Notes from Photoshop community workshop:

Photo editing

Image adjustment methods

Basic Adjustments

• image > adjustments > brightness/contrast

More Control (visualize amount of dark, light, and mid-tones)

• image > adjustments > curves
• image > adjustments > levels

Colour Adjustments

• image > adjustments > hue/saturation
• image > adjustments > colour balance
• image > adjustments > replace colour

Layer Adjustments (inserts layer that adjusts all layers below, can be edited)

• window > adjustments > (select type of adjustment)

Masks

Used to select only a selection of a layer or folder to be displayed

Window > Mask

• create a selection using the lasso tool of the area to show
• click 'mask' button on the top of the mask window to add new pixel mask
• hide areas by using the brush tool in black
• show areas by using the brush tool in white
• use feather in the mask window to have masked image blend into the background

Actions

Saves a series of steps to be repeated on other images

Window > Actions

• click 'create new action' button on the bottom of the action window
• click 'record' button on the bottom of the action window
• perform edits to image
• when finished, click 'stop' button
• click the 'play' button on an image you wish to repeat those step on