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Posted by: Timmyface Feb 12, 2013 - 11:40 PM

Photoshop Tutorials - Basic Info

Basic Tools

Depending on the program/version you are running, you should have a pretty similar toolbar on the left of your screen, or will see these symbols throught the program.



1. This is your ‘Moving tool’ It lets your drag the current ‘layer’ around your screen.
2. Selection tool. When making rough square/circle cuts.
3. Lasoo tool. This will be used for more precise cutting, around the cars body, wheels etc.
4. Magic wand. Cleverly selects certain connecting areas in the object. Usually works best when its more of a solid color.
5. Crop tool.
6. Eyedropper, to select colors.
7. Healing brush, removes blemishes by usuing surrounding colours to blend it together.
8. Paintbrush tool.
9. Clone stamp. Creates a replication of a certain area, to paste in another.
10. History brush, removes any painting your’ve done to the image.
11. Eraser.
12. Gradient tool.
13. Blur/Sharpen/Smudge
14. Dodge/Burn/Sponge
15. Pen tool.
16. Text
17. Path selection
18. Line/rectangle tool.

Explaining some of these tools in more depth
*Right clicking on most of these icons, will show submenus for you to click*

Lasoo Tool
If your icon looks a little different, eg with a Round bubble etc, here you can right click and choose an appropriate setting.



Here i use the Polygonal Tool. When using this, instead of drawing around your image in one single step, you make points around your objects, for a more precise
selection.
*Remeber to link back up to where you started*

Magic Wand
When using the magic wand tool, it is going to look for surrounding edges based on color/shape to form your selection.
Upon selecting any tool on the left, your toolbar on the top will change.



Up here we see the 'Tolerance' tab. Here, you select how much detail, you wish the wand to look for. With the tolerance set at <10 you will have a selection like so:



The smaller number will select less, more detailed areas.

With a tolerance selection of a greater number, eg >80 will result in:



Notice that it selects some of the car. Certain times will call for the magic wand, but usually if you give the time, the Lasoo tool will serve better.

Now that you have done selecting, what next?

Once you have your selection, for whatever reasons, you can choose to either Delete or Copy/Cut it to a new layer.

Simply Right Clicking on your selection will bring up this menu.


Layer via Copy - will duplicate your selection into another layer. This is the safest way to try editing and still have your original image.
Layer via Cut - cuts the selection out of the image, in some cases we will require this.
If you no longer need it, you can simply hit the Delete key on your keyboard.

Clone
Pretty self explanitory. With the clone tool selected, you will hold down your 'ALT'or'Option' key, and click the area you wish to duplicate.

On the top toolbar, you will see Brush, Mode, Opacity.



Select the required brush you desire, and change the opacity to your needs.
[u]*Remember 100% Opacity will be a full duplicate, 0% will be blank, try stick around 80%*[u]


Healing
The healing brush blends surrounding colors together. This is most helpful when you have been 'Cloning'
If you are trying to remove certain features, grills, camera rigs etc, the clone tool will remove the majority of it, but it wont be blended in together very well.

Using the same method as the clone tool, holding down 'ALT' in a similar clear area, than painting over your cloned area, should blend it all together.


Dodge
Dodge tool allows you to lighten certain parts of the image.
When it is selected, your upper toolbar will provide you with three ranges:



Again choose the appropriate Exposure (how much/hard you want it to be) and go to town with it.
When dodging, you really want to lighten up the highlights in your darker areas, Tyre sidewalls, Projectors etc

Burn

Right clicking on your Dodge tool, will bring up this menu:


Same settings apply for the Burn tool as the Dodge tool, but this time you will be making your things darker.


Better Examples will be shown below on how to use these!
Hopefully by the end of this you can have a basic knowledge to be able to muck around with your car, trying new things, or achieving edits like this:

Posted by: Timmyface Feb 12, 2013 - 11:56 PM

*reserved for*
Adjustments


Posted by: Timmyface Feb 13, 2013 - 12:01 AM

Editing


Posted by: Timmyface Feb 13, 2013 - 12:07 AM

*reserved for*

Post Production


Posted by: richee3 Feb 13, 2013 - 5:26 PM

Nice! I'm definitely going to have to start practicing. Thanks Timmy!

Posted by: Timmyface Feb 13, 2013 - 5:33 PM

It really pays off with a 10 minute edit. You don't realllllly need that fancy camera, as you can see with some before and after shots. In saying that though, I might do a simple run down of some SLR features as well.

Posted by: richee3 Feb 17, 2013 - 10:40 PM

I played around with CS4 a bit tonight, still suck at it. frown.gif This is the picture I started with. Nothing special about it, just figured I'd tinker around with it.



All I could do was adjust the darkness, made it look a little better. Hardly any difference though.


Posted by: Timmyface Feb 17, 2013 - 10:43 PM

Whatever your getting confused with/wanting to do, let me know and I'll work on that part next!

Posted by: richee3 Feb 17, 2013 - 10:49 PM

QUOTE (Timmyface @ Feb 17, 2013 - 9:43 PM) *
Whatever your getting confused with/wanting to do, let me know and I'll work on that part next!

I'm just a n00b, that's the problem. I was working on using some of the tools you described and I either didn't need to use them (cropping anything out) or couldn't figure them out (burn tool). I just need more practice.

Posted by: Timmyface Feb 25, 2013 - 6:14 AM

Update: Just added:
Lowering your car
Adding wheels to your car

Posted by: Malhar95 Feb 26, 2013 - 1:53 AM

Thank you so much for this!

Posted by: ILoveMySilly97 Mar 10, 2013 - 5:56 AM

Timmyface. You think you can recommend any free photoshop apps or programs to us? Or basic programs that doesn't cost too much?

Posted by: Timmyface Mar 10, 2013 - 5:59 AM

I haven't actually tried many others, but I'd say try out 'GIMP' or 'paint.net'.. It I can run you through torrents, and get photoshop >.> for free >.>

Posted by: manphibian Mar 10, 2013 - 6:24 AM

Awesome! Stickied. thumbsup.gif

Posted by: ILoveMySilly97 Mar 10, 2013 - 11:59 PM

Going to give GIMP and paint.net a try. smile.gif

UPDATE: Gave it a try and here's what I got. Lol. First attempt btw.

Original:


Edited:

Posted by: rentaspace Mar 18, 2013 - 10:52 PM

Just a quick edit I did in around 30mins due to over-the-top boredom kindasad.gif ...


Posted by: Rusty Mar 22, 2013 - 2:40 AM

QUOTE (manphibian @ Mar 11, 2013 - 12:24 AM) *
Awesome! Stickied. thumbsup.gif

also added this sticky thread to the multimedia sticky section

Posted by: ILoveMySilly97 Jul 4, 2013 - 12:59 AM

What's the best website that allow free photo uploads that has the best upload photo quality?

Posted by: Timmyface Jul 4, 2013 - 1:03 AM

I'd personally say Flickr atm

Posted by: ILoveMySilly97 Jul 4, 2013 - 1:09 AM

QUOTE (Timmyface @ Jul 3, 2013 - 11:03 PM) *
I'd personally say Flickr atm


Thanks. Just signed up and uploaded the pics I took today and edited with gimp. smile.gif

Posted by: richee3 Oct 23, 2014 - 6:56 PM

I wish this thread was complete. I have pictures that could use edits. Any other photographers want to step in and finish things up?

Posted by: Timmyface Oct 23, 2014 - 6:59 PM

Richee, what are you looking to do? Or just after some more general tips?
I can try pick up some more of it (thanks to this reminder from you) but it would be based on a newer, and mac, version of photoshop.

If anyone is after anything in particular, I can work on a tutorial for you!

Posted by: richee3 Oct 23, 2014 - 7:03 PM

Speak of the devil! General tips work great. I'm a n00b. And conveniently, using Photoshop on a Mac.

Posted by: Timmyface Oct 23, 2014 - 7:07 PM

thumbsup.gif too easy than bud, I'll have a flick through this when I get home and see what I come up with tongue.gif

Posted by: Timmyface Oct 28, 2014 - 4:41 AM

Bump. Added a Brightness/Contrast, Masking, Photo Filter, Sharpening post to the Adjustments section on Page 1.

Note: Sorry about image size, lack of celica, and the fact it was a quick throw-together. wink.gif

Posted by: Jaws4God Feb 1, 2023 - 5:45 PM

wow. that is a great tutorial!

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