USE ADAPTIVE PRESETS

Use these one-click presets to target and boost skies and subjects

SIMPLE LUMINOSITY MASKING WITH COLOR RANGE

Use precise masks to target your landscape’s shadow or highlight ranges – without the faff of channel masking

CROP TO EXPAND

Add extra space to your scenes in seconds with the Crop Tool

FORGET VIBRANCE: USE CALIBRATION INSTEAD

If you want to make colors pop, head to the Calibration Panel for controlled saturation boosts

SUCCESSFUL SKY REPLACEMENT

When you want a convincing alternative sky, there’s more to it than running the image through the Sky Replacement Tool

MATTE THE BLACKS

Lift the black point to fade out shadows and give your scenes a wonderful soft quality

DODGE AND BURN ON SOFT LIGHT

Get to grips with an invaluable Blending Mode trick for speedy dodging and burning

ADD BIRDS TO A SKY

Learn how to drop in a few flying birds to enhance a sky

MAKE LIGHT RAYS

Here’s a quick tip for adding rays of light with the Brush and Dehaze commands in Camera Raw

ZOOM-BLEND LANDSCAPES

James Paterson blends two different focal lengths with a combination of shooting and Photoshop skills

SHOOT A FOCAL LENGTH BLEND

One frame for the vital foreground details, the other for the background

BLEND YOUR FOCAL LENGTHS IN PHOTOSHOP

01 PREPARE THE IMAGES Choose the two images

TOP TIPS BIGGER BACKDROPS

01 COPY THE LAYER Rather than combining two

SHOOT A VERTICAL PANORAMA

Try shooting a scene in segments from the ground by your feet upwards, then stitch the frames together for a vertical pano

PHOTOSHOP ISN’T THE ONLY GAME IN TOWN

Now you can tidy up messy areas of your images in Camera Raw and Lightroom

ESSENTIALS

Your quick-start guide and reference to image editing in Photoshop

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THE IMAGE-EDITING WORKFLOW

Manage your photos from capture to output in three stages

THE BASICS OF RAW PROCESSING

Discover how to process your raw files to perfection

SIX ESSENTIAL LAYERS FOR PHOTOS

The six most frequently used Photoshop layers for image editing, and how to use them to improve almost any photo

14 ESSENTIAL KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS

14 keyboard shortcuts that will massively improve your speed and efficiency while working in Photoshop