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Using Smart Objects before transforming

Understanding Photoshop is a biweekly column that takes an in-depth look at how digital photographs are built and manipulated. It is a college-level course in plain English for free at Photofocus. To learn more see this article. Don’t skip column 21 Smart Objects are a bit of under the hood

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Transforming objects with Puppet Warp

Understanding Photoshop is a biweekly column that takes an in-depth look at how digital photographs are built and manipulated. It is a college-level course in plain English for free at Photofocus. To learn more see this article. Don’t skip column 20 The Puppet Warp command is similar to the Free

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Resizing a photo with Content-Aware scaling

Understanding Photoshop is a biweekly column that takes an in-depth look at how digital photographs are built and manipulated. It is a college-level course in plain English for free at Photofocus. To learn more see this article. Don’t skip column 19 The Content-Aware scaling feature is a way to intelligently

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Resizing an object with the Free Transform command in Photoshop

Understanding Photoshop is a biweekly column that takes an in-depth look at how digital photographs are built and manipulated. It is a college-level course in plain English for free at Photofocus. To learn more see this article. Don’t skip column 18 The Free Transform command is another useful way to

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Rotating the Photoshop canvas

Understanding Photoshop is a biweekly column that takes an in-depth look at how digital photographs are built and manipulated. It is a college-level course in plain English for free at Photofocus. To learn more see this article. Don’t skip column 17 Sometimes your image will need to be rotated or

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Perspective cropping in Photoshop

Understanding Photoshop is a biweekly column that takes an in-depth look at how digital photographs are built and manipulated. It is a college-level course in plain English for free at Photofocus. To learn more see this article. Don’t skip column 16 Some images will have visible distortion, which is often

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The most powerful way to crop in Photoshop

Understanding Photoshop is a biweekly column that takes an in-depth look at how digital photographs are built and manipulated. It is a college-level course in plain English for free at Photofocus. To learn more see this article. Don’t skip column 15 It is possible to crop and resize an image

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Mastering the Crop tool

Understanding Photoshop is a biweekly column that takes an in-depth look at how digital photographs are built and manipulated. It is a college-level course in plain English for free at Photofocus. To learn more see this article. Don’t skip column 14 With the Crop tool you can change a viewer’s

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Changing the Photoshop canvas size

Understanding Photoshop is a biweekly column that takes an in-depth look at how digital photographs are built and manipulated. It is a college-level course in plain English for free at Photofocus. To learn more see this article. Don’t skip column 13 The canvas size is your work area. When you

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Sizing digital images in Photoshop

Understanding Photoshop is a biweekly column that takes an in-depth look at how digital photographs are built and manipulated. It is a college-level course in plain English for free at Photofocus. To learn more see this article. Don’t skip column 12 Once you’ve acquired your digital images, you’ll need to

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What size to scan a photo? Think in pixels

Understanding Photoshop is a biweekly column that takes an in-depth look at how digital photographs are built and manipulated. It is a college-level course in plain English for free at Photofocus. To learn more see this article. Don’t skip column 11 People often get confused when determining which settings to

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Acquiring images for Photoshop with a scanner

Understanding Photoshop is a biweekly column that takes an in-depth look at how digital photographs are built and manipulated. It is a college-level course in plain English for free at Photofocus. To learn more see this article. Don’t skip column 10 Many purists swear that shooting film adds richness in

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