Photoshop User

Photoshop User takes superb quality, unbeatable production values and professional content from a team of industry experts to produce the ultimate photo-editing magazine. Each issue is packed with practical user tutorials and projects, building up to become the essential reference guide for all core areas of photo-editing and Photoshop use. Photoshop User is the perfect title for both photographers seeking to improve their images and digital artists looking to advance their skills. Subscribe today! 100% Independent! Please note: ALL free content and gifts are also available via this digital edition.

Do more than you thought possible

Complex Compositions

Sci-fi Art

Exploring Photoshop

Modifying Selections • Photoshop has sophisticated tools to refine selections

Gradient Fill & Paint Bucket • Fill layers and selections with colours, textures and gradients

The Clone Stamp Tool • Remove unwanted elements from your photos

Tools and Techniques

Panorama Stitching • Get the whole of the landscape into one ultra-wide picture

Soft Focus Technique • Adding a soft focus effect gives your portraits a romantic feel

The Pen Tool and Paths • Draw smooth curved paths with the versatile Pen Tool

Contrast and Saturation • Using curves and blend modes to improve colour saturation and contrast in your digital photos

Inside the Edit

Work Smart

Images that Pop

Photoshop Creative Zone

Create an Underwater Scene

Liquid Effects

The Dragan Effect

Add Your Own Lens Flare

More Mega Tips

Bananas, Monkeys, Coffee and Toast

Front Image Cropping

Improve Your Spot Healing

One Image, Two Windows

Transparency From Blend

Lightroom Develop Module

Introducing the Develop Module • The Develop module is where the tools that let you fully realise the potential of your photographs lie. Enhancing and improving them, removing blemishes, noise and distortion and applying a range of impressive effects and filters.

Using the Crop & Straighten Tool • Even the most careful photographer will sometimes rush a shot and take a photo that’s not quite level, with either a sloping horizon or a leaning building. Fortunately, Lightroom offers several effortless ways to correct those faults.

Removing Spots and Red Eye • Even the latest digital cameras can sometimes get dust inside and contaminate the sensor, leaving black spots on your images; and there’s also the problem of flash Red Eye and indoor photography. Luckily Lightroom offers tools for dealing with these problems.

Adjustments Using the Basic Panel • After cropping and straightening, the most common adjustments made are white balance, exposure, tonal balance and colour saturation. Lightroom’s Basic panel is where you can find these features, with an easy-to-use slider interface.

Photoshop Elements

What is Photoshop Elements? • Let’s take a moment to get to know a little more about the software and how it can help you with your day to day image editing.

The Elements Home Screen • We start the journey by becoming more familiar with all the module environments you will be working with.

The Quick Mode Workspace • For fast and simple edits, this is the mode to get you editing quickly, with one-click results for better photos.

Photoshop User • Issue Three | September 2022 | ISSN: 2752-4701