Photo Editing Tips, Tricks & Fixes: Volume Seventeen Vol 17

A Practical Photoshop Companion from BDM’s Creative Series

Photo Editing Tips, Tricks & Fixes: Volume Seventeen is a focused guide for photographers and digital artists who want to get more from Adobe Photoshop. Published in 2019 by Black Dog Media, this entry in BDM’s Creative Series takes a tutorial-led approach, moving from fundamental tools and interface controls to more ambitious editing and compositing projects. Across 160 pages of expert Photoshop guides, the emphasis stays practical: understand the controls, follow the steps, and see how the techniques apply to real images.

Start with the Photoshop Workspace 🖥️

Early chapters introduce the main interface, menus, toolbar, and keyboard shortcuts, helping readers build confidence before moving into selections, layers, and masks. There are clear explanations of adjustment layers, curves and levels, quick mask mode, content-aware fill and scale, and other core editing concepts that underpin almost everything else in Photoshop.

Techniques for Retouching, Colour, and Creative Effects 🎨

The volume then expands into practical photo editing. You’ll find guidance on the healing brush, clone stamp, brushes and eraser, paint bucket, gradient fill, pen tool, and paths. Later sections cover exposure correction, colour and saturation adjustments, colour replacement, graduated filters, soft-focus effects, raw file processing, lens distortion correction, and panorama stitching.

Project-Based Learning for Real Images 📷

Projects include enhancing landscapes, underwater scenes, selective colour effects, multi-exposure lighting, Lego portraits, infrared processing, pencil sketch effects, little planets, replacing dull skies, and an introduction to 3D art with Vue and Daz 3D. These projects show how different tools work together rather than treating each feature as an isolated trick.

Who Is This Volume For?

It suits photographers, digital artists, and hobbyists who want structured Photoshop practice. Beginners will appreciate the step-by-step foundation, while more experienced users can dip into specific techniques and project ideas. The guides are based on Photoshop CS6 and CC, so the material is best suited to readers working with those versions or comfortable adapting older workflows to newer releases.

Why This Edition Still Has Value

Good editing principles outlast software updates. This volume explains why selections, masks, layers, curves, and colour adjustments matter, giving readers a conceptual grounding they can carry into different versions of Photoshop. For anyone building a reference library of practical photo-editing guides, Volume Seventeen offers a broad, hands-on collection from an established UK creative publisher.