adobe absolutely hates). Photoshop though, isn’t the only editor in town. Over the last few years, new i…
Don’t Rummage Around for Photoshop’s Hidden Tools: Use These Keyboard Shortcuts Instead
Photoshop has dozens of different, powerful tools, each with their own uses. You can use the spot healing brush to clean up blemishes or the brush tool to change the color of someone’s eyes.
