How to use PhotoVim

Step-by-step guides for the work people actually do — removing backgrounds, erasing objects, making thumbnails.

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• Watch the step-by-step video Intermediate Text Behind and In Front of a Person: Typography Poster Tutorial

  Combine background blur, portrait curves, silver dimensional type and perspective. Use matching type layers and a painted layer mask to weave lettering behind the portrait and in front of the jacket.

  #Text #Compositing

• Watch the step-by-step video Intermediate Dreamy Portrait Poster: Contrast, Color Grading and Dimensional Text

  Transform a muted portrait with S-curve contrast and color balance, selective background blur, painted light, gradient type, bevel, Echo depth and perspective. Follow a real editing recording with settings, shortcuts and practice files.

  #Color & tone #Text

• Watch the step-by-step video Beginner Create a Neon Movie Poster with Portrait, Rain and Text

  Build a neon movie poster from a transparent portrait and separate rain layers. Follow the video to refine the hair edge with a layer mask and add editable type.

  #Compositing #Text

• Watch the step-by-step video Beginner Composite a Travel Portrait onto a Coastal Background

  Combine a clean coastal background with a transparent portrait. Follow the placement, positioning, detail review and layered PSD save in a real editor recording.

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• Watch the step-by-step video Beginner Create a Sneaker Ad with a Product Cutout, Shadow and Dust

  Build a product ad from a transparent sneaker, a separate shadow, orange dust and blue particles. Follow the recorded workflow with the practice source files.

  #Compositing

• Watch the step-by-step video Beginner Create a Coastal Travel Cover with Layered Photos and Type

  Composite a coastal scene and transparent portrait, then add an editable COASTAL DAYS headline. Includes a recorded workflow, English subtitles and practice sources.

  #Compositing #Text

• Watch the step-by-step video Beginner Create a Color Echo Effect with Duplicate Layers

  Duplicate a portrait into orange, magenta and cyan echoes, then add editable type. Follow the actual editing workflow with shortcut captions.

  #Color & tone #Compositing

• Watch the step-by-step video Intermediate Double Exposure Portrait: Forest Inside a Silhouette

  Blend a transparent portrait with a forest using a clipping mask, layer masks and soft brushes. Follow the real editor recording with shortcuts and practice files.

  #Compositing #Selections & masks

• Watch the step-by-step video Intermediate Sneaker Powder Burst Ad with Shadows and Light Beams

  Build a product ad from a transparent sneaker and red and blue powder layers. Add a soft floor shadow, light beams and front particles with masks, step by step.

  #Compositing

• Watch the step-by-step video Intermediate Change a Jacket Color with Color Range and Hue/Saturation

  Show one outfit in three colors. Select the jacket with Select > Color Range, recolor it with a clipped Hue/Saturation layer and keep skin natural with a mask.

  #Color & tone #Selections & masks

• Watch the step-by-step video Intermediate Turn a Day Street Photo into Night with Curves and Painted Light

  Turn one daylight street photo into a warm night scene. Darken with Curves, cool with Color Balance, darken the sky with Select > Sky and paint lamps, windows and wet reflections.

  #Color & tone #Selections & masks

• Watch the step-by-step video Beginner Ocean in a Bottle: Composite a Scene Inside Glass

  Place an island photo inside an empty glass bottle on a beach. Fit it with a mask, send it behind the glass and add a soft contact shadow.

  #Compositing #Selections & masks

• Follow Photoshop tutorials without Photoshop: layers, masks and blend modes

  Practice layers, masks and blend modes in PhotoVim without a subscription. Find familiar tools, try a photo-editing exercise and learn the limits.

  #Files & formats

• How to open a PSD file without Photoshop

  Open and edit PSD files online with PhotoVim. Inspect layers, check font compatibility, then export a copy without installing Photoshop.

  #Files & formats

• Remove a background without Photoshop

  Cut the background out of a product or portrait photo in your browser and save it as a transparent PNG.

  #Selections & masks #AI

• Erase people and objects from a photo

  Remove passers-by, power lines, or watermarks and fill the gap so it looks untouched.

  #AI

• Make a YouTube thumbnail (1280 × 720)

  Start from the right canvas size, place your photo, and make the text readable with a stroke and shadow.

  #Text

• Change an ID photo background

  Turn a photo you took at home into an ID photo by replacing the background with a flat color.

  #Selections & masks

• Build product detail images

  Put your product photo and copy together into the long images shops use on product pages.

  #Text #Compositing

• Refine an AI edit as a layer with a mask

  How to receive an AI result as a layer with a mask instead of a flattened image, keep only the part you want, and bring the rest back to the original.

  #AI

• Rescue a flat, dark photo with Levels and Curves

  How to bring back contrast in a dark photo and fix a color cast with the same Levels and Curves dialogs as Photoshop.

  #Color & tone

• Blur a photo background online (no Photoshop)

  How to keep the subject sharp and blur only the background so a portrait or product photo stands out. Works in the browser.

  #Selections & masks

• Set exact photo size and resolution (DPI) for print and ID photos

  How to set width and height in pixels or centimeters and resolution to 300 so the file meets print and ID photo requirements.

  #Files & formats

• Curve text for thumbnails with Warp Text

  How to bend type into an arc, flag or wave so YouTube thumbnail and product titles stand out.

  #Text

• Open a PDF as layers and edit it (no Photoshop)

  How to pick pages from a PDF, open them as image layers in the browser, edit, and save back to PDF or PNG.

  #Files & formats