10 Photoshop Features You Must NEVER Use! + Better Options
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- čas přidán 26. 06. 2024
- Let’s take a look at the 10 worst features that you should avoid using in Photoshop. While most of these might have made sense in earlier versions, they are either outdated or have way better alternatives. In this video, we’ll also learn the right techniques or tools to replace these ten. I hope this video helps. Thank you so much for watching :)
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00:00 In This Episode
00:51 Feature 1 - Sharpen Tool
03:09 Feature 2 - Dodge and Burn Tools
05:21 Feature 3 - Sponge Tool
07:15 Photoshop Live Workshop
07:55 Feature 4 - Levels (vs. Curves)
11:11 Feature 5 - Photoshop 3D
12:12 Feature 6 - Single Row and Column Marquee Tool
13:11 Feature 7 - Auto Contrast, Color, and Tone
15:16 Feature 8 - Blur and Sharpen Filters
17:36 Feature 9 - Background Eraser Tool
19:39 Feature 10 - Magnetic Lasso Tool
21:24 What Do You Think?
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So who are you? Team Curves or Team Levels? 🔥
First one to say levels is gay!
@@DujeJonjic Levels. But again, only bc it's just a little quicker workflow and I'm lazy. Curves reqs a little more attention to detail/fine-tuning. Yes Curves is a better, more precise result. But when Levels gives adequate result, that's good enough. Fewer controls = quicker.
@@jazzlehazzle im just joking my guy, I really dont care. But totaly get what you wanna say.
Curves are (on) another Levels!
I love curves. From WB to colour editing, to contrast editing, to even reducing colour noise!
I do only infrared, so usually I have to deal with red noise only, so I can simply take that noise out by reducing the contrast of the red colour curve!
The levels I sometimes use as a final check to see if I have enough highlights/contrast in the image.
I didn't know that the Single Row Marquee tool even existed until yesterday when Brady from the TextureLabs channel uploaded a video showing a remarkable method for creating a "Depth Waves Scan Effect". Until I saw his video, I had never seen the Single Row tool used for anything. Thanks, Unmesh!
I saw that video and was just about to post the same comment! You beat me to it ;) It's a pretty cool but niche effect.
Bahaha, glad Im not the only one
Cool but not very useful to most.
You can also use it to stretch colours from an image. Works really well with for example an aeroplane.
@@Fredrik-iz4ou i've used it to refine selections when cutting out objects that have straight upright edges for packaging.
I had even forgotten about some of those features you thought useless. How funny is that - I didn't even miss them. Thank you for sharing.
You can use the sharpen brush nondestructively. Just put an empty layer on top of the image and use the sharpen brush on that one with the "Sample All Layers" box ticked. Too much sharpening? Reduce the opacity of that layer. Same with dodge and burn an other tools of that kind. It's only destructive if you use it on the one and only image layer.
yeah but the alternatives do the same but with less steps and they are more precise and have more controls.
Yes, but the problem is that you have no controls. For example, if you paint over an area too often with the sharpening brush, you automatically produce artifacts and halos. Although you can increase the transparency of the layer afterwards, you will still be able to see these artifacts and halos, just less so. You cannot remove part of the sharpening process afterwards. You can only erase the part on the seperate layer and sharpen it again, which is a lot more work than simply using one of the methods described :)
To be honest you can use any tool nondestructive just copy the layer make it a smart object and use masks.. That's the beauty of photoshop
If it works for you, it’s the best method, for you! There’s no denying that. However, there’s a difference between decreasing the opacity, and decreasing amount, radius, and noise controls. Besides, if you sharpen too much; it will show artifacts, which opacity won’t be able to remove.
@@PiXimperfect That's all very true. I just wanted to mention that these tools can still be used non-destructively.
Probably the most succinct and helpful explanation of curves vs. levels I've ever seen. Kudos, man! Thank you!
Yeah I just never understood what curves was for so stuck with levels.
I haven't used Photoshop in almost 5 years and OMG it has changed drastically. Of course the first thing I did was go to your channel to learn everything and get caught up. I watched your videos all throughout college, even taught my professors a few things with your tips and tricks. I appreciate your videos so much, thank you for keeping me updated
Using an actual piece of sea-sponge (from a tourist souvenir from Galveston) on a wet print being developed in a literal "dark room" with dim amber lights...
"This is destructive; you can never go back"
The early Photoshop was easy to pick up by people who learned developing and printmaking the traditional way, because the tools were modeled directly on the printmaking tools. Youngsters wonder why the _dodge_ icon looks like that -- well, it's because that's what the dodging tool looks like!
A teacher in that photography class taught that a new medium starts out by imitating the old medium and then evolves to a pure form of expression for that new medium.
I think almost no "youngster" is wondering that. Just like the brush looks like a brush, the eraser looks like an eraser, the pen looks like a pen and so on everyone assumes the tools icons are shaped like the real life equivalent that inspired these. I've never had the opportunity to develop film in my life but that was still obvious.
Also, does it really matter what an icon is shaped like? The video is just discussing better alternatives to outdated tools.
There are probably more "youngsters" than you think who actually have done photography in a darkroom. And yes, photography was destructive and photoshop is not, congratulations for finding out!!
@@enricozetti Obviously it does matter what an icon is shaped like, that's why they're ICONS. It's meant to represent something without using words. If it didn't matter, we'd could just use random shapes for each tool but that wouldn't make any immediate connections with what the tool might do, hence, the paintbrush. The dodge tool makes sense to someone coming from developing and printmaking the traditional way but for someone who's grown up where film is all but a distant memory, it doesn't make an immediate connection. The only obvious connection you probably made with the dodge tool is that it must look like some kind of tool that is used for "dodging" ... but the actual connection to how it was used outside of digital work I doubt was as obvious unless you'd studied it.
@redemptusrenatus5336 icon design is relevant, but I think it's not relevant in the way you are assuming. Examples would be countless. The pen tool is a stylographic pen that is very uncommon, magnifying glasses are also uncommon, i've never had those U shaped magnets nor have i ever made a lasso and what the hell is a polygonal lasso? Even the fact that the arrow is an arrow is not that straightforward if you think about it.. no one uses arrows to point at things.. hourglasses were a very common icon to indicate wait even though it's a long gone technology, and now we have these spinning circles, are they some allegorical representation of a clock? probably. Why is the turn-off icon that circle with the line on top? Why is bluetooth icon shaped that way? There are surely reasons, you can google it if you want but i don't really care that much. All of these designs are fine. The fact that almost anyone is using these objects has never been a problem. We have learned what they do and that's fine.
I've never seen any young people having difficulties in using these commands or the software in general. Quite the opposite, in fact. It is way more common to meet a very skilled young photoshop artist who has never entered a darkroom than to find an experienced film developer who is also a very skilled photoshop artist. It's two different tools, after all, and what you do and the way you do it is different even if there is a correspondence of certain concepts.
I personnally use levels and curves, my point : levels are like buying a sandwich (quick and easy), curves are like cooking yourself (the ones who love and know how to do it can go further)
I love the Magnetic Lasso tool and still using it. Sometimes we have images that need to select every curve of edges. Like jewelry images; they have so many small curves that automatic selection can not catch and is totally impossible with pen tool. in tat case, magnetic lasso tool does a fantastic job but of course you've to use this carefully and with full concentration.
In agreement it's useful
Most tools like the dodge and burn tools, sponge tool and so on, it seems like they existed before smart objects were a thing
Yeah - I wonder how many of these options (like Sharpen or whatever) were left in to support old actions. Take them away and people who have been using their favorite Actions for 20 years would be enraged. I think they could hide the stupid redundant tools from the menu but still let them work with Actions though, maybe?
Basically the answer to pretty much every "how do I do X in Photoshop" is "layers."
When they were introduced back in the day (I think it was Photoshop 3.0?) nobody knew how fundamentally they would change *everything* in image manipulation.
Yes, Photoshop 3. I was there! When there was still a printed manual in the box.
I remember using layers in Paintshop Pro (v 5 I think) . . . which was . . . free!
I'm always learning new techniques from you - thanks so much!
I have been a digital graphic artist for over 40 years. I began scanning on room-sized machines like Crosfield, Hell, & Magnascan.
I have been using Photoshop for color correction & editing since version 2, and I have NEVER used Levels. It’s like using an out-of-control sledgehammer. Curves allows finesse and control not possible with Levels.
Excellent! Learning a lot today. Thanks
After Adobe changed its privacy policy, saying that it can have access to all your work and even monitor whether what you are doing is legal or not, I stopped using Adobe programs. I've never seen such a harsh invasion of privacy. They claim that they will use the arts of all users to feed their AI. Does not make sense. Inspection can be automatic or manual. If the automation suspects that you are doing something illegal, it will trigger an alert and someone will check what you are doing. I work with some confidentiality contracts and have completely lost trust in the company. Acceptance of the new terms is mandatory. There is no exit. I'm migrating to Affinity.
Well said
Thanks! I've now learned a few new techniques!
You are a great teacher!! There are so many talented people out there but the way you explain things are unique. You make very complicated things so easy to understand and this is a gift not so many people have. Thx a lot.
WOW 🤩I'm always learning new techniques from you. Thank you so much
Single row selection was useful for wire removal in film. Like Terminator2 were Arnold jumps his bike into a dry canal. That scene required removing the wires the bike was hanging from. An early version of PS was used to do the trick.
Thank you!
Infact, I've learned so much about using curves from you! :)
I cannot be a photographer without you
It’s your effort that makes you who you are! Thanks so much :)
Just when I think Umesh is talking about a feature I've known about for years, I still learn something new about it! This is one of the few CZcams channels where I actually click Like before watching the video, because I know it's always informative.
Very nice explanation about curve vs level
Great video! I miss being able to create reflective water with Photoshop's 3D functionality. I learned how from the very video you showed for it here and afterwards I added a reflective body of water to just about everything. I've learned other ways of creating reflective water from other of your videos after Photoshop's 3D went away but I still remember fondly of learning how to with Photoshop's 3D.
I was aware of all those tools and I just realized after watching this that I had not been using them. I was very surprised to learn that the curves method did everything levels did and more. Thanks a bunch!
Thank you so much for this incredible insight and tutorial. 🤩💯
Wow man, great tips and tricks, thanks for sharing!!
your videos are so easy to understand but packed with information, just a masterclass on tutorials
Absolutely great.
You've pointed well.
I prefer the CURVE TOOL than levels too. With th CURVE Tool I have more control.
Thank you, Umesh
Fantastic Video! I am always looking for better, faster ways to do things.
*I finally understand why you so much love curves, I'm totally sold!, but I personally think in simple case scenarios, I'll still use levels, except, as illustrated, I need to adjust different parts. But then again, your explanations makes a lot more sense. Thanks for always sharing*
Hey, I use the Dodge and Burn Tools non-destructively by creating and new layer then do a 50% Gray fill, change the blend mode of the layer to overlay, then just use the Dodge or Burn tool.
Yes i use also with 50% grey layer
You can just use the brush tool with black and white. It will have the exact same effect since it’s a gray layer.
It’s work perfectly
This a really helpful. Thanks for sharing 👍🏻
So many of these questionable tools are in Photoshop for backwards compatibility - they are the original tools created in 1990 and just never removed since it's easier to carry them forward rather than re-educate the user base. The logic back then was to add features, never to remove them. Just listen to Unmesh talk about the 3D tools going away and it's easy to understand why.
Levels has been a crutch for me for so long. And channels seemed too intimidating. I’m gonna try and change my ways. Thanks for another enlightening video!
I can't believe I'm going to add a comment....but I've worked as a professional retoucher for years, and I use all of these tools-often not in the way he was showing, but they are useful. And I work none destructively-this includes the sharpen tool (cleans up mask areas that are too soft, so they don't need to be redrawn). I also use burn and dodge tools when creating soft light 50% grey burn dodge layers-much better than using the brush, which tends to create saturation layers.
As far as curves and levels go, I'm on both teams! Using levels is very, very useful, especially when I'm cleaning up the whites without affecting darker colors-it's much easier than correcting it in curves.
Sorry about that!
You are one amazingly knowledgeable person. You really know your stuff and explain it well.. I've learned quite a bit of advanced stuff from you thru many of your videos. Thank you for sharing your expertise. ❤
I sure do love this channel. epic tips and tricks.
Great video. I always wondered about the Single Row selection tool, why is it even there, but I admit I have used it in some very specific cases at times. I would love to see a follow up video on why were these tools added to Photoshop in the first place, back when Photoshop was a lot more limited and trying to emulate tools used on film photography.
I just learned a lot of useful tricks, thank you!
Dodge and Burn on Grey Layer with Soft Light is perfect :)
As is black and/or white soft paint brush on a gray layer with soft light.
PixImperfect has a video explaining how you may not need the grey fill in the Dodge and Burn layer.
Good point. You can use a transparent layer too.
Thanks for showing these. I would have never known about them! Sorry I missed you at Mike's Camera in Colorado Springs!
Great video Unmesh. You defend your choices well and never say you are the end all be all.
Thanks again! Another great video!
The magnetic tool gives me more control to refine a selection made automatically with another tool. Those tools (object selection tool, quick selection tool, etc) are useful to make a selection quickly but are far from perfect to deliver a clean job.
Im a newbie. You're the man. Thanks.
Well done. You have changed my mind on levels
wow, I learned a lot in the last 22 minutes. I'm very thankful. Greetings from the Netherlands
I found your video incredibly helpful. I use Photoshop almost daily in my job as a Marketing Associate and one time I was tasked to remove the background from a band's photo. I spent hours using magnetic lasso to crop out the background. Not anymore!
Thank you for this tutorial.
One thing that I want to mention is Content-Aware Fill (Edit -> Fill). It is outdated and replaced by a newer tool (Edit -> Content-Aware Fill) and that tool has a better output.
Your editing skills are next level. This was so informative and fun to watch! ❤❤❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Agree with all except levels. Thanks Umesh.
Levels is useful, especially for beginners. It's a simple "one purpose tool", and make an easy bridge with the basics settings of Lightroom. Of course, you can use Curves instead, but Curves can often become Curses in inexperienced hands.
I must say I did everything the "secure" way for years, but after noticing that I hardly have to undo anything anymore, I am totally fine with Dodge & Burn etc. - it's just faster.
If I do heavy edits I just use the "snapshot" feature, so I can go back to the "before" anytime, weakening an effect later on. When I edit a photo for an hour, maybe I create 3-5 of these snapshots. Especially important after changing the composition or using liquify etc, because such effects will of course make it impossible to revert back to an older state.
I never use these tools neither but used them when I was a beginner in retouching 😁 Now I always prefer to have full control and non destructive process.
Some of those features like Auto Color and Levels are just quick ways to check if your image needs a color adjustment (Auto color) or a contrast adjustment (levels). I know how to use curves but Auto Color and Levels can quickly tell me that my image needs an adjustment to improve it. I always do any adjustments on a copied layer so I don't do anything destructive. And there are ways to adjust Auto Color and Auto Tone etc. Go to the edit menu where you will see the "fade auto color" and or "fade auto tone" it's only available immediately after you use Auto Color and or Auto Tone or Levels. There would be several ways to dial those effects back without being destructive, because your doing this on a copied layer for starters. One of the ways to dial back Auto Color is after you use Auto Color, you then can go to the Edit menu and it says "Fade Auto Color" or you could just reduce the opacity of the layer you did your adjustment, then flatten. Or you could do an inverted mask and paint the adjustment where you wanted it. Sometimes Auto Color is good for a quick check to see if your image is too warm yellow or too red or pink skin tones, whatever, Auto Color will make the image too blue if your image was too yellow., it's telling you to adjust your image, it needs less yellow. Now regarding using Levels, sometimes I like to use levels as a quick check to see if I need to darken the blacks or lighten the whites. You can quickly see if you have space in front of the histogram on the right end (whites) or left end (blacks) that there is room to create more contrast when there is space on the left or the far right. Sometimes I'll think I'm finished with an edit and I've been surprised when I looked at levels and saw that I needed to drag in the sliders on both sides a little because of the space on either side (in front and the back). Improves my image so much. Visually, it's easier and quicker to see if you need to do this by looking at levels and looking for the space before the whites and behind the blacks. It's kind of like when you use one of the presets in Raw and dial it back a little but it did improve your image when you thought it looked good before but it looks better after you use the preset even if it's just 10% of the effect. It's like the thing you didn't know your image needed until you checked the levels or added the preset.
Back in the day I got frustrated with the magnetic lasso tool and gave up. It was sort of a deterrent from using Photoshop as I found it too time consuming and difficult. Now that there are better tools, it makes it much easier and I'm enjoying learning Photoshop via your beginners course.
I've never thought of dodging and burning with black and white on another layer, I'm going to try that! Thanks for the video.
50% gray layer Soft Light soft round bruch black or white (or gray). You can also use color if you want to get adventurous with making, say, brown shadows, etc.
@@JacksonCarson Thanks! This works beautifully!
You win, you just cured me of my levels habit. Another great video!
Thank you!
Muchas gracias.
Holly Molly, I will definitely need to try the Curves now
Great video as usual!! I really liked your previous tutorial on 3D contrast using 3D in Photoshop; once Adobe discontinued it, I was quite disappointed, as it became part of one of my main workflows.
Any advice on how it would be possible to achieve the same effect in Photoshop now without having to use Substance, Blender or similar softwares?
I've advocated for Curves for many years. I really don't see why someone uses Levels at all. But I never tried the Auto curves, interesting! Also, great tip about the Adjustment Brush Tool, I didn't notice it!
Dodge and burns tools 3:23 levels 7:56
I often use the blur & sharpen tools when editing masks directly, like if the edge of a selection needs to be more or less crisp. Same with burn & dodge.
definitly I love yours videos. I'am following you since a long time and your indian accent allows me, I'am french, to anderstand every thing you say. But the best thing is that in every video you explain all your action.
Many thanks Umesh and congratulations for your collaboration whith Adobe.
I started in photoshop 4 but realised pretty quickly that the best tool to learn was the pen tool. I still use it because it is clean but the selection tools these days are usually sufficient. The lack of control with the old tools were substandard back when but the smart tools now have made them obsolete.
I think there are caveats for all of them, not to be incorporated into a work routine but, as a means to some specific thing or moment, for example, the sharpen tool is a quick way to lightly sharpen, areas that got slightly out of focus (for example when you merge pictures but photoshop messes the focus, or with the new generative).
the dodge, burn, and sponge are the same and limited by shadows highlights or mid-tones, to do the same you need to create a new layer set it to 50% grey on overlay use the blend if, and switch between dodge and burn with the "Alt" key. it's a quick-fix method you can sometimes use and is right there.
The levels I use mostly to set white and black points while checking with the "Alt " key, an easier menu to use in my honest opinion.
The auto adjustments are sometimes, good for checking, but sometimes the colour or white and black points are off and you don't notice because you're working too long on an image.
I use the single row/column marquee tool to make single lines stroke! You basically select with the single row marquee tool, then add a stroke, and that's how I end up with a single, thin line. Useful for different designs in my opinion.
ooh I have a VERY old version of photoshop (Cs5 before they went subscription) so I dont have anything new or fancy.. so .. i'm all for finding fun ways of using the things! This was informative and insightful!
The Blur/blur more (and sharpen counterparts) are there for historical purposes and compatibility with ancient actions. Also, for photo-printing very often you get better results if you just use blur before you hit print.
Hey Adobe: looking to "lighten" the byte burden of Ps, start with these 10 Ps features. Great vid!
great Video. My guess would be that this are old functions from way past and Adobe just did not bother to remove them.
Great job!
You can use the sharpen tool then go to edit and fade the sharpen. I find that very useful and quick when I want to add just a small amount of sharpen to a part of the photo.
You're right about Levels, however, if you know exactly what you want to do, the more limited Levels option is cleaner if you don't want to use the extra "cluttering" features of curves. But sure, they could remove the tool and include its map to curves.
Always used Curves over Levels since the 90's. For me it offers up a more user friendly tool over Levels. Over the years it's come to my attention that 'good' High End retouchers in the Creative Advertising space use Curves over Levels too. My pet hate is when people work destructively in PS! I see all too often - Sloppy. On a positive note, nice work fella!
Great job bro....!
Level works with numeric values, which is really important in some cases. So although Curves and Levels overlap, they are not 100% interchangeable
Many of the tools and filters are there, because they represent basic image manipulation techniques/algorithms. And sometimes this is what is needed, nothing more. If I only need to brighten the image temporarily, to make shadows visible (for spotting in my case), I use a simple Levels Adjustment layer to switch it on and off as needed (same to darken the image). It always depends. Additionally, having lots of layers and masks increases the file size and slows down saving the image - and it counts with 80 MP (or larger) files on many machines. With modern Macs, where SSD storage is at a premium, many have only limited storage space (and cloud storage isn't always a solution for that either). So sometimes simple destructive methods can just do what is needed. But overall it is good to know the alternatives (this field or area blur was news to me and could be helpful at times).
Awesome thanks 🙏 love from Nepal
Can you please do a video about the new terms of service that seem to be a big issue with Adobe right now?
Thanks for these gems
I use autocolor to check my work. Sometimes, a miracle happens. Sometimes I like the effect but it's to strong. So, I create a layer, make the adjustment and fade with opacity. Of course, there are other ways, but it's something I'm used to.
Hi Unmesh! I've watched you videos for years and have learned so much from you. I still go back and rewatch them from time to time when I can't remember how to do something that's not in my normal workflow. In this video you say there's no reason to use Levels. I think I started using levels to create a slight vignette based on your advice (or it could have been someone else). I only use it in some of my photos, but what I do is move the lower slider (output levels) from 255 to around 220 and then with a very large soft brush (in black) I highlight the subject. So my question is this: Should I be doing this a different/better way? I appreciate that you do say "keep doing it, if it works for you" but I was wondering if you could address this specific use of a Levels layer mask.
Thanks man!
~Max
The single row/column tool has been used by web developers to create background colors/gradients for websites. It is more efficient to have such a small file and then repeat it across the page to create gradient features in backgrounds. The shift toward cleaner web design has made this of limited use now, but that is who really benefitted from the tools.
Thank you
I use the dodge and burn tools regularly to finetune masks, often together with the blur tool.
Single row/column tool is useful when editing or working with UI elements. For example, making adjustments to a screenshot of a mobile app.
I was set to get mad, but I haven't used any of these in 20 years.
Ι disagree about the sharpen tool. It's way more fast than anything else and "fade" button provides control.
There are photoshop users who just want the basics, they would only use the software to crop, and lighten or darken their holiday snaps. Tools like dodge and burn make sense for them.
And Sharpen, etc. Yeah - there are tons of people who don't need the power of Curves on a SmartObject at 30% opacity to blah blah blah. (I'm not one of them. Give me all the power, please .. but there are people who just want to open, auto-levels, save.
I do not disagree. Great tutorial. Thanks a lot 😊
Perfect ❤
The big point of this video is "it doesn't make sense for someone who seeks quality, not productivity", because almost everything you mentioned is less productive in work where it requires a level of precision and quality not as fine as working on photos (in my case, texturing for games).
i am a fan and really apreciate your teaching,,, i was trying to copy a abastract pattern from a document or image but i couldnt get a good idea how to do so,, i was hoping if you can make a video on how to copy any abstract line pattern from an image
Nice video! I don’t think the sharpen tool is that useless. While it’s non-destructive, managing too many layers is annoying for some of us. They should improve it and make it like the smart filter for a win-win solution.
Thanks!