INTRODUCTION
TO
PHOTOSHOP
TOPICS TO BE DISCUSSED……….
Introduction
Features
Work Area
Introduction
An image editing software developed and manufactured by Adobe Systems Inc.
Photoshop is considered one of the leaders in photo editing software. The software
allows users to manipulate, crop, resize, and correct color on digital photos. The
software is particularly popular amongst professional photographers and graphic
designers.
Photoshop files have default file extension as .PSD, which stands for "Photoshop
Document." A PSD file stores an image with support for most imaging options
available in Photoshop. These include layers with masks, transparency, text settings
etc.
Features of Photoshop
SELECTION
LAYERS
CROPPING
MERGING IMAGES
REMOVEL OF UNWANTED ELEMENT
SELECTIVE COLOR CHANGE
SLICING
KEEP HISTORY
WEB OPTIMIZATION
INTEGRATED ADOBE USER INTERFACE
PAINTING
HEALING SPOTS
SELECTION
This is the most powerful feature of Photoshop. We can select only part of
the image within we want changes take effect. this is done with the tools
like marquee tool, lasso and pen tool.
LAYERS
Layers is a set of different stacked elements that contains different parts of
an image. This is one of the best feature of Photoshop. Layers helps you to
work on different parts of a photo and put them together for a finish.
CROPPING
Cropping helps you to select a portion of the image that you want to retain
and deletes the rest.
MERGING IMAGES
This feature allows two or more images to merged as one.
REMOVAL OF UNWANTED ELEMENTS
This technique involves the use of clone tool to maintain the texture of the
image. This is useful when you want to get rid of distracting objects in an
image which gives more focus on the subject. This feature can enhance
close up portraits.
SELECTIVE COLOR CHANGE
This feature lets you alter certain parts of an image, keeping the rest of the
color original
SLICING
This features the ability of slicing a whole image into parts and labeled
with different files and later on used as contents of a website.
TRACK OF EDITING HISTORY
The history log in Photoshop can help you remember how to repeat a
technique and record time tracking information for client work. This
option is disabled by default.
WEB OPTIMIZATION
Adobe Photoshop includes various features for producing the highest quality web
graphics with smallest possible size. With the use of Photoshop we can precisely
balance image quality and file size and these images can be easily uploaded and
downloaded through internet.
PRECISE MASKING
With magic eraser and background eraser tool we can add transparency to
images . we can use magic eraser to erase similar pixels on a layer with a click of
mouse. Background eraser dynamically erase pixels on a layer and creates
transparency.
INTEGRATED ADOBE USER INTERFACE
Photoshop integrates tightly with adobe’s professional publishing and
dynamic media tools. Photoshop shares a common user interface and
compatible with Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Premiere and other adobe
products.
PAINTING
A few painting tools like brush, pencil, paint bucket are available in Photoshop.
These can be used to retouch images by altering and adding color pixels.
Original images can be created using brush tool. It has many different brush-tips
and brush stocks that can be easily adjusted in size. Pencil tool allows user to
paint rough strokes on the canvas ,creating a similar effect to a real pencil on
paper. The paint bucket tool is used to fill areas of canvas with color.
HEALING SPOTS
With improvement retouching tools like the clone stamp too, and healing brush
tool, imperfections of an image can easily be removed.
Photoshop Work Area
A. Menu Bar – The menu bar contains menus for performing tasks. The
menus are organized by topic. For example, the Layers menu contains
commands for working with layers.
B. Options Bar – Contains options for the currently selected tool.
C. Toolbox - The toolbox holds tools for creating and editing images.
D. Document Window – The Containing Window of a document being
worked on inside of Photoshop.
E. Active Image Area – The Document Window contains the Active
Image Area (Shown in White above). This is the area an artist works in.
F. Navigator – A small version of the current documents active image
area. Used for navigating large images, or when zoomed in.
G. Color Palette – A palette used to select foreground and background
colors for painting / drawing with.
H. History – Constantly updating record of previous changes made inside
of a document. Can be used to reverse steps taken.
I. Layers – Layers in Photoshop allow you to work on a single canvas,
letting some things appear above or below others.
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