How to Photoshop Pics
Adobe Photoshop has become so synonymous with photo manipulation that the word is now commonly used as a verb. This should come as no surprise, as Photoshop provides you with an array of options for editing photographs. Using this software, you can touch up photographs just like the graphic artists employed by fashion magazines, or you can use effects to turn a regular picture into a work of art. You can even remove and replace entire portions of your image.
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Instructions
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Remove Blemishes
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Select your "Clone Stamp" tool by clicking the stamp image on your tool bar or by clicking "S" on your keyboard. Using this tool, you can remove blemishes like acne and under-eye circles from a face, remove scratches from an old photograph, or even remove an entire person from an image. You can select your brush size using the option bar at the top of your screen.
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Hold down the "Alt" key (or "Option" on a Mac) and click a color on the image that you would like to select, usually appearing directly beside the subject or blemish that you want to remove. For example, if you want to remove a scar from someone's cheek, select an area of clean skin beside the scar. If you want to remove an image of a man standing in front of a wall, select the color of the wall directly beside the man.
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Click the subject or blemish with your mouse to cover it with your selected color. To cite the previous examples, you would cover a facial scar with the color of clear skin or cover the man with the color of the wall. You may need to click your mouse several time to completely paint over the unwanted subject. Continue to use "Alt/Option" to select new colors beside different portions of the subject, if painting over multiple colors. If the color looks too solid and fails to properly blend, lower the amount of opacity by dragging the "Opacity" slider to the left on your option bar.
Remove and Replace Background
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Click your "Lasso" tool, appearing on your toolbar, and use your mouse to draw an outline all the way around your current background. For example, if you have an image of yourself standing in front of a boring, white wall, and you want to replace the wall with a beach setting, draw an outline around the wall. You can also use the "Magnetic Lasso" tool to automatically cling to edges and corners.
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Click the "Delete" button your keyboard to completely remove the background, leaving behind a gray checkerboard image where the background once stood. If pressing "Delete" does nothing, unlock your current layer by double-clicking it on your "Layers" window (click "Window" on the right side of your menu bar and choose "Layers").
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Open a second image containing the background you want to use. This may include a beach setting, a jungle, a cityscape or any other image that closely matches your original image.
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Select your entire background image by clicking "Ctrl" and "A" on your keyboard ("Command" and "A," for Mac users). Copy the background by clicking "Control" and "C" ("Command" and "C," for Mac users).
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Return to your original image and click "Ctrl" and "V" on your keyboard ("Command" and "V," for Mac users) to paste your background into the picture, creating a new layer.
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Access your "Layers" panel by selecting "Window" on the menu bar and clicking "Layers." Drag your new layer (containing your desired background image) to the bottom of your "Layers" list to place it in the background, behind the saved portion of your original image.
Add Filters
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Click "Filter" on your menu bar and click "Filter Gallery" with your mouse. Filters can turn regular images into virtual art projects, allowing you to turn a personal photo into a black and white sketch, place yourself inside an array of mosaic tiles or add a neon glow to your favorite photos.
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Sample each filter by clicking it once. A preview will appear in your "Filter" window, which you can manipulate by dragging the sliders in the right-hand column.
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Apply a selected filter to your photograph by clicking the "OK" button. Note that old versions of Photoshop, predating Photoshop CS, do not contain a filter gallery, but require you to select each filter individually from the "Filter" menu on the menu bar.
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