Adobe Photoshop

Identification Workspace Title bar Adobe Bridge, Go to Bridge Palettes/Palette well Navigator Zoom box Toolbox Status bar Menu Options bar Show, Document Properties Resize Window

Workspace Toolbox Zoom Palettes Title bar Menu Options bar Adobe Bridge Palette Well Navigator Zoom box

Pixel Small squares of light in a photo that is the basic unit used to create digital images.

Resizing images Adding or subtracting the number of pixels Interpolationor resampling Resolution—Number of small squares known as pixels Resize button

Ways to Zoom Zoom tool Magnification percent in status bar Navigator palette  Magnification percent  Slider  Zoom in/out  Proxy view area/view box Key commands  Ctrl +  Ctrl –

Photoshop File PSD Photoshop Document Up to 2 gigabytes (GB) in size

Why crop? Not all photographers capture the object in full-frame. Crop allows you to select an area of a image and discard everything else It allows you to change area of focus. Eliminate unwanted area of a photograph. It allows you to straighten crooked photographs.

How to Crop May show rulers to see measurements  Click in the menu on View, Rulers Begin at upper-left corner of area, drag diagonally to bottom right; release button. The new image is highlighted with a dotted line around it.  May move handles to change size. Press Enter or double-click to finish. Crop tool

Rule of Thirds Four possible positions of focus

Resize vs. Crop

Resize--photo keeps the entire picture and just changes the size. Crop—actually cut out part the picture.

OOPS! ESC key Edit, Undo or Ctrl + Z History palette EEach edit or state is recorded sequentially CClick on edit to revisit DDelete current state button to delete

Creating a Border Helps define the edge of a picture. Use selection  In the menu click on Select, All or Ctrl+A  Select, Modify, Border, Type number in width, OK. Add features to the border: Add color. Click in the menu Edit, Fill, or use Shift +F5  Foreground color—color in objects  Background color—color behind objects  Color (palette), Patterns, History, Black, 50% Gray, White Add effects. In the menu Select, Modify, Border, choose either Smooth, Expand or Contract the border Use rectangular marquee tool. Draw border, click in the menu Edit, Stroke, define size and color, Location and Blending.

Selection Tools Button tool in first section of Toolbox  Right-click the right bottom corner black triangle for additional tools Rectangular (can size as square)  Elliptical Marquee  Single Row and Single Line Marquee Lasso Tool  Polygonal  Magnetic

Fill a Selection When you fill a selection you blend a color or pattern into it. Blending modes are the ways in which pixels in the image are affected by a color.  Normal, darken, lighten, etc. Opacity refers to the level you can see through the color to the layer beneath.  1% opacity is nearly transparent  100% opacity appears completely opaque (colored).

To Add Color to the Border In Edit, click Fill, list of colors. Click the Mode box arrow and Normal in the list, OK

Deselect Click anywhere in the document window. Right-click with the mouse, Deselect. Ctrl + D

Resize Image Wizard A Wizard asks you questions and creates that feature based upon your answers. Click in Help menu, Resize Image Click Next once you have chosen options Click Finish to end

Saving a Photo for the Web Compromise between quality and file size Great Looking Time to load

Terms  Optimization Changing a photo to make it most effective for its purpose  Save for Web command Preview optimized images in different file formats and with different file attributes.

Web Formats GIF—Graphics Interchange Format  A bit-mapped format. HTML—Hypertext Markup Language  Necessary information to display the photo. Browser  Explorer Explorer Dither  Approximate the colors that it cannot display by blending colors that it can.

In the Menu, Help, Photoshop Help  Type in a Word or Phrase Box  More Resources—Tutorials, etc. Press F1 (Universal Help key) Start, Programs, Adobe Help Center

Warp Text Distort text to conform to a variety of shapes. Horizontal Type Tool (T) Warp icon in Options bar

Painting Tools Brush Tool Change types of brushes:  Options bar  Contents menu (right-click).  Use History palette to choose a different action: Remembers 20 actions Take snapshot to keep an action

Painting Tools Clone Stamp Tool  Duplicates area of picture Use when picture has detail. Use when texture changes.  Change area in Options bar.  Set a sample point: Move cursor to same level of top point to change (circle). Press Alt key (circle has crosshair in it) and click with the mouse. Release Alt key.  Begin filling in the area

Painting Tools Spot Healing Brush Blends area around it. Set area in Options bar. No Sample Point must be set. Covers area with a dark gray color that disappears.

Painting Tools Healing Brush Found in Spot Healing Brush icon. (Right-click black triangle in right-corner of icon.) Correct flaws and imperfections in an image. Matches texture, luminosity and shading Set a sample point: Move cursor to same level of top point to change (circle) Press Alt key (circle has crosshair in it) and click with the mouse. Release Alt key. Begin filling in the area.

Painting Tools Patch Found in Spot Healing Brush icon. (Right-click black triangle in right-corner of icon.) Allows you to disguise problems and flaws by cloning or copying pixels from another similar part of the image. Draw around area to be changed. Best used by selecting small areas. Drag it to the area you want to match.

Painting Tools Red Eye Found in Spot Healing Brush icon. (Right- click black triangle in right-corner of icon.) Click on the tool and then the eye to change. Notice the Channels palette and the changes that were made in RGB. May use other tools for touch-up.

Restorations--Document Unique aging features:  Discoloration—acid deterioration due to alum- resin sizing agents. Useful life=50 years.  Foxing—dry and brittle creases caused by folding or rolling documents and brown spots due to water stains or fungus, brown edges due to airborne pollutants, loss of strong colors due to light damage, mold, bacteria, improper storage, and animal or insect damage

Restoration--Document Remove all yellow and brown  Convert it to Grayscale mode which discards all color information in the original image In the Menu, Image, Mode, Grayscale When prompted to discard all color, click OK  Setting Levels Adjust levels of tonal range and contrast In the menu, Image, Adjustments, Levels Set levels by dragging sliders or typing in numbers

Restoration--Document Histogram is a graph that charts the frequency of shade in the tonal range  If an image displays a low or nonexistent frequency of tone at one end of the scale, it means there are few shadows.  that slider should be adjusted first by dragging toward the center.  Then adjust the other outer slider.  Finally, adjust the middle or midtone slider by very small increments to a point where the tones are balanced.  Watch your changes in the document as you move the slider.

Restoration--Document Sharpening Images  Unsharp Mask—filter used to sharpen images.  More precise than Sharpen or Sharpen More  Three settings—Amount, Radius, and Threshold.

Unsharp Mask Settings Amount—specifies how much of the effect to apply to the image. Radius—specifies the width of the sharpened edge, measured in pixels. Threshold—specifies how different the sharpened pixels must be from the surrounding area.

Painting Tools Dodge—lightens area Burn—darkens area Sponge—changes the color saturation (intensity)

Lens Correction Angle and perspective errors  Filter, Distort Show grid lines Vertical perspective Horizontal perspective Angle Edge Extension  Fills in area where the corrections created some blank or transparent areas.

Graphics Interchange Format.gif Compressed file format Helps reduce file size Good for web Based on indexed colors (palette of 256) Not as good for photos  (smaller color range)

Bitmap.bmp Windows file Combination of pixels Zoom in get blocky

Pixel Small squares of light in a photo that is the basic unit used to create digital images.

JPEG File JPG or JPEG Joint Photographic Experts Group  Name of committee that developed the format Used by photo hardware devices  Digital cameras, Scanners Keeps all color information in an RGB image and supports different color modes (Red, Green, Blue) Compresses file size by selectively discarding data Popular file type for Web graphics  Best for compressing photographic images

Sound files Most popular extension.wav