Editing Images Using Photoshop

Photoshop Tools that You Can Use

Brightness and Contrast

Adjusting the brightness makes the image more visible due to higher lighting condition. You can either light up an image or darken it. Contrast however adjusts the tonal range of an image where the dark gets darker and white gets whiter. To better understand: Here is a Tutorial about Applying Brightness and Contrast

Curves

In a Curves Adjustment tool, it is a way of adjusting the Shadows, Midtones and Highlights using a control point line. Moving the points allows you to have more control over specific tonal range. Know more about Curves: Use Adjustment Curves

Levels

It is a tool that helps you adjust Highlights, Midtones and Shadows to control the amount of input that you would like for your image. Adjusting the level tool is easy, you can move them left to right. Read More: Get to know more about levels

Vibrance and Saturation

A Color Correction tool that let’s you adjust the boldness of the color, you can either increase or decrease the weight of the color of the photo.

Hue and Saturation

To change your color of your photo, use hue and saturation to change it to blue, red, yellow, green, red, violet. Hue is the settings for you to change your colors. Saturation is the density of your color, if you increase the color the image is more bold. Lightness is the gamma or lightness of the color, either you make the brightness heavier or lighter.

Apply Image

Black and White

Calculations

Canvas Size

Channel Mixer

Color Balance

Delete Pixel Aspect Ratio

Duplicate Image

Duplicate Layer

Exposure

Gradient Map

Image Size

JPEG Options

Levels

Match Color

New

Path

Photo Filter

Posterize

Replace Color

Rotate Canvas

Selective Color

Shadows or Highlights

Threshold

Trim

Photoshop Tools

Blur Tool

Brush Tool

Dodge Tool

Eraser Tool

Eyedropper Tool

Gradient Tool

Spot Healing Brush Tool

History Brush Tool

Lasso Tool

Quick Selection Tool

Rectangular Marquee Tool

Pen Tool

Path Selection Tool

Rectangle Tool

Clone Stamp Tool

Horizontal Type Tool