There are various ways to learn how to use the software, at home with a book, on a course, from an online school etc. Whether you are new or experienced with Photoshop, it helps to have a grip on the commonly used terms. There are hundreds of options of Photoshop, and thousands of possibilities. Read on to familiarize yourself with terms you may hear regularly.
BRUSHES
Brushes are tools that can be used in Photoshop to do lots of different tasks; drawing, with the mask, applying effects and so on. You can always change the diameter of the brush and choose the kind of edge you want (soft or hard).
COLOR CORRECTION
This is a when Photoshop corrects the colors in an image to make it pleasing to the eye or ‘true’. The most dramatic examples of this are when you have color casts in a photograph and Photoshop removes this so the image is balanced.
If you’re into digital photography, half of the fun of shooting digital is being able to manipulate your photos after you take them. For some this is simply an arduous task of fixing and cropping. For others it’s when they really get a chance to have fun and spend hours staring at their computer screens. Personally I’m somewhere in the middle of these two extremes; catch me on the right day and I hate my computer, and on others it’s my favorite “girlfriend” (terminology supplied by my wife, not me).