Digital photography has in-depth modern life, the photo has become very easy to modify. Some friends tend to use a fool-oriented Retouching software, look forward to in the shortest time to complete the photo landscaping. They think that Photoshop is a very complex, difficult operation software. Is that true? Today, we will use an example to understand the rapid changes Photoshop techniques. Through this case, we can learn a synthetic composition, masks, brushes, shortcuts to use.

First of all documents issued by practice, for photographers shooting cases of Mr. Zhao Hang-based material.

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Model: Zi Zi 85mm/F1.4D aperture F1.8 ISO 200 Shutter: 1/1000 seconds reflectors fill light

photo looks beautiful, whether it is light or a model performance is very good. We need to do the modification work is to change the photo composition, so that model more closely linked with the scene. Model line of sight is very important element, if we change her for the left, they can correspond with the leaves, photographs would be more mood.

material the use of Photoshop to open images, the first step, copy out of a contrast with the Original or so a new layer.

press Ctrl + J, Original image is copied as a new layer, use the menu" Edit → Transform → Flip Horizontal" , to be shown in Figure 2, a new layer. This is one step time of about 4 seconds.

Photoshop seconds Lightning Gaoding beautiful photo composition

second step, press Ctrl key to the temporary switch to the move tool, drag the new layer right side, in the coverage of the underlying premise of portraits of the main characters will be placed on the golden section point. Click the Layers Panel below the third button" Add Mask" for the layer with a mask, this step is to use time of about 2 seconds.

Photoshop seconds Lightning Gaoding beautiful photo composition

The third step, press D key, the foreground and background color set to white and black, respectively , press X key to swap foreground and background colors, so that we will set the foreground color to black. Press B key tool to convert the current pen, in the Mongolian version of the images on the edge of a clear coated, you can rub the edge of the semi-transparent, the upper and lower layers well together. We modify the work is over, as shown in Figure 4. This step is the work of four seconds can solve the problem. Finally press Ctrl + Shift + S Save as JPG format images can be, if you want to conduct in-depth changes in the future, you can use Ctrl + S, save the document as a PSD, although the paper big point, but there is no loss of image quality.

If not set the size of the brush well, you can use shortcut keys" [" and" ]" to change the brush size. If the brush stiff in comparison, you can use the shortcut keys Shift +" [" key soft brush. On the contrary, Shift +" ]" You can brush hardens. Using this method, you can in a very short period of time will brush writing skill set to their own needs size and hard and soft.

If the cleaning process is not carefully exposed parts of the following characters, you can press X button to switch the foreground color to white, right wipe wipe the bad parts, you can rub it and then come back, similar to the eraser tool to reverse.

Photoshop seconds Lightning Gaoding beautiful photo composition

examples of such operations must pay attention to a few points:

First, the direction and intensity of light, color, modified the relationship between subject and background light source can not have large errors.
2 is a perspective relationship, want to synthetic examples of realistic and credible, the focus should be placed on the perspective.
3 is a before and after integration, the integration of synthesis examples of skills are very eager to learn, but many of my friends on something like that come a cropper. The reason is not selected integration points. Do not select the edge of the fusion, so will grow false. Select the location of large areas of solid color with a soft brush and rub the Mongolian edition is the best integration methods, such as faces of the people at the skin.

1 images thought the changes to go through and try, in this case say 10 seconds is a specific operating software of time. Mastered the keyboard shortcuts, you can make our work efficiency doubled. When you are using familiar with Photoshop, you will find that this software is so simple and so powerful. The crowd is very wide application.
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