INTRODUCTION TO ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 2

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PIXEL BASICS

Resolution – refers to the number of dots per inch (dpi) if you’re printing or pixels per inch (ppi) if you are looking at the computer screen.  Import because the resolution determines the quality of the image. Higher the resolution, better the quality. 
Low res, 72dpi – Hi res 300 dpi

Scanning your image at 300 dpi at as close to the actual size is the best way or scanning the image larger than the final size

It is easier to resize an image from larger to smaller and to not lose the resolution quality than it is to resize the image smaller to larger

CHANGING THE CANVAS

IMAGE CANVAS SIZE

Add a new width and height

Click in the anchor boxes if you would like your picture to remain in a certain area

Choose a color for the background canvas

CROPPING THE CANVAS

Select the crop tool in the toolbox

Click and drag a marquee over the area that you wish to keep, you will be cropping the rest out

ROTATING THE CANVAS

IMAGE ROTATE CANVAS

Flip the canvas horizontal or vertical

EDIT - Editing the image

TRANSFORM

Free transform, scale, rotate, flip horizontal or vertical, distort, perspetive

Copy & Paste

LAYERS

Layers allow you to work on parts of the whole image without disturbing other parts

Start with a new document that will be the final size desired for the composition

Open up all the images you would like to use in the composition and have them available on your workspace

You can drag the images to the final document or copy and paste the images into the final document.

LAYERS CONTINUED...

Restacking layers- drag the layer above or below the other layers

Locking layers/Hiding layers-press the eye to hide

Preserving Layers – save as options, Photoshop file, pdf, tif

Duplicating Layers

Linking Layers

Merging Layers

SELECTION (Marquee Tools)

Magic Wand Tool- used to select specific pixels to delete areas around an image.  Use tolerance to dictate how many or how few pixels you need to select.

Lasso Tools-  there are three.  Experiment.
Options- Feather

Select- Inverse

MASKING

ADDING A VECTOR MASK

COLOR & IMAGE CORRECTION TOOLS

LAYERS & IMAGE - corrections can be applied to all of the layers or corrections can be made on individual objects.

Levels, Channel Mixer, Color Balance, Photo Filters, Hue & Saturation, Brightness & Contrast, Selective Color, Replace Color

IMAGE REPAIR

THE HEALING BRUSH- lets you correct imperfections, causing them to disappear into the surrounding image. Like the cloning tools, you use the Healing Brush tool to paint with sampled pixels from an image or pattern. However, the Healing Brush tool also matches the texture, lighting, transparency, and shading of the sampled pixels to the source pixels. As a result, the repaired pixels blend seamlessly into the rest of the image.

PATCH TOOL - lets you repair a selected area with pixels from another area or a pattern. Like the Healing Brush tool, the Patch tool matches the texture, lighting, and shading of the sampled pixels to the source pixels. You can also use the Patch tool to clone isolated areas of an image.

CLONE STAMP TOOL- takes a sample of an image, which you can then apply over another image or part of the same image. You can also clone part of one layer over another layer. Each stroke of the tool paints on more of the sample.

TYPE TOOL

CHARACTER PALETTE

Leading, Tracking, and Kerning
Leading- space between, lines of type
Tracking- equal space between letterforms
Kerning- correcting space between letterforms based on visual balance

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Paragraph Palette

Left align, Right align, and Justify Left-Right

VIEW

adding and subtracting the rulers and guidelines

EXERCISE

Take the images I have given you and develop a composition using layers.  The composition should be final size of 5”x7” and CMYK color.  I would like you to take at least one of the images and make it a grayscale within the composition.  You must also add a layer of typography to the comp.  Name or title is up to you.