Introduction to Photoshop

Resources

ONLINE RESOURCES

Photoshop Reference Guide
From Peachpit Press

Photoshop.com
Learning Pages

Photoshoponline.com
Video Tutorials

Planet Photoshop
Resource hub for popular sites and current practices


BOOKS

Photoshop Bible
The bestselling, comprehensive reference on Photoshop, fully updated to CS5


TOOLS

BBEdit
The leading professional HTML and text editor for the Macintosh.



The Basics

Overview

  • Photoshop image is a BITMAP - A geometric arrangement (mapping) of dots on a rectangular grid
  • Raster/Vector
  • Modify pixels - pixel craft

Interface

  • OS & Windows
  • Menus
  • Tool Box
  • Palettes/Windows

Color Basics

  • RGB
  • CMYK
  • Grayscale
  • HSB
  • Pantone
  • Additive vs subtractive color
  • Channels
  • bitmap, grayscale, duotone, indexed color, RGB, CMYK, Lab Color, or Multichannel
  • RGB is luminous
  • Getting images in 8bit, 16bit

Homework

  • Read CHAPTER 8; Layer Basics
  • Read CHAPTER 9; Selections and Masks

Image Editing

Aquire, Create and Save

  • File resolution
  • Place command
  • New documents
  • Cameras and Sacnners

Color to Grayscale

  • File resolution
  • Brightness channel
  • Image adjustment Layer
  • Color mixer

Quick Mask

  • Covert to mask mode
  • Select a brush
  • Paint around selection
  • Erase by flipping foreground/background swatch
  • Convert back to full color mode

Masking Exercise

  • Create a path > Pen Tool, Lasso.
  • Make Selection > Feather
  • Create a New Layer
  • Atmospheric Perspective; Soften Background Layer
  • Adjust Color; HSB, Levels

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Homework

  • Read CHAPTER 12; Adjustment Layer Basics
  • Read CHAPTER 13; Adjustment in Depth
  • Read CHAPTER 14; Combining Images
  • Read CHAPTER 12; More Layers

Combining Images

Rubber Stamp Tool

  • Techniques and methods

BUILD A PANORAMA

  • Open all photos in photoshop
  • Adjust size and resolution to 72dpi, 500px wide
  • Create new document by expanding the CANVAS SIZE
  • Drag and drop all images into new doc
  • Adjust color and size to create a full panorama
  • Save as PSD
  • Flatten and Save as JPEG

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"Photoshop is not a verb. It is a noun. It is the means to an end, not the end itself."

Intro to HTML and Photoshop | Lou Fuiano