Friday, March 9, 2012

Simple Tip: How to crop a photo.

We will be learning how to crop a photo in Photoshop
Open your photo, File Open and chose your picture.
 Then decide where you want to crop the picture. Click on the Crop Tool as shown above

Click and drag the crop tool over the area you want to crop and select the check-mark shown above. This will finalize the crop. 
Now you have finished cropping your photo enjoy.

Add color effects your photo.

How to Add color effects your photo. First we are going to add a black and white effect to our image. So open your image in Photoshop.
Then click Image on your toolbar, select Adjustments, then Black & White

After you do that the Black and White dialog box will appear. On the drop down menu there are different Presets and filters you can choose from. The default option is the most normal black and white filter. 

Now we will move on to color filters 
Adding color filters to your photo can add mood to your photo.
We will start by opening up an photo.
Then click Image on your toolbar and select Adjustments then Photo Filter

The Photo Filter dialog box will come up. you can use this two ways you can either add a filter or a specific color. If you are going to choose to add a filter, there is a drop down menu with several Filters to choose from.

If you are going to add a certain color from the color picker click on the color box.


Select your color and click OK. 
To adjust the density of the filter adjust the density slider in the box. Enjoy