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Photoshop CS6. You create and manipulate your documents and files using various elements, such as panels, bars, and windows. Any arrangement of these elements is called a workspace.

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A toolbar is a set of icons or buttons that are part of a software program's interface or an open window. When it is part of a program's interface, the toolbar typically sits directly under the menu bar. For example, Adobe Photoshop includes a toolbar that allows you to adjust settings for each selected tool.

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The Layers palette is the Grand Central Station for managing layers. To display thepalette, choose Window–>Show Layers or just press F7. Here's what you need to know to navigate the Layers palette: The Background is the bottom layer in the image.

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A menu bar is a user interface element that contains selectable commands andoptions for a specific program. In Windows, menu bars are typically located at the top of open windows. ... The View menu typically includes zoom commands andoptions to show or hide elements within the window.

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The Adjustment Layers in Photoshop are a group of a super useful, non-destructive image editing tools that add color and tonal adjustments to your image without permanently changing its pixels. With the adjustment layers, you can edit and discard your adjustments or restore your original image at any time.

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Magnetic Lasso Tool. This is a very handy tool for selecting areas which have reasonably well-defined edges. Left-click at the starting point of your selection and simply move the mouse along the edge. "Fastening points" are automatically made at various points along the edges.

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Select the magic wand tool in the toolbox. In the options bar, select a Tolerance value (0 to 255). This determines how closely to match colours - higher tolerance means a larger selection. Check Anti-aliased to define a smooth edge to the selection.

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Polygonal Lasso Tool. Similar to the lasso tool, except that instead of holding your mouse button down to draw, left-click on various points to create a selection with a series of straight edges. You can also hold down the Alt key (Windows) or Option key (Mac OS) to draw freehand sections.

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The selection tools are used to facilitate the process of making selections of shapes, colors, and objects inside of Photoshop, and positioning them in the working image area. With tools like the magnetic lasso and magic wand, Photoshop packs a powerful array of selection gadgets!

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The Marquee tool is the most basic of selection tools and often the one most useful. This tool is used to draw selections based on geometric shapes. Specifically, themarquee tool allows you to draw rectangular and elliptical selections. To form the selection, simply click and drag the mouse.

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Go back undo

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zoom

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Brackets

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alt click color

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duplicate layer

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new layer cut

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add to selection

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remove section

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deselects

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smooth edges

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inverse

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merges

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The spot healing brush is the default healing tool in Photoshop and can be used to clone areas from an image and blend the pixels from the sampled area seamlessly with the target area. The basic principle is that the texture from the sample area is blended with the color and luminosity surrounding wherever you paint.

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When the patch tool is selected, it initially operates in a lasso selection mode that can be used to define the area to patchfrom or patch to. For example, you can hold down the Option/Alt key to temporarily convert the patch tool to become a polygonal lasso tool with which to draw straight line selection edges.

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In Photoshop CS6, the Photoshop team introduced a newContent Aware feature called Content Aware Move. Content Aware Move will allow you to select pixels and move or extend them to another area of your image without the use of layers and masks.Apr 12, 2012

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Red eye in portraits is caused when the flash source is used too close to the lens axis and the pupils of the eyeare wide open. ... Failing that, the red eye tool inPhotoshop is an easy-to-use tool for removing red eyefrom photographs that have been taken with a direct flash source.

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The spot healing brush is the default healing tool in Photoshop and can be used to clone areas from an image and blend the pixels from the sampled area seamlessly with the target area. The basic principle is that the texture from the sample area is blended with the color and luminosity surrounding wherever you paint.

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The Dodge tool and the Burn tool lighten or darken areas of the image. These tools are based on a traditional darkroom technique for regulating exposure on specific areas of a print. Photographers hold back light to lighten an area on the print (dodging) or increase the exposure to darken areas on a print (burning).

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The Dodge tool and the Burn tool lighten or darken areas of the image. These tools are based on a traditional darkroom technique for regulating exposure on specific areas of a print. Photographers hold back light to lighten an area on the print (dodging) or increase the exposure to darken areas on a print (burning).

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The Sponge Tool saturates / desaturates image areas: In the Toolbox, select theSponge Tool. Choose brush size and style*. Select mode (what do you want - saturate or desaturate). Set the tool's Flow (tool's strength).

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Photoshop Clone Stamp Tool. Photoshop's clone stamp tool allows you to duplicate part of an image. The process involves setting a sampling point in the image which will be used as a reference to create a new cloned area. Select the Clone Stamptool , then check the settings in the options bar.

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Crop Tool. The Crop Tool cuts out a defined area deleting or hiding the rest of an image: In the Toolbox, select the Crop Tool, click on the image and draw a rectangle holding mouse's button pressed. When you release the button a bounding box appears. You can move, resize and rotate it.

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The Art of Using Aspect Ratios in Digital Photography. ... As mentioned before aspect ratio deals with width and height. It basically describes how square (1:1) or wide (16:9) or image is. It's expressed as a figure, like this: width:height (width always comes first). The aspect ratioof the 35mm frame is 3:2.

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Use the Crop tool to crop and straighten photos inPhotoshop. The Crop tool is non-destructive, and you can choose to retain the cropped pixels to optimize the crop boundaries later. ... When you crop orstraighten photos, real-time feedback helps you visualize the final result.

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Add Mask. You can edit a layer mask to add or subtract from the masked region. A layer mask is a grayscale image, so areas you paint in black are hidden, areas you paint in white are visible, and areas you paint in shades of gray appear in various levels of transparency.

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The Blur Tool is used to paint a blur effect. Each stroke made using the Blur Tool will lower the contrast between affected pixels, making them appear blurred. ... A softblur brush will alter pixels at varying strengths, stronger in the center turning weaker towards the edges

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A smudge tool in Photoshop can be used to create a lens blur effect and to blend certain aspects of a picture. Merge colors in Photoshop with the use of asmudge tool with help from a graphic and Web designer in this free video on Photoshop

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The Paint Bucket tool fills an area, that is similar in color value to the pixels you click. You can fill an area with the foreground color or a pattern. Choose a foreground color. Select the Paint Bucket tool in the toolbox.

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The Gradient tool creates a gradual blend between multiple colors. You can choose from preset gradient fills or create your own. Note: You cannot use the Gradient toolwith bitmap or indexed-color images. To fill part of the image, select the desired area

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Sharpening enhances the definition of edges in an image. Whether your images come from a digital camera or a scanner, most images can benefit from sharpening. ... Sharpen your image multiple times in small amounts. Sharpen the first time to correct blur captured by a scanner or digital camera.

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Horizontal Type Tool. The Horizontal Type Tool creates and edits vector-based textin a separate layer. In the Toolbox, select the Horizontal Type Tool. On the Options bar, set the font options: family (style), size, color and anti-aliasing method. Click on your image and type.

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Vertical Type Tool. The Vertical Type Tool creates and edits vector-based text in a separate layer. In the Toolbox, select the Vertical Type Tool. On the Options bar, set the font options: family (style), size, color and anti-aliasing method. Click on your image and type.

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In photography, the golden hour is a period shortly after sunrise or before sunset during which daylight is redder and softer than when the Sun is higher in the sky.

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What is HDR on camera setting?

HDR, as its name implies, is a method that aims to add more "dynamic range" to photographs, where dynamic range is the ratio of light to dark in a photograph. ... This is why, when you turn HDR mode on, your phone takes a little longer to take the photo

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A similar effect is visible in photographs of projected images or videos off a projection screen, resulting in a so-called "hotspot" effect. Vignetting is often an unintended and undesired effect caused by camera settings or lens limitations.

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Spot metering is where the camera determines a proper exposure not on the average brightness levels of the whole frame, but just of one specific spot. This photographer, like me, is principally a landscape photographer

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Partial metering is one of four modes found mostly on Canon cameras to help measure a subject's brightness, enabling the photographer to take a correct exposure. Spot metering on Nikon cameras work very similar to partial metering on Canon cameras.

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noun, Photography. 1. an exposure meter that gives priority to light measured near the center of the picture area, with sensitivity gradually decreasing toward the edges. Compare averaging light meter.

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Matrix Metering or Evaluative Metering mode is the default metering mode on most DSLRs. It works similarly to the above example by dividing the entire frame into multiple “zones”, which are then all analyzed on individual basis for light and dark tones.Fe

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Diptychs and Triptychs: Origins. Diptych and triptych come from the Greek meaning two (dip) or three (trip) fold (tych). This usually referred to a work of art that was divided into sections and hinged together but has come to be something that is widely used inphotography and the art world

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Defining a Triptych. A triptych (pronounced Trip'tik), when applied to photography, is a group of three pictures. ... The image shown above is a triptych of pictures in one image. The origin of the term applied to three paintings on hinged wooden panels. They could fold into each other making a flat carrying pack.