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Getting Started in Photoshop

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Getting Started in Photoshop

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Getting Started in

Adobe
PHOTOSHOP
Option 1: Creating an image
- Step1: Click “File”  Select “New”

- Step2: Type a name for your work in the name box


 Decide the size of your work
Option 2: Editing existing image
- Step 1: Click “File”  Select “Open”

- Step 2: Search the location of your image


in the box  Click “Open”
Photoshop Interface
Menu Bar

Tool Options Bar

Floating Palettes
Toolbar
A. Menu
1. File
2. Edit
3. Image
4. Layer
5. Filter
6. View
7.Windows
1. File
a. Save, Save as, Save for web
- Save
- Save as: Save as a new filename
- Save for web: Save a image as a form
of “*.jpg” or “*.gif” which is used for
web image
b. Import, Export
- Import: Bring another image into the
canvas you are working
- Export: Sending the image you are
working to other applications

c. Print
2. Edit
a. Undo, Step Forward/Backward
- Undo: Cancel the last work
- Step Forward: Move to the next stage
which you did
- Step Backward: Move to the previous
stage which you did

b. Cut, Copy, Paste


- Cut: Get rid of a part which you select
- Copy: Copy a part you select
- Paste: Attach the part you copied
3. Image
a. Mode: Select a type of color

b. Image size, Canvas size


- Image size: Change the size of the image
- Canvas size: change the size of the canvas
where you are working
(Bottom of your image)

c. Rotate canvas: Changing the direction of


your canvas
4. Layer
a. New, Delete
- New: Create a new layer
- Delete: get rid of a layer you selected

b. Arrange
- change the order of layers

c. Merge
- Make layers into one layer
5. Filter
- Various Kinds of technical effects
6. View
a. Zoom in/out
- Zoom in
- Zoom out

b. Print size
- Help you to print only what you need

c. Extras
- Showing horizontal and vertical lines
by dividing into separate sectors
7. Windows
- The same function with “view” in other
Windows applications such as MS-Office

You can select what you want to make


visible on your page and what you don’t
want to make visible on your page
B. Toolbar

1. Marqee, Lasso, Magic Wand, Crop


2. Move
3. Brush, gradient, paint bucket
4. Erase
5. Clone Stamp, Pattern Stamp
6. Smudge, Dodge, Sponge
7. Text
8. Set Foreground/Background color
1. Marqee, Lasso, Magic Wand, Crop

a. Marquee: Select a part of an image you are working


with arranged form such as rectangular and elliptical.

b. Lasso: Draw selection paths freehand with a mouse


- If you click and hold, you can change the tool
so that you can draw polygons

c. Magic wand: select all the same-color or similarly


colored adjacent pixels

d. Crop: Crop the image


- The selected area will be surrounded with a blinking
dotted line
2. Move
- Move the image on a selected layer to other
part of canvas you are working

3. Brush, Gradient, Paint Bucket


a. Brush: basic tools for drawing a line

b. Gradient: this help you to paint stage by


stage with more than 2 colors
c. Paint Bucket: fill out a cropped part with
just one click of this tool
4. Erase
- Erase what you cropped or where you click
with your mouse after selecting this tool

5. Clone Stamp, Pattern Stamp


a. Clone Stamp: copy a selected part and
restore it where you want

b. Pattern Stamp: this is nearly the same


tool with clone stamp, but you can arrange
the shape you cropped, and you can use it
as a fixed shape
6. Smudge, Dodge, Sponge
a. Smudge: effect as such rubbing canvas
with fingers

b. Dodge: Make it bright the part where


you scrub with this tool.
c. Sponge: Saturates or desaturases
selected part of an image.

7. Text
- Type in various characters
8. Set foreground/background color
- Foreground color: the color of image
what you draw with a drawing tool such
as brush tool

- Background color: when you use the


gradient tool, the color will be different
from the foreground color.

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