Some very basic techniques to use in photoshop

1. By Daniel Blair

2. Select by holding Ctrl
This is a fairly and having selected
circular shape, of the elliptical selection
generally the same beforehand. Point
towards the middle of
colour, so we can the image and click
just use the quick while spreading
selection tool and outwards until you get
just click the object an approximate outline
to highlight it. of the shape. It
doesn’t matter if you
don’t get it perfect, but
white lines look worse
than a smaller shape.
Use a rectangular
selection and draw one
around the object. Use
the magic wand tool.
Select the elliptical Select in the upper right
selection tool, and hand corner the reverse
start by clicking tool, and select the
outside the shape, and background and it will
drag onto it. It will take automatically select the
When any of these object, because it selects
several tries, but when
images is selected, everything that is not the
you get close enough background. This works
make sure you don’t just click it and drag
well when the object is
get white edges. it towards the plate. surrounded by white.

3. Select the postage
Click on the beach layer, and on a slider
layer, go to Layer which is labeled
Style in the upper opacity, and put it at
right hand corner 25%. Then, while
and go to ‘Stroke’. selecting the
Select size of 5 postage layer, in the
px, position same menu as the
inside, blend overlay, choose
mode: ‘multiply’.
normal, opacity
100%, and select
color white.
Right click on the
photo and click on To get this vibrant
‘free transform’. color select the
Make it smaller and layer with a right
then tilt it on its side
click and click on
by using the green
button. duplicate layer.
Create a new layer, Then, while
and name it clouds. selecting the copy
Place it right on top layer, on a menu
of the background right above the
layer. Select sky- layers choose
blue color and ‘overlay’
leave the other on
white. Then, while
having the Clouds
layer selected, go
to Filter, Render,