Howdy! I’ve done search analysis before and noticed a lot of people had questions about Photoshop. I’ll try to answer what I can with my knowledge.
Photoshop Adjustment Layer
In the Layers panel there is a symbol that’s a two sided circle, one dark side and one light side. That’s the New Adjustment Layer button. Click it, and you get a few adjustment layer options, mainly Solid Color, Gradient, and Pattern. The names are pretty self-explanatory, one being a solid color, one a gradient, and the other involving a pattern
Photoshop Cost? Photoshop Monthly Cost?
Truth be told, the cost of Photoshop depends on if you’re getting it through Adobe Creative Cloud, a bundle or just by itself. According to the Adobe site, for individual use Creative Cloud is a $59.99 a month subscription. A photography pack with Lightroom, Lightroom Classic, Photoshop, and 1 TB of cloud storage is $19.99 a month. Just Photoshop by itself is $29.99 a month. Either way its a subscription, which is annoying, to put it lightly. For business use Creative Cloud is $89.99 a month, and an individual app of your choice is $37.99. For students and teachers there is a first year discount of $19.99 for Creative Cloud, but then after that first year it is $59.99. There are also numerous plans for Schools and Universities. I bet the college I graduated from had to pay for one of these plans.
Photoshop Dupe? Photoshop Alternative? Photoshop Alternatives Free? Photoshop Online Free? Photoshop Without Subscription? Photoshop App Free?
Sadly, there isn’t a free version of Photoshop, or a version of Photoshop without a subscription. Adobe is greedy like that. Well technically you could always pirate it/get a “cracked” version to get it for free. Also, there are free alternative programs out there if you don’t want to be a pirate. Some free alternatives for image editing are GIMP, Sumo Paint, Photopea, Paint.NET, Pixlr, and Photodemon. Some free alternates for drawing/painting in Photoshop are Krita, IbisPaint, AD Sketchbook, Firealpaca, Medibang, and MyPaint. In regards to a Photoshop app, there is Photoshop Express, a free mobile app. However, it requires an Adobe login to be able to use it. Adobe Express is like a Lite version of Photoshop, you can’t do everything in Express that you can do in regular Photoshop. I suppose Photoshop Express is for simpler edits when you don’t have access to your computer.
Photostop Denoise
I’ve learned about Denoising in classes before. It’s actually in Adobe Lightroom and Camera RAW as well as Photoshop. However, be careful using Denoise. It doesn’t get rid of the noise, it just blurs it. Denoise uses machine learning to detect patterns that are the noise, and blur them. The machine learning for Denoise was trained on many parts of images with a lot of noise and many ones with little to no noise to teach the computer how to take an image with a lot of noise, and make it have less noise. Denoise doesn’t generate from nothing like an AI generator. The machine learning for Denoise was just that, teaching a computer something. It was taught to recognize noise, and what to do with it to make an image look nicer.
To use Denoise go to the Detail panel, and find Denoise. Click it. Adjust the amount slider to however you’d like. Then click enhance. Denoise helps get rid of the pesky noise, while keeping image detail.
Why does noise exist in photos, you ask? Cameras see in patterns of red, green and blue pixels, and a camera’s sight is all made up of red, green, and blue. This is why in photos the colors can look off, because cameras have to make all the colors in the photo from mixtures of red, green and blue pixels. Cameras struggle to depict certain colors correctly, such as yellows or pure whites. We can see more colors properly than a camera can. A high ISO in photography can lead to a lot of colored noise, which can make a photo look grainy. This grain is the noise.
Photoshop Drop Shadow
Drop Shadow is simple. There is a fx option near the layers menu in photoshop. Drop shadow is in the fx menu. There are other things like inner glow in there as well.
Photostop Extend canvas AI? Photoshop AI?
To extend the canvas with AI, you first need to crop outside of the boundaries of the image in your file, to make the canvas larger. Select a blank area next to the image, and use generative fill. If you want to add something to an image, you can also use generative fill to do that. However, here’s the thing. If you use AI image generation in the composition for an image, you are no longer able to copyright that final image. So, if you want to be able to copyright the final image, don’t use AI generated things in the process of making it. Things that are generated with Photoshop’s generative AI feature technically don’t belong to you, as who knows what was referenced to generate what it generated. You may be able to copyright the part of the image that you created yourself, with your own photos. However, that could just get awkward or chaotic, so just make the full image with your own stuff. If you’re making an image for fun, with no intention of copyrighting it, I suppose go wild with using generative AI if you want to do so.
Photoshop Invert Colors
Inverting colors is easy. First, go to the Layer menu, then new adjustment layer, then invert. You can even do this to turn a scanned or photographed film negative into a positive photo! If after inverting the colors you want to change the brightness you can use Curves, or Brightness/Contrast in the Adjustments menu. I personally prefer Curves for color and brightness tweaking.
Photoshop Invert Selection
To invert a selection, go to the Select menu, then Inverse. This inverts your selection.
Photoshop Image Trace
Window – Image Trace. Alternatively, Select Subject from the select menu could be used, however with a subject that has details that are similar to the background, such as green clothing with a green background, the AI used for select subject may not pick it up. It can be useful at times. As with the AI for Denoise, it was taught and trained to do a specific thing. AI can be helpful at times if used properly, examples being Denoise and Image Trace.
Photoshop in Browser? Photoshop Web?
Now, there is Photoshop on browser, but it is limited to certain search engines. It is only available on Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, and Firefox. Photoshop in browser is somewhat limited, as some features in the normal desktop Photoshop are not available on the browser version. The Photoshop for browser exists at this link: https://photoshop.adobe.com/
However, there are also similar image-editing programs that are on browser, such as Photopea.
Photoshop Keyboard Shortcuts
I’ve learned plenty of those in classes. Here’s the keyboard shortcuts, or keybinds that I know: Control + J – Create a copy layer. Brush resize – bracket keys [ ], shift + brackets to make a brush harder or softer at the edge. CTRL + L brings up the Levels. Control + D to get rid of marching ants. Command + I to invert. Control + U is for hue saturation. Control + D – Deselects whatever is selected. Control + H – Makes the marching ants disappear. You can do the key bind again to make them re-appear. Brackets [ ] – Resize a brush tool. X Key – toggle foreground and background colors. Control + F – Intensify/reapply filter-related effects. Spacebar + clicking, holding and dragging the mouse – navigate around an image. Control and + and Control and – to zoom in and out. When using selection tools Shift will add to the selection and Alt will subtract. Control + S – Save (save your work often, just in case something happens)! Control + A – Select All. D – Default colors in color picker. C – Crop Tool. Control + T – selects the free transform tool. Control + M – Curves.
Photoshop Select Subject
In the Select menu there is an option called Select Subject. There is also Select Sky as well. These are AI-based selection tools, where it basically tries to determine the subject or sky and select it. Select Subject works best if there is a contrast between the background and the subject. AI-based selection tools are not a one-and-done thing, the resulting selections require human editing because it doesn’t always work how you’re wanting it to work. It offers a good starting point though.
Photoshop Sky Replacement
The selection option Select Sky can be useful as a step one for this, along with some human editing for the finer details that it doesn’t pick up. However, if it struggles, or if you simply prefer to select the sky by hand, that’s okay too. You can remove the selected sky, then take another image and put it there instead. It will look odd at first, since you’ll have to recolor the image that isn’t the sky image to get it to match better with the new sky visually.
Photoshop Unlock Layer
If there is a locked layer, it should have a lock beside it in the Layers menu. Simply click the lock to unlock the layer.
I hope these helped!