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Adobe Photoshop 6
Foundation Level Course
What is Photoshop?
Photoshop is a graphics program, which allows you to
manipulate elements of photographs from all sources
Opening and Saving Files
• Photoshop can open and
save in various file
formats.
• Formats are ways of
saving the information in
a file so the file can be
used in other
applications.
• Either for Printing or
Web page usage.
General Preferences
The General
Preferences panel
provides access
to the most
important
environmental
preference
settings.
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Photoshop Environment
Main Menu
Tool Options Bar
Toolbox
Palettes
Canvas
Status Bar
Selection Tools
Selection
Tools
• Selection Tools allow
you to select a color, and
drag and enclose a
selection of pixels of the
image within a marquee.
Selection
Tool
Painting Tools
• Painting Tools allow you
to add color, shadows,
lines, and highlights to
your canvas.
Painting
Tools
Path Tools
• The Path Tools allow you
select and manipulate
lines, shapes and
Images.
Path
Tools
Type Tool
• The Type Tool allows you
to add text to an image.
Type Tool
Shape Tool
• The Shape Tool allows
you to draw various
different shapes.
Shape
Tool
Viewing Tools
• The Viewing Tools allow
you to add Notes, Audio
Annotation, Movement
as well as enlarging or
decreasing the viewing
area of your document.
Viewing
Tools
Viewing
Tools
The Tool Options Bar
• The Tool Options bar contains the tool controls that
allow you to adjust and keep settings displayed while
using a selected tool.
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Layers Palette
• The Layers Palette
allow you to make
changes to an image
without altering your
original image data.
Channels Palette
• Each Channel is an
independent grayscale
image of various colors
in a picture.
Paths Palette
• The Paths Palette exists
on the equivalent of a
distinct, object-oriented
layer, which sits in front
of the bitmapped image.
History Palette
• The History Palette
records every significant
operation (not including
preferences and
settings) and stores
them in a list.
Actions Palette
• The Actions Palette
allows you to record,
play, edit, and delete
individual actions.
Info Palette
• The Info Palette displays
information about the
color values beneath the
pointer.
Navigator Palette
• The Navigator Palette is
the best tool to use for
zooming and scrolling
needs when working
with large pictures.
Color Palette
• The Color Palette is a
very useful and easy tool
to use for selecting
colors.
Swatches Palette
• The Swatches Palette
allows you to collect
colors for future use.
Styles Palette
• With the Styles palette
you can save layer
effects and blending
options by creating layer
styles.
Character Palette
• The Character Palette
provides options for
formatting characters.
Paragraph Palette
• There are multiple
options to use within the
Paragraph Palette.
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Using Layers
• Layers allow you to
make changes to an
image without altering
your original image
data.
Working with Multiple Layers
• With multiple layers
you can make changes
to an image without
altering your original
image data or add other
images.
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Color Modes
• A color mode determines the color model used to
display and print images.
Color Models
Color models include:
• HSB (hue, saturation,
brightness);
• RGB (red, green, blue);
• CMYK (cyan, magenta,
yellow, black)
• CIE L*a*b*.
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The Brush Palette
• The Brush palette
appears on the Options
bar as a drop-down
menu after a drawing
tool has been selected.
Brushes
• The Brush Tool allow
you to add color,
shadows, lines, and
highlights to your
canvas.
Brush
Tools
Drawing Graphic Shapes
• There are various preset
graphic shapes provided
by Photoshop.
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Selecting Colors
• The Color Picker
allows you to
select a foreground
or background
color to be used on
the canvas.
Blending
• Blending modes can be
applied to all tools that
can draw or paint,
including the Pencil,
Rubber Stamp and
Gradient tools.
Smudging
• The Smudge Tool looks
and works like a finger
rubbing across your
picture.
Focusing
• The Focus Tools allow
you to increase or
decrease the contrast
between neighboring
pixels, sharpening or
blurring the image.
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Type Tools
• The Character palette
gives you control over
letter spacing, kerning,
tracking and shifting the
baseline.
• The Paragraph palette
allows you to set options
relating to the entire
paragraph, such as
alignment, justification,
indentation and line
spacing.
Shadows
• A Drop Shadow is
basically a shadow that
has been placed behind
text to give more
emphasis and an added
dimension to direct the
eye to a specific line.
• An Inner Shadow is a
shadow placed inside
the text.
Glow Effect
• The Glow effect adds
emphasis around a
portion of text and can
make it stand out from a
busy picture
background.
Bevel and Emboss Effects
• Bevel affects the edges
of the type, producing a
raised, but flat letter
surface.
Warp Text
• Warping Text will cause
the line of type to flare
out on one end or from
the top to bottom.
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Printing Images
• The Page Setup and
Print dialog boxes
allow you to prepare
the printer and the
image for printing.
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