How to Use Photoshop from Az for Beginners

This guide explains how to use Photoshop from Az for Beginners, with clear steps, practical tips, and important checks before you begin.

Today's tutorial, Thuthuatphanmem. vn will share you tips for mastering Photoshop editing software. However, to become a professional designer, we must first start from the basic steps. Please read the article below!

I. The user interface of Photoshop

The current popular version of Photoshop is the CS6 version of Photoshop taught by graphic schools. And the new version of Photoshop CC (Creative Cloud) was developed from CS6 with improvements and upgrades of features from the old version so that users can edit photos as they want simply and easily. than.

Overview of main MENU bar

- File: The location of the image file options such as creating a new image file ( New ), opening an existing file ( Open, Open As ) or saving the image file ( Save, Save As ).

- Edit: Users can customize photo editing operations such as copying, pasting (Copy, Paste), resizing collages (Transform, Free Transform), adding details or deleting objects in photos (Fill).

- Image: Change color system ( Mode ), Advanced color adjustment ( Adjustments ), Image size adjustment ( Image Sizes ).

- Layer: Edit related to different 'layers' of image such as create ( New ), copy the original layer ( Duplicate Layer ), merge the layers ( Merge Layer ).

- Type: Edit related to words and fonts such as font size preview ( Font Preview Size ), select the language ( Language Option ).

- Select: Customize the selection as Select All, Deselect, Reselect .

- Filter: The image filter and useful editing such as image scaling ( Liquify ), image blur ( Blur ), image sharpening ( Sharpen ).

- View: Option to view images such as zooming, zooming ( Zoom In, Zoom Out ), showing the ruler to edit images ( Rulers ).

- Window: Manage the display of panels, tool boxes on the screen such as Adjustment , Layer, History .

- Help: Display information about the current Photoshop version ( About Photoshop ), computer system information ( System Info ).

Overview of TOOLS toolbox

1. Move: used to move the selection, image layer.

2. Marquee: create a photo selection.

3. Lasso: also create a selection but this tool for difficult details and many separate lines.

4. Quick Select: Select a quick image area and information with the Quick Selection Tool or the Magic Wand Tool.

5. Crop: Crop photos or rotate photos to your liking.

6. Eyedropper, Ruler: sample color, measure distance.

7. Healing, patch: fix the defective image or delete unwanted objects in the image.

8. Brush: Draw details like net brushes, pencils in Photoshop.

9. Clone: Copy the image area to different locations.

10. Art Brush Tool: Paint with stylized strokes art with templates.

11. Eraser: Erase selected image area and restore previously saved image area.

12. Gradient, Bucket Tool: create line effects, reflection. and fill the background color.

13. Blur, Sharpen: Blur or sharpen the image.

14. Dodge, Burn Tool: Lighten or darken the selected image area.

15. Pen tool: A tool to draw straight lines, vectors in Photoshop.

16. Text: insert text into the image.

17. Selection: Quickly select the editing area in an image such as Text, Layer.

18. Shape: Create or draw square, ellipse or other pattern symbols.

19. Hand tool: Move images in the window

20. Zoom: Zoom in, small picture.

21. Color Picker: choose color according to your preference to make text color or background color.

II. Some basic operations

- Open an image file : File => Open => select the image file to open => Open .

- Crop image: Click the Crop tool icon in the toolbar and select the image area to be cropped then Enter to let Photoshop set the cropped image for you.

- Insert text into photos : Click the T icon in the toolbar on the left side of the screen and then left click on any image position on the screen to create text.

- Delete redundant details in the image: Select the tool with the medical image of Spot Healing Brush Tool (1), select the Content-Aware option (2) in the toolbar. Then right click to customize the size of the selection (Size), the opacity of the selection border (Hardness) and then click on the area to be edited.

You proceed to delete the details to complete the picture.

To master Photoshop, we need regular practice time. First, we need to familiarize ourselves with the Menu and the functions of the Toolbox (Tools) and more advanced color correction (Adjustments). I wish you success and meaningful Photoshop lessons!