1. Overview & Tutorials12/12 - Photoshop is fun and takes years to learn and discover ... It is the industry standard software for image editing. It is both very powerful and very complex. As you learn to master your complexity, you will discover that PS is a magical program. Use it to: 1. Adjust scanned or digital camera images for better screen display or printing. PS lets you easily change the file format pf images to use as email attachments, web pages, or print docs like brochures & newsletters. 2. Edit photos taken with a camera or digitalized with a scanner, PS becomes an electronic darkroom.
12/14 - Photoshop elements is a less expensive, consumer level graphics editing application. Elements is great for simple range editing, but does not have nearly the range of capabilities as the full Photoshop appication. Photoshop was aquired by Adobe in 1990, the current version is called CC. Computer monitors display patters of collered square dots called PIXELS, they are ver small, we don't see them but see the bigger picture.
1/10 - • Menu bar / context menus / Options bar / Tools panel
• Worspace Switcher - change built-in workspaces.
• Manipulate and customize panels
• Navigate your PSD with - Zoom, hand, navigator.
• Undo and History - go back steps in time.
• Use the "Help" tab to find out more about tools, panels, etc.
1/12 - Resolution is a difficult concept to grasp. When we measure the QUALITY of an image, resolution specifies the number of pixels within a given area, often in pixels per inch or dots per inch, but can also refer to the QUANTITY of pixels in something - its absolute image dimensions. PSCC needs a screen R= 1024 x 786 p.
2/8 - How big is your file?
2. Basics
4. Selections
5. Layers
6. Painting
7. Image Sources & Resolutions
1/17 - Document resolution - the measurement of a doc in pixels- 600x400 is 600 pixels wide by 400 tall- this is the quantity form of resolution. Each ps doc have a ppi ( pixels per inch) measurement this is the "quality" form of resolution. Printers use dots of ink or toner ie. Dots per ink (Dpi).
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9. Adobe Bridge + Automations
10. Correcting Image Tonality
11. Adjusting Image Colors
12. Painting with Special Tools
13. Fun with Filters
14. Putting it all Together
12/14 - Photoshop elements is a less expensive, consumer level graphics editing application. Elements is great for simple range editing, but does not have nearly the range of capabilities as the full Photoshop appication. Photoshop was aquired by Adobe in 1990, the current version is called CC. Computer monitors display patters of collered square dots called PIXELS, they are ver small, we don't see them but see the bigger picture.
1/10 - • Menu bar / context menus / Options bar / Tools panel
• Worspace Switcher - change built-in workspaces.
• Manipulate and customize panels
• Navigate your PSD with - Zoom, hand, navigator.
• Undo and History - go back steps in time.
• Use the "Help" tab to find out more about tools, panels, etc.
1/12 - Resolution is a difficult concept to grasp. When we measure the QUALITY of an image, resolution specifies the number of pixels within a given area, often in pixels per inch or dots per inch, but can also refer to the QUANTITY of pixels in something - its absolute image dimensions. PSCC needs a screen R= 1024 x 786 p.
2/8 - How big is your file?
- The size of an image can have two different values:
- DIMENSION SIZE: the size of an image would print out
- FILE SIZE: the space an image takes up on a hard drive or disk in bytes, kilobytes, or megabytes.
- a BIT is made of 8BITS a KILOBYTE (K or KB) is roughly 1,000 bytes (1024) and a MEGABYTE (M or MB) is 1,024 kilobytes.
2. Basics
- • Marquee Tool: Blurs edges, either rectangularly, or circularly
- • Lasso Tool: Used for making freehand selections.
- • Magnetic lasso tool: photoshop auto selects shape based on picture.
- • Polygon Lasso tool: make shapes with straight lines.
- • Quick selection tool: If you brush inside an object, it will select it.
- • Magic Wand tool: makes a selection based on a color
- • Crop tool: crops a picture.
- • Perspective crop tool: crops an image to fit a perspective grid.
- • Slice tool: Well, you drag with the Slice Tool and create rectangles (usually web pages layouts). After you’re done you select Save for Web & Devices from the File menu and select a folder. This process will save each sliced portion as a separate image thus allowing you to quickly use these images for website creation.
- • Eyedropper tool: copies the color of a selected pixel.
- • Spot Healing Brush Tool, Healing Brush Tool, Patch Tool, Red Eye Tool: These tools are very important if you are doing a lot of facial retouching. The Spot Healing Brush Tool is the easiest to use. You simply find the skin imperfection you want to remove and click on it. It’s not the most advanced technique for making clean skin but it is a basic and very fast tool.
• Brush Tool, Pencil Tool, Color Replacement Tool, Mixer Brush Tool: The Brush tool is probably the most used tool in the Toolbar panel. You can use it to paint with pixels over your image. The round brush tool is the one selected by default when you first open Photoshop so you probably have played with it a little. This brush has two important settings you will want to play with: size and hardness. Hardness represents how defined the edges of the brush are (or how blurry). Set the hardness setting to maximum (100%) and you will paint with ugly hard strokes.
• Clone Stamp Tool, Pattern Stamp Tool: The Clone Stamp Tool is probably my favorite tool and surely the one I have most fun with (and Filter > Liquify too). It has a lot of uses and if you’re doing photo manipulations then this a tool to be on good terms with. It is not complicated at all. To use it first Alt-click somewhere to set the sample point. Then start painting. You will notice that you will paint with the pixels underneath the sampled area. That’s all this tool does. It clones areas from one part of the image in other parts. It is very useful for creating new content based on an existing one and removing skin imperfections or undesired objects.The Pattern Stamp Tool allows you to paint with desired patterns over an image.
• Eraser Tool, Background Eraser Tool, Magic Eraser Tool: The Eraser Tool allows you to delete (erase) pixels from a pixel layer (or a layer mask). The Background Eraser Tool is like the Color Replacement Tool , but instead of replacing the color you erase it. The Magic Eraser Tool looks and acts a lot like the Magic Wand Tool but instead of selecting pixels it deletes them. Useful tool only if you are in a great hurry and do not care much about the results.
4. Selections
5. Layers
6. Painting
7. Image Sources & Resolutions
1/17 - Document resolution - the measurement of a doc in pixels- 600x400 is 600 pixels wide by 400 tall- this is the quantity form of resolution. Each ps doc have a ppi ( pixels per inch) measurement this is the "quality" form of resolution. Printers use dots of ink or toner ie. Dots per ink (Dpi).
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- Low res = 72 PPI or DPI
- High Res = 300 PPI or DPI
- PSD = Photoshop Document
- JPEG = Joint Photographic Experts Group
- PNG = Portable Network Graphics
- GIF = Graphics Interchange Format
- Large files don't email or load to web pages well (take longer or won't email at all...)
- JPEG - supports millions of colors
- GIFs - work well for a few colors like logos and type that have less than 256 colors.
9. Adobe Bridge + Automations
10. Correcting Image Tonality
11. Adjusting Image Colors
12. Painting with Special Tools
13. Fun with Filters
14. Putting it all Together