- Photoshop User Guide
- Introduction to Photoshop
- Photoshop and other Adobe products and services
- Work with Illustrator artwork in Photoshop
- Work with Photoshop files in InDesign
- Substance 3D Materials for Photoshop
- Photoshop and Adobe Stock
- Use the Capture in-app extension in Photoshop
- Creative Cloud Libraries
- Creative Cloud Libraries in Photoshop
- Use the Touch Bar with Photoshop
- Grid and guides
- Creating actions
- Undo and history
- Photoshop on the iPad
- Photoshop on the iPad | Common questions
- Get to know the workspace
- System requirements | Photoshop on the iPad
- Create, open, and export documents
- Add photos
- Work with layers
- Draw and paint with brushes
- Make selections and add masks
- Retouch your composites
- Work with adjustment layers
- Adjust the tonality of your composite with Curves
- Apply transform operations
- Crop and rotate your composites
- Rotate, pan, zoom, and reset the canvas
- Work with Type layers
- Work with Photoshop and Lightroom
- Get missing fonts in Photoshop on the iPad
- Japanese Text in Photoshop on the iPad
- Manage app settings
- Touch shortcuts and gestures
- Keyboard shortcuts
- Edit your image size
- Livestream as you create in Photoshop on the iPad
- Correct imperfections with the Healing Brush
- Create brushes in Capture and use them in Photoshop
- Work with Camera Raw files
- Create and work with Smart Objects
- Adjust exposure in your images with Dodge and Burn
- Photoshop on the web beta
- Common questions | Photoshop on the web beta
- Introduction to the workspace
- System requirements | Photoshop on the web beta
- Keyboard shortcuts | Photoshop on the web beta
- Supported file types | Photoshop on the web beta
- Open and work with cloud documents
- Collaborate with stakeholders
- Apply limited edits to your cloud documents
- Cloud documents
- Photoshop cloud documents | Common questions
- Photoshop cloud documents | Workflow questions
- Manage and work with cloud documents in Photoshop
- Upgrade cloud storage for Photoshop
- Unable to create or save a cloud document
- Solve Photoshop cloud document errors
- Collect cloud document sync logs
- Share access and edit your cloud documents
- Share files and comment in-app
- Workspace
- Workspace basics
- Learn faster with the Photoshop Discover Panel
- Create documents
- Use the Touch Bar with Photoshop
- Tool galleries
- Performance preferences
- Use tools
- Touch gestures
- Touch capabilities and customizable workspaces
- Technology previews
- Metadata and notes
- Default keyboard shortcuts
- Touch capabilities and customizable workspaces
- Place Photoshop images in other applications
- Preferences
- Default keyboard shortcuts
- Rulers
- Show or hide non-printing Extras
- Specify columns for an image
- Undo and history
- Panels and menus
- Place files
- Position elements with snapping
- Position with the Ruler tool
- Presets
- Customize keyboard shortcuts
- Grid and guides
- Web, screen, and app design
- Image and color basics
- How to resize images
- Work with raster and vector images
- Image size and resolution
- Acquire images from cameras and scanners
- Create, open, and import images
- View images
- Invalid JPEG Marker error | Opening images
- Viewing multiple images
- Customize color pickers and swatches
- High dynamic range images
- Match colors in your image
- Convert between color modes
- Color modes
- Erase parts of an image
- Blending modes
- Choose colors
- Customize indexed color tables
- Image information
- Distort filters are unavailable
- About color
- Color and monochrome adjustments using channels
- Choose colors in the Color and Swatches panels
- Sample
- Color mode or Image mode
- Color cast
- Add a conditional mode change to an action
- Add swatches from HTML CSS and SVG
- Bit depth and preferences
- Layers
- Layer basics
- Nondestructive editing
- Create and manage layers and groups
- Select, group, and link layers
- Place images into frames
- Layer opacity and blending
- Mask layers
- Apply Smart Filters
- Layer comps
- Move, stack, and lock layers
- Mask layers with vector masks
- Manage layers and groups
- Layer effects and styles
- Edit layer masks
- Extract assets
- Reveal layers with clipping masks
- Generate image assets from layers
- Work with Smart Objects
- Blending modes
- Combine multiple images into a group portrait
- Combine images with Auto-Blend Layers
- Align and distribute layers
- Copy CSS from layers
- Load selections from a layer or layer mask's boundaries
- Knockout to reveal content from other layers
- Layer
- Flattening
- Composite
- Background
- Selections
- Select and Mask workspace
- Make quick selections
- Get started with selections
- Select with the marquee tools
- Select with the lasso tools
- Select a color range in an image
- Adjust pixel selections
- Convert between paths and selection borders
- Channel basics
- Move, copy, and delete selected pixels
- Create a temporary quick mask
- Save selections and alpha channel masks
- Select the image areas in focus
- Duplicate, split, and merge channels
- Channel calculations
- Selection
- Bounding box
- Image adjustments
- Perspective warp
- Reduce camera shake blurring
- Healing brush examples
- Export color lookup tables
- Adjust image sharpness and blur
- Understand color adjustments
- Apply a Brightness/Contrast adjustment
- Adjust shadow and highlight detail
- Levels adjustment
- Adjust hue and saturation
- Adjust vibrance
- Adjust color saturation in image areas
- Make quick tonal adjustments
- Apply special color effects to images
- Enhance your image with color balance adjustments
- High dynamic range images
- View histograms and pixel values
- Match colors in your image
- How to crop and straighten photos
- Convert a color image to black and white
- Adjustment and fill layers
- Curves adjustment
- Blending modes
- Target images for press
- Adjust color and tone with Levels and Curves eyedroppers
- Adjust HDR exposure and toning
- Filter
- Blur
- Dodge or burn image areas
- Make selective color adjustments
- Replace object colors
- Adobe Camera Raw
- Camera Raw system requirements
- What's new in Camera Raw
- Introduction to Camera Raw
- Create panoramas
- Supported lenses
- Vignette, grain, and dehaze effects in Camera Raw
- Default keyboard shortcuts
- Automatic perspective correction in Camera Raw
- How to make non-destructive edits in Camera Raw
- Radial Filter in Camera Raw
- Manage Camera Raw settings
- Open, process, and save images in Camera Raw
- Repair images with the Enhanced Spot Removal tool in Camera Raw
- Rotate, crop, and adjust images
- Adjust color rendering in Camera Raw
- Feature summary | Adobe Camera Raw | 2018 releases
- New features summary
- Process versions in Camera Raw
- Make local adjustments in Camera Raw
- Image repair and restoration
- Image transformations
- Drawing and painting
- Paint symmetrical patterns
- Draw rectangles and modify stroke options
- About drawing
- Draw and edit shapes
- Painting tools
- Create and modify brushes
- Blending modes
- Add color to paths
- Edit paths
- Paint with the Mixer Brush
- Brush presets
- Gradients
- Gradient interpolation
- Fill and stroke selections, layers, and paths
- Draw with the Pen tools
- Create patterns
- Generate a pattern using the Pattern Maker
- Manage paths
- Manage pattern libraries and presets
- Draw or paint with a graphics tablet
- Create textured brushes
- Add dynamic elements to brushes
- Gradient
- Paint stylized strokes with the Art History Brush
- Paint with a pattern
- Sync presets on multiple devices
- Text
- Add and edit the text
- Unified Text Engine
- Work with OpenType SVG fonts
- Format characters
- Format paragraphs
- How to create type effects
- Edit text
- Line and character spacing
- Arabic and Hebrew type
- Fonts
- Troubleshoot fonts
- Asian type
- Create type
- Text Engine error using Type tool in Photoshop | Windows 8
- Add and edit the text
- Video and animation
- Filters and effects
- Saving and exporting
- Printing
- Automation
- Color Management
- Content authenticity
- 3D and technical imaging
- Photoshop 3D | Common questions around discontinued 3D features
- Creative Cloud 3D Animation (Preview)
- Print 3D objects
- 3D painting
- 3D panel enhancements | Photoshop
- Essential 3D concepts and tools
- 3D rendering and saving
- Create 3D objects and animations
- Image stacks
- 3D workflow
- Measurement
- DICOM files
- Photoshop and MATLAB
- Count objects in an image
- Combine and convert 3D objects
- 3D texture editing
- Adjust HDR exposure and toning
- 3D panel settings
Explore where all your favorite tools are in Photoshop on the iPad
As you launch Photoshop on the iPad, you can view the home screen of the app. From the home screen, you can start creating your composites or documents and proceed to the editing workspace. In the workspace, you can find your favorite Photoshop tools, panels, and other options that will equip you to create composites and retouch your creative work. More Photoshop tools and features are coming to your iPad in future releases.
Home screen

- Home: the Home icon (
) represents the home screen of the app.
- Learn: Access an interactive app tour and hands-on tutorials to help you explore what's different when you use Photoshop on the iPad and understand common workflows.
- Discover: View a curated selection of artwork, projects, and live streams from other Photoshop users to get inspired and fuel your own creativity.
- Files: Find all your documents in Photoshop on the iPad under the Files section.
- Your files: View a list of all saved cloud documents in Photoshop, whether created in Photoshop on your iPad or desktop. To learn more about cloud documents, see Photoshop cloud documents | Common questions.
- Shared with you: View a list of the cloud documents that have been shared with you in Photoshop.
- Deleted: Accidentally deleted a file? No worries! Find a complete list of cloud documents that you have deleted here. You can choose to restore the documents or permanently delete them.
- Create new: Easily create a new document with the option to name the document, set the canvas dimension, change orientation, select resolution and choose black, white or transparent background color. You can also explore common preset canvas options in the Print, Screen, Film, or Video categories.
- Import and open: Quickly import and open your document from the Camera Roll, Files, or take a new photo with your iPad's Camera. Your imported file converts to a Photoshop cloud document and opens on the canvas.
- New and upcoming features: View a summary of new features releasing with a new version and what's coming in future releases of Photoshop on the iPad. Adobe is building Photoshop with valuable inputs from its large community of users like you.
- Recent: Use the Recent section to access all the documents you worked on recently.
- Account Settings: Tap the profile icon to set your preferences while working with Photoshop on the iPad. To learn more, see Manage app settings.
- Cloud docs help: Tap the cloud icon to check whether you're online or offline, and the save status of your cloud documents.
With the December release of Photoshop on the iPad version 4.2, you can delete more than one file from the Files tab of your app.
Navigate to the Files tab > Your files. Use the checkbox to select ( ) one or more files and hit Delete.
Access new Learn tutorials
Browse through our new Learn tutorials - Adjustment layers and Retouch images - to access interactive app tours on your iPad.
After going through the Adjustment layers tutorial, you will learn how to change the color of objects in an image by creating a layer mask from a selection and by clipping an adjustment to a layer.
After going through the Retouch images tutorial, you will learn how to use the Spot Healing brush, Healing brush, and the Clone Stamp tool to remove blemishes and imperfections from your photos.
Edit workspace
As soon as you open a document, you will enter into the editing workspace and your creative work can begin. The canvas displays the area where you interact with your open document. Photoshop on the iPad offers you a context-aware user interface. Core tools and tool options are contextual and surface only when you need them.

Header bar

A. Home: Use the back icon to switch back to the home screen from the editing workspace at any time.
B. Filename: Displays the name of the document currently open.
C. Current zoom level: Displays the current zoom level of the open document.
D. Undo: Reverts the last action performed.
E. Redo: Restore the last action undone.
F. Cloud docs help: Check whether you're online or offline, and the save status of your cloud documents.
G. Share document: Tap the icon to share your document for collaboration and comments.
H. Send to: Use the Send to icon to publish, export, and livestream your work.
I. Help: Find all your help resources in one place under the Help menu. You can browse through tutorials, take a tour, view gestures and shortcuts, post to community, and share feedback.
J. Document properties: Use the Document properties panel to resize your document to suit your requirements
Toolbar
A. Move: Move selections and layers.
B. Transform: Apply various transform operations to the selected layer or object.
C. Selection tools: Make a selection with the selection tools—Lasso, Object selection, Quick selection, Marquee rectangle, Marquee ellipse, and Magic wand. You can also use the Select subject action to make a selection.
D. Brush: Apply brush strokes and control brush settings.
E. Erase: Remove portions in your photo where you apply the eraser brush strokes.
F. Heal: Retouch and fix imperfections with the retouching Clone tools— Spot healing brush, Healing brush, and Clone stamp.
G. Adjustment tools: Use the Dodge and Burn tools to set the right exposure by brightening (dodging) or darkening (burning) specific areas in your image.
H. Fill: Fill the active selection with the foreground color using the Fill tools— Paint bucket and Gradient.
I. Crop: Crop your selection, and choose to rotate and recenter.
J. Type: Create a type layer to add text.
K. Place photos: Add photos from Camera Roll, Files, Libraries, and Camera.
L. Eyedropper: Easily change foreground color by sampling from any layer.
M. Color chip: View the selected foreground and background colors in the color chip. Swipe vertically to switch between the two colors. Tap the color chip to choose a new color from the color picker that appears.
N. Switch: Tap to switch between the two colors in the color chip above.
Note: Long press the icons that have triangles on the bottom right to reveal more tools.

Taskbar

A. Compact layer view: See all the layer thumbnails in a simplified view.
B. Detail layer view: See an expanded layer stack with masks, layer names, visibility, and group contents.
C. Layer properties: View blending options, adjustments, and dimensions for the type of layer selected (type, pixel, adjustment, and so on).
D. Comments: Expands/collapses on tap. Add and view notes left for self or comments from fellow collaborators.
E. Add layer: Insert a new layer. Long press for more options — add a new layer, adjustment layer, or empty group.
F. Layer visibility: Control layer visibility.
G. Add layer mask: Add layer masks to hide or reveal portions of a layer.
H. Add clipping mask: Add clipping masks to hide or reveal portions of a layer based on the layer below.
I. Filters and adjustments: Apply various filters and adjustments to the selected layer.
J. More layer actions: Reveal more actions you can perform with layers.
K. File info: Provides basic information of the file you're currently working with.
Note: Long press the icons that have triangles on the bottom right to reveal more tools.
Tool options
You can control the settings of your selected tools using the tool options. Tap a tool icon to bring up the tool options.
Hold and drag the grabber at the top of the tool options to move it around the canvas. You can also dock tool options by dragging them to the bottom of the toolbar and releasing them.
Note: All tools do not have tool options.

Touch shortcut
Use the touch shortcut to quickly access alternate actions of a selected tool in Photoshop on the iPad.
To learn how to use primary and secondary touch shortcuts, see Touch shortcuts and gestures.

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