Preparing Images with Photoshop Gareth Johns IT Skills Development Advisor 1

Course Aim 2 Discover how Photoshop can be used to prepare images to make them more suitable for their eventual purpose.

Objectives By the end of this session you should be able to: Use appropriate tools to manipulate the size and quality of an image, to suit its purpose. Retouch an image to remove flaws, blemishes or unwanted objects. Adjust settings, such as contrast and brightness to improve the appearance of an image. Export and print images from Photoshop. Use layers to alter images in a range of ways, for example to add effects or combine images together. Utilise selection tools to highlight, and use, specific areas of an image. Use transparency techniques to blend an image into its surroundings. 3

Section1: Everyday Image Editing 4 Adjusting Image Size Cropping Straightening Image Size Retouching Healing Tools Adjustments Saving Printing

Aspect Ratio 5

6 Layers Creating Working with Layers Transformations Layer Styles Text Tool Selection Selection Tools Editing Selections Section 2: Selecting and Combining Images

Layers 7

Recap By the end of this session you should be able to: Use appropriate tools to manipulate the size and quality of an image, to suit its purpose. Retouch an image to remove flaws, blemishes or unwanted objects. Adjust settings, such as contrast and brightness to improve the appearance of an image. Export and print images from Photoshop. Use layers to alter images in a range of ways, for example to add effects or combine images together. Utilise selection tools to highlight, and use, specific areas of an image. Use transparency techniques to blend an image into its surroundings. 8

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Further Study E-learning Adobe Tutorials – Wide range of bite-size video tutorials Photoshop Essentials.com – Free articles on Photoshop techniques Resources Google Images – Google.com/Images Use: Search Tools  Usage Rights  Labeled for reuse to filter for images you can probably use legallyGoogle.com/Images Cardiff Met Electronic Library Click on Databases A-Z  Filter by Material Type: Multimedia  Click Go Search Creative Commons licenced images: search.creativecommons.org search.creativecommons.org Free stock photos:  Foter.com Foter.com  FreeImages.com FreeImages.com  OpenPhoto.net OpenPhoto.net10

Image Credits 11 Apple Logo. Public Domain Banksy Swinger. By Infrogmation of New Orleans (Flickr: Banksy "Swinger" in New Orleans) [CC BY 2.0] inger_Building_Detail.jpg inger_Building_Detail.jpg Blue robot. By peyri. CC BY-ND Attribution-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic Bookworm. By Pixabay [CC0], via Wikimedia Commons Boris Johnson. Public Domain. jpg jpg CSAD. © Phil Borman Photography Hillary Clinton. Public Domain.

Image Credits 12 iPad Air. By Zach Vega (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0 ( via Wikimedia Commons La Rambla Barcelona. By Djm1279 at English Wikipedia [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons ona_2004.JPG ona_2004.JPG Japanese North Shore. By Amateria1121 (Own work) [CC BY 3.0 ( via Wikimedia Commons _exposed_Spanish_Banks.JPG _exposed_Spanish_Banks.JPG Union Flag. By Vaughan Leiberum from Cape Town, South Africa (Flag - Great Britain (cropped)) [CC BY 2.0 ( via Wikimedia Commons

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