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Welcome

Welcome to issue 118 of Practical Photoshop! If

7 BEST-EVER IMAGE EDITS

No matter what the image is, there are certain go-to tools and tricks that have served us well time and time again. Here are seven of our favorites

2 MAKE LOCAL ADJUSTMENTS

When it comes to editing your photos, one

3 THE POWER OF S-CURVES

An S-curve lets you increase contrast and saturation

4 USE VIBRANCE FOR COLOR BOOSTS

A simple yet hugely useful command, Vibrance works

5 MAKE AUTOMATIC SELECTIONS IN SECONDS

Of all the updates to Photoshop we’ve seen

6 SET BLACK AND WHITE POINTS

This is one of the most basic edits

7 USE AUTO COLOR AND FADE

Here’s a quick fix for color casts that

GIVE YOUR SCENE A BRAND‐NEW SKY

Thanks to AI, Photoshop CC 2021 can replace skies in seconds with just a couple of clicks

BOLD AND BEAUTIFUL B&W

James Patterson uncovers the best monochrome tools and settings for your portraits using Lightroom and Photoshop 

LIQUID MOTION

James Paterson reshapes images into a stunning digital abstract figure with photography and Photoshop

PAINT DROPS

 Get set up for paint abstracts with these bits of kit

SHOOTING PAINT ABSTRACTS

01 C HOOSE YOUR PAINTS A crylic

CRAFT A PAINTERLY FIGURE

01 D ROP IN A SHAPE Open Photoshop, then

ESSENTIALS

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

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