Doodling

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The very best way to learn Photoshop, once you understand the basics well enough to find your way around, is to doodle. I'll show you how.
     You open an image in Photoshop, you do whatever it needs, and then you look at your watch. Hmmm....nothing to do for an hour. In the example I'll use, I opened a black and white image of three peaches. They didn't need any sharpening, any tonal changes, no editing of any kind. Open. Optimize. Close. Boring. Yawn.
      Time for some major doodling. I made a copy of the peaches image, and then looked for things to try.		 next
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Color		 I've never tried the Wooden Frame action in the Actions palette. Chose the action, and hit the play button. Presto Chango. Good grief.
      Might as well add some color. Quick mask, then Image > Adjust > Hue/Saturation. Each peach was masked separately, and the resulting selection was saved as an alpha channel in the Channels palette with an identifying name. I'm may need to reselect them individually, later.
     I don't really like that frame. And this is kind of boring. Let's see if we can be a little more creative.
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