Welcome to the cadillac of photo-enhancers: Photoshop CS!
Retouching in Photoshop can be a breeze… but not until you learn how. The Photoshop CS program is such a powerful application you could spend years just mastering the basics.
Most of us, however, dont really need a Masters in Photoshop. What most of us want is the flexibility, integrity and vast array of choices that Photoshop provides.
Lets look briefly at some of the most basic photo corrections in Photoshop CD, the ones youll really need. Here are the first steps recommended by the experts, and they represent the process they apply to every photograph:
1- First and foremost, duplicate your original and work only on the copy.
That way, if something goes wrong, youll always have the original. This is a great habit to get into.
2- Next, assure the correct resolution. There are two basic categories of resolution in computer graphics: the monitor resolution and the image resolution.
Image resolution varies from low (about 72 pixels per inch, or ppi) to high (anything 300 ppi or larger). Of course, the higher the resolution, the bigger the file.
To change the...