Photoshop User

Photoshop User takes superb quality, unbeatable production values and professional content from a team of industry experts to produce the ultimate photo-editing magazine. Each issue is packed with practical user tutorials and projects, building up to become the essential reference guide for all core areas of photo-editing and Photoshop use. Photoshop User is the perfect title for both photographers seeking to improve their images and digital artists looking to advance their skills. Subscribe today! 100% Independent! Please note: ALL free content and gifts are also available via this digital edition.

If you can imagine it, you can create it in Photoshop

Get Yourself Inspired

GET INSPIRED

Art Attack!

Creating Fantasy Art • Use multiple images and combine them to create new works of art

Exploring Photoshop

Using Your First Type Tool • Get to know what the various Type Tool options can do to really lift your artwork

Your First 3D Creation • Break free from the bonds of 2D with Photoshop’s 3D tool

Some More Useful Tools

Healing Brush Tools • Clean up minor blemishes, dust spots and stray hairs with the Healing Brush tools

Brushes, Pencil and Eraser • Photoshop has many tools to help you create images as well as edit them

Inside the Edit

Surreal Images

Combine and Create

Photoshop Creative Zone

Text Portraits • Here’s how to transform a face into a dramatic text portrait

Dual Lighting Effect • Add dramatic lighting effects to your images with gradient maps

Step and Repeat • Create cool abstract backgrounds quickly and easily

Adobe Camera Raw

Processing Raw Files • For the best possible quality, shoot in Raw mode

What is Jpeg and Raw? • Our thoughts on the great image format debate

Camera Raw • The new look for Photoshop’s Raw processor

Plugins Round-up

Get switched on with plugins

Photoshop install

Elements install

Luminar 4 • 30 day money back period. £81 for 1 license.

PixelSquid • Free with limited object choice. $199 per year for access to all 3D assets.

StockSolo • Free to use. No restrictions on photos.

Blow Up 3 • 30 day trial. $79 one off purchase.

Aurora HDR • 30 day money back period. £92 for 5 licenses.

More Lightroom Essentials • This section does pretty much what it says above. We’ve started our journey through Lightroom Classic and Lightroom and we’re continuing to explore more of what it has to offer.

Do More With Masking

Using Face Recognition

Adjusting the White Balance

Optimising Photos with the Histogram

Exploring Elements

The Guided Mode Workspace • This mode is great for accomplishing a variety of effects, with a handy guide for each one you use.

The Expert Mode Workspace • For those who have developed their skills to the point where they are comfortable getting more hands-on with their images.

The Expert Mode Toolbar • All the main editing tools you need in Expert mode are accessible from the toolbar on the left of the workspace.

Partial Sketch • Guided edits are a simple, quick and fun way to add edits to your photos. Have you ever fancied yourself as a great sketch artist? Well, with the Partial Sketch guided edit, you can instantly turn any of your favourite photos into an artistic rendering with just a few clicks.

Going next-level!

Photoshop User