2. An Introduction to Photoshop By Fred Nick

3. What is Photoshop?  The digital equivalent of a Dark Room.  Photo editing lab.  Creative tool chest.  Translator of formats characteristics.  A scanning package.  Everything above and more all in one package.

4. What Photoshop is not.  A drawing package.  A slide organizing package.  A movie making program.  An internet tool.  A web page development tool.

5. Major Categories of Photoshop Use  Scanning and then Manipulating.  Photo Retouching and Alterations.  Adding Special Effects using Filters  Preparing Images to be Printed.

6. Preparatory Concepts-Color  RGB (Screen based)  CMYK (Printing full-color Prints)  Lab (Cross platform standard)  Bitmap (Black & White)  Grayscale (256 Shades of gray)  Duotone (Two-four color channels – posters)  Indexed (256 colors in one channel)  MultiChannel (24 spot channels)

7. Preparatory Concepts- Terminology  Layers - Overlays of separate parts of the final Images. Like transparencies.  Channels - Separation of the colors of the final images onto distinct sheets.  Paths - Recorded tracings from the image. Some tools will follow the path while performing a task. Vectors not part of the image.  Canvas versus image. Canvas is AREA you can work in. Image is presently used area.  Actions - Recorded series of tasks for repeating or automating steps.

8. Preparatory Concepts- Terminology  History – Complete list of tasks performed. Allows multiple step undoes or the deletion of a previous step followed by the remaining steps.  Gamut – The range of colors that a color system can display or print. The Spectrum of colors seen by the human eye is wider that the gamut available in any color model.

9. Preparatory Concepts - Gamut Lab RGB CMYK