PHOTOSHOP

1. PHOTOSHOP Photoshop is the leading digital image editing application for the Internet, print, and other new media disciplines. It is embraced by millions of graphic artists, print designers, visual communicators, and regular people like you. It's likely that nearly every picture you've seen (such as posters, book covers, magazine pictures, and brochures) has either been created or edited by Photoshop. The powerful tools used to enhance and edit these pictures are also capable for use in the digital world including the infinite possibilities of the Internet.

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4. PHOTOSHOP • The newest version of Photoshop (CS6) includes features such as: • Layer Searching • Group Clipping Masks • More information displayed in the user interface. • More hotkeys • Crop tool changes • And more.

5. PHOTOSHOP - workspace The Photshop workspace consists of five main components: the Application Bar, the Tools Panel, the Options Bar, the Document Window, and the Panel Dock. One of the nice things about using Photoshop is that its workspace interface is very similar to that of other products in the Adobe Creative Suite, for example Indesign and Illustrator.

6. PHOTOSHOP - workspace The Application Bar The Application Bar, new to Photoshop CS4, is located across the top of the screen. It contains the old menu bar, along with a number of other controls, for example a dropdown zoom menu, a button for launching Adobe Bridge, and a button for viewing extras. The menu bar contains controls for managing and editing files, manipulating images, managing layers, and more.

7. PHOTOSHOP - workspace Tools Panel The familiar Tools Panel contains a collection of tools for creating, selecting, and manipulating images. Tools that have a similar function are grouped together.

8. PHOTOSHOP - workspace Options Bar The Options Bar is located below the Application Bar. The options change depending on the tool you have selected. For example, when you select the Type tool, options pertaining to text editing will appear across the bar.

9. PHOTOSHOP - workspace Panel Dock A vertical dock of panels is located on the right of the workspace. Panels help you manage and edit your images, allowing for quick and easy access to the most common controls for a particular task. By default, three panels will appear when you open Photoshop: the layers, adjustments and styles panels. To access more panels, click Windows from the Application Bar, and click the panel you want to open. To hide a panel, click Windows from the Application Bar, and click the panel you want to hide.

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11. PHOTOSHOP – marquee Marquee Selection tools: The following tools allow you to select regions in your image to alter, copy, move, and apply filters. Rectangular marquee tool: This is the default selection setting. You can make a selection of any rectangular size and shape. Elliptical marquee tool: This tool, available when you click and hold down on the selection tool region of the tool bar, selects elliptical spaces. To select a round area, hold the shift key while clicking and dragging. Single row: This tool will select a 1pixel region that is as wide as your image. Very useful for trimming edges and making straight lines. Single column: The tool will select a 1pixel region that is as tall as your image. Also very useful for trimming edges and making straight lines. Normal mode allows you to drag the cursor to create the selection size you want. Constrained aspect ratio allows you to choose a scalable rectangle, say with a width to height ratio of 1 to 2. The selection will grow when you drag, but will remain the same shape. Fixed Size/Fixed Aspect Ratio allows you to predetermine the size, in pixels or a ratio, of the selection you will make. When you click with fixed size selected, a selection box of the exact size you specified will automatically appear. With fixed aspect ratio, you can make different-sized selections of the same shape. This is a particularly helpful tool when cropping images to a certain size or drawing identical 

12. PHOTOSHOP – marquee Marquee Selection tools: The following tools allow you to select regions in your image to alter, copy, move, and apply filters. Rectangular marquee tool: This is the default selection setting. You can make a selection of any rectangular size and shape. Elliptical marquee tool: This tool, available when you click and hold down on the selection tool region of the tool bar, selects elliptical spaces. To select a round area, hold the shift key while clicking and dragging. Single row: This tool will select a 1pixel region that is as wide as your image. Very useful for trimming edges and making straight lines. Single column: The tool will select a 1pixel region that is as tall as your image. Also very useful for trimming edges and making straight lines. Normal mode allows you to drag the cursor to create the selection size you want. Constrained aspect ratio allows you to choose a scalable rectangle, say with a width to height ratio of 1 to 2. The selection will grow when you drag, but will remain the same shape. Fixed Size/Fixed Aspect Ratio allows you to predetermine the size, in pixels or a ratio, of the selection you will make. When you click with fixed size selected, a selection box of the exact size you specified will automatically appear. With fixed aspect ratio, you can make different-sized selections of the same shape. This is a particularly helpful tool when cropping images to a certain size or drawing identical 

13. PHOTOSHOP – marquee Move Toolthe move tool moves an entire layer at a time. When you have selected this tool, click on a layer in the layer pane, and then click and drag on the image. The current layer will move all at once. You can even move it outside of the current image size. Don't worry, though, parts of an image that move outside the borders still exist - they are just hidden. They will only be cropped out if you flatten the image.

14. PHOTOSHOP – marquee Lasso toolsThe lasso selection tools are similar to the marquee tools, except that the lasso tools give you ultimate freedom in terms of the shape of your selection. There are three different lasso tools: Lasso tool, which allows you to draw a selection by dragging the cursor freehand. The selection will close itself. Polygon Lasso tool, which creates a selection composed of straight lines that can be as short as one pixel. The selection grows with each additional click. This tool is especially useful for cutting out objects in an image to place on new backgrounds. Magnetic Polygon Lasso tool works a little like a combination of the other two lasso tool. As you drag, the selection maps to natural borders in the image. This is a useful tool when dealing with well-defined and high-contrast images. A note about lasso tool options: When extracting part of an image from its background, the result will be choppy and rough around the edges unless you adjust the feather value in the options bar. This fades the edges you create and can smooth the region into its new background.