with Adobe Photoshop CC in very easy steps!

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Adobe Photoshop is a software leader in graphic and image editings. Beside

Lightroom or Photoshop Elements, Photoshop is the most professional one

and the most general one, that can be applied on images or photos or logos as well.

First of all, let's create a new workspace. Go to File and then to New... The new

window states how your new project must be. Decide its name on top. Decide then its

size through width and height in the middle. This size is referred to the white and

blank workspace you are going to work on. Digit the correct value on the left, and

the measurement unit on the right. You can set also the color resolution. Choose 16

or 32 bits. Choose to set your background in solid white or without any color, so with

transparency. Then go to OK.

Any empty space shown in your workspace is always represented through squares

in white and grey. This means that there is nothing drawn in such space.

The size of the workspace can be modified anytime, through the Crop Tool, the

the fifth icon in the Tools Panel. Click and drag an area. This selects the area of the

workspace to keep. All the rest will be cut and deleted. To accept the crop done,

just go to the OK symbol in the top right corner, otherwise just press Escape

from your keyboard.

There are two ways to fill your workspace. One is to generate images and shapes.

The other one is to open and edit images already existing. Let's open an image.

Go to File and then to Open and then browse. A new window will be opened

to welcome it, beside your original workspace. Let's now see how to manage

an image fully.

At first, this image is totally in one piece and a single object. When you will have

more objects on your workspace, you will need the Layer window. Go to Window

and tick on Layers. This will open this window if closed. In case you don't

find windows in the future, because closed, you can always open them through here.

The Layers window shows you, for each single object on your workspace, a

single layer, listed all here. The Background in italic is simply the default layer

created when you opened the image. Double-click on the lock icon on the right

to unlock it, and so edit it in the future.

To cut, copy and paste in Photoshop, just press CTRL+X, CTRL+C and CTRL+V

from your keyboard. However, this does work just if you have selected an area first.

So let's select the image. Go on the left, in the Tools Panel. This contains all

you need to edit and create in Photoshop. It is better to keep it always opened.

Click on the second icon of the list, the Rectangular Marquee Tool. Then just

click and drag the whole image you have. The moving dashed line represents what

you have actually selected. Now, through the keys explained before, you can go on

cutting, copying or pasting. Just remember to have the layer selected in blue or you can't.

Look at the Layers window. If you paste more objects, more layers will be automatically

created. So that, for each object, there is actually a layer that identifies it.

To delete a layer, you need to right-click on it and go to Delete layer. The object

associated to it, represented through the image on the left, will be deleted with it.

There are other ways to select parts of an image. If you right-click on a button in

the Tools Panel, you will see the other options related to a particular button.

So, instead of the general rectangle marquee tool, you can choose to select an

elliptical area, or a single row or column of pixels.

More advanced are the Lasso selection Tools. These are selections made more

through freehand. Lasso is totally freehand. Just hold your click and move your pointer

to define the selection area. The Lasso does close the area auto. The Polygonal

Lasso Tool defines a polygonal personalized area, where a side is created

whenever you click. Double-click then to close the selection area.

The Magnetic Lasso Tool instead, is more advanced. It creates anchors whenever

you click, and the selection area moves along edges of colors revealed by the

image itself. Right click to close the area.

With Marquee and Lasso Tools the selected area and be moved anytime. Just

approach the pointer inside such area and click and drag to move it.

The third button is used to make automated selections, very good in case the areas

to be selected are pretty complex to be made by hand. Quick Selection Tool is very

awesome, since it selects shapes in your image that are related somehow, like the

particular shape revealed or the color changes. Mind that this selection may not

work in case you have smoothness or gradients. Make sure to change the Brush

properties on top of your software, where you see a number. You can change the

diametrical size of the selection point, and so on. To go on selecting and including

new areas, make sure to go on clicking. In case you mistake a selection click, just

press CTRL+Z from your keyboard. This always undoes an action. Otherwise you can

go to Edit and Undo. In case you want to undo more actions, just open the History

window in the Window section, and just go backwards as you need.

Magic Wand Tool selection does the same of the Quick Selection, but the selection is

not cumulative. So for each click you will have single selections only.

Selections are very important in Photoshop. If you want to edit or apply any effect,

these are applied only on the selected region of the selected layer. So that,

if you use the copy and the paste command, the copied and pasted project is the

selected area of the layer highlighted blue on the right. In fact, if the selection

area does stay the same, but it's different the layer selected, you will paste in the

end the part related to the Layer selected at that moment. So make sure to

select the area and the layer interested before going on with any action.

You can eventually select more than one single layer, just hold CTRL down and

go on selecting or deselecting the layers in the list. If more layers are selected,

the editings are applied on all and just the layers selected.

Mind that some actions, like the simple cut, can't be done in case

you selected more than one layer. Keep in mind the Smart Object. This simply puts

together two or more layers existing, and treated like a single layer. Just select such

layers and right click on them and go to Convert to Smart Object. An icon in

a corner will remind you such created.

It is particular the Copy Merged, that you find in the section Edit. This actually copies

what is inside the selected region, without caring about the layer selected. It is

copied what you see with all the layers overlapped, so what you see on your screen.

While working in your project, it is important to manage layers correctly. In the

Layers window, you can hide and shown layers by clicking on the eye next to

each layer. Remember that an hidden layer or object can't be seen or either

modified. It is treated like a non-existing object.

Double-click on a layer to rename it. Make sure to do it so that you remember the

object that the layer is containing. Very important then is the order of the layers.

This order does set the order of visibility between objects. If a layer is above another

one, the first one is shown above the second one in your workspace.

You can change such order by clicking on a layer and dragging it up and down.

In the future, you may want to lock a layer. A layer locked is a layer whose object

that can be seen, but can't be edited or moved in any way. To lock a layer just

select it and click on the lock icon right above.

Let's see now how to create shapes and to manage objects fast.

Above the Hand button, you find a rectangle button by default. If you right-click on it,

you have the full list of the shapes that you can draw. Select one and just click

and drag properly to draw such. Notice that such objects admit filling and stroke,

indicated through the two icons above, next to shape. Click on such icons to change

the colors of the filling and the stroke associated. You can then change thickness

and size the way you like. New in Photoshop CC is the dynamic Properties window.

This opens auto when you draw shapes. This window describes it in full, such as stroke

and filling color, gradients or patterns applied. You can edit fast the stroke angles

as well. Choose your personalized color with the icon more on the right. Remember that,

the white rectangle with a red diagonal line means no color, so invisible or not present.

Shapes created are represented in the Layers window through a rectangle shape

in a corner.

Any kind of layer, or shapes or pieces of images can be managed pretty easily.

First of all select the layer or layers you want to treat. This must be always done.

You will often use the Selection Tools. While these are selected, start editing.

If you want to move the object fast, simply hold CTRL down and drag the object.

A rectangle will tell you the offsets applied.

Then, if you want to scale, rotate, or deform the object selected, you need to go to

Edit and to Transform. Then choose between Scale, Rotate, Flip, and so on.

Remember that is always applied on the layer or layers selected first. Confirm the

transformation applied by accepting in the top right corner.

While in any transformation function, you can edit all through the bar on top, inserting

the precise values. Keep in mind that you can keep the aspect ratio constant through

this icon between W (width) and H (height).

Whenever you want to zoom in and out your workspace, you can use the Zoom Tool

through the lens icon on the left. Otherwise, simply hold ALT down and use your

mouse wheel. Whereas, if you want to move around your workspace, just use the

Hand Tool and drag with your mouse. Or just hold Space down and move.

Very well, now let's save our project! Go to File and then to Save As... Choose the

name of the file to save. Through format you choose how to save your work.

Choose .png or .jpg if you want to render your image. For example a background

to use in YouTube. Keep it mind that the .png files do save transparency, which

can be seen in your workspace with grey and white squares alternated.

Whereas .jpg ones turn these transparent areas in white areas, so with total opacity.

However, for .jpg files, you can choose the quality for the image rendered. The higher

is the quality, the more size the file will have.

Save as .psd if you want to save your work as a Photoshop project file. This means

that you are saving the whole list of layers, their order, and all the editings and the

smart objects inside. This is made to modify your work in a second time.

Very well, this is all to start with Photoshop CC! Watch the next video to get into

image and photo editings in full or create a logo! Thanks for watching!