My nephew made the leap and finally bought Photoshop. He had been saving up for a while now, and believed it would make his life a lot easier. He saw a future where he would make top quality images by merely thinking about it. Just close your eyes hard enough and ‘poof’, it was done. Then he sat down to use Photoshop, and realised he had no idea what to do!

You won’t have to go through this pain if you spend some time learning about Photoshop. The software is pricy and for good reason- it’s the best image editing software on the market today. For someone who is knows what he or she is doing, Photoshop can do anything.

Here is some advice to get you started. Search for the ‘History Log’ on the screen. This is where you can save your progress while you edit your image. The are a number of options to personalise your session. For example select ‘Sessions Only’ to make the log remember the time and dat that you start each session. Choose ‘Concise’ to recall more information about your work. And you can pick ‘Detailed’ for the most information, recording details about every edit you do to the image.

If you go to preferences you can change the algorithm options to improve the performance of your software. The color is decided by the color picker. Windows and Adobe are the most common choices. Resizing an image is done by the ‘Image Interpolation’ algorithm. Th majority of people select ‘Bicubic Interpolation’.

The only real way to learn Photoshop is to play around with things. Keep exploring and discover what you can do. For more specific learning read about Photoshop online and try out the many available video tutorials. After a while, you’ll be making superb pictures just like my nephew wanted to!

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