Digital Photo Essentials
Learn The Essentials Of Working With Digital Photos In Adobe Photoshop!
New to the world of digital photography or digital imaging, or just want to know how to make your photos look better when you print them?
These Digital Photo Essentials tutorials will get you up to speed quickly with the important things all Photoshop users need to know to work effectively and get professional results when editing, saving and printing your digital images, and it's all explained with beginners in mind.
The topics we cover in this section include pixels, image resolution, color modes, file formats, image compression, and more! You'll even learn how to make sure your contact and copyright information is included with your images when you send them off to clients or out onto the web.
New tutorials are added regularly, so be sure to check back often for the latest additions!
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Adding Contact And Copyright Info To Your Photos
Uploading your photos to the web can be a great way to get yourself and your work noticed, but before you send an image out into the world, make sure your contact and copyright information is included with the file. This tutorial shows you how!
Photoshop Essential File Formats Quick Guide
Feeling overwhelmed by the number of file formats to choose from when trying to save your images in Photoshop? This quick guide looks at the essential formats we need to know, including the pros and cons of each one and the situations where it makes the most sense to use it!
Image Compression: 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.
Color Bit Depth: 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.
Color Channels: 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.
Difference Between Image Resizing and Resampling
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.
Digital Pixels: 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.
Image Quality: 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!
Photo Printing: 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.
Image Resizing: 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.
