Expert advice on how to correctly edit your photographs within applications like adobe lightroom and photoshop.
Image resizing can be relatively simple and straightforward especially when working within software applications like Photoshop. However, you need to understand the fundamentals of resizing to avoid degrading the quality of your images.
Photoshop’s image resizing is located in the main navigational menu underneath “Image / Image Size”. Upon opening the dialog window you will be presented with the pixel dimensions of your document or image including its file size.
Once you understand the basic concept behind photoshop actions and how to create them, you’ll quickly begin to come up with very creative ways of automating specific tasks and processes in your existing digital workflow.
But in order to exact the full potential of photoshop actions you’ll need to learn how to apply actions to entire folders of imagery.
One of the most power features in Photoshop is “actions” and if you’ve never heard of actions before don’t worry… Essentially actions provide a means for automating menial, repetitive tasks and processes within Photoshop, which in effect increases your productivity.
Out of the box, Photoshop already comes with a set of default actions that you can experiment with, but where the really power lies is in creating your very actions based on what your needs are as a photographer.
As a photographer, one often finds the need to watermark their photographs to not only protect them from piracy, but to also help promote and market their business through the exposure a photograph might receive be that online or off.
Whether or not you choose to watermark your photos is entirely up to you, but even if the need never arises, the ability to create your very own watermark is definitely a skill set you should have as a photographer.
Today you are going to learn how to take relatively ordinary photos and turn them into something spectacular using Photoshop, all within the next 7 minutes.
Now for today’s challenge, I’m going to be using Adobe’s Camera Raw plugin which you’ll find inside Photoshop and we’re going to be working on a raw image file.
