Do you need to create special effects for your photos? This guide will walk you through the steps with several How to Adobe Photoshop tips. It will help you add great looking computer graphics to digital images.

You may find it useful to apply a masking to your photo clipping path to choose the parts you wish to alter and then leave them untouched when you apply any special effects. It is possible to create a soft fade between areas with special effects and those without. This is called masking, and it can be achieved using a variety of techniques. The "quick mask mode" is one strategy. It's described below.

Find the "edit in Fast Mask Mode" button within your Adobe Photoshop software package. It appears like a rectangle inside a circle. You can also use the "Q" shortcut key. Once you are inside the quick mask setting it is easy to select and deselect any parts by simply painting them with the regular brush tool. Zoom to 100 or 200 percent for the best accuracy.

To avoid creating hard edges, you can use a soft-edged toothbrush. After you're done, go to "Select-Feather" to adjust the feather radius from 5-10 pixels. You can adjust your opacity to anywhere from 0 to 100%. This allows you the ability to make the effect stronger or weaker in any part of the image.

Moving on, it's easier to add a layer mask. You can apply almost any effect slowly to any point in your image. Follow these guidelines.

1) Choose "Windows-- Layers".

2) Click on your layer to duplicate it.

3) Click the small symbol at the end of your layerbox called "Add layer Mask".

4) Choose the "Gradient Tool" from the primary toolbox.

5) Choose a gradient type from "Options".

6) Simply click on your graphic in the area you don't want to change, then drag the button to the place you want the effect to occur. You will see the effects gradually increase along the line that you just created.

7) Finally, go back to the background layer and apply any effect you like. This will soften the effect and gradually apply it.

"Gaussian blur" can be implemented using the layer masking described above. This will make certain regions appear soft-focused as if you used a large aperture lens. You can make the corners darker than the center by using "Curves", which duplicates the effects of the zoom lens, also known as Vignetting.

Vignetting is a zoom lens problem, but subjectively, it can add an extra dimension to your photograph. It creates a frame that has a "sucking effect", which will draw more attention to your central subject. You can reduce the contrast and color-saturation surrounding your main subject to help it stand out from the background clutter.

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