Transcript Photoshop 7

Photoshop 7
Course Structure
Working in Photoshop
Environment
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Palettes
Tools & Options
Status bar
Preferences
History & Undo
Preset Manager
Rulers – Guides - Grids
Workspace
Screen modes
Document handling
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Document windows
New view
Page set up
Save options
File info
Image size & Canvas
Integrated image browser
File types
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Gif – bitmap / greyscale / index colours
Jpg
Png
Tiff – PC / MAC
Psd
Eps/Dcs – ASCII / Binary
Bmp
Pdf
Palettes
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Tools
Options
Navigator / info
History / Actions / Tool presets
Colour / Swatches / Styles
Character / Paragraph
Layers / Channels
Brushes
General Concepts
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Pixels / mm / points / picas
 1 inch = 72 pixels = 2,54 cm = 6 picas
 1 cm = 28,3 pixels = 0,393 inch = 2,358 picas
Image size and resolution
 DPI = Pixel Dimensions divided by Image Size, in
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Image depth
 number of colours in the image
Interpolation & resampling
Transparency
General Concepts (2)
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Anti-Aliasing & dithering
Blending & Blending modes: blending colour + base
colour = result colour
Raster & Vector images – rasterizing or “pixilation”
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Raster images are comprised of individual pixels.
Vector images are comprised of line segments and anchor
points (scale well)
Kerning & Tracking
Gamma: represents the contrast in the mid-tones of
an image.
Colour aspects
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Using colour palette
Using colour picker / eyedropper
Colour swatches / maps / tables
Hue / Saturation / Light – HSB model
Colour modes:
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RGB : Additive color = add visible wavelengths of light to arrive at a color
CMYK : Subtractive color = based on wavelengths of light that are reflected back to
the human eye
Gray scale : up to 256 shades of gray
Indexed : refers to positions on a color look-up table.
L*a*b color provides standard color descriptions.
Gamut
Colour depth 8 / 24 bits
Colour Management
Calibration means adjusting the monitor, software, and printer to produce
expected results in any color mode.
The toolbox
The toolbox (1)
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Info / Navigator
Tools for selections
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Retouching
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Rectangular / elliptical
Lasso / polygonal lasso / magnetic lasso
Magic wand
Healing brush / Patch tool
Painting
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Brush / pencil
Clone / Pattern stamp
Paint Bucket / Gradient
The toolbox (2)
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Focus
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Erasing tools
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Crop tool
Move tool
Adjustment
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Eraser / background eraser / magic eraser
Transforming
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Blur / Sharpen
Smudge
Dodge / exposure (tonal)
Sponge (colour)
Typing tools
The toolbox (3)
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Pen tool
Drawing tools
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Colour
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Rectangle tool
Ellipse tool
Polygon tool
Line tool
Custom shape tool
Eye dropper
Colour sampler
Measure tool
Hand tool
Zoom tool
Basic skills
Zooming
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With zoom tool
With navigator
With shortcuts
Making Selections
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With selection tools / combinations with Shift & Alt
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With Quick mask
With Masks
Colour selections
Changing selections
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Marquee
Lasso
Magic wand
New - Add to - Subtract from - Intersect with
Feather / anti-aliasing
invert / modify
transforming selections
Saving / loading / exchanging selections
Transforming Images
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Resizing / resolution / resampling
Cropping / Trimming
Canvas
Flipping / Rotating
Scaling / Skewing
Image extracts
Image Liquify
Moving in combination with ctrl & shift
Filling effects
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Filling
 Foreground and background colour
 Patterns
Gradients & custom gradients
Edit Fill
Edit Paste into
Edit Copy merged
Edit Stroke
Image adjustments
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Adjustments with basic tools
Image modes
Levels
Colour balance
HSL levels
Replacing colours
Inverting / Threshold
Gradient map
Variations
Working with layers
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Layer aspects
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Visibility / Locking
Background
Write / link
Opacity / Fill / Blending modes
Layer sets
Creating layers / renaming / copying / deleting /
moving / merging
Transferring layers between # files
Using Layer styles
Fill / adjustments layers
Use & selection of layers (in combination with Alt
& Ctrl keys)
Working with Text
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Type layers = vector objects
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Text options
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Type tool
Type Mask tool
Anti aliasing
Shadow
Paragraph and character settings
Rasterising text
Specifics
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Warped text
Text boxes
Masks
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Channels
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RGB channels
CMYK channels
Alpha channels
Quick mask mode
Creating masks / layer masks
Manipulating masks
Painting
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Painting tools
Option bar
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Using brushes
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the brush palette
hard-edged
soft-edged
Anti-aliased edges
Pencil tool
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Blending applies to all painting tools
Airbrush available for all tools
ideally for B/W, bitmap images
no anti-aliasing
Paintbrush tool
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soft edges, smooth, blended colour
always anti-aliased
Filters
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Sharpening
Rendering
Blurring
Pixilation
Texture
Strokes
Specific stand-alone filters
 Extracting
 Pattern Maker
 Liquify
Exercises
Exercises (1)
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Soft Asterix
Grasp those balloons
Show me the path
3D sphere
Feathered edges
Blurry borders
Thunder & lightning
Extract it
A button for my website
We want blood
Exercises (2)
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Create fire
X files
Smooth it !
Make some sound
Grid line patterns
Blend them together
Red eye fever
Just retouch it
Text on a curve
Exercises (3)
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Photo text
The good old days
Give it a glow
Shortcuts & tips
Shortcuts & tips (1)
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F to cycle through # modes
Ctrl + - to zoom in & out / Ctrl + 0 100%
Ctrl z : undo
Ctrl F6 : switch between files
Tab to hide palettes
2x click in a workspace to open document
I = Eyedropper ; T = Text ; B = Brush ; P = Pen ; M
= Marquee; L = Lasso ; W = Magic Wand ; E =
Erase ; I = Eyedropper; V = move ; S : Stamp ; C =
Crop
Alt + tool to switch
Shortcuts & tips (2)
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Ctrl + click on a layer to select
Ctrl key to move layers
Ctrl + J to copy layer
Alt + Move to duplicate
Shft + Backspace is Edit Fill
Shft + File Close to close all open windows
Alt + File New to open new file with previous
dimensions
Shortcuts & tips (3)
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Shft key to keep proportions
Shft key to draw straight lines
2x click on zoom icon for actual pixels
Ctrl + H to hide marching ants
Ctrl D to de-select
Ctrl Z to undo
Ctrl U HSL
Resources
Help
Newsgroups
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alt.graphics.photoshop
comp.graphics.apps.photoshop
http://www.adobeforums.com/
Internet Sites
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http://digicollage.com/asap/index.htm
http://www.photoshopace.com/tips_tricks.htm
http://www.elated.com/tutorials/graphics/photoshop/10_tips_beginners/
http://graphicssoft.about.com/library/course/bllps5out.htm
http://desktoppublishing.com/photoshop.html
http://user.fundy.net/morris/redirect.html?photoshop7.shtml
http://graphicdesign.about.com/cs/photoshoptips/
http://www.computerarts.co.uk/tutorials/2d/
http://www.tema.ru/p/h/o/t/o/s/h/o/p/
http://www.mccannas.com/pshop/photosh0.htm
http://www.photoshopuser.com/
http://www.trainingtools.com/online/photoshop7/blank.htm
http://www.myjanee.com/ps.htm
http://www.bluesfear.com/main.htm
http://photoshopwire.tripod.com/link/resources_link_index.htm
http://rainworld.com/psworkshop/
http://www.planetphotoshop.com/
http://www.photoshopcafe.com/tutorials.htm
http://www.teamphotoshop.com
http://www.photoshopfocus.com
http://www.trainingtools.com/online/photoshop7/index.htm
http://www.espressographics.com/
http://www.photoshop.brushes.btinternet.co.uk/
http://www.freephotoshop.com/
http://www.arraich.com/ps_intro.htm
Discussion Lists / Newsgroups
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http://www.listmoms.net/lists/
Advanced Course
Customization aspects
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Preset manager
Brushes
Swatches
Patterns
Custom shapes
Importing / exporting aspects
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PDF to PSD
File automate / Import
Working with actions
Plug-ins
Specifics
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Contact Sheet (Miniature)
Picture package
Web specifics
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Save for the web
Web Gallery
Transparent gifs
Working with slices and slices tool
Exchange with ImageReady
Colour Management & Colour modes
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Duo / Index / ...
Image mode / colour table
Image retouching / colour correction
Tools – enhanced & unplugged
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Paths
Slice tool
Erase / Brush to History plus Artistic
effect
Using tool presets – f.i. of tools without
any options
Channels & Masks
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By using save selection
By using channels pallet
Loading selections
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From pallet
From selection/load
From another image
Alpha channels / Composite channels / spot
channels
Calculations / Combining 2 channels
Multi-channel mode
Layers
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Layers styles / Scale / Global light
Grouping / Clipping
Layer sets (pass through)
Matting layers
Blending Unplugged
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Specifies how info from two sources is
combined
Accessible through layers palette or
options bar
Blending modes:
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Normal, Dissolve, Darken, Multiply, Color Burn,
Lighten, Screen, Color Dodge, Linear Dodge,
Overlay, Soft Light, Hard Light, Vivid Light,
Linear Light, Pin Light, Difference, Exclusion,
Hue, Saturation, Color, and Luminosity.
Paths
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Creating path layers (vector shapes)
Different tools
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Pen tool
Freeform pen tool
Path selection tools
Path editing tools
Magnetic pen tool
Editing anchor points, line segments &
curves
Paths (2)
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Specific use
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Creating a path from a Text
Converting selections into paths and vice versa
Transforming paths
Applying outline or colour to paths
Managing paths
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Saving, deleting, duplicating
Showing/hiding
Aligning and distributing paths
Levels
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Values and tones of an image
Presented as a histogram:
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Shadows left
Middle tones middle
High tones right
Printing
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Print Setup
Print preview
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output options
colour management
Proof setup