Practical Photoshop

Practical Photoshop is the world’s premier Photoshop magazine, a monthly guide to the best Photoshop techniques, tips and tricks. Inside each issue you’ll find an array of inspirational tutorials and accompanying video lessons that will help you master Adobe’s collection of industry standard photo-editing software. What’s more, there’s a selection of amazing images from the world’s best Photoshop creatives, free downloadable content, and a beginner’s guide to the basics. If you love photography and you want to learn more about digital imaging, then Practical Photoshop will help you to unleash your creative potential.

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Practical Photoshop

LANDSCAPE SECRETS • DISCOVER A HOST OF CUTTING-EDGE TRICKS, POWERFUL TOOLS AND EXCITING TECHNIQUES FOR ENHANCING YOUR OUTDOOR PHOTOS

USE ADAPTIVE PRESETS • Use these one-click presets to target and boost skies and subjects

SIMPLE LUMINOSITY MASKING WITH COLOR RANGE • Use precise masks to target your landscape’s shadow or highlight ranges – without the faff of channel masking

CROP TO EXPAND • Add extra space to your scenes in seconds with the Crop Tool

FORGET VIBRANCE: USE CALIBRATION INSTEAD • If you want to make colors pop, head to the Calibration Panel for controlled saturation boosts

SUCCESSFUL SKY REPLACEMENT • When you want a convincing alternative sky, there’s more to it than running the image through the Sky Replacement Tool

MATTE THE BLACKS • Lift the black point to fade out shadows and give your scenes a wonderful soft quality

DODGE AND BURN ON SOFT LIGHT • Get to grips with an invaluable Blending Mode trick for speedy dodging and burning

USE OBJECT MASKING • The new Object Mask Tool in Camera Raw and Lightroom is superb for selective adjustments in landscape editing

ADD BIRDS TO A SKY • Learn how to drop in a few flying birds to enhance a sky

MAKE LIGHT RAYS • Here’s a quick tip for adding rays of light with the Brush and Dehaze commands in Camera Raw

ZOOM-BLEND LANDSCAPES • James Paterson blends two different focal lengths with a combination of shooting and Photoshop skills

SHOOT A FOCAL LENGTH BLEND • One frame for the vital foreground details, the other for the background

BLEND YOUR FOCAL LENGTHS IN PHOTOSHOP

TOP TIPS BIGGER BACKDROPS

SHOOT A VERTICAL PANORAMA • Try shooting a scene in segments from the ground by your feet upwards, then stitch the frames together for a vertical pano

PHOTOSHOP ISN’T THE ONLY GAME IN TOWN • Now you can tidy up messy areas of your images in Camera Raw and Lightroom

LEARN LIGHTROOM TODAY!

ESSENTIALS • Your quick-start guide and reference to image editing in Photoshop

THE IMAGE-EDITING WORKFLOW • Manage your photos from capture to output in three stages

THE BASICS OF RAW PROCESSING • Discover how to process your raw files to perfection

SIX ESSENTIAL LAYERS FOR PHOTOS • The six most frequently used Photoshop layers for image editing, and how to use them to improve almost any photo

14 ESSENTIAL KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS • 14 keyboard shortcuts that will massively improve your speed and efficiency while working in Photoshop