Adobe Photoshop and Digital Photo Essentials Tutorials
What Every Photoshop User Should Know About Digital Photos and Images
Welcome to the Digital Photo Essentials section of Photoshop Essentials.com!
Here, you'll find our complete list of free tutorials on topics every digital photographer and Photoshop user should know!
If you own a digital camera and you're into digital photography and digital photo printing, regardless of whether you're a professional photographer or strictly an amateur, you want your digital photos to look their very best.
Adobe Photoshop may be a powerful and very capable image editor, but if you really want to maximize your chances for success with your photos, before you go reading through a bunch of Photoshop tutorials, you need to first understand the basics of digital images.
That's what this section of Photoshop Essentials.com is about.
Digital Photo Essentials: Seeing The Difference With Digital Photos And JPEG Compression
It's a fact of life with digital photos that sometimes we need to compress them to make our file sizes smaller. Our computer screens don't always make it easy to see the damage being done to the image, but thanks to one of Photoshop's rarely-used blending modes, the horrors of jpeg compression become strikingly clear.
Digital Photo Essentials: Benefits Of Working With 16-Bit Images
The whole point of editing images in Photoshop is to make them look better, so why risk making them look worse in the process if you don't have to? If you've been editing 8-bit images when you could have been working in 16-bit mode, you've been missing out on a world of flexibility.
Digital Photo Essentials: RGB and Color Channels Explained
If RGB is just a three letter word to you and color channels are something you watch on tv, your Photoshop work is suffering. Learn how Photoshop displays colors in your images and take your skills to the next level.
Learn How The RGB Color Mode And Color Channels Work In Photoshop
Digital Photo Essentials: Difference Between 'Resizing' and 'Resampling' An Image In Photoshop
A lot of people use the term "image resizing" whether they're "resizing" or "resampling" an image in Photoshop as if they're the same thing, which they're most definitely not, and if you're concerned about image quality, it's important to know the difference.
Learn The Difference Between Resizing And Resampling Images In Photoshop
Digital Photo Essentials: Understanding Image Pixels
Image pixels are the tiny building blocks of every digital image. All Photoshop sees is pixels. It's these pixels that you're changing in some way with every edit you make to your image, and it's these pixels you're printing when you send your digital photos to the printer.
Digital Photo Essentials: Image Resolution, Pixel Dimensions and Document Size
In this section, we'll look at some of the most confusing terms you'll come across when working in Photoshop: image resolution, pixel dimensions and document size - what it all means, why it's so important to understand, and why you may not need to understand it at all!
Digital Photo Essentials: How Image Resolution Affects Print Quality
Learn how image resolution and the number of pixels in your image will affect the quality of your digital photos when you print them, why images you download off the internet usually print with poor quality, and how many megapixels (MP) your camera needs to have in order to print professional quality photos at different sizes.
Digital Photo Essentials: Resizing Images In Photoshop
Let's look at one of the most popular uses for Photoshop, how to resize your images. We'll see how to make them smaller using Photoshop's Image Resize dialog box, and why you never want to make them larger if you can avoid it.