How to master PS technology? How to be proficient in Photoshop related operations

PS is a fantastic software, I have been playing this for more than a year and my experience is: interest is the best teacher. If you have already been exposed to PS, then I suggest you borrow some books, do more exercises, do more, become familiar with your hands, and use the tools handy, and the level will naturally go up.

In addition, there are many ** tutorials that you can take a look at. It is also very important to often appreciate some good ** and improve your level of appreciation. Usually shoot some **, or help friends p, you can follow the examples in the book, it will be very slow at first, but when you complete a work, the happiness is also not experienced by others.

1. Familiar with the tools of PS:

First of all, you need to know the tools of Photoshop, there are very popular multi-basic tutorials on the Internet**, you can browse**1 to 3 times first, and have a simple understanding of the tool. At the very least, you need to have some understanding of what tools do presumably.

2. Take notes:

Third, to the level of basic understanding, you can operate.

There are a lot of small tasks on the Internet that are related to detailed steps. Find some exercises for relatively simple tasks, pay attention to some skills and shortcuts encountered in the process, and go deeper slowly, in the process you can also learn about some backgrounds, colors, small icons, filters, fonts, and so on.

For example, find an advertising design draft with facial cleanser as the content and change the PSD layered format to an advertising draft for shampoo (similar products will be simpler), and after you are more proficient, you can modify it across industries, such as changing the advertising draft of cosmetics to the advertising draft of electrical products. In the process of modification, you can notice the collocation of products, backgrounds, colors, text, small icons, etc., which is a very interesting thing.

You just have to do more practice, and this thing is achieved in the process of groping.

P.S. tutorial hopes to help you.

As long as the PS master knows these 3 tricks, which are cutout, color grading and synthesis, then all the problems are basically no longer a problem.

1. Cutout in the eyes of PS masters.

If you think that cutouts are just using a magic wand or pen tool to cut out pictures, then you are underestimating the PS master. For them, the magic wand and the pen tool are the easiest to cut out images. The cutout techniques of really good PS works are very complex.

PS master cutouts often use new techniques such as masks, channels, and adding contrasting color cutouts. New tricks such as using masks, channels, and adding contrasting cutouts are one of the most important of the 3 tricks that PS masters are reluctant to tell you. Because you will do this trick, it means that you can deduct all the ** in your hands in the future.

Doesn't that sound scary.

2. Toning in the eyes of PS masters.

In their eyes, color mixing is not simply about turning red into blue, but about what color you want. For example, they sometimes get gray **. So how to become colorful at this time is their latest trick.

At the same time, they can turn the colorful ** into multiple styles. Such as becoming quaint and so on. And this color matching technique is not as simple as turning red into blue.

In addition to using the two commonly used color grading shortcuts of Ctrl+U and Ctrl+B, PS Master will also combine the functions of color levels (Ctrl+L) and gradient mapping in this process. It can make ** more vivid.

3. Synthesis in the eyes of PS masters.

A true PS master compositor has to take into account perspective, light, structure, shadows, texture, and color tones. in order to make all unrelated ** merge together. And this move is the most powerful of the 3 moves of the PS master.

As a novice, there will always be a feeling of no start when learning PS, so how should a novice learn PS software skillfully? Here is a brief talk to you, maybe a little vague but try to stick to it and you will find that in some stages the technology of PS will be improved.

1. First of all, let's talk about software.

To learn a new piece of software, we need to know the layout of the software, as well as the various functions, panels, and so on. This part is the easiest, just familiarize yourself with the interface carefully and remember it.

2. After mastering the basic functions of the software, it will be applied to the basic operation and continue to deepen the mastery of the software.

This process is not very difficult, after mastering the basic tools, the basic image operation and simple color grading must be no problem, as long as you try to follow the production with a simple example, this time should be more familiar with the software.

3. After mastering the basic software, it does not mean that you have learned, and it can only be said that you have mastered the software, and you need to continue to deepen the study of various special effects, color grading, synthesis, etc. after learning the simple operation skills of PS.

At this stage, it is recommended to learn a little bit according to the example of learning **, maybe you feel that you will be able to do it and feel that it is not necessary, here I want to say that you insist on trying, after a period of time you will find your own changes, it is recommended to have an example a day.

4. When the example feels that you have mastered it almost, it is also the most difficult time, you start to do various effects, this process is the most difficult, you may be proficient in using various tools, but when used in practice, you may feel that the tool will be used, but it seems that you can't design, you don't know how to start, don't worry at this time, return to the original, start from the simplest,Be careful, make your own, don't imitate it, start with simple posters, cards, leaflets, and start with the most basic layout and structureDon't be afraid of simplicity, don't be afraid of not being able to get your hands on it.

Learn something else, even if it's not design-related, but aesthetic-related.

Photography, painting, composition, color, and more.

6. It is best to focus on learning typesetting, simple words, simple background, as long as the typesetting is appropriate, it is an excellent design draft.

The above is the detailed content of how to learn PS to get started quickly.