Photoshop Fundamentals

Photoshop Fundamentals

What is Photoshop?

Photoshop definition:

What is Photoshop? well essentially it is a creative hub that literally allows you and your creative minds to go on whatever journey you want to go on and then actually create it but I want to be specific about this as well. 

So Photoshop isn't about going in there and manipulating somebody's body and then ruining them that essentially is when you say oh it's been photoshopped it can be used for that and maybe you want to go ahead and do that and that's what you're allowed to do with it but it has way way more powers than just that so let's talk about this let's talk about it as a creative person. 

so I have an article all about Lightroom which is essentially for photographers where you might you take a photograph you then want to get creative with it and export it Lightroom harnesses that allows you to do it but it only allows you to edit what is in that photo file now Photoshop is completely different in the way that it's not about going whoa I'll edit what's already there Photoshop is a blank canvas zero is on that canvas. 

You get to literally decide the size of your canvas the shape of your canvas and then you decide what to put on that canvas it's like a painter okay he can go out and say oh what what what type of canvas do I want what size do I want when they've got it they can say okay well I want to paint this color well that's amazing because then you can paint another color but what's amazing about Photoshop is there's it's limitless to what you put on you could throw.

I don't know Doritos unto it I don't why I say Doritos you could throw baked beans onto it or an egg on there or literally set it on fire you can do whatever you want that canvas and amazingly you can set it on fire burn it and then go  you know what I really didn't want to burn it it's in Photoshop you can go back and then take away that burn and then go back to where you were and that really is the power of it. 

So Photoshop essentially allows you to build different layers of different things on top of each other and there are no limits to how many layers you have or what goes on a layer so it could be a photograph it could be a design element it could just be a shape it could be text it could be a filter that changes the color of everything or it could add an effect to something that changes everything maybe just that layer or all the layers underneath you can then mask out different areas so you could essentially basically could go. 

Oh I want this person's body and I'm going to throw this person's head on top of it and then I'm going to put it on this background which means that they're standing on the top of the Empire State Building and then I'm going to put the Empire State Building and I'm going to make sure that it's sitting on top of the moon so now we're in space and it's on the moon and then they're going to wrap text around that. 

And I'm going to make that say aren't Photoshop tutorials by photos in color great and that can wrap all the way around there and then from that point we can say oh we really like that but we want to add a filter to this to make it all pink and blue and then great that all looks amazing and then what you can do is export it really huge print it massive and then you can print have that image put on the side back on the side of the Empire State Building in New York. 

So that's just where my head went but that is the beauty of Photoshop it's all about allowing yourself to get creative now when learning Photoshop there's a number of important things that I think you need to do and that's number one go through some of the basic elements of it learn each section specifically you are never going to learn how to do everything in Photoshop for example you can make videos in Photoshop you can do 3d rent during so everything. 

I just said then you could then render 3d around the side of a can you could do anything you wanted you could build an entire room that never existed inside Photoshop but these are things that might not interest you might just want to do poster design for something well you can do poster design in there too you can do anything you want you can just do photography manipulation it's amazing so think about what you want to use it. 

For then go down that path and learn it now my article is essentially going to walk you through all of the different tools on the left-hand panel the workspace is how it all works the filters the adjustment layers how what are layers what are masks and all those things are going to teach you the basics but the thing is this you learn the basics by working on different projects but before you go into Photoshop. 

And this is where many people make mistakes and that's when they end up with wacky things is they're going to Photoshop say arm we're going to do something and I need to start importing stuff and adding stuff and adding layers and doing things Photoshop is about being creative and in my experience creativity starts with you not with the program it doesn't start with Photoshop it doesn't start even with a camera or whatever elements you're using it starts with you as a person so think about how you want to be creative what you want to create. 

So for example what I just described about that person with a head on top of the moon that was wrapped around the Empire State Building I came up with this is my head not in Photoshop I can then go okay so now I need a picture of the Empire State Building picture body and a head I want to add these color tones to it the moon the space figure out what the text is get all of those elements. 

And then I can go into Photoshop and magically create exactly what I wanted to do now that was a very complex thing that I came up with but you might just say well I want this image to have this color tone with this text on it well think about that before you go into Photoshop now of course when you're in there you're going to start getting creative and use different things in there and that's the magic of it but before you get going on any project think creatively what you want it to be and then go in there but before you can use Photoshop really you need to learn how to do it. 

So I help a little block I hope that this article really described and helped you understand what Photoshop is it's a program made by Adobe that allows you to put in basically all of your different creative ideas and put them onto one canvas in one place maybe you draw you take a photo you add text you create some other design element shapes and things somewhere maybe you create things using your phone. 

You then put it all together inside Photoshop and that allows you to build a final image you can also save your images inside Photoshop and then go back in and edit them later or you can export them it's just JPEG files which will allow you to upload them to the Internet you can also do loads of other things inside Photoshop that I've never spoken about in this article.

But you're going to learn a lot about Photoshop it's an exciting place to spend your time but don't get scared don't be like oh my god I don't know what to do with Photoshop is this huge mountain we'll remember we're not looking to be a helicopter that drops you off at the top of the mountain we're going to stay at the bottom and we're going to start walking up the mountain and it's not going to be very steep at first but by the end you're going to be able to understand it all and see the top of it anyway I hope this made sense.

Photoshop background removal:

Photoshop background removal. We're going to be taking a look at the background eraser tool in Adobe Photoshop So I've got a photo here of a woman Now the background eraser tool is particularly useful when you're trying to cut out hair So what we're going to do is take the photograph here. 

And we're going to effectively remove the gray background and then we're going to be able to lay in a background color of our choice, so effectively, the woman will be on a transparent background, so To start with we have our layer here our experience layer that is bolted. We can double click this and we'll call this woman and then in the layers Palette create a new layer and Just drag this underneath

Now if you select the fill tool on the left and just select a nice bright color It doesn't matter which color it is as long as it's nice and bright because when we remove this background The Bright color will show through and it makes it much easier to see which bits. We've cut out successfully 

So let's fill this layer one with our bright color And we'll call this awesome Bright color if I could spell There we go so now let's select our woman layer above and Just left-click and hold on the eraser tool and select background eraser tool Now you can adjust the size of the brush by using the square brackets 

That's the left and right square brackets so the left square bracket reduces the size and the right square bracket increases the size So that's very handy for working on something quickly just to be able to change the size of your brush and you've got a few different settings here. 

We want to select the Middle one so the sampling is once so because our background is all pretty much one color or Very close to one color when we sample this color we want to only remove this color So we don't want to remove any of the skin tones the purple from the dress or anything else?

We simply need to test this dim foundation and expel that one shading you can choose some different alternatives like constant inspecting that will ceaselessly test from any place you select? But that will cut into our photo here, and we don't want now. We just want to literally take out the background.

So let's select sampling once limits Contiguous, that's fine Protect foreground color so that box is selected the tolerance. This is one bit that may need a little bit of experimenting So what the tolerance is if you have your tolerance set very low say five percent or ten percent? It will be bit much more strict in what it cuts out? 

What part of the picture it expels if your resilience is set extremely high for instance fifty or 60%? It will expel the foundation, yet it might likewise evacuate portions of the picture so let me show that so in the event that we select our resistance as five and We'll left snap anyplace on the dim to test this shading. 

You'll see that it removes this and I yellow background shows through But there's still quite a lot of grey left that it isn't removing in fact It's doing a very poor job of actually cutting out the hair So we need to adjust that So again conversely let's go up to 60% so we've set it a lot higher.

We'll left-click to sample the gray background that we want to remove and you can see that we've set it now to high and it actually tries to remove parts of the image, so if we set this to 30% and this may take a bit of trial and error just to find the right tolerance depending on your picture however once you get the resilience right you can left-tap on the dim or your experience shading. 

And simply drag holding that left-click down not giving up and You can drag over your image in particular around the hair and the skin And you'll see that it cuts it out very very well indeed Considering I'm doing this in literally 10 20 seconds it's more about getting in the detail around the hair you can zoom in as you need to and adjust the tolerance for different parts And you can actually spend quite a lot of time doing this I'm just doing this very quickly to illustrate how to use this tool So there we go. 

We've done most of the work. We can now left-click and hold and select the eraser tool and Just use that to finish off any loose ends so the background eraser tool is particularly good for cutting around things like hair very very specifically and Then we can just go and use the standard eraser tool just to get rid of all that these are the bits over here So now we can see how well we've cut this out by our yellow background. 

We can zoom in a bit We can see that. It's done a pretty good job of Cutting around all those little strands of hair which would have taken as hours and If we select our awesome bright color layer, we can press command U on the Mac or control U on the PC To bring up our hue and saturation options and we can adjust the hue and Change that color to anything that we like you can increase the lightness to have that as white or all the way down to black?

Or what you can do is simply deselect this layer And you'll see that we now have our Woman cut out on a transparent background and we could even lay a photograph or obscure a foundation behind there We can do anything now that we have her on a transparent background There we go. That's how we can use the background eraser tool in Adobe Photoshop as Always guys please feel free to leave any questions or comments below.

Photoshop resize image:

Photoshop resize image. I'm going to go over the basics of resizing an image rescale in editing the image and pretty much just go over the general things that you need to know about how to actually modify an image or just change the size of it first of all create a project this is completely up to you. 

You can either create a new project by simply dragging this into Photoshop the work area right here or you can go to file open and in here you can create your own custom size for the project the one thing that you need to know is you have this area up here this area here is all about your projects. 

So if you had multiple projects open they are going to be in separate tabs and that is pretty much it that's the first bit that you need to know to actually resize it you can do it two ways the first way is with show transformation controls this is something used a lot by people who are new to photoshop. 

And it can be quite useful because you don't really need to remember any shortcut keys you just go up here make sure you are on the first tool I don't think it shows the full ones and click on show transformation controls or transform controls this will pretty much create these points on the corners of the image and every time you resize it and you double click on it double left-click it will keep them right there so you can always go back move it around change it whenever you want if you want to be more advanced with this. 

So if I do ctrl on Z to undo I'll take this over way in my opinion is a lot quicker to do because all you do is press ctrl + T or if you're on a Mac is command + T and that will get you the same action okay so now that we've gone over the basics we are now going to import another image on top of this one this is commonly known picture inside picture is basically where you pull a novel picture on top of this one and they overlay each other. 

For example if I open up my folder I have a sunflower which is right here is gonna act like an effect for this image just like before left-click and drag this into the work area you will notice the border will highlight and that is when the image is available so you can import it if that white line doesn't come up. 

And you get a different icon like a narrow one with the sign saying you can't do it this means that the image is either corrupt or unsupported file when it's like this you want to try and make sure that it is either PNG jpg or some sort of support file just try your best to convert them if you can't import them into Photoshop you can always go to other websites or you can take a screenshot and then save it and then reopen as you can see automatically it is set. 

It to have the transformation controls the other thing that is really useful and you all need to do this if you hold shift and drag the corners it will maintain the aspect ratio and this is really important if you want your projects to look professional if you don't let's say you just drag it like this it just doesn't really look very good. 

So I'm just gonna apply this and press ctrl + Z to undo import it again and do it properly this time once again hold shift drag this in move it around the next thing that you can do with an image to edit it is you can actually flip this now by default you can drag this corner to the side and it will automatically flip it the only problem with this is that you don't exactly know how far to go out so let me just don't do this the best way to flip an image is to right-click go to the bottom and you have both options here for me. 

I'm going to do a horizontal because I need the Sun flare on the side rather than outside I'm going to move it to where one one thing that I can do with my image right now because I can't really see the Sun is I can actually turn this image down and that will make them overlay on each other ctrl T again to resize hold shift position it correctly make it larger when you are changing the size of an image you should always try to make it a small object like. 

I mentioned before it is good for rescaling and changing the size if you don't know how to do it you right click on a layer go to convert small object and now this is a small object and since this looks good right now I'm going to turn it back to 100% so convert it back to a layer what I like to do to save some time is I go to the eraser tool this icon will pop up just click on the message will come up asking would you like to turn this into a layer so you can edit it and you want to press ok for me. 

I'm going to go with the eraser tool and just go around this image to remove the edges make them smoother then I'm going to go to the effects which is right here is set on normal right now and I'm going to set this one to screen for the very last thing that I'm going to go over is I'm going to create a new project just to have two of them open. 

Now the reason for this is because some people want to know how to move some objects from here onto the second project it's really simple all you do is left-click and drag this up here and when this comes up you can pretty much print inside here and that is how you move it from one project to another.

Photoshop vs Lightroom:

Photoshop vs Lightroom. I'm gonna explain to you the difference between Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom so we're gonna begin in Lightroom and you can see some differences in the layout just starting off if you're familiar with Photoshop and one of the main ones is that there's no layers panel available in Lightroom. 

So everything that you do on the photos is just adjusted right on top and it's all kind of non-destructive especially if you've shot raw so you have all your basic exposure contrast highlights color things that a photographer would need to edit their photo but you don't have things like filters and layers that are available in Photoshop another one of the key differences that you notice is the organization and workflow in Lightroom. 

It's much more suited for someone who let's say just wants to fix the contrast and exposure on many photos at once see in Photoshop you can't really look at the filmstrip in this way you can have multiple tabs open but you can't really organize and sort through many photos and apply quick adjustments to them. 

For example let's say I shot a bunch of photos all on the same day or with the same camera settings and I just wanted to increase all of their contrast in the same way I can always copy these settings and then actually paste them over one or as many of the photos open on the strip. 

As I want so I just pasted the same contrast and exposure settings over multiple different photos light rooms library feature allows for you to sort through organize and work with all of your photos in a way that's just a little bit faster and efficient when you're doing these sort of adjustments so you can think of it kind of like your digital darkroom or Lightroom aside from your basic color correction and grading type of options you also have some things like cropping healing brush. 

And some other adjustments where you can just brush a certain area to be warmer or darker or whatever settings you have set to the brush so in that way it does give you some sort of compositing options with the brush gradients tool allowing you to only make adjustments on certain parts of the image but you can see a lot more basic in flexibility and functionality than something like Photoshop. 

So this works great when you're processing lots of photos you're working with raw photos or you just need to do things like contrast exposure colouring temperature things like that now let's open this photo in Photoshop and I'll explain some of the differences and you can compare the two so coming into Photoshop it's got a similar layout with the image in the front but in Photoshop you see a whole bunch of selection of tools they didn't quite have in Lightroom so the biggest one of these is that you can work in layers and you can composite things. 

For example if you wanted to add text you can't really add text in Lightroom if I wanted to drag other images and blend them in here you can't really do that in Lightroom another thing it's not available is the assortment of filters so if I want to do just any sort of filters or other type of work onto the image that's not really available in Leh room either that's not to say that Photoshop is better than Lightroom or Lightroom is better than Photoshop it's just that this is why the two are separate programs they each have their different uses in cases now can you do a lot of the same things in each program yes for example I can also adjust the contrast in Photoshop. 

But you see we're in Lightroom you could just flick around the sliders they're all there for you and it's immediate an instant in Photoshop to adjust settings like that you might have to go to image adjustments brightness contrast or if you want to work a little bit more non-destructively create a new adjustment layer of whatever you want it like brightness contrast curves etc. 

So it does have kind of a lot of the same tools but the workflow is a lot different and kind of more suited towards compositing one image rather than processing multiple images at the same time and also Photoshop is a little bit more suited for creating graphics and things like that if you also want to add them to your photo so if I wanted to do a cool color correction and grade on a handful of images. 

I might like Lightroom for that but if I wanted to let's say remove this blue sweatshirt guy from this picture I can't really do that in Lightroom whereas Photoshop has some powerful tools in it such as the content-aware fill so it kind of can remove that guy from being in the picture if we didn't want him there now going back to Lightroom you can see how easy is for me to flick between pictures check out all the pictures. 

That I've imported or import new photos using this library feature and kind of search through them whereas photo shops file management system is a little bit more traditional in one file at a time type of thing which kind of suits it more to editing one photo at a time and if I did have multiple tabs open. 

I can do that but there's not really a good way to see what's on every tab especially if they're all named be 665 or whatever you can adjust things and arrange everything to tile up like this but still the filmstrip in Lightroom is by comparison a lot more smooth to work with now Adobe does have apps like Bridge and if you want a way to sort all of your creative assets together. 

I personally never find myself using it too much not for any particular reason but it is there if you want to look into it and finally when it comes to saving and exporting things in Photoshop you have Photoshop files so I have the original image wherever it was and then if I want to save this I could save it as a new Photoshop file or as a new JPEG whereas in Lightroom do you have all the non-destructive options built-in. 

So all these exposure and color settings that I've done I can always reset to the original settings if I want it's not like it's permanently adjusting these things so it lends itself well to the kind of back and forth nature that you might use when doing photo editing in Photoshop you can open raw photos or edit photos with the Camera Raw filter which gives you a similar layout. 

So you can see both of the programs are very capable photo editors but the main differences between them are Lightroom is primarily for editing and adjusting photographs things such as color exposure contrast cropping saving organizing whereas Photoshop offers a lot more tools on top such as compositing things in layers adding text graphics filters and powerful selection and blending options so you don't have to choose one over the other these two are separate programs for a reason consider what it is you need to do or what kind of work you are looking to do.

Photoshop masking:

Photoshop masking. Now we're going to talk about masking what is it and how can you learn to mask in a snap we're going to paint our red car green so you see I've got the green car here. 

So let's just jump in and get started I'm gonna look over here to my layers panel at the bottom of the layers panel I have a layer mask icon hit that to add a layer mask basically here's how a mask works if your mask is white whatever is white you can see I'm gonna fill this with black you see that when that's filled with black everything is hidden so black means you can't see it white means you can see it alright. 

I actually want to fill this with black though so I'm gonna hit command I or control I that's going to fill it with black it's going to just invert the white to black I'm going to zoom in on the car and I'm going to use my brush tool so we need to letter B to bring out my brush. 

And I'm going to make the brush a little bit smaller anytime you need to adjust the size or hardness of the brush simply right click I'm going to make this a relatively hard brush maybe about 75% and I'm just going to paint wherever I want the green color to go so give me a second and I'll have all of this color painted right in and I will be right back to finish this tutorial okay. 

And just like that we have painted in over the entire body of the car if I alt or option click on the mask you can see I have this kind of messy looking mask here which I can clean up a little bit more if I need to but it looks pretty good out here one of the really cool things about masking one of the advantages it has over erasing is let's say obviously we don't want the windows to have this green tint. 

So I can just go ahead grab my brush tool again make sure my foreground color is set to black I can zoom in here and just paint black over this whole entire area here and get rid of all of the green that normally would be filling that area and just like that we there we go we've got going ahead and got rid of that green there all right I'm gonna touch up the top of the door there and that's great and in the same way if you need to add more green you paint white somewhere right. 

If I want to make over here very green I can just paint in white over there whoops I don't want that I can just paint black over that to hide all that green again so just like that we have gone ahead and used masking to just change the color of this car very realistically and then here's a finished result. 

Where I just went ahead and added some coloring to correct headlights and wheels and the windows and we went from a red car to a green car very quickly using a layer mask so that's it for this one guys.

Photoshop text effects:

Photoshop text effects. Now I want to show you a few basics of text in Photoshop there are a number of ways you can use text while designing in Photoshop so let's grab the text tool from the tool bar if you click and hold on the text tool you can see various types of text tools like horizontal type tool vertical type tool horizontal type mask tool and vertical type mask tool. 

But most commonly we will use the horizontal type tool now just click on the canvas and see that in the layers panel a blank text layer is created let me type guru 99 com free online education to make a selection of text just double click on the text layer look here in the options bar for some options to modify the text here you can change the font styles of the selected text there's a huge list of font styles to choose from here you can give some normal font effects. 

Such as bold italic or regular by this option we can set font size you can click and drag on this icon to increase or decrease font size here are some font adjustment options click this icon to open the character panel which contains all the settings for text we can also get this panel in the window menu in this panel we have the same options. 

We saw in the options bar and many more options like kerning tracking vertically scale horizontally scale font color and many more options to modify your text now make a selection of text by double clicking on the text layer and pressing ctrl + T to open show transform you can drag and scale texts non-destructively notice here the font size of the text and then scale down the text. 

When you press ENTER you can see the font size is also changed you can scale up and down the text as you would with an image but still not lose any quality after scaling as you do with an image because when we scale the text it is not resampling the text in fact it is resizing the text so it can be scaled non-destructively now if you want to change font style then select the text and open this list of font styles. 

You can choose any of the font styles from this list and if you want to check all the font styles one by one then just click on the font style name and keep it selected then start pressing up and down arrow keys to go through all of the font styles one by one let's talk about kerning and tracking kerning means adding or subtracting space between two specific selected characters tracking means loosening or tightening a selected block of text let me change the color of this word. 

So that you can see the difference clearly while changing its tracking value but first we will change tracking for the entire line by clicking and dragging this icon you can also set tracking space between two individual characters for that just click between those two words and put your cursor there and the shortcut to change the tracking value is to hold the Alt key and press arrow keys left and right to increase or decrease the space. 

You can use the same shortcut when you want to change spacing in an entire line we can also scale our text horizontally and vertically by changing the values in the vertically scale and horizontally scale option so now let's talk about text on a path let me draw a shape as a path so we can put some text on it now look at the cursor when it's on the canvas area outside the path it would seem that a typical text instrument cursor. 

Yet when I keep it over the way then it will change and that changed cursor demonstrates that your text will be sticking to this path now click on that path and you will be able to type your text following that path and you can also determine the starting point and the ending point of text on the path. 

So select the text then press and hold the control key then put the cursor at the start of the text you can see the changed cursor now click there and drag the cursor so you will be able to see two different points a little cross indicates that this is the starting point of text and the little dot symbol indicates that this is the ending point of the text so you can't go out of that limited area you can change those points by holding the control key. 

Then clicking and dragging them you flip up and down the text around the path by moving the cursor in and out of the path area but keeping hold of the ctrl key we can also do this on a simple path drawn by the pen tool so let's check it out grab the pen tool and draw a simple path now take the text tool click on the path and start typing and you see here you have the same features. 

As we have seen previously and text over the shape path now let's talk about customizing font styles sometimes the font style can't give you exactly what you want so in these cases you need to take some text and modify that as per your requirement you can do this by converting the text to path let me type a word guru 99 then right-click on the text layer in the text panel and choose create work path. 

It will convert your text to a path that you can easily modify switch off the text layer and you will see it has generated a path around the text and look here in the paths panel a work path is created save at first now if you want to modify the path then just grab the pen tool and select some control points which you want to move. 

And set them according to how you see the design in your mind you have to hold the ctrl key then click and drag any control point the way you want you can see how I've modified the font and created a new design if I think that I can work only with the provided font style to get my output then I will not be successful every time sometimes we have to modify the text for our needs so these are some features about text.

Photoshop vs illustrator:

Photoshop vs illustrator. let's talk about illustrator and let's talk about Photoshop what's the difference between the two applications why should you use Photoshop rather than illustrator and why should I use illustrator rather than Photoshop or should I just get them both this article we're going to talk about some of the real differences between them. 

And when you should use illustrator and when you should use Photoshop as you know Photoshop recently got a little bit of an update with the CC 2015 across-the-board update where a bunch of tools were retooled and some new features got introduced among those new features was this feature called artboards. 

And when I saw these artboards it started raising the question in my mind is Photoshop our Photoshop and illustrator going to continue to live as standalone applications or will we see a day where they're actually merged into the same application just with different ways of working probably the biggest difference and the biggest thing that you're going to hear talked about or read about with regard to Photoshop versus illustrator illustrator versus Photoshop. 

Vice versa is illustrator is a vector-based application whereas Photoshop is a bitmap or raster based application what that means is illustrator is going to create something called vector graphics whereas Photoshop is going to create and edit something called raster graphics now a typical vector graphic is something that is drawn using paths it's an object based document. 

So it's  squares and circles and custom lines that you can scale up as big as you would ever want or scale as tiny as you would ever want and it would maintain that edge fidelity you're not worrying about pixels blurring when you're zooming vector graphics because it's constantly redrawing itself to make it the spot-on perfect absolute nail at every time illustration. 

If you commissioned to create a digital illustration of Wyoming that's going to be painted on the side of the Empire State Building you're going to want to use it OB illustrator because you can create that as a vector graphic it can be scaled as big as you would ever want for reference etc etc etc whereas Photoshop you're working with these raster graphics bitmap graphics a photograph is a bitmap Rass graphic. 

You can't scale a photograph as big as you would ever want therefore to edit a photograph you need something like Photoshop of course right also a lot of standard graphics are created in Photoshop because it's a very easy tool to use you can push pixels around it's not as constrained and defined by these path based object oriented of chunks of graphic these vector pieces of artwork. 

So with that ease with that ability to do things like blur you can do a true blur in Photoshop whereas illustrator the blur is kind of like a fake blur applied to a vector object that re-renders itself every time you resize it so it's not really a true vector blur it's a blur based on a vector object so in Photoshop you can have true blur you can do things like selective color channels you know selecting somebody's skin tone for instance and just working on that healing somebody's skin replacing objects in a photograph. 

You can't you just can't do that stuff in Adobe Illustrator so there's a reason the Photoshop is the number one selling Adobe application and it's a very good reason it is extraordinarily versatile you can draw paths based graphics in Photoshop while they're not true vector they still are path based whereas you can't do some of the stuff you can do in Photoshop in Illustrator. 

So Photoshop is a little bit more important in terms of that but illustrator is an extraordinarily powerful tool in its own right and the other much more technical but arguably more fundamental reason that there's a difference between Ellis traitor and Photoshop is because illustrator is an object based editing tool so in Illustrator you have these stacks of objects and the object just has a bunch of attributes attached to it. 

So for instance you draw a little circle and ellipse whatever you want to call it the object is really that path you attach a fill to that object you attach a stroke to that object you attach any number of effects you want to that object you scale it up you scale it down and those appearance factors change with the object whereas in Photoshop. 

You're always selecting chunks of pixels always whether you're working with Photoshop Squad unquote graph of vector graphics or Smart Objects anything like that at the end of the day it always comes back to the pixel where as an illustrator it comes back to the object the path based object also another way to think about this is in Illustrator when you have your stack of layers it's really just a stack of objects. 

So outside of the actual object on that illustrator layer it's nothing it's truly nothing it looks like it's transparency is actually really nothing whereas in Photoshop even when you have a layer with just a little bit of artwork on it and you have all of that transparency around it that transparency is a bunch of transparent pixels. 

Because remember Photoshop is a series of stacking raster images every layer is a new raster image it's being pasted over the old raster image and you have all of these raster bitmap transparency pixels that are there wherever you don't actually put some kind of tangible something. 

So like I mentioned earlier even with Photoshop smart objects which are an object based editing right you can create instances of this object you edit one color and one of those objects and it automatically updates across all of the other smart objects you do have that it's not the same as an illustrator like we talked about a moment ago with a specific color selection for instance. 

You can't be sure you get all of that color you don't have that same precise exacting control over every bit of that color in the image and even in Photoshop when it comes to the vector graphics creation you're really just creating a path which is filling itself with a bunch of pixels it still isn't true vector artwork. 

So Photoshop is able to rescale the path and then refill it with pixels so even with Photoshop Spector capabilities you're not getting that same true vector object editing experience that you get with illustrator so with all that technical junk in mind let's take a quick hard-and-fast look at should I use Photoshop for this or illustrator for that so I'm going to mock up a website I've got some options here I'm going with Photoshop 100% of the way it gives me more options when it comes to creating the actual graphics of the Photoshop mock-up I've got a logo to design. 

Am I going to use Photoshop or am I going to use Adobe Illustrator I'm going to use adobe illustrator always because it will be illustrator is a vector-based piece of software it's a it's sort of like an archival way to create a graphic you create it small if you need it to be ten thousand pixels wide and five years from now you're covered because it's vector you can always scale it up. 

So design a logo Adobe Illustrator 100% of the time design business card there's probably a lot of text on a business card maybe if the drag-and-drop a photo into it but because it's primarily a text-based job I'm going to use adobe illustrator as well text is usually vector almost always in fact so I'm going to use Adobe Illustrator to create this business card so I can ensure that I've got sharp clean great lines. 

When I send this file off to the printer now to retouch a photo that should be a no-brainer photo shop 100% of the time it's what you need to use to retouch a photo because you're pushing pixels you're working with adjustment layers you're working with color channels you're healing your cloning you're doing all that kind of stuff Photoshop. Photoshop drawing icons that would be flat icons or photorealistic skeuomorphic. 

If you will icons Adobe Illustrator so I can always scale them up and scale them down and not worry about it. For digital painting I would use Photoshop because you have a brush tool you can mix pixels it's much more like splashing paint on a canvas you're able to blend things together and mix things you're not constrained again by the hard edged path based vector Ness of something like Adobe Illustrator. 

So I want to be a web designer should I get Photoshop or should I get illustrator I would go with Photoshop again it's the number one selling Adobe app for a reason super versatile you can use it for virtually all of your graphics I would go with Photoshop first. 

And then a few things down the road a few things you may need I would go then over to Adobe Illustrator but definitely Photoshop of my preference if I was just getting one and lastly I'm majoring in graphic design. 

Really you should have Photoshop and illustrator and probably even throw indesign in there as well but if you have to get one again photo shops number one it's King for a reason go with Photoshop first learn illustrator secondly pick up illustrator secondly you can't go wrong with Photoshop.

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