How To Get A Clean Look In Photoshop

Learn how make good photos not bad with these quick tips for using Photoshop.

Three young ladies and two young men stand together at a party.

Ofttimes, the photos that nosotros take when we're out with our friends capture the fun of the moment, but are not perfect.

In this tutorial, we invite you to pick a photograph that'southward not perfect, and apply these quick tips to straighten a photo, remove blemishes and unwanted objects from information technology, add a blur effect to draw attending to the principal subject in your photo, and apply a filter to create warmth for your photo.

These simple changes can make good photos slap-up, for printing or posting to social media.

Original image is cropped and straightened, an arm is removed from side, and a stain is removed from a shirt.

Open Photoshop. Go to File > Open, or press Control+O (Control+O on Windows) on your keyboard.

Cull a photograph from your computer, and click Open.

Select a photo to use for editing and correction through the File > Open menu.

You can use the Crop tool to straighten crooked photos.

Select the Crop tool from the toolbar, or printing "C" on your keyboard.

Position your cursor just outside of a corner or side of the prototype until you see your cursor modify to a curved arrow. Click and drag to rotate the photo.

Press Enter on your keyboard when you lot're washed.

Crop tool is used to straighten crooked photo.

Employ the Spot Healing Brush Tool to clean up distracting areas or spots in your photo. Choose the Spot Healing Brush Tool from the toolbar.

Hint: Zoom into areas of your photograph for easier cleanup by pressing Command and the plus (+) push (Command and the plus (+) button on Windows) on your keyboard. Zoom back out past pressing Control and the minus (-) button (Control and the minus (-) push on Windows) on your keyboard.

Spot Healing Brush is used to remove a stain from a shirt.

Click and drag on the areas you wish to remove.

Hint: Press the right-bracket "]" on your keyboard to increase the size of the Spot Healing Brush Tool, or press the left bracket "[" to decrease the size of the tool.

Spot Healing Brush size may be changed by hitting right or left brackets on the keyboard.

Use the Patch Tool to remove larger distracting objects from your photos. To practise this, y'all select what to remove, and and so select a part of the photo to use as a replacement patch.

Click and hold the Spot Healing Brush Tool and select the Patch Tool.

Outset, click and drag your cursor to select an surface area of the photograph that you want to remove, releasing your cursor to complete the option of what you wish to remove.

Arm holding a cup on the side of thDistracting arm on the side of the photo is selected for removal using the Patch Tool under Spot Healing Brush menue photo is distracting and is removed using the Patch Tool under Spot Healing Brush menu

Next, click and drag from inside your selection area to an area of the photo that you lot want to utilize as your replacement patch.

In this photo, we clicked in the selected area for removal (arm and ruby-red cup), and and then dragged below to the vertical line in the wall (clean function of the wall without arm and reddish cup). In brusk, nosotros selected the clean part of the wall equally the replacement patch.

When you're done, press Command+D (Control+D on Windows) on your keyboard or become to Select > Deselect, which removes the choice path for the Patch Tool.

Selection shows arrow demonstrating how to click and drag on the photo to choose an area used as replacement patch.

The Blur Gallery has mistiness effects, which y'all tin use to add focus or emphasis to parts of your photograph.

Become to Filter > Mistiness Gallery > Tilt Shift...

The Blur Gallery under Filter menu has blur effects, which can be used to add focus or emphasis to parts of the photo.

Click and drag the solid horizontal lines to change where you apply the blur effect. In this photograph, nosotros blurred the height and bottom of the image, but left the faces without mistiness, which creates a focus in the photo on the faces.

Use the Mistiness slider to change the intensity of the blur effect.

When you're washed, click OK at the pinnacle of the window.

To larn more about the different options in the Blur Gallery, meet the tutorial, Add creative blur to photos.

Horizontal dashed and solid lines show where image will be blurred. Sliders in the Blur Tools menu adjust intensity of blur.

Photo Filters, similar to Instagram filters, requite your photos a unique color effect.

Open the Adjustments panel on the right side of your workspace. If yous can't see information technology, select Window > Adjustments.

Click on the Photo Filter icon. From the Backdrop panel, choose a Filter from the menu. In this photo, we applied a Sepia filter to warm the tones in the epitome. Use the Density slider to adjust the intensity of the filter.

When y'all're done, click the double arrows at the top of the Properties panel to shut the panel.

Sepia Photo Filter at 25% density is added to warm the tones of the image.

Your cleaned-upward photograph is fix to share or print!

Experiment with applying these tips to other photos, and check out the related links beneath, which will give you more means to make your photos look great.

Edited image of three young ladies and two young men at a party has a warm tone with bottom and top edges blurred.