Month: February 2020

1. open the image with Photoshop.

2. Use the Selection Tool to select the object.

3. To easy to compare, change the background color. In Select menu, select inverse. Click on Create new fill or adjustment layer icon and select Solid color. Choose white color in out case.

4. Hold CTR + Click on the object and then Inverse to selected object.

5. Enlarge the image. Then go to Select>Modify, adjust Smooth, Contract and Feather. Note: to hind selected line, hold CTR+H.

6. To compare before and after, click on the eye icon on the original layer.

Before

After

7. Now, make sure the select object and then inverse.

We will fix the dark edge of the object. Also make sue the color is black.

Select Brush Tool and brush the edge. This is before.

This is after.

1. With the image open, use selection tool to select the object.

2. To check the selection, click Add vector mask.

3. We can also create a background color to double check the selection.

For example white color.

Note: the layer is white. You need to move the top new white color layer under the image.

4. Make the selection lager. You will see the edge is not smooth. Now, click Selection and Mask from the Properties or from Selection menu. Note: Make sure the layer 0 selected Layer Mask is highlight (CTL+click).

5. Adjust Smooth, Feather, Contrast, and Shield Edge.

This is a result example.

1. Open the image.

2. Use Polygonal Lasso Tool draw your desired shape of a light beam.

3. Click on Create a new fill or adjustment layer icon

4. Select Curve and move the bar up.

5. In the Layer menu, go to New Fill Layer and select Gradient.

6. You have these options: Gradient Fit, Style, Angle and Scale.

7. This is the result.

These are two images I try to merge them.

This is the result.

The reason is their profile colors are different. The first image is Untagged RGB. The second image is ProPhoto RGB. Note:
you can see it on the bottom. If you don’t see it, click on the same area, check Document Profile.

To fix the problem, match their profile color by going to Edit>Convert to Profile.

Change the Profile color under Source Space.

This is the fixed result.

1. Open an image and duplicate the layer.

2. Select the object.

3. Open Select and mask from Select menu. Make any change on the selection. Then Output to layer mask.

4. Click on the right of the layer, select Create Layer.

5. Right the layer and select Blending Options.

6. In the Layer Style, check Drop Shadow. You have options to adjust Opacity, Angle, Distance, Quality.

7. After creating the shadow, hold Ctrl+T to select the shadow.

7. Right click on the the shadow selection, you have options to choose Scale, Rotate, …

8. This the final result.

1. Open a selected image. Please refer to

How to use Object Selection Tool in Photoshop 2020

2. Go to Layer>New Fill Layer>Solid Color.

3. Now, you should have original layer and Color Fill Layer. In Color Picker, select the color you want.

4. Move the picked color layer move into original Layer

5. To change the background color, double click on the solid color you select. The Color Piker show up. Change to different color.

6. For example.

Levels is the simple method for making tonal and colorful adjustment.
Or it corrects the tonal range and it corrects the color balance
in an image. It works with histogram.

1. With the image open, go to Levels Properties.

You can do it from Create new fill or adjustment layer in Layer panel.

Or from Windows>Adjustment. Then select Levels icon.

2. There are three sliders under the Levels graph. The shadow slider on the left determines how dark the image becomes. The highlight slider on the right establishes the highlights. The Gamma slider in the center lightens or darkens the midtones and is important in establishing the overall mood of the image.

3. The graph represents the darkest part of the image through to the lightest on a scale of 0-255. For maximum contrast, the graph should span the entire tonal range from 0 to 255. To adjust the contrast, make sure it is in RGB channel. Move the white slider in from the right to the edge of the histogram. Do the same for the black slider, adjusting it in to the edge of the histogram on the left. The important tip here is to make sure that you don’t overexpose the highlights and underexpose the shadows.  Once you have those two sliders adjusted, you can adjust the mid tone slider to add some contrast to the scene.

Note: To make sure you aren’t losing detail in the shadows and the highlights, you can hold Alt key when you move slide.

4. You can also adjust color channels.

Noise can reduce the quality of the image, especially when you print it. With Photoshop, you may be able to reduce the noise. Here is how.

1. Open an image and zoom in until the noise becomes more apparent.

2. Open Noise filter by going to Filter>Noise>Reduce Noise.

3. There are two options, Basic and Advanced. In The Basic, you have these options:

Strength: this option reduces the appearance of noise. However, it also makes the softer of image. You need to balance it.

Preserve Details: use it with Strength to preserve the details.

Reduce Color Noise: This is used to reduce color noise.

Sharpen Details: this is the method to prevent softening the image.

4. Advanced gives you an option to color noise per channel.

5. Compare.

This is before.

This is after.

This is a simple tip to use Curve Adjustment Layer to popup an image.

This is before.

This is after.

1. Open the image and Curve adjustment layer.

You can do it from Create new fill or adjustment layer in Layer panel.

Or from Windows>Adjustment. Then select Curve icon.

2. With the Properties of Curve open, you can see the left and right of Curve doesn’t have any ix or less pix. Hold Alt key and move the right course to left until you see the edge of the image.

Do the same by holding the Alt key and move the course from left to right until you see the edge.

3. Click the eye icon to compare before and after.

In this example, we will work on Curve Layer Adjustment. This is before

This is after.

1. Open and edit the image.

2. Create Curve layer. You can do it from Create new fill or adjustment layer in Layer panel.

Or from Windows>Adjustment. Then select Curve icon.

3. Our goal is highlighting the dark background. So adjust the Curve as shown this screenshot.

4. To highlight the dark background and keep other areas are the same as the original, you will use Brush Tool.

Make sure the the Front background is black, then use the brush to pain the areas you want to adjust.

5. You can check the paining area by hold Alt and click on Curve layer.

In the Properties (if you don’t have the Properties open, you can open it from Windows), you can continue to pain and adjust Density and other refine. Here is the result.

6. This is the result.