We also encourage you to watch another editing tutorial we posted recently, explaining how to use Lightroom’s “Virtual Copies” for a faster more efficient workflow. You can find more great Photoshop advice by visiting Dewis’ YouTube channel. You’ll see how to use the Roundness and Squareness settings for optimum accuracy, learn a quick method for hiding ugly halos, and discover a helpful trick for employing Photoshop’s Overlay Blend Mode.īottom line: After watching this episode you’ll never have to fret about making clean selections again. (Tip: If you cant see the Actions panel, click Window, then click Actions.This will add the Actions button to the panel dock.). Open up the Actions panel and click the New Action button seen in the image below.
Now that you’ve got the hang of it, Dewis moves on to slightly more challenging images, and he uses a variety of methods to keep things simple while still achieving great results. Recording a photo action in Photoshop is pretty simple. From there it’s a simple matter to make the cutout, and Dewis demonstrates how it’s done by adding a second layer and invoking the Minimal command.
The first step is clicking on the Select tab in Photoshop’s navigation bar and choosing Subject from the dropdown menu. Now that your file is saved, you can upload it to Cricut Design Space as a Print and Cut file Cricut will do the rest for you. Once it’s filled in, go to FILE, click on SAVE AS and choose PNG as the file type. For the first of his five tips he creates a very simple selection of a self-portrait against a bright background. Go to the Drawing Tool, make sure the color is white, and start coloring on the graphic in the new layer. There’s a link in the description beneath the video for downloading a sample image, so you can follow along and make the edits Dewis explains in real time. Dewis’ technique doesn’t require any advanced skills, and by following his advice you’ll be able to make precise selections to create photos that look natural and realistic. For example, unless you know a few tricks, you may see traces of the original background around the cutouts you make.īritish photographer Glyn Dewis has developed an easy method for achieving faster and cleaner selections, and he demonstrates his approach in the video below. The challenge is that these tasks can be difficult, even when using Photoshop’s dedicated Selection tools. But these methods don't work in these two images: I hope to make them clearer (the outline is distincter, the noise is lesser). They enable you to lighten or darken one portion of a scene without affecting the rest of the image, selectively adjust colors, remove distracting elements, or cut out an object from one photo and place it on another. I usually use two techniques to make a image clearer: Use a High Pass filter, then adjust the Layer Mode to be Soft Light. Photoshop’s Selection tools offer a variety of ways to improve an image.
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