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How To Edit Your Photos Like a Pro – Photoshop Tutorial

April 13, 2015 by Janice

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If you want your photos to look their best, then you need Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom. In this series, “Photoshop Diaries,” Janice Croze, co-founder of 5 Minutes for Mom and owner of Janice Croze Photography, is showing you how to transform your photos and your workflow with Photoshop and Lightroom. Adobe has compensated us for our time to write this post, but our love, enthusiasm, and total dependence on Adobe is 100% our own.

Introduction to Photoshop video tutorial

Click Here For Tutorial #1 – Getting Started with Photoshop

When it comes to editing and retouching images, the amount of time I spend on each image varies greatly.

For some photos, I spend less than a couple minutes editing and, for others, I can spend hours retouching and polishing.

In this tutorial, I will walk you through my basic photo edit “checklist” I use when preparing an image for print or for web use.

Obviously some images require much more retouching, especially if they are close up portraits or headshots that reveal blemishes. I will show you in an upcoming tutorial how I work on a more detailed retouch.

But, as I said, for this tutorial, I want to show you a quick edit that touches on the main steps and tools I use as I prepare an image for use.

how to edit a photo in photoshop

It is also important to note that I usually do some initial editing in Lightroom, before I even open Photoshop.

I shoot my images as RAW files and so I sort and do initial batch edits in Lightroom before I export my files as JPEGS. Then, I open my selected images in Photoshop, (I only process the best shots from a shoot,) and do any necessary additional edits.

However, for this tutorial, I am using a JPEG shot, straight out of camera, to demonstrate a complete photo edit using only Photoshop.

Photoshop Photo Edit Tutorial

The main steps I cover in a basic photo edit are:

  1. Adjust lighting – curves, levels, exposure, etc.
     
  2. Adjust white balance and color issues
     
  3. Retouch or remove distracting elements from the image
     
  4. Brighten and sharpen eyes and whiten teeth if necessary
     
  5. Crop and/or resize if necessary

How to Edit a Photo in Photoshop Video Tutorial

Time to pull up your laptop and let’s get working…

Basic Photo Edit Tutorial Part 1

Basic Photo Edit Tutorial Part 2

So how did that go? Are you feeling more comfortable in Photoshop? Please let me know if you have any questions in the comments and I would love to see how your photo editing is going.

If you missed our last tutorial, Introduction to the Photoshop Workspace, you can check it out here: Getting Started with Photoshop

And stay tuned for our next Photoshop Diaries tutorial. To make sure you don’t miss any video tutorials, subscribe to our YouTube channel.

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Photoshop Checklist - How to Edit a Photo Like a Pro


Written by Janice Croze, co-founder of 5 Minutes for Mom
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2 Comments

  1. Krista says

    April 15, 2015 at 12:25 am

    I think this might be the first time I’ve heard your voice. Funny how it doesn’t match up to the voice I have in my head after reading you for 8 years! 😉 Did you speed up your video afterwards at all or were you talking fast to get it all in? Or do you normally talk that fast?

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    • Janice says

      June 12, 2015 at 7:37 pm

      Oh that is so funny Krista! No I talk even FASTER usually. That is me talking slowly. LOL

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