There has been a huge menu system with options that is unable to skip. In below article, administration officer has been carrying on introducing about this varied system.

In this passage, the admin is going to give you an overall vision about menu so that you will find it easy to understand how to search for suitable tool to edit photograph in proper way.
Instructions about Adobe Photoshop CS6 were performed:
• Part 1 : Toolbox
• Part 2 : Panels
• Part 3 : Layer

1. Menu bar

This is a basic menu bar with a number of functions , it is located on the top of the working window of Photoshop. Each button is overall menu, we will look through all the menu mentioned.

2. Menu file

There exists so many features that you will get confused besides basic buttons like New, Open, Close.

Browse in Bridge : This is a program that attached with Photoshop to censor images. It allows user to manage picture in form of image (not only the name is file), similarly is Goodle Picasa. Bridgle is pretty good program but it can be dirturbing if you open it at a random because it is quite time consuming to download.

Browse in Mini Bridge: Mini bridge is a live version of Bridge censored in Photoshop that is easy to use and does not take much time to download.

Open as: There seem to be a feature having problem (that is easy to be broken down). The innovation from the manufacturer is to open another file like PSD in form of image file.

Open as smart object: Creating one smart object is pretty easy that need opening it only. The size change and editing Smart object do not affect the original file so that you can set up a plan to modify dimension of one unit for several times that you can open in SMART OBJECT.

Share my screen and Create new review: These are features of Adobe CS Live that is provided to the one that register copyright and have got an account on Adobe.com.

Device Central: This is a secluded program for supporting applications of cellphones as well as smartphone.

Save for Web and Devices: A series of applications are used for compressing files in the form of JPG,GIF,PNG or any format WBMP accordance to submitting on website . Under this circumstance, Devices is used for smartphones.
Revert: Reloading file in the latest saving time. You will mislay changes and History when doing this manipulation. However, this is beneficial to some certain circumstance.
Place: Inserting a new file into opening one is allowing you to change the dimension and edit image as a Smart Object.

Automate and Scripts: This option helps user to implement quickly. Script is an interesting feature and deserves experiencing, even the beginner.

3 Menu Edit: This is a transparent menu going with the most convenient features in Photoshop.

Undo, Step forward, Step backward: Undo is prevalent option that is frequently used in current programs. Step forward and step backward is to move around above steps on Panel History. This is simple way to use History Panel.

Cut, Copy and Copy Merged: You might be familiar with using Cut, Copy or Paste on menu Edit (from popular program like MS Word). Copy Merge is useful option that enables you to copy a multi-layer file as if it was a merged one.

Fill: This tool is regularly skipped even it is a pretty useful one. Fill will help you to fill in a selected area, a layer or a channel in foreground or background, in white, black or main color of content of the image. CS6 has a way to fill image that is similar to recreating a part of picture by surrounding objects.

Stroke: Create a border surrounding selected object with any color that you used. You are able to adjust the width of border or choose created border is inner border, middle or outer of object.

Content Aware Scale: Using similar tool like in Content Aware Fill with sphere of picture. You can edit the dimension of object with this feature.

Puppet Warp: This is a complicated feature on CS6, it allows user to distort image in complex way.

Transform and Free Transform: This is a useful tool is used for changing dimension of a picture, edit and create points that can distort image. (if needed).

Keyboard shortcuts: This menu enable user to edit and stick to some shortcuts for each tool on Menu in PS. It is extremely useful for user is getting used for shortcuts.

Menu: allow users to edit toolbar, hide the feature that they do not like or never use or even underline the ones that are necessary.

Preferences: Consisting of several issues that you need to edit in PS.

4. Menu Image.
It allows you to transform the width of color, image and other features. What are they?

Mode: This mode of color that you can form like RBG or CMYK, like some sort of bit such as Lab or Indexed. You should not use any sort excluded RGB in case you are extremely concern about the format of images and digital ones.

Adjustments: This is an auxiliary menu with different parts like adjusting Brightness, Contrast, Levels, Curves, as well Hue/Saturation. There is a series of options:

• Brightness/Contrast: This is basic part to adjust contrast light/dark in the picture that useful tool and is easy to use for the beginners.
• Levels : It is a option that give you a domain of contrast value in the picture:
• Curves: It can adjust the value and complicated channels, it allows user to adjust value, with the object to the accuracy. This is a frequent feature that the professional select.
• Exposure: It also can adjust the contrast of the picture. This option is the choice of digital photographer.
• Hue/Saturation: Adjust the color of the picture as well as the freshness and the liveliness of picture.
• Invert: Invert black and white of the picture. All the colors are popped up in the contrast of current pigment.
• Posterize: This is the filter blurring the color to the basic pigments.
• Threshold: This is another color filter that transform image to basic color is black or white, completely not grey.

Auto Tone, Auto contrast, auto color: Photoshop helps the user to automatically improve the quality of picture through altering Tones, Contrast, Color. It is suggested from Photoshop Elements (basic option), this is the tool for the beginners.

Image size: There should not be misunderstanding with Canvas Size because it is likely to alter the dimension of the overall file.

Canvas size: Increase the surrounding space of the image.

Image Rotation L Rotate image in angle of 90 or 180, besides user can choose the angle of the image by selecting Arbitrary.

Duplicate: Create a duplicate image file of current one. There is no History as edited.

5. Menu layer:
This is where manipulation works with the layers of object. Menu layer offer a wide variety of auxiliary menu and complicated options. You can look back on Part 3 of this guide book.

• New: These auxiliary menus allow user generate the new layer as well as options to change available layer into Background one ( if needed). You can gather all the layers into one group (selecting multi layers by Shift or Ctrl- similarly the other manipulations in the folder). This option will create “folder” stored the selected layers to create group.
• Duplicate layer: allow user to create the duplicate of selected layer and save in the correct opening file or create an brand new one.
• New Fill Layer/ New Adjustment Layer: Creating 2 types of colors that can be covered on current layer. You can choose 2 new layers easily to create a lively picture.
• Layer mask/Vector Mask This tool can filter or thrust one part of layer (or all) is running. There exists pretty difference between 2 types of Mask is to vector and to spot of image.
• Clipping Mask: This is a complicated feature, it can be located one layer or a group of layer to be transparent to the below one.
• Group Layers/Hide Layers: The number of layers can be selected in Panel Layers and can be narrowed / hidden in this menu.

• Align/Distribute: This tool can help you to arrange the layers in working space/image space. You are able to drag the object to be middle or to create the same space among object easily.
• Merge Down: Combine the available layers (or the group) with the below ones.
• Merge Visible/ Flatten Image: Combine all layers in your file. Merge visible will skip all the hidden layers in Panel Layers, while Flatten Image will eliminate them completely. Merge Visible will create transparence besides the image layers combined, regarding Flatten Image will create a layer of background according to the color that you selected in background color.

6. The other important menus:
The remaining of menu in Photoshop is rather complicated for the beginner.
Menu Select: This menu go with these tools like Marquee, Lasso and Wand on Panel layers. Select all, deselect and reselect are object orienting tool. When you are selecting one part of object, Invert will have invert your selection that means the selected originally will not be selected and vice versa. You also can choose all the layers from toolbar in this menu, otherwise you can adjust from auxiliary menu Modify. Option Quick Mask is adjusted right in Menu Select.

Menu Filter: This is library of available template for user Photoshop. Filter allows you to choose some types of deformation for picture. Some is helpful, some is not, which depends on the purposes of users. Filter plays an important role in PS and needs its own article to exploit all the library existing in this menu.

Menu View: is a menu consisting of so many components that seldom to use in PS like altering dimensions and shapes of spot image, besides including basic manipulations such as Zoom in, Zoom out. With menu Print Size, you can go through printed dimensions or rapidly zoom 100% with Actual pixels. In this menu, you also can turn off troublesome problems like Snap, Rulers as well as deleting Guides or Slices.

Menu Windows: This is menu for managing the showing or not showing of Panels, options and toolbox..on the screen.

Menu Help: This is the last but not least menu that contains basic information of an application. Therefore, you are able to inspect, get to know about the tool that you are not aware of well or information about version of software.

How to make a tattoo on your body in Photohsop CS6 ? In this tutorial, I will guide you make a tattoo easyly in Photoshop CS6 and Photoshop CC. Nowadays, tattoo has become an art and it is getting greater when you can cover your body with tattoos by yourself in order to enhance the artistry in your picture… I had tested in Photohsop CS6 and Photoshop CC.

Or you simply want to see your work which is a Photoshop-processed picture in advance so that you will not waste so much time in repeatedly on amending it in the Photo store. If you want to have very original pictures highlighting your individual artistic style, let’s use this method.
HOW TO MAKE A TATTOO WITH PHOTOSHOP ( HOW TO ADD A TATTOO IN PHOTOSHOP ? )
Step 1: You choose a tattoo you like best. Open the Image file, you want to join image in Photoshop, (For example, I use the following illustrative image):

Step 2: Drag the tattoo to the next image, then use Edit -> Free Transform (shortcut key is Ctrl + T). Adjust and turn the image so that it fits to the image in terms of size and angle as follow:

Step 3: Set up layer mode of the tattoo image in the Multiply mode as follow:

Step 4: On layer, the tattoo seems a little bold, so we need to adjust color so that the color of the tattoo corresponding to the skin color of the figure, which makes the finished product look more real. Here, I use the statement Image–> Adjustments –> levers (shortcut key is Ctrl + L). This step asks for an aesthetic purview.

And finally, we achieve the following result:

In this article, we have just instructed you to cover the body with an artistic tattoo by using Photoshop. With some simple actions, you can create a picture enclosing an original and attractive tattoo on your own.

Thanks for reading !

Have a good job !

You can also see like article : How to add watermark or logo in Photoshop

How to remove an image background or transparent background in Photoshop. In this tutorial I will guide how to remove an image background in Photoshop. With Photoshop, there are many ways to erase a white or color background, even in complex background pictures. In previous versions, you can use tools of Extract, Mode, and Channel to erase background or use Plug-ins like Corel KnockOut to erase background. In CS6 version, Adobe provides a great additional tool called Quick Selection serving for erasing background. With this tool, you can erase complicated backgrounds and achieve very natural ones. Erasing the background of a picture is very important, especially if you want to join the subject to another image. You can easily realize works resulting from erasing background in cover of magazines, posters, and so on. Erasing background will not difficult if you are meticulous and patient. This article will instruct you how to erase background with Photoshop CS6 software.
– Double-click on Background layer so that the word ‘Background’ changes into Layer 0
– First, open the image needed fixing in Photoshop. In this example, it is a picture with a white background

– Next select Magic Eraser Tool

– The function of this tool is that when you click on the area of a specific color, it will erase all of the selected color in that area. For instance, in the above example, we will click on the area of white color in order to erase background.

– The result will be a picture with a transparent background.
– Then Save the image
– Note: When saving, you have to save it in the form of the extension .PNG because this format supports transparent image (the extension .JPG we usually see does not support transparent image, so it still gives the result of a white-background image)

One of the standard components of Photoshop is Layers, which is the basis on which you can create beautiful pictures. In this post, we will introduce some basic layer usage tips to make a picture outstanding.

Basic post on Adobe Photoshop CS6 you maybe interested in:
• Part 1: Toolbox and friends.
• Part 2: Control Panels.
Layers board is one of the most important parts of Photoshop. It would take time working with this panel anytime you use Photoshop.

If this part is not seen is the window, you can re-open by getting to menu Window > Layers (or press F7)

Use Lasso tool to make any shape, in this case the word “Layer” is drawn. But Lasso does not create a new layer yet, therefore you need to click into in Layers board (or press Ctrl + Shift + N) to create a white layer.

You can give into this new layer a new image file or any components depending on your editing purpose. By default, a newly-created layer is in transparent form.
If you want to add background color to this new layer, just get to Edit > Fill and choose colors.

The newly-set background color of the new layer is black. After coloring the object, remove selection area to do another practice. To remove selection of an area, you just need to Ctrl + D.

In this image, the word Layer is located at the head of the missle and thus makes the image ugly. In this case you need to adjust the location of the word Layer.
Use Move Tool (shortcut V) to move selected layers in panel Layers in Photoshop.

In this image, the shuttle is still obscured by the word Layer, you can drag or rotate it to another position so that the original image is not getting worse.
To rotate layer, you should choose the layer that needs rotating. Ctrl + T, move the mouse cursor to the corner of the rectangle covering the layer and rotate

Apart from the newly-created Layer component, you can insert different layers to the image, each layer is an independent part, which helps easier and more flexible editing.

In case some layer is not suitable with others, you can hide by clicking onto the symbol at the correspondent layer. To unhide the layer, do vice versa, click onto the empty box at the top of the layer

To make a caption for an image, choose Type Tool (shorcut: T) and key in the caption contents. The contents can be changed later in case you want to edit.

In case the captions in the image is not so outstanding, you can use Blending Options to make more effects to the selected layer. Right-mouse click onto the layer that needs effects and choose Blending Options in menu.

With this option, you can see Layer Style box, with which you can choose effects of shading, bordering,… and many other effects for the object.

You can choose different effects to the same object/layer as long as the object is prominent on a complicated image background.

Even when the effects are chosen, if the object contents need changing (in this case is the font of the word Aplollo 11), it’s still possible.

In panel Layer, you can control every layer as well as their effects. If it’s necessary to hide any effect or layer, just click onto symbol . There are various layer effects in panel Layer depending on the object you create.

In panel Layers, you can click to make another color layer, which is also called layer Adjustment

The below image is added with a layer Adjustment

This layer Adjustment is also listed in panel Layers and only affects its lower layers. Try relocating layers to see the mutual affects. This Adjustment can also be edited in effects, similar to normal layers.
There are many effect options to adjust layers Adjustment including Gradient.

You can edit some options with Gradient effects such as style, color, angle…

Layers Adjustment are hidden or adjusted by double-clicking onto them in the list in panel Layers

Practices with layers in panel Layers help increase Photoshop usage ability, through which you can get expected effects to the image that needs editing.

Thanks for reading.

Today, I will continue to guide the you how to use Action in Photoshop, I really do not encourage to use this way. It is easy for us to be passive because we always want to use “available”, this is difficult to improve your skills. But sometimes, it is very necessary to use, especially when we need process a whole set of photos that have to add text to each image is very hard and it does not sync the color of all the pictures. So, Action is the best and most time-consuming solution. Ok, let us begin!

What is Action?

Action in Photoshop is the process of recording the actions you have done with image A and save with * .atn (Photoshop action file). With images B, C, D,… you also perform the same operation as the image A, then you should use the action to save time. Action will automatically re-perform the actions that you make the photo A to apply to the photo B, C, D,… quickly and accurately.

How to use:
Open up Photoshop, go to the Windows Actions menu (shortcut is F9) to open the panel. On the panel, you click on the small black arrow and select load Actions… then you select the action file that you need to run. Press Load:

When loading is complete, a folder appears on the control panel, you click on the blue arrow so that it prints the actions contained within it.

To run, you select an action and press the Play button. And follow the author’s request.

Okay, it is very simple, right? In this tutorial, I only talk about how to run Action. You can read more articles in PhotoshopTip to learn more about creating an Action as long as where to download special and wonderful actions.

Click here to download 108 sets of automatic blending action in Photoshop

Photoshop is one of the best photo editing tools with the eye-catching interface and a series of “awesome” utilities. However, everyone is not understands and uses all of its functionality, especially for beginners. In this article, let’s take a brief look at the terms and functions that you are most likely to use in Photoshop.

1. Blending Mode

As the name implies, you can use the Blending mode to “blend” different layers to create unique effects.

Understand that base color is the color in the original image. The color you want to apply to your image is blend color. The blend mode has been selected and applies the correction, this is called the result color.

2. Brush Tool

One of the most favorite features of Photoshop is its ability to process images as if it were an artwork. Using the Brush Tool is roughly equivalent to using a palm tree but it works on a digital background. One of its main advantages over “true” is the ability to change shape, diameter, and hardness, transparency immediately.

3. Clone Stamp Tool

The Clone Stamp tool allows you to draw a part of a photo through another scene on the same photo. This is often used to duplicate or remove objects. It’s very similar to the Healing Tool except that it copies colors and textures, rather than mixing them.

4. Curves

Curves are probably one of the best ways to make tone adjustments to your images. The Curves chart is based on the Histogram and allows you to lighten, darken, add contrast and even adjust colors from all panels.

5. Dodge and Burn Tools

The Dodge and Burn tool is based on a traditional technique that photographers use to adjust the exposure on certain portions of the image. The Dodge tool allows you to lighten an area, while the Burn tool darkens. By specifying the exposure between tones, shadows or highlights, you can use the airbrush to apply changes or drag and select an area.

6. Eyedropper Tool

Photoshop uses the foreground color to draw and fill areas, and the background color to fill the gradient. The default foreground color is black, while the default background color is white. You can change these colors according to the color you choose with the Eyedropper tool. Select Eyedropper, click a color in the image, and the auto foreground color will be changed. If you make Alt + Click Windows, or Option + Click Mac, you can choose a new background color.

7. Feather

Feathering is the term Adobe uses to create softer edges. Using feathering you can adjust the sharpness of the edges, blend the image, or make a specific object stand out.

8. Histogram

Histogram represented by charts represent the tonal values ​​of your image’s tonal value. Using Histogram, you can define shadows, midtones, and highlights. Using Histogram you can quickly evaluate whether your image is properly exposed and has the appropriate contrast level.

9. History Panel

One of the most important features of an image editor is the ability to undo what you just did. The History Panel provides a chronological list of edits that you have made. Having the opportunity to undo the edits you’ve made makes you more likely to experiment. By default, the number of states you can make in the history panel is 20, but you can easily change that in Photoshop settings.

10. Layer

When you open an image in Photoshop it is specified as a background layer. After that, you can then overlay transparent layers on the background layer. This allows you to make image changes that affect the original image. You can use it to combine two images together, add text, or add effects, there are many functions.

11. Layer Mask

The Layer Mask allows you to overlay multiple effects, images, and headings on the original background layer. The Layer Mask is a MASK mask that covers your layer. There are different types of masks with different thickness. On the worksheet, the Layer mask shows only two colors, white and black. With the darker, the coverage of the layer mask higher, which means that the layer will show the lightest.

12. Magic Wand Tool

The Magic Wand tool is a great time saver when you want to remove a consistent color space like the background. Magic Wand automatically selects an area with extremely dark colors. You can even specify the color range – called tolerance – relative to the color you have chosen.

Nowadays, most of you have a smartphone to take digital picture with high quality. However, many people love the classic style and want to have a hand-drawn image.
In this article, I will guide you how to turn an image into a picture with pencil drawing style. With some simple Photoshop steps, you may create a unique photo with sharp brushstrokes that is drawn with a pencil. In this tutorial, I will show How to turn a real image into artworks in Photoshop.

Fisrt, let’s see the original model and pattern after being “photoshopped”

Before starting my tutorial, you should pay attention to 2 small points: first, here are one of the simple tips in pts, I only intend to guide newcomers to pts. Therefore, I hope that top-class players do not say that I “teach fish to swim”. Second, you should choose an image as sharp and fewer complexes as possible to have a beautiful “picture” (of course, you can use your experience to turn complex imagine into more simple one, I do not mention here). Well, we start, let’s open up the picture.

FIRST, be duplicated pictures by pressing Ctrl + J, we will have the same background with layer1

NEXT, we use Ctrl + Shift + U to turn this layer into black and white ((if you are not familiar with shortcut keys, you may implement it by clicking into Image à Adjustments –> Black and White –> OK or clicking into half black half white circle icon under Layer picker and clicking into Black and White and OK, here, I would like to say briefly short cuts steps. And results will be as follow:

NEXT, we will duplicate Layer1 into Layer1 copy. After that, press Ctrl + I (Image -> Adjustments -> Invert) to turn Layer 1-copy into NEGATIVE one:

You should choose Blend Mode of Layer1 copy is Color Dodge, as shown below:

After implementing this step, the imagine will be nearly filled with white color, don’t panic, you go to Filter and choose Other, in the items of Other, select Minimum like this picture:

If you’ve never heard of this procedure, it is surely that you will be surprised because the painting begins to show up. In Minimun section, choose parameter with 1-5 size (it is depended on the picture that you adjust appropriately and satisfactorily). With this picture, I choose 2, after that click OK:

You click half white and half black circle icon as I said initially so that the contours will be sharper

It is depended on each eye and imagines so that you adjust to create sharp contours without losing the balance of the contrast of the picture, here you select the parameters as follow:

After changing Curves, use Ctrl + Shift + Alt + E to mix Layers when it has not locked. Next, we use Dodge Tool to brighten unnecessary shadows.

When using this tool, you should set the Highlight painting mode and depending on certain part that select appropriate Exposure (here, I set 50 when deleting the dark outside the character, use size 10-20 to lighten some parts of the face, and arm

THIS STEP REQUIRES YOUR EYES, THE PICTURE that you create a contrast of light and dark, I cannot show you how to make it because in each case the imagine will differ greatly.
Thus, we have nearly finished the picture, you should check carefully all details of the picture whether there are some unfavorable details or not. Here, I realized that in the neck of the girl has a part of camera that when turning into brushstroke that lost landscape, I will use the Clone Stamp tool to delete them.

YOU MAY ALSO ADD OTHER DETAILS SUCH AS WORD, GRAPHIC ICONS TO MAKE IT MORE VIVID, HOWEVER, AS MY EXPERINCE, THE MORE SIMPLE IT IS, THE BETTER IT IS. HERE, I ONLY ADD MY SIGNATURE IN ACCORDANCE WITH MY EXPERIENCE.

Well, here are the most basic steps to make a picture with pencil drawing style from a real imagine. I would like to reiterate that here is some not really perfect experience that I have got. As I have emphasized, it is depended on EACH EYE when presenting tut. I believed that if you really passionate about and spend time researching, you will do it much better than me.

Thanks for reading !
Have a good job !

Simple way to change color in Photoshop Cs5 cs6–Change Photoshop color with Replace Color. Changing color in Photoshop is one of the most basic function in Photoshop, including changing T-shirt color, hair color, skin color, etc… and there are different ways to do this to get a so-real photo depending on each circumstance.

The easiest way is to use function Replace Color. This function can be easily understood as changing this color into another color in a photo, and as a result all like colors in the photo or the selected area in the photo are replaced with another color. Therefore this way is applicable to 2D photos of which colors are not interleaved so much.

For example, to change the color of the bikini in below photo, you should:
– Open the photo
– Use Lasso Tool to draw around the area that needs replacing color. No need to draw fitly, just draw the surrounding area so that the like or similar colors to another color in unselected areas are separated, to avoid unexpected affect.

Go to Image –-> Adjustments –> Replace Color…

Then use Color Select Tool to choose the area you want to change color, for instance if you want to change the cherry color, click into the cherry-color area.

Then change color at Replacement by adjusting the color bar or just clicking to choose the color. However it only replaces the like or similar colors to the color you chose and the photo still looks blurry.

To change color of the remaining blurry part, choose the Color Select Tool with Plus symbol (+) below, and click into the blurry part to keep on replacing color.

During color changing, in case other areas or details are changed color unexpectedly, use Lasso Tool to re-select and move out the areas you do not wish to change color. Then follow next steps as indicated above.

There are many other ways to change color, which vforum.vn will update in later posts.

When downloading images from the Internet such as cover photos, desktop wallpapers,… you may find out watermarked image sometimes. You want to remove it instantly to make it your own image. So you can follow this simple and quickly instruction below. However, this tutorial is only available by Photoshop CS5 and CS6 but not earlier.

First of all, open the image that you want to remove watermark by Photoshop. Then select Lasso Tool (press L) and select the area around the word you want to delete.

Choose Edit -> Fill or press Shift + F5

In Fill window, you choose Content-Aware. Then select OK.

Photoshop will remove the text naturally without too many differences from the original.

This is an effective way in Photoshop CS5 and CS6 that can help you to remove text or wartermark on image. Tutorial in other version of Photoshop will be introduce to you next time.

How to remove tattoos using Photoshop ? I will show how to remove a tattoo in Photohsop. You have a tattoo in body, you’re uncomfortable with them. You can remove tattoo naturally at home (…). But using Photoshop is very fastly and easily (just for photo). In this Photoshop tutorials, I have tested in Photoshop Cs6 and Photoshop CC. ( I’m sorry for my English )

In the last post, I wrote about How to add a tattoo to body :

– How to make tattoo on body with Photoshop CS6
– Making a tattoo with Photoshop

How to Remove a Tattoo from a Photo Using Photoshop ? ( My product )

Step 1 : Open photo in Photohsop ( Right click on photo => Open => Choose program Photoshop CC 6 or Photoshop CC)

Step 2 : Right click on Background Layer => Duplicate Layer . We will edit on new layer is “Background copy” layer. Because when We edit, We can make mistake on Background layer so that We should create “Background copy” layer.

Turn off background layer by clicking on eye icon on Background layer ( indicates layer visibility )

Step 3: Right click on Patch tool => Choose Patch tool ( You can press “J” hot key )

Using mouse cricle the tattoo then press “delete” key

We repeat this action for all tattoos

Step 4 : Duplicate “Background copy” layer, we have new layer “Background copy 2” and turn off “Background copy” layer ( Press D key )

Using Patch Tool cricle the tattoo is deleted then hold and drag mouse to good skin area

repeat for other erea. We have a photo without tattoo.

Step 5: Make smooth skin

Go Filter menu => Noise => Median => Radius : 3 pixels => OK

You can see detail in the post : How to remove acne and smooth skin in Photoshop CS6

Using spot healing brush tool to adjust color skin

We have a cricle mouse => Click on “bad skin color”

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One of the most important and valuable tool that Photoshop gives you to edit or recover images is histograms. Histograms are, in fact, very valuable and not only limited in Photoshop. You’ll find them in many other photo editing programs such as Photoshop Elements, Adobe Lightroom, Camera Raw plug-in, and much more! Quite a few digital cameras nowadays have the convenient histogram function allowingyou to see the brightness of details in the photos you’ve justtaken(it’s very important to your photo)! Despite its simplicity, it’s really hard to imagine a life without histograms, at least to those who think image quality does matter.

Maybe you are wondering what a histogram is. Simply, a histogram is a graph. I know some of you will fall asleep when I’ve just mentioned the word “graph”. But don’t worry, this is just an easy tool. A histogram is a graph that helps us see the current brightness of the photo. A histogram lets us see how many percentages of the photo are virtually black, how many for white and how many for grey. “Black and white” here does not mean black and white photo. The histogram displays exactly the photo with all colors, as you’re looking at the brightness but not the colors (although histograms can be used to see the brightness of each specific color, you need not know about it this time).

Why should we know about the brightness of the photo? Have you ever looked at a photo that seems ‘flat’? It can be a very nice photo generally, but it’s not as striking as you wish. Maybe it’s because the photo has low contrastand you can open its histogram to find out improper areas. Histograms instantly let you see some prominent points in a photo that is not shiny white enough or lack of black in the dark ,which may lead to low contrast of the photo. They help find ỉm-proper details quickly, avoid waste of time wondering why the photo is not striking enough.
Another problem may arise in photo editing, that is, some part of the photo may be too dark and become totally black, and/or another is too bright and become totally white, in whichever case you will lose all image details in that too bright or too dark area. Since our eyes are not sensitive enough, it’s actually not always easy for us to detect these problems by just looking at the screen. But with only a glance at the histogram, you can find out if the editing has gone too far and it’s time to come back a little bit. Or else, if you need to recover an old photo, its histogram can tell you if the original image loses details in the bright or dark area. The point is, it’s disadvantageous to you and your photo if you’re editing the photo but do not know how to read a histogram.

Look at a histogram in Photoshop

The most popular way to see a histogram in Photoshop is in the box Levels. Although Adobe introduces histogram in Photoshop CS and even add a histogram in box Curves inPhotoshop CS3, Levels helps you find histograms more easily and accurately. You can find below an example of a typical histogram. The histogram is the black area like a mountain:

The histogram is the black ‘mountain’ in the center of the box Levels.
The reason why Levels helps you see histograms better is, Levels has a gradient bar lying horizontally right below the histogram. Gradient starts from virtual black color at the far left and gradually brighter until it gets virtually white at the far right:

Why does gradient bar help you read histograms easily? Because the brightness of gradient suitswith the histogram beyond. The histogram shows ranges of colors of the photo that are distributed by and between virtual black and virtual white colors. The height of the ‘mountain’ within a brightness level of gradient shows the density of photo details there. The low area of the ‘mountain’ within a brightness level in gradient tells few details are display there. If the ‘mountain’ does not have height at a certain level of brightness, it means there are no details there in your photo.

For instance, have a look at the left side of the histogram, and you’ll see a very little part of the ‘mountain’ displayed. That area at the far left shows black color of the photo. Looking closely, you’ll find that those areas at the left side correspond vertically to the virtual black color in the gradient below. Since there are few histograms there, we know black area in your photo is very small:

If we have a look at the right side, we hardly see any details here. The right-side areas displays virtually white color, and we once again can see this in box Levels as the line goes vertically with the virtually while color in the gradient below. And only a small strip of the gradient appears on the right side.

Your photo may have little virtual white or black colors, but you can see steep ‘mountain’ slopes in other between-black-and-white areas, which means you have much image information there. Again, if we compare ‘mountain peaks’ in the histogram with the brightness of the gradient below, we know exactly the bright areas in the photo currently are:

No need to look at the photo you are opening, you just take a look at its histogram and know many details of this photo are spread evenly within the scope of the brightness levels and the ‘mountain’ height at the upper left or right is not much. Then you’ll know you do not lose any details. In order to compare, see below example of a histogram from a shadow-cut photo. The height of the ‘mountain’ goes up at the far left with a direct black peak in the gradient below. This is an example for the case in which image details in the dark are lost.

You will not have to care about editing photos here. Just look at the histogram, learn to understand what it tells you about your photo. Below is another example on a histogram contrary to the previous. In this histogram, brightness points are cut, meant you’re losing details in bright points.

Without histograms, you are likely not to realize some details in the dark or light are missing. But with histograms, they help you while you’re working and keep you informed of potential issues while editing photos, like Photoshop.
Then, look closer at the histogram and ask yourself if there is any ‘ideal’ or ‘perfect’ histogram.

256 levels for brightness

Look at the direct lower left or right of the histogram in box Levels, and you’ll see a number, “0” at the left and “255” at the right. Histograms offer exactly 256 different levels of brightness from black to white, with “0” is virtually black and 255 is virtually white. And it’s because 8-bit image standard contains at most 256 brightness values (photo saved under JPEG files, for instance, is an 8-bit photo). The reason why the number goes from 0 to 255 but not from 1 to 256 is that, people often count from 1 whereas computers (and computer programs like Photoshop) start counting from 0:

If you look closely at the upper part of the histogram vertically, you’ll find it uneven but formed into small thorns and each thorn is head of a thin black vertical bar. If you count, there are exactly 256 vertical black bars vertically in total, each of which displays a specific brightness level. Below is a minimization of the histogram view to make it easier to see the heads:

Remember there is not a 1:1 ratio between the histogram and the actual number of pixelsin a photo. Digital photos nowadays a made from millions of pixels. And if Adobe managed to be compatible to all photos in histograms, you’ll need some monitors just to watch them. So histograms simple help us with a general idea on the brightness of the photo.

The fiction of a perfect histogram

Many people ask if there is an ideal or perfect histogram. The answer is no, in fact. Photos are different, meant all histograms are different. There is no ideal shape for a histogram that you have to reach for. Paying too much attention to histograms will actually be a big mistake. Histograms should be used as a guideline, but not a target. The most important is the photo itself. Histograms simple lets you know what you are working with and what you can do to complete (lack of brightness, too much excess of brightness, etc…) And if pay enough attention to the histogram while editing, you can make sure you do not go too far and lose details in your photo. You should always focus on the beauty of the photo based on what the photo says, not what the histogram says.

As an example on different methods, histograms can be later photos. See below photo:

A photo on natural dark like above, is dark or at least darker than an average photo you take in the middle of the afternoon. Below is what the histogram for this photo looks like:

The most prominent point of the histogram lies at the left half of the brightness levels, which means most of the photo are dark and there are quite few details in the bright part. Such photos are often called low-key as they are naturally dark. Actually in this case, a great part in the upper left side of the histogram shows a great black area of the photo. Now you know too much of black colors is a problem as it means the photo loses some details in the dark. But for almost everything in life, there are exceptions, irregularities. In this photo, the foresight at the front is a silhouette shooting in the moonlight, therefore the black color creates natural beauty to the photo despite too much dark. It’ll be a mistake if you try“fixing” the photo just to make the histogram more ‘standard’.
Below is another example:

This winter scenery is contrary to the previous photo. Everything is bright with quite few dark areas found in this photo. This is the overall histogram:

In this case, you can see most of the histogram lies in the right half of the brightness levels, telling you there is quite little dark in the photo. Actually there is not any real black color nor any black-like colors in this photo. Such photos are called high-key because it’s naturally bright. Once again, it’ll be a mistake if you edit the photo simply just to balance the histogram, as the real photo will be afftected.

When you know how to read a histogram in Photoshop as anecessaryskill to edit photos professionally, I think it’ll be useful for you to have deeper and accurate view on your photos. Whether you look at histogram in LCD screen of your digital camera, or use histogram to adjust exposure in Camera Raw, fix general issues of darkness and brightness with Levels, adjust photo contrast with Curves, or simply glance at the histogram while editing, this will help you with a better concept at that time to edit the photo better. If you take a photo, its histogram will help you adjust darkness and brightness in the photo while shooting, and you’ll have standard bright-metering photos. If you only look at LCD screen in the camera when it’s too bright or too dark, the screen will deceive your eyes. Just a simple histogram, it’s important to understand it.

How to open photoshop cs6 and launch Photoshop CS6 When Adobe Photoshop software is installed. If your computer don’t have Adobe Photoshop, You have to be setup this software in your system. Please see this tutorial to install Photoshop CS6 and have more information How to install Photoshop CS6 trial version

There are many ways to lauch Photoshop CS6. In this small tutorial, I will show 3 ways to launch Photoshop.

1/ Go to Start Menu ( I’m using Window 7), in search program and files box, you type “photoshop”. You will see Photoshop software, then click this.

After click “Adobe Photoshop CS6”, you will open Photoshop CS6 and the first you can see that is application frame of Photoshop CS6.

2/ Using Photoshop’s Icon in your desktop.

3/ Go to C diver > program files > Adobe > Adobe Photoshop CS6 > Photoshop.exe

In Photoshop CS6, you can’t find Imageready. Becasue Photoshop have new tools to making animation for web development. You may read this article Difference between Photoshop and ImageReady

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How to open an image in Photoshop CS6 that is the first work if you are learning Photoshop. I will show some ways to open single photo or multiple photos. If your computer doesn’t have Adobe Photoshop software, you shall install this software. You can use trial version ( How to install Photoshop CS6 trial version). I think you should buy it if you want to use long term.

After Adobe Photoshop software is installed in your computer, you launch it ( How to open Photoshop CS6 ) and you will see application frame. We will work with application frame in Photoshop cs6.

If you know where an image is stored, You can open an file in Photoshop CS6 in similar way

1/ Choose File menu > Open in Photoshop CS6. Hotkey is Ctrl + O

You can change browse by going to the file is stored in Your computer. If the folder have many format files, You can filter format file by click All Formats in File of Types

After choosing the file name you want to open then double click or click Open button

To select multiple files, click the first file and then Ctrl-click each additional file. ( You have to hold Ctrl key). You will see more document is opened in Document tabs.

2/ Right click at Photo you want to open, then choose Open With > Adobe Photoshop CS6
This way just only open single photo.

3/ Open recent file

You can open quickly a file that you have worked with it before. Photoshop CS6 supply open recent file. This function is very useful.

Choose File menu > Open Recent

In the next photoshop tutorial , I will post difference between open and open as in photoshop cs6

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Option Overload: that’s one of the best things in Photoshop, and also the worst. Take a look at default panels to see which functions are needed for Photoshop usage, so you can find again.

See Part 1: Introduction on Toolbox in Adobe Photoshop CS6

The default panel is set at the right of Photoshop window. It contains useful settings for Photoshop beginners, you can adjust, hide or unhide them. Photoshop space can be widened for your comfort in working when you hide panel bars.

The default setting of the panels in Essentials is as follows: Apart from Essentials window, you can choose other frames such as Design, 3D… by clicking to have more options. Besides, to restore panels in each frame, you can choose Reset in context menu when clicking .

Panels can be gathered by clicking
in the upper right of the panel.

You can drag panel to any position convenient for use by clicking and dragging equivalent panel out of its set position.

Obviously panels can be reset to the initial position by dragging next to the right side of Photoshop window, until a blue bar appears at the right of the window.

Default panels:
There are several default panels in Essentials frame which are displayed at the top (beside menu Help)
Mini Bridge: Adobe Bridge is a file image browsing program similar to Faststone, XnView or Google Picasa. CS6 integrated a small Bridge version for simpler virtual browser through panel. This is really useful and helps you save much time in image management.

Virtual browser of image folders in Photoshop is very helpful. Bridge loads only when you open panel and choose Start Browsing. Intuitive tools will direct to computer folders; important and frequently-used files/folders can be added to Favorites for fast-access when necessary.

History: this is one of the most important functions in Photoshop. History allows users to undo many levels of the done work.

As you can see in below images, the left one is the things done to the image, the right is the undo of almost all those things.

With panel History, you can call back the latest practices done to the image or even restore the original image (in case the image is not edited as you expect) by clicking the top of the panel History.

Color: this is a simple panel, it’s the color you set for foreground and background

You can adjust the value of Red, Green và Blue from 0 to 255. The higher the value, the brighter the color and vice versa. Besides, you can choose colors from the color bar below the panel, it seems easier to choose.

Additionally, you can customize other color selections by
and set slider for various color schemes.

Swatches: a saved color board. It is such an interesting resources for beginners and even for experts.

By default, CS6 saves 122 main colors for your usage.

You can create a new swatch from foreground color by clicking and choose “New Swatch”

The color you choose to save will be displayed in Swatch.

Styles: is the panel of saved Layer Effects, Styles can be an interesting format for beginners and helpful to experts to save time in re-using popular layer format.

Simply you just click into any default styles to quickly re-use later. If you do not want to choose any formats for layer, adjust them manually or click

to remove layer effects totally.

Many default effects

You can see more available formats by clicking into
to choose.

Adjustments: this is an adjustment panel creating layers to make your image more lively and beautiful. You can use functions Hue/Saturation, Contrast or Levels for your images. These functions are actually creating a new layer onto your image and all adjustments are done to this new layer.

Click “Levels” to automatically create a new layer adjustment.


You’ll see slide-bar options to adjust the contrast of the image.

You can Undo these changes without using History or other Undo functions, just remove created adjustment layers.

Many adjustment layers can be created at the same time and if you want to use any adjustment layer, you just need to hide others ‘cause they are separate layers.

Masks: Panel marks is a mode to remove parts of a layer, bringing the layer back to transparency form. This is such a good way to remove background from a layer without using effects.

Panel Mask is a unique function in CS6, which helps beginners remove background from images without a sweat.

Layers: Layer is a standard function of Photoshop, which allows users to create 2D images from many adjustable parts.

A new artistic adjustment layer can make an image more beautiful (or ugly) without effects to the original image layer.

A layer can be copied, masked, etc… Adjustments for layers are also created and managed in this panel Layers.

Layers are stacked together to create perfect images

Opacity and Blending modes are also managed in this panel. Images edited by layers can bring back abundant images and are easier for re-editing.

Channels: Digital images display colors in accordance with the combination of basic colors, which are displayed independently in panel Channels in Photoshop. Beginners can skip this panel.

If you concern about using Channels, remember to save the image before testing.

Paths: this is a rather complicated part in Photoshop, which are mainly based vector (similar to Illustrator). Vector is actually not hard to understand but Pen tool is, and Pen tool is a bit disturbing to new users.

Good luck!

In this tutorial I will show how to type vertical text in Photoshop CS6 and you can change from horizontal to vertical text in Photoshop. Sometime we want to design a billboard or advertisement and we need to use vertical text. How do it work ? I also make a video tutorial about this. Luckily, Photoshop gives us the tooltip, so we easily change these texts. Only 3 steps. How to open vertical type tool ?

Step 1 : Launch the Adobe Photoshop CS6 and create a new document. Go to the File menu and select New

Step 2 : Right Click on “T” symbol the select vertical type tool

Step 3 : You see vertical arrows beside “T” symbol, vertical type tool is enable. You move your mouse to document, hold and drag your mouse then type the text.

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You also go to my channel on Youtube to see video tutorial : youtube.com/user/photoshoptipdotcom

How to make tattoo on body with Photoshop Cs6. Today I will share a mini tutorial how to add tattoo effect on a person with Photoshop. In the last post “Making a tattoo with Photoshop“. I introduced make tattoo in Photoshop. But the last tutorial, I dont talk to “effect”. How to make tattoo effect on body ? This tutorial have tested in Photoshop CS6 and Photoshop CC.

My product :

Step 1: Load the model and the tattoo image.

Step 2: Duplicate layer by right-click on the window model image.

Step 3 : We will desaturate the image, Ctrl + shift + u or image / adjustments / desaturate

Step4: We will give to Filter / Blur / gussiano. I put 2.9. Iit is the image as seen in this picture. a little fuzzy, but very little.

Step 5 : File / Save As or Shift + Ctrl + S, we keep the image Format: Photoshop PSD, PDD and named Copy to know which is the copy.

Step 6 : Then close the image store, now let the color and work on it will select the Move (V) tool and drag the image to the model, then give Ctrl + T to move the tattoo to your liking, you can be more large smaller, more inclined, etc.

Step 7 : Then we press the Enter key to place.

Step 8: Multiply chop after him, leaving only the tattoo without the white background

Step 9 : We give to Filter / Blur / Blur More

Step 10: We will move to opacity, it is to taste, in my opinion I put about 70%

Step 11 : First, we go Filter / distort / Move, we move box appears, leave the default data, horizontal scale 10 , vertical scale 10 displacement map; selection of stretching. Areas not defined; selection in: Turn / Ok / us then open the window to seek, to apply the image we hold the beginning, that we select and open.

Step 12 : Filter / Shift or Ctrl + F. And see how fits between clothing and skin.

Step 13 : Then we add a vector mask, the bottom of the layers, selected in red.

Step 14 : Chop the Brush tool (B), and this color in Black, We used to remove debris from the tattoo as well as on clothing, outside the area, etc.

Step 15: Deleting with the brush.

Step 16 : following Deleting

Step 17 : Deleting, almost..

Step 18 :The last, Merge down and ready, is the image lsita

Thanks for your reading !
Have a good job.
In the next post, I will show how to remove a tatton on body with Photoshop