From the course: Editing Macro Flower Photographs

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Techniques to draw focus: Starting with Photoshop

Techniques to draw focus: Starting with Photoshop

From the course: Editing Macro Flower Photographs

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Techniques to draw focus: Starting with Photoshop

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- [Instructor] So I'm going to start editing this image in Photoshop. And I'm in full screen mode to maximize the amount of screen real estate that I have. If your view looks a little bit different and you want to be in full screen mode just hit Shift + F to go in there. So Photoshop has been around for quite awhile and there are lots of different ways to approach editing images. I'm going to share with you my work flow, but keep in mind that there are lots of different ways to go about achieving similar results. I'm going to drag the background layer onto the new layer icon to make a copy. And then I'll just turn off the background layer. It's just there for safekeeping. I also have the option of making this layer a smart object and then all these edits will be nondestructive. And of course if I want to reset my image, I can access the history panel where I can double-click on the top image icon and that's going to undo any edits that I've made. So case in point, there are lots of…

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