Layer Styles are special effects that you can easily apply to separated layer in Photoshop in order to change the appearance of something in a very short time. They can be presented, editted or saved for later.

Use available styles

Photoshop supplies a great amount of layer styles. You can go to Window > Styles > Style Palette, choose a layer you want from Layer Palette and then pick any layer style you need.

After applying a layer style, the effect can be seen, repaired, counteracted or reactivated in the Layer Palette. The applied effect will show up a circle with the letter “f” next to the layer name. To expand or fix the applied effect, click on the arrow next to “f”. You can also change style for layer quickly by double-clicking on the “f” icon then go to Layer Style Options and you can easily customize your Layer.

Creat effects in own style

To create your own effects, you need to go to Layer > Layer Style > Blending Options or right click on the layer and choose “Blending Options”. I will explain each part on Blending Options panel below:

A. Styles: The list of the available styles that Photoshop supply.

B. Effects: Types of effects that you can make for your layer. Just clicking on the name of each effect and adjust values  in C part until you pleased with your result.

C. Options/Settings: When the name of an effect is clicked, its options will be displayed right here.

D. Layer Style Preview: Let you see your result in advance.

Layer effects are built by these minor effects, they are:

• Drop Shadow: Create a shadow below the layer.
• Inner Shadow: Create a shadow inside the layer.
• Outer Glow: Create a light border outside the layer.
• Inner Glow: Create a light in front of the layer.
• Bevel and Emboss: Make a strong impression by creating shadow effect for the Layer.
• Satin: Make the layer more silky and glossy.
• Color Overlay: Paint a solid color for the layer.
• Gradient Overlay: Paint a gradient color for the layer.
• Pattern Overlay: Fill the layer by pattern
• Stroke: Create border for the layer.

In today’s article, I will show you all the visual knowledge that I have gathered recently. I think it will be very helpful for your work and life. 

Search image – find inspiration

First, look for high-quality images for most types of projects. Not necessarily any project you also need the image, at least the image is also useful for you to find inspiration.

Use Stock

If you have photography skills and have a camera, you can create your own photos to suit your own projects! If not, that is normal. There is a myriad of online resources that provide free stock images to help with your work. You can refer to 30 Free Stock Website for Designer.

The truth is most people (including professionals) rely on free or low-cost images called Stock. Stock is perfect when you need something specific, such as a picture of a small dog in a cup of tea and you do not have the time or do not know how to create it yourself.

Choose Stock Effectively

Most websites allow you to browse or search for their services. Search for results that are relevant to your project.

In this example, we searched “travel” and we can see many images about travel appear. Choose the images to feel real, there are differences but may include the story.

The right to use images

Almost every Stock image has a license to tell how it can be used. Some allow you to edit or change textures. But others are more limited and can have serious legal consequences if you not followed.

Before you use a Stock image, you need to make sure that you understand the license associated with it. If the license is not listed next to the image, check the Stock provider policy in the policies or FAQs section of the website.

Importance of quality

Of course, not just about content. There is also a technical aspect to the image, which can have a big impact on your design. If it is blurred or mistaken for your content.

Find high quality images, sharp, clear and unmistakable. In general, the bigger the better, because the image resolution is large, easy to crop or reduce the size, depending on the needs of the project.

If you zoom in on a small image, making it larger than the original size, it will be significantly reduced in quality. Images will become blurred and/or distorted, as in the example below.

Differences between Vector and Raster

There is a small reason for losing quality when you zoom in. That is because they are made up of thousands (even millions) of tiny pixels. That image is called raster.

When you view a raster image at its original size or smaller, the pixels are not recognizable – it is simply because they are too small to see. They only become obvious when you zoom in or make larger images.

The Vector graphics are quite different from the Raster. You can make any size change, big or small, without sacrificing quality. In the example below, the image has been enlarged, but no pixels.

Vector images are made up of the core elements of geometry such as pixels, lines, curves, shapes, and polygons. Vector is made up of mathematical expressions.

Edit image

To better fit the purpose of your work you need to edit Stock images.

Crop image

The cropping can be used to change the size, shape or center of the image, making it useful in many different situations.

Try this feature if the image is incorrect, or if it has something you want to cut off.

Resize image

Resizing an image will ensure it fits perfectly for your project. Just remember that you can not make the image bigger than the original size without affecting the quality.

If your image is working on a large-scale project, it is best to choose another. You can also find a creative way to work with the image size you have. In the example below, we added a background image instead of a portrait.

Other adjustments

The adjustments allow you to enhance certain image quality, including brightness, contrast, saturation and color.

If your favorite show offers filters, you can dramatically change your image with very little time and effort.

Make perfect arrangement

Adding photos, graphics and other images to your work is a great way to make it more appealing. Even a simple wallpaper can turn your design into something special.

Just remember you have learned about image quality – both technically and conceptually – and your work will surely stand out from the simplest.

That’s all. Hope you enjoy learning these basics knowledge. I will write more advance article later.

Removing background is a common technique used commonly in Photoshop. There are quite a few ways of detaching depending on the complexity of the photo. The below post gives you guidelines on using colours scheme Channels in Photoshop to detach background out of a photo.

Preparation:

– To download and install Photoshop in computer
– A photo that needs detaching.
– Can see the last post here

Step 1: Open the photo with Photoshop

Remove Background from Image with Photoshop fast and simple

Step 2: Open colour scheme Channels (go to Window/Channels) and choose colour scheme with the highest contrast.

Here we choose Blue.

Step 3: Click right mouse in colour channel Blueand choose Duplicate Channel…to duplicate the colour.

Step 4: Increase contrast to detach background. Use Quick Selection Tool (W) to select areas that need higher contrast.

Then go to Image/Adjustments/Level…to open box Leveland adjust as in below picture.

Here’s the result:

Step 5: Use Brush (B) tool to colour the background White (1) and the object Black (2).

This is what we’ve got after coloring:

Step 6: Press Ctrl button and choose layer Blue copy, the software automatically chooses the White area. To change into the Black area (Object), right mouse click in the photo and choose Select Inverse.

Step 7: Turn off layer Blue copyand turn on layer RBG.

We get:

Step 8: Double-click in Background to adjust to layer 0. Then press Ctrl +J to duplicate layer. Finally, turn off layer 0, we’ll find the photo detached from the background.

You can also insert another Background to make the photo more lively.

Remove back ground with Photoshop

This post gives guidelines on detaching background in Photoshop. In this way, you can detach any object from the background to make your own unique and fancy photos.

Hair is the most difficult part to detach in an image when you want to detach that image to insert into another background. Photoshoptip.com will give you simple guidelines on how to detach hair with Channel function using image-editing software Adobe Photoshop.

Adobe Photoshop is the most famous and chosen image-editing software in the world. While the previous posts in Photoshoptip.com once introduced ways to make photo collage, this post introduces you technique to detach hair with the available Channel function.

Detaching hair from background is one of the most basic photo collage and editing techniques in Photoshop. However if you do not know how to do it and use only Lasso Tool, you cannot detach all the hair with tiny details.
Your compatible Photoshop versions are available here: : Download PhotoShop

DETACH HAIR FROM BACKGROUND IN PHOTOSHOP

Step 1: Open Adobe Photoshop, choose any image to detach..gives guidelines with below image

Step 2: Open the image, duplicate the image by clicking Layer –> Duplicate

Turn to Channel mode

Step 3: Click into each available Channel, choose the Channel which clearly shows contrast between the person and the background in the image. In this image, you can see clearly that Blue mode has the sharpest contrast.

Step 4: Right-mouse click into Blue mode, choose Duplicate Channels duplicate Channels

Step 5: in the copied Channel, use 1 of the below 2 methods to adjust contrast for make the contrast sharper:
– Levels ( Ctrl +L): Click Image –> Adjustments –> Levels
– Curves (Ctrl + M): Click Image –> Adjustments –> Curves

To increase contrast, choose White Point

Reverse Channel by clicking Ctrl + I

Step 6: Use Brush tool (Shortcut B) and white the object

Hold Ctrl –> click Thumbnail of Channel Blue copy

Step 7: Reselect Channel RGB mode and come to layer to duplicate the layer you have worked

So we’ve finally detached the image with all the hair of the girl, successfully. You now just put this image of the girl into another background.

And here’s the result

What’s new in Photoshop CS6 or What are new features in Adobe Photoshop CS6 ? Should we use Photoshop CS6 or CS5 ? In this post, I hope we will know new features in Photoshop CS6. If your computer don’t have this software, you can install it on your computer How to install Photoshop CS6 trial version

In Photoshop CS6, Adobe have many upgrade items. Here’s an overview :

1/ Workspace in Photoshop CS6:

No matter which version you are using Adobe Photoshop, Photoshop worksapce has a black color theme. But with CS6, you can change color theme to gray or charcoal gray color. You can also have more screen real estate, because Adobe removed the application bar to give screen area.

Color theme in Photoshop CS6

Settings for Adjustment layers, layer masks, and 3D items are consolidated into Properties panel. Photoshop CS6 also show a new Mercury Graphics Engine that bases on your computer’s graphics processing unit. This speeds up the live previews of things like Free Transform, Warp Transform, Puppet Warp, Liquify, and Lighting Effects.

Move tool, the Crop tool and Free Transform command show a info next to your cursor. You also see this handy overlay when you resize a brush cursor by Alt + right-click+dragging on a PC (Ctrl-Option-dragging on a Mac); it displays brush size, hardness, and opacity.

2/ Auto Save, Auto Recover, and Background Save :

When we work in Adobe Photoshop, we can lose document if your power outages. So that, we have to “SAVE” or press “Ctrl + S” repeatedly. But with Auto Save function in Photoshop CS6, It will help you save automatically saves our file every few minutes. We don’t have to wait until the program is finished saving your document before you perform other edits.

3/ 64-bit Bridge :

You can access faster to files with 64 bit. On Window, We can use 32 bit or 67 bit. But you only use 64 bit, Photoshop CS6 don’t have 32 bit version on Mac.

4/ Edit Video in Photoshop CS6.

You can import, trim, and split clips; create effects using filters, Adjustment layers, and layer styles; and export your finished videos.

5/ New character and paragraph styles

You can change font size, rasterize Type laysers and included a Paster Lorem Ipsum command. It can help you create placeholder text automatically.

6/ Layer filtering in Photoshop CS6

You can show/hide layers in Layers panel and you can also change the blend mode of multiple layers if you want.

7/ Camera Raw in Photoshop CS6

Camera Raw in Photoshop CS6 do a much better work of correcting the colorand lighting in images while preserving details in the shadows and highlights.

Adobe Photoshop CC Keyboard Shortcuts use on the windows and Mac. Photoshop CC Provide many tools to edit photos. When you are a biginer, you can go to menu then click a tool. So, this work is lowly. How to edit photoshop in Photoshop CC quickly ? Using shorcuts is the answer for this question. In this tutorial will show how to use Photoshop’s keyboard shortcuts for Windows and Mac. I make a table for comparison Window and Mac. You can download Photoshop CC Keyboard Shortcuts file in attached.

Here are many of Photoshop’s keyboard shortcuts

Photoshop CC shortcuts frequently used on Mac version :

Photoshop CC Keyboard Shortcuts Hot key

Window menu pannels :
– Burshes : F5
– Color : F6
– Layer : F7
– Info : F8
– Levels layer : Ctrl+Alt+L
– Merge Layers : Ctrl+E
– Merge Visible : Ctrl+Shift+E
– New Layer : Ctrl+Shift+N
– New Layer (no dialog) : Ctrl+Alt+Shift+N
– New Layer via Copy : Ctrl+J
– New Layer via Copy (show dialog) : Ctrl+Alt+J
– New Layer via Cut : Ctrl+Shift+J
– New Layer via Cut (show dialog) : Ctrl+Alt+Shift+J

File menu

– New : Ctrl + N
– Open : Ctrl + O
– Browse in Bridge : Alt + Ctrl + O
– Close : Ctrl + W
– Close all : Alt + Ctrl + W
– Close and go to Bridge : Shift + Ctrl + W
– Save : Ctrl + S
– Save As : Shift + Ctril + S
– Save for Web : Alt + Shift + Ctrl + S
– Print : Ctrl + P
– Print One Copy : Alt + Shift + Ctrl + P
– Exit/Quit : Ctrl + Q

Layer Menu
– Ney Layer : Shift + Ctrl + N
– Layer via Cut : Shift + Ctrl + J
– Create Clipping Mask : Alt + Ctrl + G
– Grpup Layers : Ctrl + G
– Merge Layers : Ctrl + E

Edit Menu : Ctrl + E

– Undo/Redo : Ctrl + Z
– Step Forward : Shift + Ctrl + Z
– Step Backward : Alt + Ctrl + Z
– Cut, Copy, Past : Ctrl + X, C, V
– Paste Into : Shift + Ctrl + V
– Content Aware Scale : Alt + Shift + Ctrl + C
– Free Tranform : Ctrl + T
– Transform : Shift + Ctrl + T
– Color Settings : Shift + Ctrl + K
– Preferences : Ctrl + K
– Assign Profile : Ctrl+Alt+Shift+ [
– Convert to Profile : Ctrl+Alt+Shift+ ]
– Clear (selection) : Delete / Backspace
– Content-Aware Scale : Ctrl+Alt+Shift+C
– Copy Merged : Ctrl+Shift+C
– Fade (last filter / adjustment) : Ctrl+Shift+F
– Fill (show dialog) : Shift+Backspace
– Fill from history : Ctrl+Alt+Backspace
– Fill from history & preserve trans.: Ctrl+Alt+Shift+Backspace
– Transform Again with duplicate : Ctrl+Alt+Shift+T
– Fill w/ background & preserve trans : Ctrl+Shift+Backspace
– Transform Again : Ctrl+Shift+T
– Fill w/ foreground & preserve trans : Alt+Shift+Backspace
– Fill with background color : Ctrl+Backspace
– Fill with foreground color : Alt+Backspace
– Free Transform : Ctrl+T
– Free Transform with duplicate : Ctrl+Alt+T
– Keyboard Shortcuts : Alt+Shift+Ctrl+K
– Menus : Ctrl+Alt+Shift+M
– Paste : Ctrl+V
– Paste in Place : Ctrl+Shift+V
– Paste Into (selection) : Ctrl+Alt+Shift+V
– Preferences (General) : Ctrl+K
– Preferences (last used) : Ctrl+Alt+K
– Purge All Ctrl+Shift+ ‘
– C Purge All (no dialog) : Ctrl+Alt+Shift+ ‘
– Step Backward (history) : Ctrl+Alt+Z
– Step Forward (history) : Ctrl+Shift+Z

Tools
– Add mode (Shape tools) : +
– Subtract mode (Shape tools) : –
– Lock transparency pixels (on / off) : /
– Decrease brush size : [
– Increase brush size : ]
– Decrease brush hardness by 25% : Shift+ [
– Increase brush hardness by 25% : Shift+ ]
– Previous brush : ,
– Next brush : .
– First brush : Shift+ ,
– Last brush : Shift+ .
– Tool opacity 10% ® 100% : 1 → 0
– Flow 10% → 100% : Shift+1 → 0
– Path / Direct Selection tools : A
– Brush / Pencil / Color Replacement / Mixer tools : B
– Crop / Perspective Crop / Slice / Slice Selection : C
– Default Foreground and Background Colors : D
– Eraser / Background Eraser / Magic Eraser : E
– Gradient / Paint Bucket / 3D Material Drop tools : G
– Hand tool (bird’s eye view) : H
– Eyedropper / 3D Material / Sampler / Ruler / Note… : I
– Spot / Healing / Patch / Red Eye / Content-Aware : J
– C Blur / Sharpen / Smudge tools : K
– asso / Polygonal Lasso / Magnetic Lasso : L
– Rectangular / Elliptical Marquee tools : M
– C Foreground Color Picker : N
– Dodge / Burn / Sponge tools : O
– Pen / Freeform Pen tools : P
– Edit in Quick Mask Mode (on / off) : Q
– Rotate View tool : R
– Clone / Pattern Stamp tools : S
– Type tools (Horiz / Vert / Horiz Mask / Vert Mask) : T
– Shape tools (Rect / Round Rect / Ellipse / etc.) : U
– Move tool : V
– Quick Selection / Magic Wand tools : W
– Switch Foreground and Background Colors : X
– History / Art History Brush tools : Y
– Zoom tool : Z
– Hand tool (toggle) : Space
– Zoom In (toggle) : Ctrl+Space
– Zoom Out (toggle) : Alt+Space
– Cycle Path / Direct Selection tools : Shift+A
– Cycle Brush / Pencil / Color Replacement / Mixer : Shift+B
– Cycle Crop / Perspective / Slice / Slice Selection : Shift+C
– Cycle Eraser tools : Shift+E
– Cycle Gradient / Paint Bucket / 3D Material Drop : Shift+G
– Cycle Eyedropper / 3D Material / Sampler / Ruler… : Shift+ I
– Cycle Spot / Healing / Patch / Red Eye / etc. : Shift+J
– C Cycle Blur / Sharpen / Smudge tools : Shift+K
– Cycle Lasso tools : Shift+L
– Cycle Rectangular / Elliptical Marquee tools : Shift+M
– Cycle Dodge / Burn / Sponge tools : Shift+O
– Cycle Pen / Freeform Pen tools : Shift+P
– Cycle Clone / Pattern Stamp tools : Shift+S
– Cycle Type tools : Shift+T
– Cycle Shape tools (Rect / Round Rect / etc.) : Shift+U
– Cycle Quick Selection / Magic Wand tools : Shift+W
– Cycle History / Art History Brush tools : Shift+Y
– Airbrush (with Brush tools selected) : Alt+Shift+P
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How to use patch tool in photoshop cs6 ? Patch tool is the new tool in Photoshop CS6. Patch tool help you to remove unwanted image elements and give you the flexibility to choose the source area. Patch tool use usally in Photoshop CS6. Example, remove acne or pimple. In the next post I will write How to remove acne and smooth skin in Photoshop CS6 using Patch tool.

Amazing photo is designed by Patch tool in Photoshop CS6

A cat with two eye and two ear is designed by Patch tool in Photoshop CS6

Patch tool allow you to copy a area. As photo, left eye, ear and right eye, ear are copied.

Step 1: Right Click in Patch tool icon

How to use patch tool in photoshop cs6

Step 2 : create a area you want to insert element then drag this area to one.

Then double click or let down.

Thanks for your reading.