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Photoshop User Guide
Introduction to Photoshop
1. Dream it. Make it.
2. What's new in Photoshop
3. Edit your first photo
4. Create documents
5. Photoshop | Common Questions
6. Photoshop system requirements
7. Migrate presets, actions, and settings
8. Get to know Photoshop
Photoshop and other Adobe products and services
1. Work with Illustrator artwork in Photoshop
2. Work with Photoshop files in InDesign
3. Substance 3D Materials for Photoshop
4. Photoshop and Adobe Stock
5. Use the Capture in-app extension in Photoshop
6. Creative Cloud Libraries
7. Creative Cloud Libraries in Photoshop
8. Use the Touch Bar with Photoshop
9. Grid and guides
10. Creating actions
11. Undo and history
Photoshop on the iPad
1. Photoshop on the iPad | Common questions
2. Get to know the workspace
3. System requirements | Photoshop on the iPad
4. Create, open, and export documents
5. Add photos
6. Work with layers
7. Draw and paint with brushes
8. Make selections and add masks
9. Retouch your composites
10. Work with adjustment layers
11. Adjust the tonality of your composite with Curves
12. Apply transform operations
13. Crop and rotate your composites
14. Rotate, pan, zoom, and reset the canvas
15. Work with Type layers
16. Work with Photoshop and Lightroom
17. Get missing fonts in Photoshop on the iPad
18. Japanese Text in Photoshop on the iPad
19. Manage app settings
20. Touch shortcuts and gestures
21. Keyboard shortcuts
22. Edit your image size
23. Livestream as you create in Photoshop on the iPad
24. Correct imperfections with the Healing Brush
25. Create brushes in Capture and use them in Photoshop
26. Work with Camera Raw files
27. Create and work with Smart Objects
28. Adjust exposure in your images with Dodge and Burn
Photoshop on the web beta
1. Common questions | Photoshop on the web beta
2. Introduction to the workspace
3. System requirements | Photoshop on the web beta
4. Keyboard shortcuts | Photoshop on the web beta
5. Supported file types | Photoshop on the web beta
6. Open and work with cloud documents
7. Collaborate with stakeholders
8. Apply limited edits to your cloud documents
Cloud documents
1. Photoshop cloud documents | Common questions
2. Photoshop cloud documents | Workflow questions
3. Manage and work with cloud documents in Photoshop
4. Upgrade cloud storage for Photoshop
5. Unable to create or save a cloud document
6. Solve Photoshop cloud document errors
7. Collect cloud document sync logs
8. Share access and edit your cloud documents
9. Share files and comment in-app
Workspace
1. Workspace basics
2. Learn faster with the Photoshop Discover Panel
3. Create documents
4. Use the Touch Bar with Photoshop
5. Tool galleries
6. Performance preferences
7. Use tools
8. Touch gestures
9. Touch capabilities and customizable workspaces
10. Technology previews
11. Metadata and notes
12. Default keyboard shortcuts
13. Touch capabilities and customizable workspaces
14. Place Photoshop images in other applications
15. Preferences
16. Default keyboard shortcuts
17. Rulers
18. Show or hide non-printing Extras
19. Specify columns for an image
20. Undo and history
21. Panels and menus
22. Place files
23. Position elements with snapping
24. Position with the Ruler tool
25. Presets
26. Customize keyboard shortcuts
27. Grid and guides
Web, screen, and app design
1. Photoshop for design
2. Artboards
3. Device Preview
4. Copy CSS from layers
5. Slice web pages
6. HTML options for slices
7. Modify slice layout
8. Work with web graphics
9. Create web photo galleries
Image and color basics
1. How to resize images
2. Work with raster and vector images
3. Image size and resolution
4. Acquire images from cameras and scanners
5. Create, open, and import images
6. View images
7. Invalid JPEG Marker error | Opening images
8. Viewing multiple images
9. Customize color pickers and swatches
10. High dynamic range images
11. Match colors in your image
12. Convert between color modes
13. Color modes
14. Erase parts of an image
15. Blending modes
16. Choose colors
17. Customize indexed color tables
18. Image information
19. Distort filters are unavailable
20. About color
21. Color and monochrome adjustments using channels
22. Choose colors in the Color and Swatches panels
23. Sample
24. Color mode or Image mode
25. Color cast
26. Add a conditional mode change to an action
27. Add swatches from HTML CSS and SVG
28. Bit depth and preferences
Layers
1. Layer basics
2. Nondestructive editing
3. Create and manage layers and groups
4. Select, group, and link layers
5. Place images into frames
6. Layer opacity and blending
7. Mask layers
8. Apply Smart Filters
9. Layer comps
10. Move, stack, and lock layers
11. Mask layers with vector masks
12. Manage layers and groups
13. Layer effects and styles
14. Edit layer masks
15. Extract assets
16. Reveal layers with clipping masks
17. Generate image assets from layers
18. Work with Smart Objects
19. Blending modes
20. Combine multiple images into a group portrait
21. Combine images with Auto-Blend Layers
22. Align and distribute layers
23. Copy CSS from layers
24. Load selections from a layer or layer mask's boundaries
25. Knockout to reveal content from other layers
26. Layer
27. Flattening
28. Composite
29. Background
Selections
1. Select and Mask workspace
2. Make quick selections
3. Get started with selections
4. Select with the marquee tools
5. Select with the lasso tools
6. Select a color range in an image
7. Adjust pixel selections
8. Convert between paths and selection borders
9. Channel basics
10. Move, copy, and delete selected pixels
11. Create a temporary quick mask
12. Save selections and alpha channel masks
13. Select the image areas in focus
14. Duplicate, split, and merge channels
15. Channel calculations
16. Selection
17. Bounding box
Image adjustments
1. Perspective warp
2. Reduce camera shake blurring
3. Healing brush examples
4. Export color lookup tables
5. Adjust image sharpness and blur
6. Understand color adjustments
7. Apply a Brightness/Contrast adjustment
8. Adjust shadow and highlight detail
9. Levels adjustment
10. Adjust hue and saturation
11. Adjust vibrance
12. Adjust color saturation in image areas
13. Make quick tonal adjustments
14. Apply special color effects to images
15. Enhance your image with color balance adjustments
16. High dynamic range images
17. View histograms and pixel values
18. Match colors in your image
19. How to crop and straighten photos
20. Convert a color image to black and white
21. Adjustment and fill layers
22. Curves adjustment
23. Blending modes
24. Target images for press
25. Adjust color and tone with Levels and Curves eyedroppers
26. Adjust HDR exposure and toning
27. Filter
28. Blur
29. Dodge or burn image areas
30. Make selective color adjustments
31. Replace object colors
Adobe Camera Raw
1. Camera Raw system requirements
2. What's new in Camera Raw
3. Introduction to Camera Raw
4. Create panoramas
5. Supported lenses
6. Vignette, grain, and dehaze effects in Camera Raw
7. Default keyboard shortcuts
8. Automatic perspective correction in Camera Raw
9. How to make non-destructive edits in Camera Raw
10. Radial Filter in Camera Raw
11. Manage Camera Raw settings
12. Open, process, and save images in Camera Raw
13. Repair images with the Enhanced Spot Removal tool in Camera Raw
14. Rotate, crop, and adjust images
15. Adjust color rendering in Camera Raw
16. Feature summary | Adobe Camera Raw | 2018 releases
17. New features summary
18. Process versions in Camera Raw
19. Make local adjustments in Camera Raw
Image repair and restoration
1. Remove objects from your photos with Content-Aware Fill
2. Content-Aware Patch and Move
3. Retouch and repair photos
4. Correct image distortion and noise
5. Basic troubleshooting steps to fix most issues
Image transformations
1. Transform objects
2. Adjust crop, rotation, and canvas size
3. How to crop and straighten photos
4. Create and edit panoramic images
5. Warp images, shapes, and paths
6. Vanishing Point
7. Use the Liquify filter
8. Content-aware scaling
9. Transform images, shapes, and paths
10. Warp
11. Transform
12. Panorama
Drawing and painting
1. Paint symmetrical patterns
2. Draw rectangles and modify stroke options
3. About drawing
4. Draw and edit shapes
5. Painting tools
6. Create and modify brushes
7. Blending modes
8. Add color to paths
9. Edit paths
10. Paint with the Mixer Brush
11. Brush presets
12. Gradients
13. Gradient interpolation
14. Fill and stroke selections, layers, and paths
15. Draw with the Pen tools
16. Create patterns
17. Generate a pattern using the Pattern Maker
18. Manage paths
19. Manage pattern libraries and presets
20. Draw or paint with a graphics tablet
21. Create textured brushes
22. Add dynamic elements to brushes
23. Gradient
24. Paint stylized strokes with the Art History Brush
25. Paint with a pattern
26. Sync presets on multiple devices
Text
1. Add and edit the text
2. Unified Text Engine
3. Work with OpenType SVG fonts
4. Format characters
5. Format paragraphs
6. How to create type effects
7. Edit text
8. Line and character spacing
9. Arabic and Hebrew type
10. Fonts
11. Troubleshoot fonts
12. Asian type
13. Create type
14. Text Engine error using Type tool in Photoshop | Windows 8
Video and animation
1. Video editing in Photoshop
2. Edit video and animation layers
3. Video and animation overview
4. Preview video and animations
5. Paint frames in video layers
6. Import video files and image sequences
7. Create frame animations
8. Creative Cloud 3D Animation (Preview)
9. Create timeline animations
10. Create images for video
Filters and effects
1. Use the Liquify filter
2. Use the Blur Gallery
3. Filter basics
4. Filter effects reference
5. Add Lighting Effects
6. Use the Adaptive Wide Angle filter
7. Use the Oil Paint filter
8. Layer effects and styles
9. Apply specific filters
10. Smudge image areas
Saving and exporting
1. Save your files in Photoshop
2. Export your files in Photoshop
3. Supported file formats
4. Save files in graphics formats
5. Move designs between Photoshop and Illustrator
6. Save and export video and animations
7. Save PDF files
8. Digimarc copyright protection
Printing
1. Print 3D objects
2. Print from Photoshop
3. Print with color management
4. Contact Sheets and PDF Presentations
5. Print photos in a picture package layout
6. Print spot colors
7. Duotones
8. Print images to a commercial printing press
9. Improve color prints from Photoshop
10. Troubleshoot printing problems | Photoshop
Automation
1. Creating actions
2. Create data-driven graphics
3. Scripting
4. Process a batch of files
5. Play and manage actions
6. Add conditional actions
7. About actions and the Actions panel
8. Record tools in actions
9. Add a conditional mode change to an action
10. Photoshop UI toolkit for plug-ins and scripts
Color Management
1. Understanding color management
2. Keeping colors consistent
3. Color settings
4. Work with color profiles
5. Color-managing documents for online viewing
6. Color-managing documents when printing
7. Color-managing imported images
8. Proofing colors
Content authenticity
1. Learn about content credentials
2. Identity and provenance for NFTs
3. Connect accounts for creative attribution
3D and technical imaging
1. Photoshop 3D | Common questions around discontinued 3D features
2. Creative Cloud 3D Animation (Preview)
3. Print 3D objects
4. 3D painting
5. 3D panel enhancements | Photoshop
6. Essential 3D concepts and tools
7. 3D rendering and saving
8. Create 3D objects and animations
9. Image stacks
10. 3D workflow
11. Measurement
12. DICOM files
13. Photoshop and MATLAB
14. Count objects in an image
15. Combine and convert 3D objects
16. 3D texture editing
17. Adjust HDR exposure and toning
18. 3D panel settings

Discontinuation of 3D features in Photoshop

Photoshop’s 3D features will be removed in future updates. Users working with 3D are encouraged to explore Adobe’s new Substance 3D collection, which represents the next generation of 3D tools from Adobe. Additional details on the discontinuation of Photoshop’s 3D features can be found here: Photoshop 3D | Common questions on discontinued 3D features.

When you start Photoshop, the Tools panel appears at the left of the screen. Some tools in the Tools panel have options that appear in the context-sensitive options bar.

You can expand some tools to show hidden tools beneath them. A small triangle at the lower right of the tool icon signals the presence of hidden tools.

You can view information about any tool by positioning the pointer over it. The name of the tool appears in a tooltip below the pointer.

Some workspaces shipped with Photoshop CC 2015 and later, customized the toolbar. When you switch to one of such workspaces, some tools may seem missing from the toolbar. To learn how to resolve this issue, see the video below or check out Tools missing from the toolbar.

If you're looking for general information on how to use tools in Photoshop, see Using tools.

Rich tooltips

Figuring out what Photoshop tools do is now easier than ever before! When you hover the pointer over certain tools in the Tools panel, Photoshop displays a description and a short video of the tool in action.

You can choose not to view rich tooltips. To do so, deselect the Preferences > Tools > Use Rich Tooltips preference.

Customize the toolbar

You can customize the Photoshop toolbar to organize tools in a group and do much more.

Do one of the following:

Select Edit > Toolbar
Long press , located at the bottom of the toolbar and then select Edit Toolbar.

Photoshop Customize Toolbar dialog — The Customize Toolbar dialog

In the Customize Toolbar dialog box, do one or more the following:

Drag and drop tools and/or groups to re-organize the toolbar.
Move excess, unused, or low priority tools to Extra Tools.
To access extra tools, long press at the bottom of the toolbar.
To save the custom toolbar, click Save Preset.
To open a previously saved custom toolbar, click Load Preset.
To restore the default toolbar, click Restore Defaults.
To move all the tools to Extra Tools, click Clear Tools.
Select the non-tool widgets to show/hide them at the bottom of the toolbar.

Photoshop non-tool widgets to show/hide them on toolbar

A. Show/Hide Extra Tools | B. Show/Hide Foreground/Background Colors | C. Show/Hide Quick Mask Mode | D. Show/Hide Screen Mode

Tool galleries

The marquee tools make rectangular, elliptical, single row, and single column selections.	The Move tool moves selections, layers, and guides.	The lasso tools make freehand, polygonal (straight-edged), and magnetic (snap-to) selections.	The Quick Selection tool lets you quickly “paint” a selection using an adjustable round brush tip.
The Magic Wand tool selects similarly colored areas.

The Crop tool trims images.

The Slice tool creates slices.

The Slice Select tool selects slices.

The Spot Healing Brush tool removes blemishes and objects.	The Healing Brush tool paints with a sample or pattern to repair imperfections in a image.	The Patch tool repairs imperfections in a selected area of an image using a sample or pattern.	The Red Eye tool removes the red reflection caused by a flash.
The Clone Stamp tool paints with a sample of an image.	The Pattern Stamp tool paints with part of an image as a pattern.	The Eraser tool erases pixels and restores parts of an image to a previously saved state.	The Background Eraser tool erases areas to transparency by dragging.
The Magic Eraser tool erases solid-colored areas to transparency with a single click.	The Blur tool blurs hard edges in an image.	The Sharpen tool sharpens soft edges in an image.	The Smudge tool smudges data in an image.
The Dodge tool lightens areas in an image.	The Burn tool darkens areas in an image.	The Sponge tool changes the color saturation of an area.

The Brush tool paints brush strokes.	The Pencil tool paints hard-edged strokes.	The Color Replacement tool replaces a selected color with a new color.	The Mixer Brush tool Simulates realistic painting techniques such as blending canvas colors and varying paint wetness.
The History Brush tool paints a copy of the selected state or snapshot into the current image window.	The Art History Brush tool paints with stylized strokes that simulate the look of different paint styles, using a selected state or snapshot.	The gradient tools create straight-line, radial, angle, reflected, and diamond blends between colors.	The Paint Bucket tool fills similarly colored areas with the foreground color.

The path selection tools make shape or segment selections showing anchor points, direction lines, and direction points.	The type tools create type on an image.	The type mask tools create a selection in the shape of type.	The pen tools let you draw smooth-edged paths.
The shape tools and Line tool draw shapes and lines in a normal layer or a shape layer.	The Custom Shape tool makes customized shapes selected from a custom shape list.

The Hand tool moves an image within its window.	The Rotate View tool non-destructively rotates the canvas.	The Zoom tool magnifies and reduces the view of an image.	The Note tool makes notes that can be attached to an image.
The Eyedropper tool samples colors in an image.	The Color Sampler tool displays color values for up to four areas.	The Ruler tool measures distances, locations, and angles.	The Count tool counts objects in an image.

The 3D Object Rotate tool rotates the object around its x-axis.	The 3D Object Roll tool rotates the object around its z-axis.	The 3D Object Pan tool pans the object in the x or y direction.	The 3D Object Slide tool moves the object laterally when you drag horizontally, or forward and back when you drag vertically.
The 3D Object Scale tool scales the object larger or smaller.	The 3D Rotate Camera tool orbits the camera in the x or y direction.	The 3D Roll Camera tool rotates the camera around the z-axis.	The 3D Pan Camera tool pans the camera in the x or y direction.
The 3D Walk Camera tool moves laterally when you drag horizontally, or forward and back when you drag vertically.	The 3D Zoom Camera tool changes the field of view closer or farther away.