Today I stumbled on the lazy man's way of using this program. Click on the Edit button on the upper right hand side. Then select Guided. A dialogue box appears asking what would you like to do?
The drop down menu gives several options-basic photo edits which include cropping, rotating and straightening. Then there is lighting adjustment, color correction. Then there is the Guided Activity The last category allows one to work on a project and is grouped under Photomerge/ Group Photo and Faces.
The tools are easy to use. When you click on the crop icon, a box appears immediately on your subject and all you have to do is to resize it by using the arrows to shift it up or down or left or right. The lighting and color corrections uses a slider for adjustment. The Guided Activity helps to take care of blemishes, scratches and marks in the photos.
I have here a picture of Xiao Hong taken with my Nokia cell phone. The picture has been cropped and adjusted for lighting and color.
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Adobe’s Photoshop software is a very powerful image editing program that is by far the market leader for editing image files. I use Photoshop extensively when creating, and editing images for the web sites that I design. Almost all professional photographers and printers also use Photoshop to create all of the wonderful images that appear in magazines, billboards, and even on television. I am not the best artist in the world, but with Photoshop I have enough power to create brilliant images with tools that are built-in to the software.
The coolest thing about Photoshop is that even as powerful as it is out of the box, there are many different plug-ins to make Photoshop even more powerful. The Photoshop plug-ins can be grouped into a few major categories which include 3D, color management, digital asset management, photographic, retouching, and special effects.
The Photoshop plug-ins which are available can help perform tasks much faster and more efficiently than performing these tasks by hand. The 3D plug-ins are used to create 3D images and type very quickly and elegantly. The color management Photoshop plug-ins can create new colors to correspond to the printer that you are using, or the monitor that you are using to create your graphics. The digital asset management plug-ins are used to organize all of the digital images that you have created so that finding the correct image is much easier than without it. The photographic ones give many different professional lens techniques that you can apply to any picture to create amazing effects.
The retouching plug-ins can intelligently change the contrast, color, sharpness, and many other common filters to make a picture look as crisp as possible. The special effects plug-ins are my favorite, because they can make a rather plain image into something fantastic. If you use Photoshop on a regular basis, then you need to look at some of the plug-ins that are available, because they can make your life much easier, and your graphics look much better.
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