Simple Photoshop Tricks For Newbies

Photoshop is an excellent piece of editing software that allows you to edit, alter, and enhance digital images and photos. Photographers that use this Adobe system will soon become extremely creative and will be able to produce some really awesome looking photos, so much so that they could quite easily be mistaken for a professional and could even end up making money from the edited digital photos.

Although using Photoshop can be fun as well as productive, there are still a few essential tools, tips and tricks that must be mastered before you can reach the stage of actually making money from your digital photos.

First you need to understand just how you can turn any color into the foreground color. So let's get to business and first you must press "I" which will activate the eyedropper tool. Proceed to click on the color on the image, which will turn that color into the foreground color before your very eyes. If you want to turn that into the background color, just press the ALT key while clicking on the color in the image.

With Photoshop you can also change the brush size, which is an essential tool for improving the quality of any image. The quickest way to perform this editing action is to just press the right bracket key "]", which will increase the brush tip size and the left bracket key "[" will decrease it's size.

Shortcuts will save you so much time in editing and the move tool can be activated by pressing the letter "V" on the keyboard. The keyboard arrow keys can also be used to manipulate the layer or selection by 1 pixel increments. By pressing the shift key along with the arrow key, you will increase it to 10 pixel increments. This Photoshop trick works well when using layers and will certainly help you to save a lot of time and effort to create the results you are looking for.

By Dave Martin Peters