Introduction to Photoshop
Adobe Photoshop Basics Outline
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The Menu Bar
The menu bar consists of nine menus.
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Status Bar
The status bar is often taken for granted or overlooked entirely, but it can be a valuable tool.
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The ToolBox
You got a jump start on learning about the zoom tool while we were studying the status bar in the last section.
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Palettes
The Palettes
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Navigator Palette and Hand Tool
Navigator Palette and Hand Tool
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New View & Duplicate
Choose View > New View.
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Image Size & Resolution
Contrary to what you might
think, ppi is not the same as dpi.
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Image Size Dialog Box
First we have the pixel
dimensions of the image.
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Canvas Size
Canvas Size allows you to
change the overall size of the document canvas without altering the contents of
the document.
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Crop Tool
Let's start by exploring
the most common use of the crop tool.
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History Palette Basics
You may have noticed
already that the Undo command acts as a toggle for Undo and Redo.
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Color Primer
This lesson deals primarily with color and color selection methods.
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Color Picker
In my screen shot, black
was the currently selected color when I brought up the color picker.
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Color & Swatch Palettes
The color palette provides
a color ramp along the bottom of the palette for quickly picking an approximate
color.
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Custom Swatch Exercise
The indexed color dialog box appears.
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Eyedropper & Info Palette
Eyedropper & Info Palette
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Marquee Selection Tools
We use selections in
Photoshop to isolate editing to specific areas in an image, or for cutting out
portions of an image.
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Lasso & Wand Selection Tools
The regular lasso tool
allows you to make freehand selections.
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Selection Tool Practice
Start with a new document
(File > New), 400x400 pixels, with a white background.
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Select Menu Commands
We've already covered some
of the shortcut keys for the most often used commands.
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Transforming Selections
When you invoke the transform selection command.
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Quick Mask Mode
You can think of a mask or
an alpha channel as a more visual way to represent a selection.
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More Quick Mask
Make your channels palette
visible.
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Alpha Channels & Channel Palette
Anytime you think you may
need to reuse a selection, you can save it permanently in an Alpha Channel.
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Intro to Layers
What is a layer?
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Important Layer Information
Important Layer Information
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Move, Copy & Transform Layers
Move, Copy & Transform Layers
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Advanced Layer Features
The Group with Previous
command under the Layer menu allows you to use one layer as a mask for other
layers.
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Working With Type Introduction
Up until version 6 of
Photoshop, type features in Photoshop were fairly limited.
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The Type Tool (v.5.x)
Photoshop 5.x Type Tool
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The Type Tool - Continued (v.5.x)
Photoshop 5.x Type Tool
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The Type Tool - (v.6.x)
Photoshop 6.0 Type Tool
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The Type Tool - Continued (v.6.x)
Photoshop 6.0 Type Tool
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Type Palettes and Text Warping (v6.x)
Type Palettes and Text Warping (v6.x)
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Intro, Paint Bucket and Fill Command
Painting Tools- Intro & Paint Bucket
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Gradient, Pattern and Line Tools
Gradient,
Pattern & Line Tools
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Brushes and Fade Command
Brushes and Fade Command
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Pencil, Paintbrush and Airbrush Tools
Pencil, Paintbrush and Airbrush Tools
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Eraser Tools
The eraser tool shortcut
is E
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Retouching Tools
Retouching Tools Intro!
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Blur, Sharpen, Smudge
Blur, Sharpen, and Smudge Tools
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Dodge, Burn, Sponge
Dodge, Burn,
and Sponge Tools!
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Clone Stamp
Clone Stamp
Tool, History & Art History Brushes
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