Top 5 Photoshop Tools to Edit Photos for Beginners
Photo editing has become very important in this photographic world. Photoshop is known as the most powerful photo editing application at recent time period of time, perhaps the best tool of all time to edit photographs. Every kinds of professional photo editing, Photoshop is a must used tool. Photoshop is best because it has the best tools and techniques by which you can make the photos look the best. Before you start working with Photoshop, you should know about the tools of Photoshop and the techniques in which the tools are used. As a beginner, you have to know about the powers about some tools.
When you are about to edit photos with Photoshop, you have to go through some tools and techniques. If you do not know about the tools and you directly jump on to edit photos, you may face some difficulties while editing the photographs. So it is important for photo editing to know about the tools to get ready in a full swing. In this article of mine, I will discuss some of the basic and useful tools and its uses while editing photos in Photoshop for beginners.
1. Crop Tool
The crop tool is one of the most used tools of Photoshop while editing. Suppose you are feeling that some part of the photograph is not looking that convincing or you feel like minimizing the photo and cut down those areas. Crop tool is there to help you. You just need to select the crop tool from the tool bar. To select crop tool, go to the tool bar and click on the crop icon or you can also activate crop tool by pressing ‘c’ on the keyboard. When you activate crop tool, you will get the cursor of crop tool stretch the tool as per your requirement and press enter. Your photo will be cropped simply.
2. Pen Tool
In a photograph, background is a very important element. If the background cannot support an object, then the photograph will fail to impress the viewers. But now you can remove the unwanted background and get a new background if you use background removal technique by using pen tool of Photoshop. Pen tool is considered as the best tool for background removal. You can draw the accurate line of the object by pen tool which leads you to get perfect background removal. To activate pen tool, go to the tool bar and click on the ‘pen’ icon or press ‘p’ on keyboard.
3. Spot Healing Brush Tool
In Photoshop, perhaps spot healing brush tool is the most magical tool. Suppose you have a photo which has multiple marks, spots and blemishes. Applying spot healing brush tool on those photos, will help you to remove the spots and blemishes and give you spotless photos. You can activate spot healing brush tool by click on the brush tool and select spot healing brush tool from the box.
4. Adjustment Layer Tool
What makes a photo looks lively? Yes, it is the color which adds life to a photograph. A dull color photo makes the photo look lifeless. Raw photos may look dull. Photoshop can make it look colorful and lively. The magic of adjustment layer of Photoshop will make you do that. In the adjustment layer, you will get several options to adjust the color. You will get effect, auto color, color curve, brightness and contrast and many others. Go to Image>Adjustment and choose your preferred one to work with.
5. Magnetic Lasso Tool
Magnetic Lasso Tool is another great tool of making selection of the objects while removing the background from an image. The beauty of magnetic lasso tool is, the tool understand the shape of the object. You just have to move the cursor and the tool will automatically follow the lines of the object with perfect shape. It makes easier to make the selection.
As a beginner, you should know and practice these 5 tools of Photoshop which will make you a professional photo editor. Being a photographer and photo editor at the same time, I have used these tools and edited many photos in my earlier time of photography and I delivered some amazing photos. I want you guys to have the knowledge about these tools and practice with them. Good Luck!
