Open the image into Photoshop. Go to the Layers Panel, click the Create Adjustment Layer icon and choose Black and White. Click the icon again and choose Posterize. Set Levels to 4: this divides the image into four levels of brightness. Press Cmd/Ctr

It can be tricky to determine what to include and leave out. Take a moment to identify the key points of interest. It might be a sweeping staircase or an ornate piece of furniture. Here it’s the fireplace with the painting above. We put logs in the f

With a static scene like an interior, we are free to light it in segments over several frames. Lock the camera on a tripod and move around the scene, popping the flash. An easy way to fire it is to set up a self-timer to take five shots, with a coupl

Curves has long been one of the best tonal tools in Photoshop and Lightroom. Whether you want to boost contrast, tweak brightness, experiment with creative color shifts, or make any number of other adjustments, Curves is the tool for the job. It isn’

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Open an image. Grab the Crop Tool and choose Width, Size and Resolution in the Crop Tool dropdown in the top toolbar. Set width to 2,000px, height to 2,000px, dpi to 300 (or a similar round number), then crop the image. Next, go to File > New and set

Open a smoke image (we’ve supplied several suitable images if you don’t have any), then use the Lasso Tool to select an interesting part. Press Cmd/Ctrl+J to copy to a new layer, then go to Image > Canvas size and expand the canvas to give yourself m

If you’re relatively new to editing in Photoshop, or you just don’t know where to begin, then this section is the best place to get started. Over the next 10 pages, you’ll find an overview of the different versions of Photoshop available; a breakdown

Photoshop has many types of layers and adjustment layers available, but there are six that you’ll find you need to use again and again. Learning how they should be used may seem a little daunting for beginners, but once you’ve got to grips with them,

Urban environments can be a frenetic mass of contrasts: vibrant or mundane, lively or eerie, beautiful or drab. For a photographer, it’s easy enough to capture how places like this look, but it’s more of a challenge to convey how they feel. To create

Whether you want to capture your home, make images for a holiday rental site, help out with a house sale, or simply create lovely architectural photos, interior photography is a great project to take on. There are three key skills to master. First, t

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Photoshop has a new retouching tool – and it’s likely to become your go-to for many retouching tasks from now on. If you want to remove something from your photo, the new Remove Tool will almost always do a great job. Simply paint over the offending

The Style Transfer Filter is one of the more interesting Neural filters on offer in Photoshop. It uses AI to add a painting style to your photos. The results can vary wildly, but if you hit upon an interesting look, you can create vibrant abstracts.

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As well as in-camera multiple exposures, we can also craft our own in Photoshop simply by copying one image on top of another, then changing the layer Blend Mode to Screen. We can also experiment with the 26 other layer Blend Modes, and come up with

Go through your images and select the ones that you’d like to use, then make any initial tonal changes in Camera Raw. Once done, highlight the images in Bridge and go to Tools > Photoshop > Load Files Into Photoshop Layers. Once they’ve opened, go to

Intentional camera movement can transform scenes into streaks of blur while still retaining an impression of the place. Move the camera up, down, left or right, or swivel it during the exposure. It helps to press the camera against your forehead or u

The Posterize technique described in the previous tip can be used for all sorts of effects. By separating an image into different levels of brightness, we can get creative with brushes. Follow the steps to posterize and make separate layers, then cli

There’s beauty everywhere if you look for it, even outside a pound shop. Look for bold colors and the vertical lines of shop windows or lamp posts, then try an up/down camera movement over a 1/15 sec exposure to create streaks of blur. A side-to-side

This is a wonderful technique for simplifying an image down to a series of colorful bands. Simply open an image into Photoshop (uncluttered landscapes tend to work well), then go to the toolbar and grab either the Single Column or the Single Row Tool

The star of our interior scene here is the ornate fireplace. We weren’t able to light a fire during the shoot – but we can add a few flames later on in Photoshop… Find a suitable photo of flames (we found a free image on Pixabay.com; search for image

The latest version of the raw file processor included with Photoshop is so powerful that most photos can be processed entirely in the raw processor, with no need for further editing in Photoshop. And by making your adjustments in Adobe Camera Raw, ra

Here’s a fun compositing technique that lets you mash up buildings or landmarks, layering them one on top of another to craft a montage. Open an image of a building, grab the Object Selection Tool and drag a box over it. Photoshop will employ AI to s

The Select Subject and Object Selection tools are brilliant at isolating objects for you, and can speed up your generative filling. If you want to fill in a background, for example, simply use Select > Subject and press Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+I to invert (a