13 Photoshop Blunders Beginners Keep Making - And How to Fix Them!

[@PerBirkhaug]

Thanks for the great content! I've really learned a lot 😊

[@zbruch66]

you are the best PS teacher, man!

[@ilaka1556]

Thanks!

[@Cre8tiveWoman]

ADMIN HERE: On behalf of Unmesh Dinda, thanks for your contribution and for watching!

[@MarkFuriniArt]

Best teacher on YT! Are we sure you are no A.I.? You're too perfect!

[@AsadAli-vw5xi]

AI learn from this guy

[@djzlatan1gh]

Your channel is a whole university for pro and beginners. its been 5 years and i still get something new.

[@nash5936]

One important fact to remember when using control + shift + v paste is that both the documents need to be of the exact same dimension. Or else the file you copied will end up in the centre of the document. This also works in illustrator between multiple artboards in the same document.

[@tashitsetennorden6773]

This here is a wealth of knowledge. Just straight to the point. Respect.

[@marklutnes935]

I'm proud to say I still make all of these mistakes on any given day....usually on Thursdays. Something I am still not good about is labeling layers. I think I'll remember but 40 layers later, or a month later, I don't. The great thing is that when they're labeled, you can right click with the Move Tool anywhere in the image and Photoshop shows you a list of every layer that is immediately underneath your pointer. Then when I see the layer I'm looking for, "Sailboat" for example, I can click on the name of the layer in the list, in this case "Sailboat" and Photoshop takes me right to the sailboat layer in the Layer Panel. If I haven't named the layers I'll see "Layer 16, Layer 16 Copy 1, Layer 16 Copy 2, Layer 19, etc" which is of no help at all. Also, I'm going to try using Pro Photo instead of Adobe RGB. I know it wasn't one of the tips in this video but you reminded me that it's there. Thanks for an important video again!

[@dirkheyer7420]

Danke!

[@Cre8tiveWoman]

ADMIN HERE: On behalf of Unmesh Dinda, thanks for your contribution and for watching!

[@dwiggang4290]

Great tips. Even more secure is to not just "Save" manually, but to "Save as..." periodically using a slightly different filename, usually by adding a version number. That way if the failure (e.g. Ps crash, power outage, ...) occurs during the save you are not at risk of losing the file altogether. You may loose this version, but the previous version is still on the disk untouched.

[@ieatthighs]

lose*

[@dt..retired8462]

Umesh is undoubtedly the best, most articulate and easily understood PS presenter on KZbin. Thanks for all your superb videos.

[@byoregon1]

Really helpful, as usual. I’ve been burned by that first one multiple times. Never knew that’s how it worked. Thanks!

[@SathishKumar-zq7mc]

Unmesh, your videos are super useful. I'm learning Photoshop by watching your tutorial.

[@alexandra-jr2oz]

thx so much again! ctrl+shift+V duuuhhh! lol where that has been my whole life lol and a smart object is smart because it has a lot of data - now i'll remember to use that also ...and the sample all layers! really? how did i miss out on these things doing PS this long? you're my champion!

[@MShahidShafiq]

Those are very nice tips for beginners :) I've become a pro watching you over the years

[@paulmarquis8386]

I really enjoy your channel. I've been using Photoshop since 3.0 and it's amazing how much there is to learn. I find your friendly and enthusiastic presentation really great. I come back for every new video.

[@SWORLD1991]

Lovely stuff. Knowing smart objects in where it fits in the workflow was very useful.

[@22497andrew]

Great advice! I learned a lot of these from making mistakes over the years. But glad to see you are helping other designers learn faster than I did. 😅

[@Johnthetripper]

Thanks Unmesh, this is perfect for new people like me. Also working through you entire PS for beginners course.

[@keendnb]

This is priceless info, the most valuable I think would be the smart layers conversion to maintain resolution, it's easy to forget that one 👌

[@AlkuntarGaming]

These tips are AMAZING! Like always, every video you make is packed with gold!

[@scatterbug]

I learned some things, and was reminded of some others. Thanks AGAIN for a super informative video!

[@restoringhistoryinphotos]

Thank you for these tips, I learned a lot and realized how I can make my items even better!

[@virgo47]

I'm using PS a lot recently for my home project icons and I often struggle with it. These were great tips, I was happy to know some already - but also to learn a few new ones. Thanks!

[@MahbubNur-m4d]

Helpful video. Wish more will come on this particular series

[@mr.w7803]

I’ve been using photoshop for nearly 15 years (off and on) and I leaned a couple things. Thanks!!

[@RJ-Creations]

Thanks again for all your great videos. They make me happy every time. Wish everybody has the positive vibe like you.

[@brucekennedy5274]

Such a good teacher. Even knowing all these, it’s a pleasure watching you explain it all so well.

[@Thisath_R_Harischandra]

We can learn photoshop and your teaching skills as well. Really Sir Unmesh what you gave to us, that's brilliant. Money can't buy those things. Perfect teacher of all time .Thanks

[@jeremiahlyleseditor437]

Excellent Tutorial. Covered a few things I miss. Thanks

[@dunnymonster]

Definitely good advise to periodically click " Save " while working. Many times I've had PS crash after spending hours doing a conposite only to have to start it from scratch all over again 🥺

[@pearljangraphicsdesigner8895]

Great Tutorial as usual! Thanks for Sharings these info / Tips.

[@XtremeLinkProduction]

Awesome rundown!! Fav go to channel. Hey Umesh, we need you to do a similar 13th mistakes video on the remove tool and Photoshops Generative fill. Maybe we can ask subscribers to send examples 🤔

[@ddphotograph]

This is great, i now kno why smart objects are used , thank you

[@AnnemarieChamberlin]

This video is chop full of goodies. Thank you for all the helpful tips. You're making me look good at work. As always, the quality is top notch. You're channel is fantastic. Request.... Would you mind doing a video about cropping images or graphics in PS? I am on struggle street trying to find something to help me with this.

[@christamiller339]

I looooove your videos! It's the best content! I've learned A LOT! Thank you❤

[@Mudly71]

Thank you for your time and guidance.❤

[@kapurar]

Thanks for some great tips!

[@hoisin75]

A persistent bug with the new gradient tool when using it on multiple canvases - it saves out solid. I have to switch to classic gradient instead which isn’t as dynamic to work with. Love your vids

[@vincentferrari]

Biggest mistake I made for a long time was using the Brightness and Contrast adjustment as opposed to the levels dialog. It’s amazing how much better your work looks once you understand the levels dialog!

[@binayasapkota9659]

I have followed this guy for 2-3 years and didn't expect he was an Indian, but when I saw his oldest video, I was shocked. He is an Indian OMG. And I was from Nepal. Lots of love from Nepal.

[@xbirdyxx]

This is super helpful! Thank you!

[@CriispyHere]

I found you just today and I already learn a lot. My problem was that I start few years ago my digital adventure but with Gimp. Now after I used to Gimp is really difficult for me to learn everything from scratch or even watch every PS for beginners tutorial because the are boring for me. This kind of videos - mix of tips are helping me a lot!

[@plendil10mg]

this man helps me a lot in my editing journey in photoshop, thanks a lot❤

[@AboutTech622]

Congratulation Bro on 5M............................Big fan

[@arthur3038]

Unmesh, your videos are super useful. Always something to learn. How great or actually self-evident it would be if every layer instead of the relatively meaningless automatic labels, for example after a Command+Option+Shift +E - would contain a term ideally predetermined by me but at least something like 'COSE'. Or even after I have applied a filter to a layer, the name of the filter would be indexed For example, after a Liquify, Blur filter, Retoch4me in the label, if I haven't already written something in there myself, there would be a 'liq', a 'blu' or 'R4b' / 'R4d&b' in the label. Possibly numbered if a more complex image filter was used in several layers. (lq1, liq2, liq3) What would also seem helpful to me: If the labeling was kept generally simple you wouldn't have to poke around in the field to make it writable. One option could be that I can set PS to prompt me with a small window.

[@Coxiangamer]

Thanks Unmesh! Found some mistakes I always do & learned how to not do it.

[@sanketpashte3347]

I feel happy to follow you from so long..I don't do any of thise mistakes..Thank you sir❤️

[@melissal7984]

...I've been watching you for years, I just noticed that I wasn't subscribed to your channel....Just subscribed! Love your videos!

[@rocketmanspeeding]

love you. You made me learn to love Photoshop

[@lakindudesilva7251]

Thankyou so much this is very helpful 😍❤️🙏

[@mohunrr]

Having been using Photoshop for more than a decade now. However, felt the same way as you are that it is quite possible I do commit some mistakes done by beginners.

[@bedouga]

Great stuff! You can re-apply adjusts to layers via the menu IF you apply them to a Smart Object, they appear as Smart Filters.

[@longboardfella5306]

Thanks Unmesh. For Tip #1 - I select all layers and then right click and choose “flatten all layers” - this does the same thing as the Ctrl Alt Shift E - but you end up with a single merged layer which takes less storage than adding a merged duplicate layer using your approach

[@Siansonea]

If you do that, though, you lose the ability to modify any of the elements individually. If you're absolutely certain that you aren't going to want to do that, then flattening is fine, but it is a destructive process. The upshot of this entire video is "work nondestructively", so that you can always go back and change something if you need another version or you want to use one of the assets for something else, or even just match settings for an effect in another image. You never know when you'll say "I wish I saved a layered version of this image", so it's a good idea to ALWAYS save a layered version alongside a flattened composite.

[@shakilshaikh1178]

Very good teaching, thanks.

[@MisterFilOfficial]

Mistakes I've made: - Didn't use smart filters. - Used to think the "Auto" button on Camera Raw was a good option. - Always wrote something inside the prompt of Generative Fill when sometimes is better to leave it blank. - Use the Burn Tool and Smudge Tool instead of other way more effective editing tools. - Rely on Magic Wand Tool instead of other way more effective selection tools. - Didn't use Alt + Right mouse button + drag to change size and hardness of brush tools. - Didn't watch PiXimperfect videos.

[@kriswylder3153]

"Using the eraser for God knows what reason." I laughed out loud!

[@wolfdd]

Thanks for these useful tips. Regarding the Photoshop and not Beta point for daily work, it has bothered me for a long time that when an image is transferred from Lightroom to Photoshop, Beta always starts. I haven't yet found a way to change this. That's why I first save in Lightroom as a 16-bit TIF and then open it in Photoshop.

[@zirotilc]

almost your tip is i'm using already in my work and for how many years in using photoshop. some is new to me

[@kieulannguyen1193]

Thank you for your advices. Great video. ❤❤❤

[@Medicwordoftheday]

Really appreciate the copy and paste tutorial

[@halall8840]

謝謝！

[@AllAtOnceCollective]

Great video Unmesh! I do feel like some of those could be avoided at once by using smart objects (Like 6 for example).

[@princejnvian]

I am watching your videos from 2020 learnt a lot ❤ these all things I know thanks sir❤

[@tamilkoreanvlogs]

I saw your videos and I got confident to learn things about photoshop. As a result, I bought a adobe license 2 days before 😍

[@rreonarudo]

Amazing as always, Unmesh.

[@treasurehunter8442]

Bro thanks very much for all that videos. Learn a lot from You ! Well done. Great knowledge! 👏👏

[@justiceforashgoton4427]

i learned so much! thank you for this!!! gonna save this

[@ashokbheel6910]

Sir you are really amazing teacher❤❤❤

[@mohsinfareed1797]

Great video as you are the greatest man of all time.

[@the_shutternerd]

Superb, as always!

[@myronachtman4304]

Excellent material, Unmesh. In my opinion, the biggest mistake beginners make is NOT working with a properly calibrated monitor. When this is the case, all the time spent working with images in Photoshop is essentially useless, because none of the colors are right no matter how hard they try to fix them. Imagine someone doing construction and using a tape measure where every foot marked on the tape measure was actually only 11.9 inches. How many of their construction projects would turn out correctly? None of them! 😢

[@ShiningStarStudios]

Oh my goodness, Unmesh! I had no idea about the first one! 🤯 I couldn't figure out for the life of me what was going on a few months ago with my background not saving correctly. I thought PS was broken and had to scrap my entire design bc it wasn't working for my client.

[@christopherandmayafkityes1136]

You are an excellent teacher! Thank you for making these. I'm also digging into Ae. Any teachers you recommend?

[@chipcurry]

Excellent video, just the kind of stuff I seek

[@mifyitaad]

The annoying thing with Photoshop Beta is my PC and Macbook make it the default PS Version and even changing the file settings isn't helping. So I tried it couple of times in the weekend and deinstalled it by Monday morning.

[@Si-Al-Ti]

10:22 i remember that years ago resolution was maintained for layers even when resizing and transforming, this probably was before smart objects. Can’t really understand the why they reserved it only for smart objects.

[@RipamPaul]

A huge mistake that I have made several time is when saving a file as pdf and not being able to go back to psd again even when I have never closed photoshop in between. P.S.: Huge fan. Learning and recommending photoshop from you and to my friends since at least 7-8 years.

[@Md.SobahanHossain]

I hope Its was a wel helful turorial for me n as a beginner too much. Thank you man

[@jeaaan461]

I'm not going to lie, at first I thought I might be doing something wrong but it turns out I'm not, hahaha. I can tell that I've watched your tutorials for 6 years now and have learned a lot and I'm grateful for it.

[@shahidkamal1309]

amazing Tips. thanks dear

[@angelbear_og]

Eraser tool -- you had me howling! 🤣

[@nmelcam1]

About mistake 8. "Not Converting To Smart Objects" their is an issue with Hi Res images. I have a 50MP camera and the issue with photoshop is the .psd file size limit. After I edit everything I have to change almost all smart objects to rasterized layers because if I do not, the file size will exceed 2GB after 2 Smart Objects, even if I create a Smart Object within another (as you showed in an old video to reduce the amount of smart objects (the amount is reduced, but the file size does not change) then PS wants to save as .psb (Large Document Format). It's about time that Adobe adds compresion to .psd so that high megapixel cameras can save in psd with multiple smart objects. This is mainly true as data always goes up in size. Most likely by 2030 no camera file would be able to be saved as psd because of the file sizes. It's time Adobe started to work on this issue or psd file format will become obsolete in a few years.

[@tanveerhurra3102]

Thanks man!! you are doing a great job

[@mdomorfarouk]

Thank you vaiya 🥰

[@ushinayee64]

You are a star thank you so much

[@KarelComa]

Man you are the BEST!

[@AG_before]

How did you see the image preview in the folder on the .PSD file?!! Is that just a Mac thing? 15:30 Great video as always, by the way. Can't believe I missed the copy/paste trick!

[@CmdrTomalak]

Nice tip-vid! Thanks!

[@jmdjanitorial]

This video helped me! 👍

[@Explore-PK]

Thank you sir very informative video

[@waynelytton7517]

My personal opinion is Adobe should remove the eraser tool completely

[@obi-wankenobi5411]

Yeah. I have been using ps since 2015. I genuinely don't remember ever using the erasure.

[@YanaCrystally]

Not really! It is very handy for drawing 😜

[@GachaRobin]

^ although I genuinely don't know why you would ever use PS for drawing.

[@AnnKilpatrick]

Useful, thankyou

[@tareklarbi7168]

Thank you such a good content 🙏

[@iTurnPeopleIntoArt]

Great video! Reminded me to set my autosave to 5 minutes instead of the default of 10. The mistake that I make is when I go to open a file in Photoshop by going to File < Open and I accidentally click "Browse in Bridge" -- an app that I don't use at all and don't have installed. But if you accidentally click on that option, Adobe installs the app automatically! I've done this at least half a dozen times in the past few years. Of course, the way around this is to use Ctrl (Command) + O for the keyboard shortcut to open a document. On another note, hey Adobe -- can you fix this??? At least prompt us to install instead of automatically installing Bridge.

[@venkystark2862]

Thank you so much ❤

[@mdalamgirislam5458]

Congratulations for 5M❤

[@MrWestNileVirus]

Whoever came up with the idea for the Clipping Mask deserves a billion Nobel Prizes. Making something in Photoshop without clipping masks is like playing basketball on the edge of the Grand Canyon, wearing shoes made of butter.

[@BobbyDotNet]

The last 5 beta versions have crashed when I open an image via bridge. Hence I won't let regular PS update since it would be the version # that was included in crashing betas. At least I can keep working, maybe w/o a few new features.