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  • What's new
    • What’s new in Adobe Photoshop on desktop
    • Adobe Photoshop on desktop release notes
    • What’s new in Adobe Photoshop (beta) on desktop
    • Overview of Adobe Photoshop (beta) on desktop
    • Use technology previews
    • List of technology preview features
  • Get started
    • Technical requirements and installation
      • Adobe Photoshop on desktop technical requirements
      • Use the graphics processor
      • Graphics processor (GPU) card usage
      • Windows HEIF and HEVC codecs
    • Learn the basics
      • Adobe Photoshop on desktop FAQ
      • Home screen overview
      • Workspace overview
      • Access the Discover panel
      • Save custom workspaces
      • Switch workspaces
      • Delete workspaces
      • Restore workspaces
      • Boost workflows with the Contextual Task Bar
      • Rearrange document windows
      • Hide or show all panels
      • Dock or undock panels
      • Move panels
      • Add and remove panels
      • Stack floating panels
      • Expand or collapse panel icons
      • Change text size in panels and tooltips
      • Use simple math in number fields
      • High-density monitor support and per-monitor scaling
      • Arrange and group panels
    • Set up toolbars and panels
      • Customize toolbar
      • Tooltips overview
      • Create tool presets
      • Use spring-loaded shortcuts
      • Use Undo and Redo commands
      • History panel settings
      • Set History Log preferences
      • View history logs 
      • Use snapshots in the History panel
      • Paint with image states from the History panel
      • Manage image states
      • Restore parts of an image to a previous state
    • Settings and preferences
      • Adjust preferences
      • Backup and restore preferences
      • Reset preferences
      • View keyboard shortcuts
      • Change tool pointers
  • Generative AI in Photoshop
    • Generative AI features in Photoshop on Desktop FAQ
    • Generative AI features overview
    • Select an AI model for generative control
    • Get new variations of generated content
  • Create, open, and import images
    • Import files
      • Browse, select, and import Adobe Stock assets
    • Create images
      • Generate an image with descriptive text prompts
      • Edit images with Generative Fill
      • Generate sharper variations with Enhance Detail
      • Explore beyond the canvas with Generative Expand
  • Create and manage layers
    • Get started with layers
      • Layers overview
      • Organize layers with layer groups
      • Work with the Layers panel
      • Video Layers overview
      • Convert background and regular layers
      • Duplicate layers
      • Create document from layer or group
      • Change transparency preferences
      • Sample from all visible layers
    • Transform and manipulate layers
      • Select layers
      • Group and ungroup layers
      • Link and unlink layers
      • Display layer edges and handles
    • Color adjustment and fill layers
      • Adjustment and fill layers overview
      • Work with adjustment and fill layers
      • Use layer masks to target adjustment or fill layers
      • Create adjustment layers
      • Merging adjustment or fill layers
      • Adjustment presets overview
      • Create custom presets
      • Correct color balance with Color and vibrance
      • Create fill layers
      • Adjustment layer options
      • Change adjustment and fill layer options
    • Apply layer effects
      • Add layer styles
      • Work with preset styles
      • Layer style effects and options overview
      • Manage preset styles
      • Display or hide layer styles
      • Copy and paste layer styles
      • Import preset style libraries
      • Manage contours
      • Set a global lighting angle for all layers
      • Scale layer effects
      • Remove layer effects
      • Work with layer styles
      • Convert layer styles to image layers
    • Smart objects
      • Smart Objects - overview and benefits
      • Create embedded Smart Objects
      • Create linked Smart Objects
      • Update Linked Smart Objects
      • View Linked Smart Object properties
      • Embed Linked Smart Objects
      • Package and locate linked Smart Objects
      • Convert embedded Smart Objects to linked
      • Filter the Layers panel by Smart Objects
      • Duplicate an embedded Smart Object
      • Edit the contents of a Smart Object
      • Replace the contents of a Smart Object
      • Convert Smart Objects to layers
      • Rasterize Smart Objects
      • Export the contents of an embedded Smart Object
      • Reset Smart Object transforms
    • Create layer compositions
      • Align layers
      • Auto-align image layers
      • Distribute layers
    • Layout and design tools
      • Get started with artboards
      • Artboard properties and behaviors
      • Create artboard documents
      • Add artboards to the current document
      • Draw frames
      • Convert shapes or text to frames
      • Place an image into a frame
      • Select a frame and its content
      • Add a stroke to a frame
  • Crop, resize, and transform
    • Resize and adjust resolution
      • Printed image resolution
      • Set image size and resolution
      • Resample option in the Image Size dialog
      • Monitor resolution and image display size
      • File size
      • Printer resolution
      • Resolution specs for printing images
      • Preserve visual content when scaling images
      • Specify content to protect when scaling
      • Resize images
      • Resampling options in Photoshop
      • Change the pixel dimensions of images
      • Change print dimensions and resolution
      • Manage image file size
      • Resizing parameters in Photoshop
    • Crop and straighten
      • Resize the canvas using the crop tool
      • Crop photos
      • Crop tool options
      • Apply Content-Aware Fill while cropping images
      • Straighten tilted photos
      • Transform perspective while cropping
    • Transform, manipulate, and reshape
      • Transformation options in Photoshop
      • Rotate or flip images
      • Adjust scale, rotation, and perspective
      • Duplicate objects as you transform
      • Apply transformations
      • Move reference point for transformations
  • Make selections
    • Get started with selections
      • Selection tools overview
      • Use the Object Selection tool
    • Automatic and color-based selections
      • Improve Select Subject and Remove Background results
      • Make precise selections using Select People
      • Remove objects with Delete and Fill Selection
      • Improve hair selections with the Refine Hair tool
      • Mask all objects in a layer
      • Detect subject using Select Subject
      • Paint a selection with Quick Selection tool
      • Select areas by color with the Magic Wand tool
    • Freehand selections
      • Create quick selections with the Selection Brush Tool
      • Select a Color Range in Photoshop
      • Draw freeform selections with the Lasso tool
      • Draw straight-edged segments of a selection border
      • Snap to image edges using Magnetic Lasso tool
      • Save Skin Tones settings as a preset
    • Refine and modify selections
      • Move a selection or selection border
      • Refine your selection and mask
      • Hover layer bounds in the Move tool
      • Copy and paste selections
      • Create multiple copies of a selection within an image
      • Paste one selection into or outside another
      • Delete or cut selected pixels
      • Control the movement of a selection
      • Hide or show selection edges
      • Inverse selection
      • Adjust a selection manually
      • Select only an area intersected by other selections
      • Refine and soften selection edges
      • Select pixels using anti-aliasing
      • Define a feathered edge for a selection tool
      • Create a selection around a selection border
      • Expand or contract a selection
      • Clean up stray pixels in a color-based selection
      • Fringe pixels around a selection
      • Decrease the fringe on a selection
      • Remove a matte from a selection
  • Create masks
    • Layer masks
      • Add layer masks
      • Create layer masks for all detected objects in a layer
      • Unlink layers and masks
      • Disable or enable layer masks
      • Apply or delete layer masks
    • Blend images
      • Auto-Blend Layers command overview  
      • Create a composite with extended depth of field  
  • Repair and retouch
    • Remove objects and fill space
      • Remove background in your images
      • Replace background with Generate Background
      • Retouch tools overview
      • Blend objects and people into any background with Harmonize
      • Remove objects with Content-Aware Fill
      • Adjust Content-Aware Fill settings
      • Tools to fine-tune sampling and fill areas
      • Apply or cancel Content-Aware fill changes
      • View full-resolution preview in the Preview panel
    • Heal and clone
      • Clone Source panel
      • Retouch images with the Clone Stamp tool
      • Set sample sources for cloning and healing
      • Adjust the sample source overlay options
      • Scale or rotate the sample source
    • Adjust light and tone
      • Blending mode descriptions
      • Dodge or burn image areas
      • Darken the edges of your image to bring focus to the center
    • Clean and restore images
      • Enhance image quality with Generative Upscale
      • Define planes to adjust perspective
      • Manipulate the planes to adjust perspective
      • Edit different perspectives in the same image
      • Keyboard shortcuts to adjust perspective
      • Get started with Photomerge
      • Create panoramic images with Photomerge
      • Create 360-degree panoramas
      • Remove imperfections with the Spot Healing Brush
      • Retouch a large area with the Healing Brush tool
      • Repair an area with the Patch tool
      • Remove red eye in flash photos
      • Define an image as a preset pattern
      • Erase parts of an image with the Eraser tool
      • Auto Erase with the Pencil tool
      • Create smoother brush strokes using stroke smoothing
      • Change pixels to transparent with the Background Eraser tool
      • Remove similar pixels with the Magic Eraser tool
  • Adjust color
    • Color profiles
      • About color profiles
      • Embed color profiles
      • Change color profile for documents
    • Choose colors
      • Set foreground and background colors
      • Choose colors with the Adobe Color Picker
      • Choose a color while painting
      • Choose web-safe colors
      • Choose a CMYK equivalent for a non-printable color
      • Choose a spot color
      • Spot color libraries
    • Color modes
      • Convert an image to another color mode
      • Convert an image to Bitmap mode
      • Convert a color photo to Grayscale mode
      • Convert a Bitmap mode image to Grayscale mode
      • Convert a grayscale or RGB image to indexed color
      • Conversion options for indexed-color images
    • Color corrections
      • Apply a Hue or Saturation adjustment
      • Colorize a grayscale image or create a monotone effect
    • Selective color adjustments
      • Match color in different images
      • Match color between two images
      • Match color of two layers in the same image
      • Save and apply settings in Match Color
      • Replace Object Colors by Applying a Hue or Saturation Adjustment
    • Color effects and techniques
      • Convert a color image to black and white
      • Apply a gradient fill
  • Apply painting techniques
    • Fill objects, selections, and layers
      • Painting tools overview
      • Fill adjacent areas with similar colors
      • Stroke a selection or layer with color
      • Use Content-Aware, Pattern, or History fills
      • Fill the work canvas
      • Fill a selection or layer with color
      • Create a new layer when brushing
    • Create and fill with patterns
      • Pattern Preview best practices
      • Create a new pattern
    • Brushes and presets
      • Get started with brush presets
      • Display the Brush Settings panel and brush options
      • Create a brush tip from an image
      • Create a brush and set painting options
      • Select a preset brush
      • Create a new preset brush
      • Create preset brush groups
      • Rename preset brushes
      • Delete preset brushes
      • Import brushes and brush packs
  • Draw shapes and paths
    • Create shapes
      • Drawing tools overview
      • Draw shapes
      • Modify fill and stroke for shapes
      • Draw custom shapes
      • Create star shapes
      • Add legacy custom shapes
    • Draw lines and curves
      • Draw a circle, square, or rectangle
      • Draw lines and line segments
      • Shape, path, and pixel mode options
      • Draw an arrow
      • Trace images with the Content-Aware Tracing tool
      • Draw curves and straight segments
      • Draw paths with the Pen tool
      • Overview of Pen tool settings
  • Text and typography
    • Get started with text
      • Add text
      • Edit text
      • Adjust formatting with Dynamic Text
      • Add bulleted and numbered lists
      • Copy and paste text
      • Resize text
      • Move text
      • Change text color
      • Set up paragraph formatting
      • Rotate text
    • Select and manage fonts
      • About fonts
      • Replace missing fonts
      • Match fonts
      • Search for and apply font styles
      • Overview of OpenType fonts
      • Apply OpenType features
      • Use OpenType variable fonts
      • Change the font across multiple layers
    • Type layers and creation
      • Fill text with image
    • Text on paths and shapes
      • Add text along paths or inside shapes
      • Flip or move text along a path
      • Modify text paths
      • Warp and unwarp text
      • Convert text to shapes or work paths
      • Create text selection borders
      • Add drop shadows to text
    • Characters and glyphs
      • Work with OpenType SVG fonts
      • Add Emoji glyphs
      • Enable glyph protection
      • Add glyphs
      • Use on-canvas glyph alternatives
    • International text and languages
      • Overview of Unified Text Engine
      • Create documents using international languages, scripts, and text
      • Supported international scripts
  • Effects and filters
    • Get started with filters
      • Filters overview
      • Apply filters
      • Apply filters from the filter gallery
      • Filter Gallery overview
      • Blend and fade filter effects
      • Tips for creating special effects
    • Smart filters
      • Sharpening overview
      • Sharpen controls with smart sharpen
      • Sharpen images with the unsharp mask
      • Sharpen a selection
      • Sharpen image using edge mask
    • Blur and sharpen filters
      • Overview of adding blur to images
      • Create depth of field with lens blur
      • Soften hard edges or reduce detail with the blur tool
      • Enhance edge contrast with the Sharpen tool
    • Artistic and stylize filters
      • Reshape and distort images with Transform Warp
      • Warp a Layer with Cylindrical Transform
      • Get precise distortions with Split Warp
      • Distort specific image areas with Puppet Warp
      • Overview of Liquify filter
      • Overview of distortion tools
      • Use Liquify to distort an image
      • Freeze or thaw areas
      • Work with meshes
      • Work with backdrops
      • Reconstruct distortions
      • Replace the sky in images
      • Select and manage sky presets
      • Enhance images with generative AI filters
    • Neural filters
      • Overview of Neural Filters
      • Use Neural Filters to enhance images
      • Neural Filter categories and output options
  • Use grids and measurement guides
    • Alignment grids and guides
      • Overview of navigation and measuring tools
      • Overview of guides, grids, and smart guides
      • Show or hide guides, grids, and smart guides
      • Create guides
      • Move guides
      • Edit guides
      • Remove guides
      • Set guide and grid preferences
      • Work efficiently with Smart Guides
    • Measure and scale
      • Manage measurement scales
      • Manage scale markers
      • Use the measurement log for performing measurements
      • Measurement data points overview
      • Create, edit, and delete data point presets
      • Manage measurement logs
      • About the measurement scale and scale markers
  • Add video and animation
    • Create animation frames
      • Create frame-based animations
      • Add frames to animations
      • Select animation frames
      • Edit animation frames
      • Unify layer properties in animation frames
      • Copy frames with layer properties
      • Create frames using tweening
      • Manage layer visibility in animation frames
      • Specify a delay time in frame animations
      • Choose a frame disposal method
      • Specify looping in frame animations
      • Delete animations
    • Use keyframes
      • Create a timeline animation workflow
      • Overview of animating layer properties
  • Automate tasks
    • Create and record actions
      • Record an action
      • Record a path
      • Insert a stop
      • Change settings when playing an action
      • Exclude commands from an action
      • Insert a non-recordable menu command
      • Overwrite a single command
      • Add commands to an action
      • Rearrange commands within an action
      • Record an action again
    • Process a batch of files
      • Image Processor overview
      • Convert files with the Image Processor
      • Batch-process files
      • Create a droplet from an action
      • Batch and droplet processing options
  • Save and export
    • Save files
      • Save your work
      • Save large documents
      • Revert to legacy Save As options
      • File saving properties and preferences
      • macOS image preview options
      • Common questions on Photoshop cloud documents
      • Save as Photoshop PDF
      • Save for Web
    • Export files to different formats
      • Video and animation export formats
      • Enhance animation frames
      • Flatten frames into layers
      • Export video files or image sequences
      • Photoshop file formats overview
      • File compression in Photoshop
      • Supported file formats in Photoshop
      • Image file formats supported in Photoshop
      • Export your work using the Quick Export as option
      • Fine-tune export settings with Export As
      • Export settings and export location preferences
      • Export files in different sizes
      • Export layers as files
      • Export artboards as PDF
      • Export artboards as files
      • Save and export to cloud
    • Metadata, CSS, and content credentials
      • Use Content Credentials
      • Preview Content Credentials
      • Export your work with Content Credentials
  • Share and collaborate
    • Collaborate and edit
      • Create Projects and add files
      • Share and collaborate with Projects
  • App integrations
    • Access Adobe Express Templates
    • Refine Firefly-generated images
    • Workflows with Illustrator
      • Open Photoshop files in Illustrator
    • Transform image to video
  • Troubleshoot
    • Troubleshoot tools and resources
      • Set up and manage scratch disks
      • Check GPU compatibility
    • Performance and stability issues
      • Known and fixed issues in Adobe Photoshop on desktop
      • Resolve graphics processor (GPU) and graphics driver issues
      • Troubleshoot scratch disk full errors in Photoshop
    • File and format issues
      • Resolve program error while saving files
    • Tool and feature issues
      • Photoshop crashes while using bullets and numbers
      • Keyboard shortcuts not working
Adobe Help Center
Photoshop Desktop Help
  • What's new
    • What’s new in Adobe Photoshop on desktop
    • Adobe Photoshop on desktop release notes
    • What’s new in Adobe Photoshop (beta) on desktop
    • Overview of Adobe Photoshop (beta) on desktop
    • Use technology previews
    • List of technology preview features
  • Get started
    • Technical requirements and installation
      • Adobe Photoshop on desktop technical requirements
      • Use the graphics processor
      • Graphics processor (GPU) card usage
      • Windows HEIF and HEVC codecs
    • Learn the basics
      • Adobe Photoshop on desktop FAQ
      • Home screen overview
      • Workspace overview
      • Access the Discover panel
      • Save custom workspaces
      • Switch workspaces
      • Delete workspaces
      • Restore workspaces
      • Boost workflows with the Contextual Task Bar
      • Rearrange document windows
      • Hide or show all panels
      • Dock or undock panels
      • Move panels
      • Add and remove panels
      • Stack floating panels
      • Expand or collapse panel icons
      • Change text size in panels and tooltips
      • Use simple math in number fields
      • High-density monitor support and per-monitor scaling
      • Arrange and group panels
    • Set up toolbars and panels
      • Customize toolbar
      • Tooltips overview
      • Create tool presets
      • Use spring-loaded shortcuts
      • Use Undo and Redo commands
      • History panel settings
      • Set History Log preferences
      • View history logs 
      • Use snapshots in the History panel
      • Paint with image states from the History panel
      • Manage image states
      • Restore parts of an image to a previous state
    • Settings and preferences
      • Adjust preferences
      • Backup and restore preferences
      • Reset preferences
      • View keyboard shortcuts
      • Change tool pointers
  • Generative AI in Photoshop
    • Generative AI features in Photoshop on Desktop FAQ
    • Generative AI features overview
    • Select an AI model for generative control
    • Get new variations of generated content
  • Create, open, and import images
    • Import files
      • Browse, select, and import Adobe Stock assets
    • Create images
      • Generate an image with descriptive text prompts
      • Edit images with Generative Fill
      • Generate sharper variations with Enhance Detail
      • Explore beyond the canvas with Generative Expand
  • Create and manage layers
    • Get started with layers
      • Layers overview
      • Organize layers with layer groups
      • Work with the Layers panel
      • Video Layers overview
      • Convert background and regular layers
      • Duplicate layers
      • Create document from layer or group
      • Change transparency preferences
      • Sample from all visible layers
    • Transform and manipulate layers
      • Select layers
      • Group and ungroup layers
      • Link and unlink layers
      • Display layer edges and handles
    • Color adjustment and fill layers
      • Adjustment and fill layers overview
      • Work with adjustment and fill layers
      • Use layer masks to target adjustment or fill layers
      • Create adjustment layers
      • Merging adjustment or fill layers
      • Adjustment presets overview
      • Create custom presets
      • Correct color balance with Color and vibrance
      • Create fill layers
      • Adjustment layer options
      • Change adjustment and fill layer options
    • Apply layer effects
      • Add layer styles
      • Work with preset styles
      • Layer style effects and options overview
      • Manage preset styles
      • Display or hide layer styles
      • Copy and paste layer styles
      • Import preset style libraries
      • Manage contours
      • Set a global lighting angle for all layers
      • Scale layer effects
      • Remove layer effects
      • Work with layer styles
      • Convert layer styles to image layers
    • Smart objects
      • Smart Objects - overview and benefits
      • Create embedded Smart Objects
      • Create linked Smart Objects
      • Update Linked Smart Objects
      • View Linked Smart Object properties
      • Embed Linked Smart Objects
      • Package and locate linked Smart Objects
      • Convert embedded Smart Objects to linked
      • Filter the Layers panel by Smart Objects
      • Duplicate an embedded Smart Object
      • Edit the contents of a Smart Object
      • Replace the contents of a Smart Object
      • Convert Smart Objects to layers
      • Rasterize Smart Objects
      • Export the contents of an embedded Smart Object
      • Reset Smart Object transforms
    • Create layer compositions
      • Align layers
      • Auto-align image layers
      • Distribute layers
    • Layout and design tools
      • Get started with artboards
      • Artboard properties and behaviors
      • Create artboard documents
      • Add artboards to the current document
      • Draw frames
      • Convert shapes or text to frames
      • Place an image into a frame
      • Select a frame and its content
      • Add a stroke to a frame
  • Crop, resize, and transform
    • Resize and adjust resolution
      • Printed image resolution
      • Set image size and resolution
      • Resample option in the Image Size dialog
      • Monitor resolution and image display size
      • File size
      • Printer resolution
      • Resolution specs for printing images
      • Preserve visual content when scaling images
      • Specify content to protect when scaling
      • Resize images
      • Resampling options in Photoshop
      • Change the pixel dimensions of images
      • Change print dimensions and resolution
      • Manage image file size
      • Resizing parameters in Photoshop
    • Crop and straighten
      • Resize the canvas using the crop tool
      • Crop photos
      • Crop tool options
      • Apply Content-Aware Fill while cropping images
      • Straighten tilted photos
      • Transform perspective while cropping
    • Transform, manipulate, and reshape
      • Transformation options in Photoshop
      • Rotate or flip images
      • Adjust scale, rotation, and perspective
      • Duplicate objects as you transform
      • Apply transformations
      • Move reference point for transformations
  • Make selections
    • Get started with selections
      • Selection tools overview
      • Use the Object Selection tool
    • Automatic and color-based selections
      • Improve Select Subject and Remove Background results
      • Make precise selections using Select People
      • Remove objects with Delete and Fill Selection
      • Improve hair selections with the Refine Hair tool
      • Mask all objects in a layer
      • Detect subject using Select Subject
      • Paint a selection with Quick Selection tool
      • Select areas by color with the Magic Wand tool
    • Freehand selections
      • Create quick selections with the Selection Brush Tool
      • Select a Color Range in Photoshop
      • Draw freeform selections with the Lasso tool
      • Draw straight-edged segments of a selection border
      • Snap to image edges using Magnetic Lasso tool
      • Save Skin Tones settings as a preset
    • Refine and modify selections
      • Move a selection or selection border
      • Refine your selection and mask
      • Hover layer bounds in the Move tool
      • Copy and paste selections
      • Create multiple copies of a selection within an image
      • Paste one selection into or outside another
      • Delete or cut selected pixels
      • Control the movement of a selection
      • Hide or show selection edges
      • Inverse selection
      • Adjust a selection manually
      • Select only an area intersected by other selections
      • Refine and soften selection edges
      • Select pixels using anti-aliasing
      • Define a feathered edge for a selection tool
      • Create a selection around a selection border
      • Expand or contract a selection
      • Clean up stray pixels in a color-based selection
      • Fringe pixels around a selection
      • Decrease the fringe on a selection
      • Remove a matte from a selection
  • Create masks
    • Layer masks
      • Add layer masks
      • Create layer masks for all detected objects in a layer
      • Unlink layers and masks
      • Disable or enable layer masks
      • Apply or delete layer masks
    • Blend images
      • Auto-Blend Layers command overview  
      • Create a composite with extended depth of field  
  • Repair and retouch
    • Remove objects and fill space
      • Remove background in your images
      • Replace background with Generate Background
      • Retouch tools overview
      • Blend objects and people into any background with Harmonize
      • Remove objects with Content-Aware Fill
      • Adjust Content-Aware Fill settings
      • Tools to fine-tune sampling and fill areas
      • Apply or cancel Content-Aware fill changes
      • View full-resolution preview in the Preview panel
    • Heal and clone
      • Clone Source panel
      • Retouch images with the Clone Stamp tool
      • Set sample sources for cloning and healing
      • Adjust the sample source overlay options
      • Scale or rotate the sample source
    • Adjust light and tone
      • Blending mode descriptions
      • Dodge or burn image areas
      • Darken the edges of your image to bring focus to the center
    • Clean and restore images
      • Enhance image quality with Generative Upscale
      • Define planes to adjust perspective
      • Manipulate the planes to adjust perspective
      • Edit different perspectives in the same image
      • Keyboard shortcuts to adjust perspective
      • Get started with Photomerge
      • Create panoramic images with Photomerge
      • Create 360-degree panoramas
      • Remove imperfections with the Spot Healing Brush
      • Retouch a large area with the Healing Brush tool
      • Repair an area with the Patch tool
      • Remove red eye in flash photos
      • Define an image as a preset pattern
      • Erase parts of an image with the Eraser tool
      • Auto Erase with the Pencil tool
      • Create smoother brush strokes using stroke smoothing
      • Change pixels to transparent with the Background Eraser tool
      • Remove similar pixels with the Magic Eraser tool
  • Adjust color
    • Color profiles
      • About color profiles
      • Embed color profiles
      • Change color profile for documents
    • Choose colors
      • Set foreground and background colors
      • Choose colors with the Adobe Color Picker
      • Choose a color while painting
      • Choose web-safe colors
      • Choose a CMYK equivalent for a non-printable color
      • Choose a spot color
      • Spot color libraries
    • Color modes
      • Convert an image to another color mode
      • Convert an image to Bitmap mode
      • Convert a color photo to Grayscale mode
      • Convert a Bitmap mode image to Grayscale mode
      • Convert a grayscale or RGB image to indexed color
      • Conversion options for indexed-color images
    • Color corrections
      • Apply a Hue or Saturation adjustment
      • Colorize a grayscale image or create a monotone effect
    • Selective color adjustments
      • Match color in different images
      • Match color between two images
      • Match color of two layers in the same image
      • Save and apply settings in Match Color
      • Replace Object Colors by Applying a Hue or Saturation Adjustment
    • Color effects and techniques
      • Convert a color image to black and white
      • Apply a gradient fill
  • Apply painting techniques
    • Fill objects, selections, and layers
      • Painting tools overview
      • Fill adjacent areas with similar colors
      • Stroke a selection or layer with color
      • Use Content-Aware, Pattern, or History fills
      • Fill the work canvas
      • Fill a selection or layer with color
      • Create a new layer when brushing
    • Create and fill with patterns
      • Pattern Preview best practices
      • Create a new pattern
    • Brushes and presets
      • Get started with brush presets
      • Display the Brush Settings panel and brush options
      • Create a brush tip from an image
      • Create a brush and set painting options
      • Select a preset brush
      • Create a new preset brush
      • Create preset brush groups
      • Rename preset brushes
      • Delete preset brushes
      • Import brushes and brush packs
  • Draw shapes and paths
    • Create shapes
      • Drawing tools overview
      • Draw shapes
      • Modify fill and stroke for shapes
      • Draw custom shapes
      • Create star shapes
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