Where to find it

Let’s start off with identifying the clone tool in the first place. On the left-hand side of your screen, you will see a toolbar running down the side with lots of options available. One of them will look like a rubber stamp – a circle with a line coming down from it, into a thicker horizontal line, finished off with a shorter horizontal line directly underneath.

This is the clone tool. You can also access the pattern stamp tool on the same menu. If the pattern stamp tool is showing for you, hold down your left mouse button on the icon for a moment and a menu will appear allowing you to switch back to the normal clone tool.

Why use it

Before you start to use the clone tool, you might want to consider why you need to use it. It is useful in a number of scenarios, but there are also a number of times when you should use a different tool instead.

The basic function of the clone tool is to take a sample of your image from somewhere you select, and then clone that sample to the position that you indicate. While other tools might seek to blend your sample into the new area, the clone tool simple pastes into place.

You should use the clone tool for:

• Simple corrections that do not disturb pattern or tone, e.g. covering up a mark on a backdrop, exchanging one small pimple or mark for smooth skin directly next to it,
• Copying patterns onto new areas
• Covering over an area of the image that should not be there, for example covering an area where your backdrop did not quite extend to the end of the frame
• Duplicating patterns, e.g. extending wallpaper over a larger area

You should not use the clone tool for:

• More extensive cover-ups, e.g. removing pimples from a larger area of skin, covering a large area from a small sample
• Covering an area which should retain a unique pattern, as the clone tool can only copy existing patterns in the image – imagine a forest in the background of your image where there are only five unique trees, and the rest all look exactly the same as those original five, creating an obvious false background

How to clone

When you have selected the clone tool, try clicking anywhere on your image. You will see a dialogue box pop up right away which informs you of what to do next! You need to first hold down the Alt key and click on your image to select your source.

The source is the area that you copy from, so choose the smooth piece of skin or the clean piece of backdrop. Here’s where it gets tricky, as you have to choose carefully.

When you move your mouse after the source has been selected and you begin to use the clone tool, the source will move along with your brush. This means that if you are painting downwards, the source will also shift to a lower point of the image.

In practice, let’s imagine that you choose a piece of smooth skin from right above the eyebrow as your source. Now you go to eliminate a series of pimples running down the nose. When you click with your left mouse button, the clone tool will begin to cover up your pimples with smooth skin. However, as you move downwards, it will also start to paste in bits of eyebrow – then eyelashes – then eye!

Instead, try to choose an area for your source with the direction you need to move in mind. So, if you were cloning downwards, the cheek might be a better area to find smooth skin. Of course, the smaller the area you are working on with your clone tool, the easier it will be to find the right source. This is why it is recommended to use it with single pimples and marks, or large areas without patterns and features, rather than on complicated areas.

You can use Alt-click to select your source as many times as you like if you are not happy with your current source, or if you have only a small source area to deal with.

What settings to change

At the top of your screen, you will see a number of options which you can use to change your clone tool up. One of these is the opacity. If you select a lower opacity, the image you are cloning will be pasted on lighter, which can make your edits more subtle.

If you are trying this technique, it is recommended that you work on a different layer, so that the edits are non-destructive. When using more than one layer, there is another setting you will need to change. There is a dropdown box which is marked with ‘Sample’, and then some layer options. Normally it will be set to ‘Current layer’. If you choose ‘Current and below’, you will use everything that is on your layer or below it. If you choose ‘All layers’, you will be copying everything that you can see.

You can also change your flow, mode, clone source, and paintbrush, though these are more advanced techniques that you may wish to leave until you understand the clone tool better. They are very similar to settings on other tools, so once you understand one, you will understand them all!

How do you use the clone tool? Do you have any additional recommendations for when or how to use it? Let us know in the comments!

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Summerana Academy members can see the liquify tool in action in Shannon Squires’ wind-up doll tutorial around the 22:36 minute mark.

What does it do?

To begin with, let’s explain a little about what the liquify tool actually does. To summarize it neatly, it distorts pixel without the loss of quality in your image. It actually has a lot of applications because it is a very creative tool – it can allow you to change your image in a lot of different ways.

You can push and pull pixels around in certain directions, bloat the pixels, pucker or reflect them, and rotate them. If you combine these options together, you can see that the possibilities are huge. There are so many ways you can use liquify, and once you understand how to use it properly, it will be possible to use it in a natural way, almost without thinking.

How do I use it?

First, you should know that you can’t use the liquify filter on a smart object, so you may have to change the format of your layers before you begin. When working simply on an image from your camera, however, you should have no problems. It’s always a good idea to duplicate your background layer and work on the copy to ensure that you can roll the changes back if you need to.

Now, go to the ‘Filter’ menu and click on ‘Liquify’. You can also open this window by pressing Shift, Ctrl, and X on your keyboard at the same time. For Mac users, replace the Ctrl with Command.

Next, your filter window will open up. Here you can see a large number of options that may seem overwhelming at first. Don’t worry for now – your understanding of the toolbar and the options panel on the right of the screen will grow as you use the liquify tool.

The forward warp tool is the one that you might begin with, so we’ll start by explaining how to use it and how it can work with portrait images.

How does the forward warp tool work?

Forward warp is probably the most basic tool in the liquify arsenal, so it’s pretty good as a starting point. Here, you have a brush controlled by your mouse pointer. Just like any other Photoshop brush, you can change the size to make it larger or smaller depending on what your image requires.

Using a portrait image, take your brush and smooth it down beside your portrait model’s stomach, legs, or any other area where they might have a little bulk. Even if your model is perfect, you can try this for fun to see what you can do with the tool. Right away, you will see that the pixels shift along the path of your brush. You are effectively dragging everything along. When you do this in the correct way next to a bulging stomach, for example, you can carefully make that stomach flatter.

After applying the effect, make sure that you click ‘OK’ on the right-hand panel. This will confirm the changes for you, so you can continue to work on the image in other ways.

There are other ways to use the forward warp than simply slimming someone down. You could also use it to lengthen legs, which is often done for fashion models. You could lengthen a neck for an interesting effect, lengthen hair, shorten hair, make a nose longer or shorter, and so on. While many photographers may be critical about changing the size of your model, sometimes it is more flattering to smooth out a little bump. This can be really important for boudoir photographers, or when you are working with a model who feels uncomfortable about their size. You don’t have to make them lose weight – you can simply smooth out bulges so that they don’t look so conspicuous.

You can change the intensity of the effect with the brush density slider. The higher the number is, the stronger your liquify effect will be. This can really help when working in areas that require a delicate touch.

The brush pressure slider will control how fast the distortions happen when you drag your brush along, which is again great for making gradual changes.

If you find that forward warp isn’t working for you, try the push tool in vertical mode instead. This moves things to the left when you drag your cursor down, or to the right when you drag it up. You may find it easier to control when editing the shape of models.

What are the pucker and bloat tools?

Let’s take a quick look at two more options you might use inside the liquify filter: pucker and bloat. These two are the opposite of one another. With pucker, the pixels move towards the centre of the brush area when you click. With bloat, the pixels move away from the centre. To put it simply, pucker makes things smaller and bloat makes them bigger.

You might be able to use these tools for something like making a subject’s eyes bigger. Be aware, however, that the distortion they create may not appear realistic. You will have to use careful judgement on this one about the size of your brush and the placement of the effect to avoid it appearing very obvious that you have made a change.

Above everything, the most important thing to do with the liquify tool is to ensure everything looks realistic. When you apply your effects and come back to your image, your extra layer will really come in handy. You can use a layer mask to erase parts of your liquified layer that don’t look right, and allow the original layer to come through.

What other questions do you have about liquify? Ask in the comments and we’ll try to help with future guides!

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Depending on which post-production program you prefer to use, we’ve got a full guide here on how to get it done. Find the one that you like best, and get going!

Straighten Your Image in Photoshop

Straightening an image in Photoshop is pretty easy, because the software itself takes a lot of the pressure out of the operation. You don’t have to worry about getting the line right: there’s an easy method which means you are almost guaranteed to do so.

Start by using the ruler tool. This is found in the toolbar to your left-hand side of the screen. If you can’t find it, it’s in the same menu as your eyedropper. Hold-click on the eyedropper until the options pop up, and then select ‘Ruler’.

Now, using the ruler, draw a straight line across the screen. It’s easiest to use your horizon line, or any other line that you want to appear straight, and just draw across the top of it. Click once to start the line, then hold and drag to where you want it to finish.

If you aren’t satisfied that your line is in the right place, you don’t have to redraw it completely. Click on the line or either of the end points and you can move it around to where you want it.

Now, at the top of your screen, you will see an option that says, ‘Straighten Layer’. Click on this. It will rotate your image within the canvas so that it ends up with the line that you drew straight across the screen.

You will probably end up with some blank areas on your canvas, and with some of the parts of your image now disappearing off the edge of your canvas. You can use the move tool to drag your layer around to where you want it, and then the crop tool to take off those blank areas. You will lose some of your image in the process – this is why it is important to try to get the horizon line as straight as possible before you start.

There are other options for rotating your layer manually, using the ‘Move’ tool – an image of a mouse pointer with a movement symbol beside it. When you move your mouse to the corners of your image, your mouse cursor will change to a curved line that has arrows on either end. Click and drag now to rotate your image by hand.

This may be less accurate than using the straighten tool, but gives you more control if you don’t have a clear horizon line.

Straightening in Photoshop Elements

First up, make sure that you’re in Full Photo Edit mode. Now you will see ‘Straighten’ in the tools menu – or you can just press ‘P’ for an easy shortcut. Now you will see a number of Canvas Options coming up on the options bar, as follows:

• Grow or Shrink Canvas to Fit – this will rotate the image and then either grow or shrink the canvas to accommodate the new total image area. You will most likely have to do some cropping later.
• Crop to Remove Background – this option will cut off the parts of the background which move outside of your canvas area. This skips the cropping step needed above, but means you have less control over the trimming.
• Crop to Original Size – this option moves your image within the existing background canvas without trimming it off or growing it, so your actual image may end up a little smaller.

Make sure that you also use ‘Select All Layers’ if your image has multiple layers that you need to move at the same time.

Now, finally, draw a straight line across your image where you want the horizon to sit. Your image will be straightened according to your preferences.

Straighten Your Image in Lightroom

The technique for straightening an image in Lightroom is also very simple. One option is to go into your Develop screen and then scroll down on the right-hand panel to Lens Corrections. Under the Manual tab, you will find the option to rotate your image. You can manually adjust it to where you want it, and then crop off the excess using the same panel.

The other option is to use the ‘Crop Overlay’ which is available in the right-hand panel, right at the top. You will see an image of a box with a grid over the top of it – click on this and some more tools will appear.

One of these looks like a ruler. Hover your mouse over it, and it will be labelled ‘Straighten Tool’. Select this option, then click and drag your mouse over your horizon line. Lightroom will calculate how much rotation is needed to get your image straight to that line, and will move it for you. You can then change the angle later using the slider if you change your mind.

Make sure that you hit enter, or click on the ‘Crop Overlay’ symbol again, in order to leave this editing mode and get back to all of your usual tools.

Remember that no matter what method you make, you have to either lose part of your image or cope with areas at the corners which do not contain any information. This means it is important to try to get it right in-camera as much as possible, or to stand back a little and take a wider photo so that you can afford to lose the edges of your frame.

What other burning questions do you have about editing your photographs with Photoshop, Lightroom, or Photoshop Elements? Let us know in the comments and we’ll do our best to answer them! Better yet, learn everything you need to know about photography and editing inside the Summerana Academy!

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Select an image

The first thing you have to do, after downloading and launching the app, is to choose the image you want to edit. At the lower part of your screen, you will see a round blue button with a white plus symbol. Tap on this and a menu will open with the following options:

• A phone icon – load up an image which is already saved to your device
• A camera icon – take a picture and begin editing it immediately
• The Creative Cloud logo – find an image or asset which you have uploaded to the Cloud
• The Lightroom logo – bring in an image from your Lightroom app
• Two interlocking squares with a bookmark – open your Asset Library and browse everything saved there

Choose the option you want and select the image. It should only take a matter of seconds to appear on your screen, though large file downloads may take a little longer.

Note that if you want to return to editing this image later, it will now show up on the home screen of your Photoshop Fix app, along with all of the edits you have made.

Explore the editing options

There are a large number of editing options available in Photoshop Fix, and most of them are recognisable from the main Photoshop program. Let’s go through them now in order to explore each of the options in turn, what they do, and how to use them.

• Crop – the first tool allows you to change the dimensions of your image. You can rotate the image by dragging your finger along the bottom of the screen where you will see a semi-circle listing the degree of orientation. You can also pinch or drag the image to make it smaller or larger within the cropped frame.
  • You’ll find more tool options along the bottom of the screen. Use these, in order, to rotate the image by ninety degrees; to flip the image along a horizontal line; to flip the image along a vertical line; and to choose the new dimensions of the image – the crop box on the screen, complete with lines of thirds to help you improve your composition, will change accordingly
  • When you’re finished with your edits, tap the check mark at the bottom of the screen (or use the forward and back arrows at the top of the screen to undo or redo your changes)
• Adjust: here you can change a number of attributes, in order as follows: add more or less light by changing the exposure level; increase or decrease the level of contrast; increase or decrease the saturation of the colours; increase or decrease the shadows; increase or decrease the highlights.
  • At the top of the screen you’ll see two new icons. The layer icon (two squares on top of one another) allows you to change the opacity of the layer you are currently editing, for a more subtle look. The icon of an image with a line down the middle allows you to see the original image by tapping it, so you can check your changes.
• Liquify: this tool allows you to warp, swell, or twirl parts of the image to change the way they look. These work in ways you’ll be familiar with from the Photoshop desktop app. If you’re working on a face, there’s a whole new tool to use which automatically identifies facial features. Using this tool, you can widen the eyes, tilt them, make them closer together or make them bigger; widen the nose; change the size of the jawline or chin; widen the face; distort the face; make the lips smile more or less, raise the upper and lower lips, or change the width of the lips.
• Healing: your regular spot heal, patch, and clone stamp tools are here. You can also restore the face with one tap if your changes haven’t worked out! This is all done by painting with your finger over the areas you want to edit.
• Smooth: the smooth and sharpen tools are here. Click on the brush tool to change the size, hardness, and opacity of your brush.
• Light: Here you can actually use the dodge and burn tools, although now they’re called lighten and darken. The magic wand structure tool will attempt to identify the appropriate areas to give more structure to your image using dodging and burning.
• Colour: paint on saturation or desaturation, instead of having it affect the whole image
• Defocus: use the paint brush to defocus/blur particular areas
• Vignette: Simply, add a vignette! You can control the colour, radius, feathering, and shape.

Review your image

After doing all of your edits, you’ll find an icon of two arrows pointing away from each other at the top of your screen. This makes the image go full-screen for review. You can also undo recent changes, and share the image directly to your gallery, Photoshop CC, your CC library, Behance, Lightroom, or social media. Finally, the layers icon will merge down all of your layers and make your image ready to save.

There’s no need to use a save button as your progress is automatically saved in the background, so you’re done when you’re done!

This app can make it super easy to complete edits on the go if you’re in a hurry to get a finished image onto Instagram or so forth. You won’t have as much control here as you do with a computer – the painting tools will take some practice if you’re not used to drawing on a screen with your fingertips! – but it’s a good solution to urgent edits.

*Photoshop Fix is not longer available in the App Store. We recommend using the Photoshop Express app as an alternative.

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(On a PC I believe the Preferences button would be under the Edit tab.)

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From the desktop app

In this first scenario, you’ve been using Lightroom on your desktop and you already have your presets loaded into it. But now you want to get them all copied over to your mobile app – how do you do it?

First of all, you’ll want to make sure that you are using the right accounts. Use a single Adobe ID to login to the desktop app and the mobile app, so that you can sync your account data across both of your devices.

Now, open up the mobile app and select an image to edit. It doesn’t have to be a particular image – anything will do in order to make sure you have access to the presets for later. At the bottom of the screen in edit mode, you’ll see an icon of two overlapping circles – one solid and one empty – with the label ‘Presets’. Tap on this and you’ll see a list, but there’s also a downward facing arrowhead next to the name of the preset group you’re currently using (it might be ‘Color’).

Tap on this arrowhead and you’ll open up more categories of presets, including ‘User Presets’. Select this, and you’ll find all of the presets that you already use in the Lightroom desktop app. How exciting is that? If you’ve made any other collections in the desktop version, they will also be visible from this dropdown menu.

For first uses

If you haven’t used your presets before on any device, but you’ve got something new that you would like to try, here’s how you get started.

First of all, open the Lightroom desktop application. You’ll want to do this ahead of time if you’re planning to edit on the move and don’t have your laptop or computer with you! In the menu, first click on ‘File’ and then ‘Important Profiles & Presets’.

This will open up a view of the folders on your computer, so go ahead and navigate to the folder which contains the presets – you might find them in your downloads or on your desktop if they’re brand new. Once you find the preset, select it in the folder view and click import.

It will take a moment to load in, and once it has, you can verify that the process has worked by going into Edit Mode and clicking the presets button. This will show you a folder called ‘User Presets’. Under this menu, you’ll find your new import.

Now, just follow the same process as above, and you’ll be good to go on mobile!

When using the app

Now let’s talk about how you can use the presets, now that you’ve loaded them in. Actually, it’s very simple, as you will no doubt be pleased to learn. All you have to do is open that presets menu and tap on the name of the preset that you want to use. You’ll then see the effects applied live on your screen in a matter of seconds.

Because it’s so fast, it’s really easy to use the app to compare different presets and see what works best for your images. You can even use this as a way to decide which preset to use on a big batch of photos, by checking it on the mobile version first and then batch processing all of the other images on your desktop.

For downloads direct to your mobile device

You might be wondering, what about if I’m not using the desktop version of Lightroom at all? Well, first of all, it’s really recommended that you do have this version available. There’s no reason not to, as you need an Adobe subscription to use them in the first place, and you’ll be able to sync all of your edits across both your desktop and mobile versions of the app.

Secondly, it’s actually essential that you do have the desktop app available if you want to use presets in the mobile version. The reason for this is that there is currently no way to import presets directly into the Lightroom app from your mobile device. You won’t be able to download a new preset onto your device and then put it into Lightroom – they simply haven’t added this functionality to the app yet. Maybe in the future it will be possible, but for now, you do need to follow the steps outlined above.

Using presets on the go

The great thing about the Lightroom app is that it does sync across all other versions. So, if you’re on the go, you can do your edits in the app and then sync the results with your Adobe Cloud folders. When you next return to your desktop, you can go ahead and find the results of your editing and sync them onto your desktop, allowing you to save and share the images in high resolution directly from your desktop even though you didn’t edit them there. This really can speed up your workflow if you are travelling a lot for your clients.

What do you think about the Lightroom mobile app? Is it useful for you to be able to do these edits on the go, or would you prefer it if you were able to import presets directly from your mobile device? We think it’s really useful to have access to those presets no matter where you are, but we do hope that it becomes even easier to use in the future! To learn more about Lightroom, join us in the Summerana Academy!

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It’s super simple to use and only takes a few moments to set up, so we really recommend that you give it a go. Here’s how to get started and begin using Kajabi!

Why use Kajabi?

First of all, a note on why you might want to bother doing all of this. The great thing about Kajabi is that it acts like a virtual wallet for all of your different photography courses, allowing you to get access to them in one place without having to remember all of your login details or go to lots of different apps.

You can access all of the course materials that your membership entitles you to, which means you don’t have to worry about missing out on anything when you’re not on a computer or laptop. And you can learn on the go, which is perfect for long journeys or nights when you want to read a bit before bed.

Because it’s so easy to set up, there’s really no reason not to use Kajabi. If it makes learning easy, then we’re all about it!

Download Kajabi

You can easily find Kajabi in your app store just by searching for it by name. There is only one Kajabi and it takes just a few seconds to download and install, so go ahead and put it onto your device of choice and you’ll be ready to start.

The next step is to follow the instructions on-screen. When prompted to enter your email address, make sure to use the address that you signed up for Summerana membership with, so that Kajabi can easily find and connect your account.

Once your email address is in, you’ll be asked to confirm your address by clicking a link in an email from Kajabi. This makes sense – after all, you wouldn’t want someone else to be able to steal your access! Now wait a few moments – if the ‘Select your sites’ button is greyed out, that just means that Kajabi is still loading.

As soon as the button turns blue, click it and you will see a list of learning sites that you have signed up for using your email address. Summerana should be on the list too! Click on as many of them as you would like to add now, and don’t worry as you can come back to add more later.

Access your Summerana courses

When you are logged in, you’ll see a menu on the right-hand side of the screen which has the names of the courses you are signed up for. Tap on Summerana, and you’ll be taken to your membership portal. If you want to access that menu again to change your course, then just go ahead and click on the three lines at the top of the screen at any time.

Now that you’re in the Summerana page, you will see all of your modules are laid out for you to choose from. Starting with your most recently viewed at the top of the page, you will then see options to access all of the following:

• The ‘Welcome’ message
• Product downloads
• Summerana Magazine, where you can read and download your issues
• Live streams for editing events and workshops
• All of the different learning modules, from start to finish

This is super handy because you don’t have to remember where you’ve got up to. Just start from the most recently viewed module at the top of the page and you’ll be able to get started!

When you tap on the individual module that you want to access, you can go through each stage step by step. Click the ‘get started’ button at the top of each screen to begin right from the beginning if you’ve never entered a module before. You can post comments to engage with your fellow learners, follow links to find extra downloadable resources, or tap the tick mark at the top of your screen to mark the lesson as completed.

When you return to the main module page, you will see that the lessons you have done are marked as done, and your ‘get started’ button now prompts you to ‘resume’ instead, picking up right where you left off.

By the way, you can even use some of your product downloads right from your smartphone using Adobe apps. Check out our tutorials on Photoshop Mix, Photoshop Express, and Lightroom to find out how.

Add more courses

Just in case you accidentally signed up for Kajabi with a different email address, or one that isn’t connected to other courses you’ve signed up for elsewhere, you can also add more email addresses in your settings. Hit the three lines to open your website list, and then tap the settings cog in the corner.

This will allow you to add another email address with the same process as the first one. This means you can get everything in one place, without any hassle at all. And if you want to try all of your email addresses to see what’s connected to them, go ahead – Kajabi will let you know if there isn’t any account connected to that address.

When you’ve got the Kajabi app set up, it’s also super easy to look out for new updates in your course. Whenever Summerana releases a new module or some new learning resources, you will be able to access them simply by going to the ‘Updates’ tab at the bottom of the screen. There you can read all news updates in order. And if you’re looking for something specific that you remember but need a refresher on, just use the search bar to find it!

The Summerana Kajabi app is an easy and fun way to learn on the go – so try it today!

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One of the first things you’ll want to do when using Photoshop is to familiarize yourself with the interface. The program’s main window is divided into several panels, including the toolbar, the layers panel, and the tools panel. The toolbar contains common tools such as the brush, eraser, and lasso, while the layers panel allows you to organize and edit the different elements of your image.

One of the most powerful features of Photoshop is its layers system. Each layer can be edited and manipulated independently, making it easy to make changes to specific parts of your image without affecting the rest. To create a new layer, simply go to the layers panel and click on the “New Layer” button.

Another important feature of Photoshop is its selection tools. These tools allow you to select specific parts of your image for editing. Some of the most commonly used selection tools include the Marquee, Lasso, and Magic Wand tools. Once you’ve made a selection, you can use the tools in the toolbar or the adjustments panel to make changes to the selected area.

When it comes to retouching and editing, Photoshop offers a wide range of tools and filters to help you achieve the desired effect. The clone stamp tool, for example, allows you to clone areas of your image, while the healing brush can be used to remove blemishes or other unwanted elements. The filters panel offers a wide range of effects, such as blur, sharpen, and color correction, which can be applied to your image to enhance its overall look.

In addition to these basic features, Photoshop also offers a wide range of advanced tools and features for more experienced users. These include vector tools for creating illustrations and diagrams, 3D tools for creating 3D models and animations, and scripting and automation tools for automating repetitive tasks.

Overall, Adobe Photoshop is a powerful and versatile software that offers a wide range of tools and features for editing and manipulating images. Whether you’re a professional designer or just looking to edit some personal photos, Photoshop is a great tool to have in your arsenal. With a little bit of practice and experimentation, you’ll be able to achieve professional-quality results in no time.

Learn everything you need to know in Photoshop, Lightroom, PSE, and ACR including how to upload your images and products, how to use the different tools in your software and more inside the Summerana Academy!

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The most common way to upload an image into Photoshop is to simply open it directly from your computer. To do this, go to the “File” menu at the top of the screen and select “Open.” This will open a window that allows you to browse your computer’s files and folders to find the image you want to open. Once you’ve located the image, simply click on it and then click the “Open” button.

Another way to import an image into Photoshop is to use the “Place Embedded…” command. This command allows you to insert an image into an existing document without replacing the current image. To use the “Place Embedded…” command, go to the “File” menu and select “Place Embedded…” This will open a window that allows you to browse your computer’s files and folders to find the image you want to insert. Once you’ve located the image, simply click on it and then click the “Place Embedded…” button. The image will be inserted into your document as a new layer.

Additionally, you can also drag and drop the images directly into the Photoshop window, it will automatically open the image in a new tab.

Another option is to import your images using the Adobe Bridge, a standalone application that allows you to organize and preview your images. You can use Adobe Bridge to select one or multiple images, then choose “Tools” > “Photoshop” > “Load files into Photoshop Layers” to open the selected images in Photoshop.

When uploading images into Photoshop, it’s important to note that the program supports a wide range of image file formats, including JPEG, TIFF, PNG, and PSD (Photoshop’s own format).

In summary, uploading images into Adobe Photoshop is a straightforward process that can be done in a few different ways, including opening them directly from your computer, using the “Place Embedded…” command to insert them into an existing document, drag and drop or using the Adobe Bridge. No matter which method you choose, you’ll be able to quickly and easily import your images into the program and start editing.

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