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History Palette | Photoshop Beginner’s Tutorial

June 8, 2014 by John Ross

Photoshop Tutorial - History Palette

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Running Time: 2 minutes

Nobody is perfect. We all make mistakes, especially when it comes to perfecting our retouching. In those moments when you just can’t find the right adjustment for something, the History Palette comes to the rescue. By default, you will have 20 past steps that you can undo.

The history palette basically just allows you to go back to your previous actions and correct past mistakes. Initially, when you go to the history palette, you will see your image and the label that says “Open”. This means that you haven’t really done anything yet but open the image. Start by clicking the pulldown Window - History, and it will open the History Palette.

 
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Layers Palette | Photoshop Beginner’s Tutorial

June 1, 2014 by John Ross

Photoshop Tutorial - Layers Palette

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Running Time: 4 minutes

Layers make up a huge chunk of the magic of Photoshop. It is one of the most crucial tools that you can use especially for non-destructive editing, but it is also one of the most confusing if you don’t quite know how to make your way around it. Don’t worry, I will help you master and understand just how each layer works by giving you the simplest and most basic overview.

 
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Options Bar | Photoshop Beginner’s Tutorial

May 25, 2014 by John Ross

Photoshop Tutorial - Options Bar

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Running Time: 2 minutes

Do you see that toolbar that runs along the top of Photoshop, below the main menu? That is the Options bar.

The Options bar changes depending on the tool that you have selected. For instance, if we click on the Eyedropper tool, the Options bar changes into the different options and settings specifically for the Eyedropper tool only.

As we go further in this whole Retouching for Beginners crash course, we’ll eventually get to the nitty-gritty of every single tool and their corresponding Options.

 
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Info Palette | Photoshop Beginner’s Tutorial

May 24, 2014 by John Ross

Photoshop Tutorial - Info Palette

This video is available Free for Everyone.
Running Time: 3 minutes

The Info Palette shows you different information about your image, based on your selected tool. It will tell you about color breakdown, measurements, and other useful tidbits.

 
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Photoshop CC 2014 Preferences Tutorial

May 18, 2014 by John Ross

Photoshop Tutorial - CC 2014 Preferences

This video is available Free for Everyone.
Running Time: 8 minutes

Eager beaver beginners usually just want to start editing photos without even giving much thought to settings and preferences. This is a big no-no, which is precisely why amateurs make this mistake all the time. Preferences greatly affect the workflow of your photos depending on how you want to edit them, so your road to Photoshop excellence starts with the “boring” settings people so often skip.

There have been a ton of versions for Photoshop over the years, but here we’ll be talking about the Preferences for the latest version called Photoshop CC. If you’re interested to find out about the older versions’ Preferences, you can check out the videos for Photoshop CS5 and CS6 right here on my website.

 
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Palettes and Navigation | Photoshop Beginner’s Tutorial

May 11, 2014 by John Ross

Photoshop Tutorial - Palettes and Navigation

This video is available Free for Everyone.
Running Time: 7 minutes

Once you’re inside Photoshop, you come face to face with all these tools, palettes, and seemingly random symbols. Add that to a boring interface and you just might give up on Photoshop right from the start. I’m telling you now that there’s nothing to be afraid of, because we’ll tackle basic navigation through all these palettes to ensure that it’s easy-breezy. And when we’re done, you’ll realize that the interface is no more daunting than a fluffy little bunny.

 
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Camera Raw | Photoshop Beginner’s Tutorial

May 4, 2014 by John Ross

Camera Raw Tutorial - Super Basics

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Running Time: 10 minutes

So you took a lovely shot of the perfect night sky, and now you want to start retouching it. When you drag this image onto Photoshop, the first thing it does is not really open it up in Photoshop but in Camera Raw. You’re taken to this interface that all seems foreign to you, with buttons and sliders and you’re thinking, “What in the world just happened?”

I’m going to clear up your confusion straight away. Camera Raw is an extremely easy-to-use raw processor that’s built into Photoshop. It handles your raw image before you open it up in Photoshop, and believe it or not, most of the time when I’m done teaching Camera Raw to my students, they don’t even want to use Photoshop anymore. Counterproductive, or just incredibly awesome? Don’t just take my word for it—let’s dive right in.

 
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Camera Raw Filter | Photoshop Basic Tutorial

April 6, 2014 by John Ross

Photoshop Tutorial - Camera Raw Filter

This video is available Free for Everyone.
Running Time: 6 minutes

This short clip will teach you all about Camera Raw Filter, a powerful tool available in Photoshop CC. It basically lets you treat a pixel-based image as a raw file and make adjustments to it. How does that happen?

 
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Smart Objects and Portraits | Photoshop Basic Tutorial

March 30, 2014 by John Ross

Photoshop Tutorial - Portraits and Smart Objects

This video is available Free for Everyone.
Running Time: 14 minutes

After all of the techniques and tools that we talked about, you are now ready to see all these concepts applied into a single image. This tutorial will show you how to actually retouch a photo using all the knowledge you’ve just acquired, all done in a truely non-destructive workflow.

 
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Smart Objects Inside Smart Objects | Photoshop Basic Tutorial

March 23, 2014 by John Ross

Photoshop Tutorial - Smart Objects Inside Smart Objects

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We’ve discussed the wonder of Smart Objects, but it does get confusing for some people, especially for a beginner. This tutorial will teach you workarounds when it comes to working with Smart Objects, and will get rid of your fear of meddling with these seemingly tricky situations.

 
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