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Making Selections in Photoshop To quickly select similar parts of an image, use the Quick Selection tool and brush the parts of the image you want. You can select spherical objects with the Elliptical Marquee tool You can also select what you want from an image by dragging the Lasso tool.

Saving Progress in Photoshop To save your progress, go to File > Save As. To save as a .PSD (Photoshop Document), go to the file selection and choose .PSD. To save as a .JPEG, select JPEG from the drop down menu. To save as a .PNG, select .PNG from the drop down menu. To save as a .TIFF, select TIFF from the drop down menu.

Image Size/Resolution in Photoshop How to upsize an image Go to Image > Image Size You will se this window pop up with the default image size. You can upsize the image by positively changing the number values. How to downsize an image Go to Image > Image Size You can downsize the image by negatively changing the number values.

Color Balance in Photoshop Go to Image > Adjustments > Color Balance Adjust the sliders until the picture fits what you want.

Brightness & Contrast in Photoshop Automatic Brightness & Contrast One option is automatic brightness and contrast is Image > Auto Tone Another option is Image > Auto Contrast The last option for automatic brightness and contrast is Image > Auto Color Custom Brightness/Contrast A way to edit the brightness and contrast of an image in Photoshop is to go to Image > Adjustments > Brightness/Contrast

Layers in Photoshop Making a Silhouette Start a new layer with your first image. Go to Image > Adjustments > Channel Mixer Turn the output channel to Gray and turn down the Constant. Add more images and do the same thing.

Cropping in Photoshop Select the Crop tool from the sidebar. Move the sides of the selection to select what you want to crop. Press Enter to finish the cropping. You can also rotate the crop by clicking next to the corner of the crop and turning the image.

Getting Around in Photoshop Zooming In and Out You can zoom into the image by using the keyboard shortcut (Control + +) You can zoom out of the image by using the shortcut (Control + -) Scrolling/Panning You can pan the image by selecting the move tool and holding the Space key to switch to the hand tool. You can drag the image with the hand tool. You can also scroll vertically with the mouse scroller, or horizontally while scrolling and holding the Control key.

Opening Images in Photoshop Method 1 Find the location of the image. Right-click on the image. Select "Open With" from the menu. Select "Choose Another App" from the drop-down menu. Select the newest version of Adobe Photoshop. Now the image has been opened in Photoshop. Method 2 Open Photoshop and select "File" from the top menu. Select "Open" from the drop-down menu. Select the image from the file. Now the image is opened in Photoshop.