Editing Digital Photography

Adobe Photoshop today is the world's leading digital imaging software program, and it allows users to edit their pictures with an amazing array of tools. Adobe Photoshop Elements is based on the market-leading professional Adobe Photoshop software, but is a lighter version. Aimed at the home digital photo enthusiast, elements performs basic photo editing tasks quickly and easily and there are also many sophisticated Photo shop features available to you at the click of a mouse. Truly, Adobe Photoshop is changing the face of digital photos.

If you've always wanted to learn how to watermark, add a realistic magnifying glass effect, create a paint-by-numbers drawing, Adobe Photo shop can help you do it. Photoshopcafe.com is one of dozens of sites dedicated to nothing but Photo shop. You not only get tutorials online, you also get textual tips, reviews of new tools, sneak peeks at Photo shop books and new releases and info on video tutorials as well. If you have a special Photo shop conundrum, you can even join a forum to post your question. Tutorial categories include: effects, text, photo, using texture, using Photoshop for the web and a miscellaneous link for those Photo shop tricks you can't put a name on. There are also 9 video tutorials from Photo shop experts.

The best thing about Photoshop is not only the integrated tools and devices you can use to tweak images and create your own, but because of the flawless interaction of its commands and tools. Given one image, you can do virtually anything you want with the confidence that Photo shop tools will follow your command and produce an edited picture the way you want it to appear. Export-ready - When it comes to exporting its images, Photo shop allows seamless program shifts among other Adobe software used in image editing, authoring and animation such as Adobe Illustrator, ImageReady and After Effects. Photoshop files (.PSD or Photoshop document format) may be manipulated to produce special effects such as adding textures and changing backgrounds. Non-linear editing is also a breeze.

Lighting effects - a change in the lighting can dramatically alter the mood of a digital photograph. In the past, photographers either had to wait for the sun to be just perfect or make use of special lighting in order to achieve the effect that they need. With Adobe Photoshop lighting effects, you can adjust the lighting of a digital photograph even after it is taken. Think of the possibilities! You can take the picture of a sunset even in the middle of a cloudy day. You can light up the subject of a digital photograph even without using a flash. Photo shop effects tutorials will even teach you how to make it look like you are living on an alien planet, by adding 2 different colored suns to your picture. The great thing about this is that, unlike other image editors which just paste a sun into the background, Adobe Photo shop can really make it seem as if the addition does affect the lighting within the image.

Tone - With just a click of your mouse, you can immediately turn your 100% colored photo into a black and white picture to make it seem older. You can also choose to give it a sepia look for a similarly quaint but more artistic impact.

Text - With the help of an Adobe Photo shop tutorial on effects, you can also add cute text or captions to and within your photos. Unlike older programs which require you to copy and paste text with white backgrounds, Adobe Photo shop has a transparent background so that only the very shapes of the letters are pasted on your photo. With this option, the text you're adding will be made a part of the very photograph.

Choosing the Type of Image File - Whenever you edit a photo in a major way, the default settings of Photo Shop would usually ask you to save the file in psd format; be that as it may, it's better for you to save your photos in jpeg as this is the most commonly accepted file and allows you to upload photos easily on just about any website. Images without Background - Let's say you wish to create a particular shape or text or you've cut out a particular figure and you wish to use it on a website or even any design without white background. This is impossible to do with MS Paint, but certainly easy to achieve with Adobe Photo Shop. First, set the background to transparent. Next, paste or create the desired text, shape, or photo. Once you're done, you have to click on Save for Web and not simply Save As because the latter would cause your photo to lose its transparent background.