The Easiest Way to Learn Photoshop and Lightroom For Beginners
Almost all new laptops or newly installed computers ask for Photoshop as a bundle in the software.
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Photoshop as photo editing software if mastered can become addicted to using it. I want to tell you guys first, when I first got a computer, I didn’t know what Photoshop was.
There is no description at all about this program. about 3 years lapse I have a new computer know the function of Photoshop software. Even then, after my friend practiced it in class.
Finally after that I went to the Gramedia bookstore and bought one of the tutorial books using Photoshop. Then the first thing I do is remove the object from a photo. And that really amazed me. It turns out that computer tricks can be done this easy.
After that I only know it as a photo software. After going to college, I was introduced by my friend in the world of photography using a dslr camera.
And it changed my life to this day. I fell in love with photography. Many things I can do by just pressing the shutter on the camera.
The fun of the story, continue to photoshop, guys..
Using Photoshop is not easy. Once you know the basic tool functions you will easily do photo editing.
Photoshop
The first thing to know is the start window.
On the left it’s a tool. A tool used to edit something on our photos.
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| Photoshop window |
On the right it’s called the navigation window, the point is to select and select photo objects globally. Besides that, the right window needs to be considered when editing photos, because sometimes when editing you don’t see changes because you are editing on the wrong layer.
Then at the bottom right there is a small window that says layers, layers are stacks of photos that are edited or not. The function of the layer is very important to know because from here the edited photo selection can be distinguished.
Then in the top menu panel there are many menus such as filters which are useful for creating effects on photos. Then there is a select to find the selection menu for the object we select in our photo. Then there is also Edit which is useful for editing globally.
Oh yes, I need to say that besides being used for photo editing, Photoshop can also be used to create images, create documents.
In editing using Photoshop the basic tools that must be mastered are:
1. Selection
2. Layering
3. Masking
The three tools above are sorted from basic to advanced. Once you’ve mastered the selection, you can move on to layers, then move on to masking. Although it does not close for all three to be studied simultaneously.
Lightroom
Lightroom is a new software that came out after Photoshop. Lightroom is used for photo editing only. All tools in Lightroom can be found in Photoshop. But not all tools in Photoshop are also available in Lightroom.
The main function of lightroom is to simply edit photos without changing much of the content of the photo itself. The tools provided by lightroom are very simple. Which if you are fluent in using Photoshop you will get used to using lightroom.
But if you start using lightroom without knowing Photoshop, this is the tool you should know first.
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| Lightroom window |
1. Starting photo editing in Lightroom is not as easy as Photoshop. In Photoshop you can drag photos into the edit window, but not in Lightroom. You have to import photos first.
2. After importing the photo, go to the develop window to edit the photo.
3. Photo editing is only limited to brightness, sharpness, contrast, saturation, and adjusting the brightness of the photo. So to edit photos here, don’t expect too much, fix photos to remove objects, you have to use photoshop for that.
4. Please note that to maximize your photos using Lightroom you must take pictures using camera settings to save photos in RAW format. For example, if you use a Nikon camera, in the photo file you will get a .NEF file, those using Canon will get a .CR2 file, Sony with an .ARW file. Raw files will store photo data with a very large size, because the data is photo raw data. Which after being compressed will become a .JPG file and can be displayed on all media. While RAW files cannot be displayed without supporting software.
With raw files, the edited photo becomes very flexible, because the raw data has a high dynamic range, for example to get green on the leaves or blue in the sky, can be corrected properly and get the desired color, as long as the photo taken is not too far away. its exposure.
5. After editing in Lightroom, the photo is saved by exporting it. If at the beginning we load the photo by importing it, after editing it must export the photo to get the .JPG file.
Tools in Lightroom ::
On the left side there are navigation and preset menus, snapshots, history, and collections. Snapshot is useful for marking the extent of your photo edits that you like, after marking that you can do advanced editing.
At the top you just need to know the library and develop windows. The library window will show all the photos that you have imported into lightroom for editing, while the develop window is for editing your photos.
Oh yeah, in the old days, when people wanted to wash their photos from film media, they called it develop/developing. The development process is carried out by removing the film cliché from the camera and then developing it in a dark room or photo studio until the image appears into the photo cliche. Then print it onto photo paper.
Then on the right side there is an editing window, the tools provided are divided into basic, tone curve, color, toning, detail, lens correction, effects, and camera calibration.
While the tools used must be with the help of the mouse, such as adjustment brush, crop, radial filter, graduate filter, red eye, and spot removal. Now starting from choosing these tools we can drag n drop on the open photo window. The settings are on the right side of the screen.
Now for more details, you can open youtube and look for tutorials using lightroom.
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