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25 Best Photoshop Tips to Speed Up Your Work

Here’s your most asked tutorial. The best 27 Photoshop tips according to me.

I am segregating the tips based on their usage.

Photoshop tips to speed up your work

1: Press Shift + (+) and Shift + (-) to cycle through different blend modes. Make sure that the layer panel is open. Press F7 or go Window > Layer to open the layer panel.

2: To resize, rename and convert a batch of photos, go to File > Script > Image Processor.

3: To get the color style of a different photo, go to Image > Adjustment > Match Color.

4: For black background and white foreground, press D.

5: Press X to swap the background color with the foreground.

6: For interactive zoom, hold down Cmd/Ctrl + Space then drag right to zoom in and left to zoom out.

7: To toggle between opened documents, press Cmd/Ctrl + Tab.

8: For circular or square selection, hold down Opt/Alt when drawing a selection with the Marquee tool.

9: To close all files, Hold down Shift and click on the close icon of any file.

10: To take a look at the entire photo when zoomed in, hold down H to activate the Bird’s Eye view.

11. To sample a color while using the Brush tool, hold down Alt and Photoshop will temporarily activate the Eyedropper tool.

12. To cycle through brushes, keep on pressing (,) and (.).

13. To change the size of the brush, keep on pressing ([) and (]).

14. To change the hardness of the brush, hold down Shift and keep on pressing ([) and (]).

15. To reset a slider in the Camera RAW, double click on the handle of that slider.

16. To cycle through the Dodge and Burn tool, hold down Opt/Alt to instantly activate another tool. For example, if the Dodge tool is activated, hold down Opt/Alt to instantly activate the Burn tool.

17. To change the opacity of the Brush tool, press any number between 0 and 9 to change the hardness. Make sure that the Brush Tool is activated. 1 will set the hardness to 10%, 9 to 90%, and 0 to 100%.

Photoshop tips to take away your irritations

18. To move the selection, hold down Space and move the selection

19. To get 1,000 history states and unlock the undo 1,000 times, go to Edit > Performance and increase the History States. Default is set to 20.

20. To decrease the size of the PSD, hide all the layers in the layer panel and then save. Generally, it reduces size by up to 28%.

21. To protect someone else from editing or saving your PSD, go to File > Save As and then choose Photoshop PDF. Select Security under Permission and create a password.

22. To use shortcuts when when Text tool is activated, press Cmd + Return / Ctrl + Enter. This will move the focus outside of the text field.

23. To select entire content a layer, hold down Cmd/Ctrl and then click on the thumbnail of the layer in the layer panel. Press F7 or go Window > Layer to open the layer panel.

24. To convert a layer style to a layer, right click on the layer style and select Create Layer.

25. To switch between differnt tools of the same set (like swithcihing from the Magnetic Lasso Tool to Polygonal Lasso Tool), hold down Shift and keep on pressing the keyboard shortcut for that tool. For example, keep on pressing Shift + L to swith between different Lasso tools.

Bonus Tips

26. To hide or reveal the selection’s marching ants, Press Cmd/Ctrl + H. The selection will still be there but Photoshop won’t show marching ants.

27. To draw a straight line or to move an object in a striaght line, hold down Shift and the do the move it.

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How to Swap a Face in Photoshop

Shooting a group photo and someone blinked? Do your two kids never pose nicely together? Does your pet rarely look at the camera long enough for you to shoot a good photo? If yes, Photoshop can help you out. Today we’ll see how to swap a face in Photoshop.

I am going to swap the face of the same person. You can use the same approach to swap the face between two different persons.

Before we begin, let me show you the before and after

Before

After

Photo is from shutterstock.com.

Prerequisite

I get countless requests to swap the face of a person. Around 70% of them are not doable because the photos don’t follow the most basic rule.

The two faces must be shot at the same angle.

You cannot swap the face of the girl in the couple photo with the face in the selfie photo. No one can do it. Not even the most talented Photoshop artist in the world.

If you want to replace the whole girl then this rule still follows. In the below photos, you can swap the entire girl because the camera angle is the same. Both photos are shot from the front, and camera height and woman’s height are matching.

Let’s begin the tutorial.

Step 1: Copy the good face that you want in the main photo

Firstly, we need to select the face that we want to copy. The selection will be rough.

We’re going to use Lasso tool for this. Grab the Lasso Tool from the tool panel or press Shift + L again and again until it comes.

Draw a rough line across the face. Don’t forget to include all the hair. We need to include all hair because swapping the face requires swapping the hair also.

Copy the selected portion (face and the hair here) by either going to Edit > Copy or pressing Cmd + C / Ctrl + C.

Don’t have time to create a selection? Hire me to swap the face. Cost per image varies between $4 – $10. Mail me at hello@tricky-photoshop.com.

Step 2: Swap the face in Photoshop

Go to the other image which is having the not-so-good face.

Paste the face by either going to Edit > Paste or by pressing Cmd + V / Ctrl + V.

Photoshop will paste the face at the center of the photo.

Step 3: Align the swapped face

Activate the Free Transform Tool by pressing Cmd + T / Ctrl + T or by going to Edit > Free Transform.

You’ll now see 8 handlebars.

Now drag and drop the pasted face to the position where her actual face is.

You need to adjust the swapped face a lot of times to perfectly place it.

Pro Tip: Reduce the opacity of the layer on which you pasted the swapped face to somewhere around 40%. Now, align the face. This is what I do every time.

Change the size of the face also to align it properly.

Check the below GIF.

Having difficulty in aligning? Hire me to swap the face. Cost per image varies between $4 – $10. Mail me at hello@tricky-photoshop.com.

Step 4: Hide the unwanted parts

Add a layer mask by clicking on the layer mask button in the layer panel.

Grab Brush Tool from the tool panel or press Shift + B again and again until it comes.

Set the size as per the photo and set the hardness to somewhere around 10%.

Change the foreground color to black.

Brush the area which you want to hide.

Here’s the GIF for you.

Swapped the face and photo is looking photoshopped? Hire me to swap the face. Cost per image varies between $4 – $10. Mail me at hello@tricky-photoshop.com.

Tips for Writing a Cover Letter as a Web Designer

In such a crowded marketplace, it’s really important for you as a web designer to do something to set yourself apart. Being talented, energetic, having experience and driving hard towards your goal are good places to start, naturally, but another really important part of your arsenal when it comes to overcoming your competition It’s your cover letter. So, here I bring you the tips for writing a cover letter as a web designer.

A cover letter is a chance to really optimize your designer application: a resume or CV is one thing, but a cover letter lets you really approach your companies of choice directly.

Being able to do this can really make your application appeal directly to your potential employers. Here are a few ways to make it as good as you can.

1. Experience

With all internet design jobs, it’s really important that the message you want to broadcast to your employers most specifically is how experienced you are.

Photo by **Tranmautritam** from **Pexels**

Having a good degree, or having interesting extracurriculars, even having worked at a certain company are not things which will compare to solid web design experience.

Your cover letter has to reassure your potential employer that you can do your job, that you have done it. Don’t slack on this: the more explicit you can state this the better.

2. Be Concise

For all tech positions, no employer is going to appreciate blithering. “Web design is a very black and white field”, writes Mark Anthony, cover letter editor at Academized.

“When a vacancy opens, they want to fill it fast, they are simply looking to see if you can do it and if you can do it well.

So, wasting time in your cover letter with pleasantries and unrelated info will do you no favors.” Approach it like you need every single sentence to have value, justify everything you write.

3. Show Your Knowledge Of The Company

Cover letters are targeted towards specific companies. You never want to give even the slightest sense that you’ve sent the same cover letter format to multiple companies.

One way to ensure that is to speak directly to your knowledge of the company you are applying to. Web design is a field that has a large demand for employment.

It can also be done at a distance sometimes. So, companies like to be able to know that you care about working for them specifically.

Show you know their company and demonstrate why you want to be there in the cover letter.

4. Write It Well

Web design may be a highly technical field where it doesn’t seem much like there is a need to be a top seller. However, engaging, well written and, crucially, accurate writing really spells professionalism and care, not to mention make your cover letter more enjoyable to read.

However, as a web designer, you may be a bit out of practice when it comes to writing. So here are some tools to help you with that:

Academadvisor and Studydemic – These are two resources that will help you with grammar, a subtle area which can really affect the impression your cover letter gives off.

OXEssays and BoomEssays – Two editing tools, useful for polishing up your prose to make it application ready. Suggested by Topcanadianwriters.com.

Revieweal and Studentwritingservices– Blogs with general suggestions and tips on how to go about putting together your cover letter. Great for beginners.

Assignment Help and Grade On Fire – A pair of online editing tools, both helpful for running your cover letter through to ensure it’s all accurate.

5. Be Honest

Lying in your application, about the experience, about passion, about anything really is a bad idea. Lying on your cover letter is a really bad idea since it is a personal letter.

If your application ends up being good enough to get an interview you can really find yourself in hot water, quick. By lying on your application, you leave yourself vulnerable to your claims being probed in the interview.

Being found out as not entirely honest on your application gives your potential employer a sense that you will be potentially unreliable and unprofessional.

It also leads them to doubt everything that you wrote, potentially discrediting even your true claims. So, tell the truth and emphasize what you bring not what you wish you could bring.

Conclusion

The cover letter is a really special opportunity for you to show the specific company you are applying to you why you are so keen to work for them and why they ought to be keen to have you.

As a web designer, it is a chance to submit some well-written prose to your company, showing a diversity of skills. You ought to work as hard as you can to make the most of this tool.

Chloe Bennet is a tech writer at Academic Writing Service and Paper Fellows portals.

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Raw vs. JPG – What file format should you use?

As a photographer, this means that you will get a lot of clients for your business. One of the questions you will be faced with early on is whether you should be using raw images of Jpeg. It’s basically raw vs. jpg.

Photo by **Mohamed Almari** from **Pexels**

Sometimes living an exceptional moment is not enough. Sometimes you need to capture it all, in a lens, with all its beauty and magnificence. Photography allows you to do so. It doesn’t matter whether you wish to crystallize a moment for your personal use or your business; photographs play a much more significant role in your life than you think they do. Almost all industries use them for marketing their services. On a personal level, people use them to hold on to precious moments.

What are Raw images?

Both Raw and JPEG images are types of file format. RAW is a type of format that captures all the available image data in its entirety. When you take a photo using your camera, the sensor records quite a lot of data.

For instance, let’s say you take a picture of a person. The RAW image will depict every feature of the said person to the tee. This is why it is often said that RAW images have better quality than Jpeg images. Raw images are workable; it is easy to process them afterward. For instance: There is a blog that explains how you can remove dark circles in Photoshop.

Photo by **Asad Photo Maldives** from **Pexels**

Such editing is best done on raw images. Before you think about post-processing, think about the mode of capturing images.

What are JPEG/JPG images?

Contrary to Raw images, Jpeg images are processed in nature. And this occurs within the camera.

Note: JPEG and JPG are the same file formats. They just have a different name. I wrote a tutorial a few months ago and I described why because of Windows we have two names for the same format.

This means that the first output you get after capturing a picture is a compressed and processed version of the photo you took. The level and type of processing vary from one model of camera to another.

Photo by **Shvets Anna** from **Pexels**

Elements like color temperature and exposure are altered according to the settings of the said camera.

Moreover, additional changes like contrast, brightness, sharpening, noise reduction, and addition of blacks are added, and then the file is compressed to deliver the output.

Benefits of Raw Images

To understand which type of format is best for you, it is essential to know the advantages offered by both. Here are the benefits of using raw images.

It produces the best quality images

When you are a professional photographer, the quality of your pictures matter.

Let’s say a company gives you the task of shooting pictures for the website. With their logo design, placed on every picture, they require professional photos as well. Here, quality matters. And the highest level of quality is only delivered by RAW images.

A quality lens can only showcase its full glory through its raw images. After automatically processing it, the results can never be as perfect as they once were.

With raw photos, you are given autonomy to process the images as per your expertise. And your brain is much better than the processing capabilities of any camera.

Greater levels of brightness

There are various stages of turning the black parts of the picture to white. These steps are known as levels of brightness.

All photographers know that the higher the levels of brightness, the better the picture since it ensures smoothness.

Photo by **David Ilécio** from **Pexels**

Compared to JPEG, which records 256 levels, RAW images tend to record levels between 4096 to 16384. In professional lingo, this is known as “bit.” JPEG is known to capture photos in 8 bit while RAW does so in 12 or 14 bit.

Therefore, additional steps of brightness are much smoother and also allow you to make various alterations to the image without reducing quality. Why? This is because there are more levels available for you to work with.

Easy corrections

As a photographer, you will not just be working in controlled environments. Instead, you might have to cover events where things are dynamic and mobile. Let’s say you get hired to cover a wedding.

It doesn’t matter how great of a photographer you are; some pictures will still come out over or underexposed. It isn’t much you can do if you take photos in jpeg mode.

However, in the case of raw images, you can quickly correct the issues because all the additional information about the image is already stored in the file.

Benefits of JPG

Does this mean that JPEG offers no incentives, at all? No! Here are certain advantages you can only realize if you choose JPEG images.

No need to worry about image processing

If you are new to the world of photography, processing pictures manually might seem like the most laborious task. There are a lot of elements and factors that you need to work with. This is why many beginners prefer JPEG since it does all the processing for you.

When shooting pictures in JPEG mode, all you need to do is focus on your subject and capture the image. All the laborious work is then done by the camera. This includes factors like color saturation, white balance, tone curve, sharpening and color space, etc.

Photo by **Pawel Zygmunt** from **Pexels**

For a beginner photographer, this mode gives them a chance to perfect their photo capturing ability and hence build a sound portfolio. Not only this, but JPEG photos can also help professional photographers with delivering consistent photos, all year round.

It also helps with ensuring quick output, which might be preferred by those who are swamped with projects.

The size of the file is small

JPEG images are compressed files. This means that they take up less space on your memory card. Contrary to this, RAW images are enormous.

After all, they feature every minute detail of the scene they capture. If you are shooting for an event, shooting in RAW mode means carrying a lot of memory cards because they will fill up at a fast rate.

If you have a fast-paced project where you don’t have enough time to keep changing memory cards, it is better to opt for JPEG mode.

Final Verdict

So, which is better? Unless convenience is your priority, it is safe to say that RAW images emerge victorious in this battle. As a photographer, I always try to capture images in RAW mode. This will help you take beautiful portraits that your clients love!

About the author: Michelle Joe is a blogger by choice. She loves to discover the world around her. She likes to share her discoveries, experiences, and express herself through her blogs. You can find her on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook

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How to Merge Layers in Photoshop Without Flattening Your Image

Do you know that you can merge layers in Photoshop and use all kinds of filter and go back to any point in time? Yes, you can. You can merge all layers in Photoshop without flattening your image.

You can do this with Cmd + Alt + Shift + E. But, hold on. There’s one trick. There’s one step that you need to do before using this shortcut. This keyboard will not give the correct result if you don’t do that step.

Video

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Merge Layers in Photoshop with Flattening

What’s wrong in this step?

There’s nothing wrong. It’s just that you lose the original image. So, if you want to go back in time and decrease the brightness that you increased then you can’t. Because that brightness adjustment layer is no more present.

See the below image. You have four layers in the left photo. You made some changes in the face, hat, and skin and now you want to use Camera RAW in the final version of the photo. Camera RAW applies only to one layer so you need to have a layer which is a superimpose of all layers.

The only way to do that is to make a layer which is a superimposed layer of all layers. If we go with the traditional method that all the layers merge together. The problem here is that you lost all the layers and let’s say you want to undo the changes you made in the hat. Now, you can’t.

If you still want to merge all layers together by flattening them then you can go to Layer > Flatten Image.

According to me, the only positive side of merging all layers together is that your PSD will be smaller in size.

Merge Layers in Photoshop without Flattening

So, here’s the trick to merge all the layers together without flattening your image.

Open the layer panel by going to Window > Layer or by pressing F7.

Click on the topmost layer. This was the step I talked about in the second paragraph of this tip.

Now, press Cmd + Shift + Opt + E / Ctrl + Shift + Alt + E. There you go. Now you have the merged layer at the top of the layer.

Why clicking on the topmost layer is important?

Photoshop will only merge the layers that are present below the clicked layer. So, if you select the 2nd layer from the top and use the keyboard shortcut then Photoshop will merge then 2nd layer and layers below it. It will not merge the 1st layer.

If you select the 3rd layer from the top and use the keyboard shortcut then Photoshop will merge then 3rd layer and layers below it. It will not merge the 1st and 2nd layer.

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JPEG Save Options Explained – Photoshop

Do you know that just by tweaking a little in JPEG save options in Photoshop and we can save more than 10 GB of hard drive space? We can also increase the site loading speed by as much as 45% using this option.

I would like to clarify some facts before I go ahead. One of them is whether JPG and JPEG are different.

JPG vs. JPEG

There is no difference between JPEG and JPG. It’s funny that many people think they are different. I also explained this in one of my old post on JPG vs. JPEG.

They both are same and developed by Joint Photographic Experts Group. The only reason behind its two names is an old version of Microsoft’s Window. The old version of Window takes only three characters for any format. As JPEG has four characters, the group shortened its name to JPG so that the format can also be accessible by Window’s users.

Most of the users nowadays use Window. This is why you’ll see JPG more often than JPEG. With the advancement in technology, Window now supports extensions with four character and hence you can now view JPEG on your PC.

JPG Fun Facts

JPEG stands for Joint Photographic Experts Group.
It’s a format to store digital images which supports a maximum size of 65,535 x 65,535 pixels.
It compresses file size by selectively discarding data. Check the below images.
It supports only 8-bit images. If you save a 16-bit image to this format, Photoshop automatically lowers the bit depth.
It doesn’t preserve transparency.

Below is an example for you. You can see a huge loss in details between the first photo and the third photo. This photo is 90% compressed.

JPEG Save Options in Photoshop

1: Matte

The JPEG format does not support transparency means if there’s any part in the image which does not have any pixels then JPG won’t support that. Some common examples are like a photo with no background, logo, etc.

When you save an image as a JPG file, transparent pixels are filled with the matte color.

To simulate the effect of background transparency, you can match the matte color to the web page background color. If your image contains transparency and you do not know the web page background color, or if the background is a pattern, you should use a format that supports transparency (GIF, PNG‑8, or PNG‑24).

2: Image Options

This thing does wonder. It lets you compress the photo which reduces its size.

If you’re saving a photo for your website then you don’t want that photo to be 5 MB. You’d rather want it to be in the range of 50 – 150 KB. This field does that. But this field does it at the cost of the quality of the photo.

Quality box and slider work together. You can either right any value in the range of 0 and 12 and the slider will adjust accordingly.

Here’s the dropdown also work synchronously. If you drag the slider then the dropdown value will set automatically.

3: Format Options

Specifies the format of your JPEG file. Adobe says that

Baseline (“Standard”) uses a format recognized by most web browsers.
Baseline Optimized creates a file with optimized color and a slightly smaller file size.
Progressive displays a series of increasingly detailed versions of the image (you specify how many) as it downloads. Not all web browsers support optimized and Progressive JPEG images.

4: Preview

Ticking the “Preview” lets you preview the photo with the selection options. You can see how the photo would look before saving it. I always keep it ticked.

Just below that Photoshop tells the approx. size of the photo after saving. It won’t matter much if you’re saving your personal photographs but will a lot if you’re saving photos for your website.

You don’t want the web photos to be in MBs but rather in the range of 50 – 150 KBs. Heavy photos will take more time to load and increasing the website loading time. Google says that 1 sec. increase in load time reduces the pageviews by 20%. So, if you get 100 page views and your website loading speed is 3 secs. You will get around 80 pageviews if your website loading speed in 4 secs.

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Create a Water Reflection in Photoshop

We’re going to use two filters and blend modes to create a water reflection in Photoshop. The approximate execution time is written just about this paragraph.

I shot a photo of the mountain last year and there was a beautiful lake by the mountain. The lake was not showing mountain’s reflection and there’s nothing I could do about it. So, the only option left to me was to artificially create a water reflection.

I played in Photoshop for a while and found these steps to create water reflection. I’ll show you how to create it.

Below are the before and after photos. This is not the photo that I shot. I downloaded this photo from Pexels.

Before

Photo from Pexels.

After

Let’s start.

Sidebar: If you want to know how to remove glare from glasses or remove reflection from glasses, check our tutorial on how to remove glare from glasses.

Video

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Step 1: Crop the photo

Here’s the photo. I am going to crop out the water.

Grab the Crop Tool from the tool panel or press C.

Make sure “Delete Cropped Pixels” is turned on.

Grab the handlebar ar the bottom center and drag it to the point where water is cropped out.

Here’s the photo.

Step 2: Create Water Reflection in Photoshop

Now we’re going to create a reflection.

We’re going to increase the space at the bottom of the photo. Space would the same as the height of the photo.

Open the Canvas Size box by pressing Cmd + Opt + C / Ctrl + Alt + C.

Change the scale to percent and write the height as 100. In the Anchor point, click on the top middle box. This notifies Photoshop that canvas will only increase at the bottom. Press OK

And, here’s our photo.

Press F7 to open the layer panel. Duplicate the layer by pressing Cmd + J / Ctrl + J.

Name the bottom layer as Reflection.

Make sure that the Reflection layer is activated.

Go to Edit > Transform > Flip Vertical.

Activate Free Transform Tool by pressing Cmd + T / Ctrl + T. Now drag the photo from the top to the bottom.

Here’s a GIF for you.

Step 3: Time to give it add some effects

Duplicate the Reflection layer by pressing Cmd + J / Ctrl + J. I am naming this layer Reflection 2.

Make sure that the Reflection 2 layer is activated.

Go to Filter > Blur > Motion Blur.

Change the angle to 90 degrees and increase the distance which gives a nice effect. The distance depends on the size of the photo. I am choosing 75. My photo is 1956 pixels in height. Press OK.

Step 4: Create Waves

Time to create some waves.

Create a new layer above the Relfection 2 layer by pressing Cmd + Shift + N / Ctrl + Shift + N.

Make the background color white.

Fill the Wave layer with the background color by pressing Cmd + Delete / Ctrl + Backspace.

Go to Filter > Noise > Add Noise.

Increase the amount to 400%. Change the distribution to Gaussian and turn on Monochromatic. Press Ok

Time to give it a wave effect.

Go to Filter > Blur > Motion Blur.

Change the angle to 0 this time. Increase the Distance to such an amount that noise starts looking like waves.

Here’s what the photo would look.

Step 5: Giving the Final Touch

Zoom out the photo a lot by pressing Cmd + (-)/ Ctrl + (-).

Go to Edit > Transform > Perspective.

Drag the bottom left handlebar towards the left. Later, drag the top left handlebar towards the right. Make sure that the middle handlebar is exactly at the center.

Here’s a GIF for you.

Duplicate the Wave layer by pressing Cmd + J / Ctrl + J. Name it Wave 2. Invert the layer by pressing Cmd + I. Change the blend mode to Overlay and reduce the opacity to 20%.

This wouldn’t give any change in appearance to your photo.

Activate your Wave layer. Change the blend mode to Soft Light and reduce the opacity to 20%.

Here’s the photo.

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Best 3 Ways to Convert Photos

We all are familiar with the JPG (or JPEG) as it is the most common image file format that we all know about. Also, there are so many reasons why this format is the most used one. JPG conversion gives you the ease of making your image file size smaller without disrupting its quality. Thus, the majority of people change their image formats to JPG, to keep their disk space well-managed. Today, we’re going to see how can we convert other images format to JPG.

Now there are different ways in which you can alter the image formats. However, a lot of people are not aware of them all. Thus, we have summed up 3 best way to convert images in JPG format whenever you want to.

1. Use a Free Online Web Service: Online Convert Free

Online Convert Free is a free online file converter which allows you to convert your images into JPEG or any other format that you want. Whether your image is in GIF or PSD or PNG; you can easily convert it into JPEG through this amazing online file converter. It is very easy to use and extremely fast in converting the file format as well. Within no time, you can sit back and see your image being converted into JPEG.

Also, if you want to change the JPG version into PSD or PNG or BMP format; you can do that too. Either way, this online file converter is an incredible tool that works for you rapidly. With simply no effort to put in; you drag the file to the website and let it convert your file into your desired format.

2. Use Paint in Windows

We all know about Paint, don’t we? For the 90’s kids, this has been a massive time pass activity. However, it can be used to convert the image format too. Open Paint and open the image that you want to convert it, in it. Once opened, click FILE, and you will see an arrow beside the option “Save As.” Click on that arrow, and you will see that a range of different image formats will be offered to you. Click on JPEG or any other format that you want and save the file!

3. Download a Software; Movavi Video Converter

If you often require altering your image format, then you can download a software too. Movavi Video Converter is not just confined to changing video types; it can also change your image format easily. It is available for both Windows and IOS, and you can download it through the internet easily. Also, the best part about Movavi is that it is completely free of cost, whereas the majority of online converter software are now paid. Thus, if you want a permanent software downloaded in your PC, then you can rely on this one.

Final Verdict

Well, these are the 3, easiest and simplest ways to convert images into your desired format. We recommend using Online Convert Free as it is free of cost and is very quick. Using Paint is old fashioned and does require time. Once you use the web-based online free converter, you will realise that they are way swift than the old trends. Do try it out and you are going to love. Movavi is also a little time taking but is a good option for someone who loves software or wants to download one, for their “on the go” purposes.

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Remove Dark Circles in Photoshop

I know that you don’t like dark circles and you’re using all kinds of creams and home remedies to remove them. You already have reduced by a small percentage but they’re still visible. Before posting a photo. you do all kinds of things to reduce them. But, if you want to remove them completely, you’ve come to the right place. I am going to show you how to remove dark circles in Photoshop.

This is a fairly simple tutorial. I am going to use the Clone Stamp Tool to remove them. I’ll also add a bonus step where I’ll show you how to reduce them by 80% (or any other percentage).

Before we begin, I want to show you the before and after photo.

Before

After

Photo by Beta-J on Flickr.

If you’re looking forward to removing the dark circles, you can also hire me. The cost will be $10 for one image and will go down as number of images increases. Mail me at hello@tricky-photoshop.com.

Video

If you like watching videos, here’s the video tutorial for you.

Step 1: Create a New Layer

We are creating a new layer. We’ll use this layer to remove the dark circles.

Go to Layer > New > Layer or press Cmd + Shift + N / Ctrl + Shift + N to create a new layer.

We’re going to name this as Removing Dark Circles.

Step 2: Use the Clone Stamp Tool to remove Dark Circles in Photoshop

We’re going to remove the dark circles using the Clone Stamp Tool.

Grab the Clone Stamp Tool from the tool panel or press S.

In the option panel, change the blend mode to lighten and turn off the Align.

Lighten blend mode compares each pixel of the current layer and the layer below it, and shows the pixels that are brighter. You’ll understand later in this tutorial.

Clone Stamp Tool is used to copy pixels from one part of the image and paste them on another part. To use the Clone Stamp Tool, you first need to define the source pixels. This will be pixels are going to be copied. You can do them by holding down the Opt / Alt key.

Select the cheek as the source pixels.

Right click on the photo. Set the hardness to 0.

Now brush on the dark circles. See the below GIF.

Here’s the photo. I know that it’s too much. We’ll make it natural.

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Step 3: Reduce the Opacity

Change the opacity to 60% in the layer panel.

Here’s how the photo will look.

Do the same thing for the other eye also.

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dark circle eyebags protrait

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Bonus Tips

Before

After

Prerequisite

Step 1: Copy the good face that you want in the main photo

Step 2: Swap the face in Photoshop

Step 3: Align the swapped face

Step 4: Hide the unwanted parts

1. Removing unwanted logos

2. Working with hair in photographs

3. Removing large objects

4. Retouching basics

5. Faking shallow depth of field

6. Lightroom vs. Photoshop comparison

7. Turning videos into GIFs

8. Editing videos

9. Software meets hardware

10. Nik Photoshop Plug-Ins

1. Experience

2. Be Concise

3. Show Your Knowledge Of The Company

4. Write It Well

5. Be Honest

Conclusion

What are Raw images?

What are JPEG/JPG images?

Benefits of Raw Images

It produces the best quality images

Greater levels of brightness

Easy corrections

Benefits of JPG

No need to worry about image processing

The size of the file is small

Final Verdict

Video

Merge Layers in Photoshop with Flattening

Merge Layers in Photoshop without Flattening

JPG vs. JPEG

JPG Fun Facts

JPEG Save Options in Photoshop

Before

After

Video

Step 1: Crop the photo

Step 2: Create Water Reflection in Photoshop

Step 3: Time to give it add some effects

Step 4: Create Waves

Step 5: Giving the Final Touch

1. Use a Free Online Web Service: Online Convert Free

2. Use Paint in Windows

3. Download a Software; Movavi Video Converter

Final Verdict

Before

After

Video

Step 1: Create a New Layer

Step 2: Use the Clone Stamp Tool to remove Dark Circles in Photoshop

Step 3: Reduce the Opacity

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