1. Adobe Photoshop CS2

2. What is Adobe Photoshop? image editor Adobe Photoshop is an image editor. – It lets you open an image and change it, whether the picture is captured with a scanner or a digital camera or downloaded from the Web.

3. What is Adobe Photoshop? With Adobe Photoshop, you can – change the brightness and contrast – adjust the colors – move things around – sharpen the focus – retouch a few details – and much more If you can imagine doing something to an image, Photoshop can do it. It’s that capable. So…. Let’s begin our Adobe Photoshop adventure!

4. Toolbox Menu bar Menu bar Options bar Options bar Title bar Title bar Image Window Image Window Docking well Docking well Palettes Shortcut menu Shortcut menu Status bar Status bar Cursor Scroll bar Scroll bar Size box Size box

5. Interface and Image Window Image Window image window Image Window – Each open image appears in a separate window, thus permitting you to open multiple images at once. In Photoshop, the image window is your canvas. This is where you paint and edit with tools and apply commands. Illustration

6. Interface and Image Window Toolboxtoolbox Toolbox – The toolbox provides access to Photoshop’s drawing, editing, and selection tools, as well as common screen and color controls. – Click an icon to select a tool; then use the tool in the image window. slot – A small triangle in the bottom-right corner of a tool icon shows that multiple tools share a single box, or slot. Click and hold a slot icon to display a flyout menu of alternate tools. – Or press the Alt key and click a slot to cycle between tools. Illustration

7. Interface and Image Window Menu Bar – menu bar Menu Bar – Click a name in the menu bar to display a list of commands. Choose a command by clicking on it. – A command followed by three dots (such as New…) displays a window of options called a dialog box. Otherwise, the command works right away. Illustration

8. Interface and Image Window Options baroptions bar Options bar – The settings in the options bar modify the behavior of the active tool. The options bar is context sensitive, so you see a different set of options each time you switch to a different tool. – If the options bar somehow disappears, you can restore it by pressing the Enter or Return key. Illustration

9. Interface and Image Window Title bar title bar Title bar – Each open image is topped off by a title bar that lists the name of the last- saved version of the image. If you haven’t saved the image, it may appear as “Untitled.” – Click the title bar to make an image window active so you can edit its contents; double-click to display the image full screen; drag the title bar to move an image out of the way. Illustration

10. Interface and Image Window Docking well docking well. Docking well – The gray bar in the upper- right corner of the screen is the docking well. – Drag a palette tab and drop it into the well to move it out of view. – Click a tab inside the well to temporarily display the palette. – Drag a tab out of the well to restore a freestanding palette. Illustration

11. Palettes palette Palettes – A palette is a floating window of options that remains visible on the screen regardless of what you’re doing. – Move a palette by dragging the title bar at the top of the palette. – Many palettes contain multiple panels. To switch between panels, click one of the wedge-shaped tabs below the title bar. Interface and Image Window Illustration

12. Interface and Image Window Shortcut menu shortcut menu Shortcut menu – Under Windows, right-click the mouse to display a shortcut menu of options for the active tool. – Photoshop provides shortcut menus in the image window and inside many palettes. When in doubt right-click. Illustration

13. Interface and Image Window Scroll bars scroll bars Scroll bars – Only so much of an image can fit inside the image window at once. The scroll bars let you pan the image horizontally or vertically to display hidden areas. – If a scroll bar is empty, you are zoomed out far enough to see the entire width or height of the image. Illustration

14. Interface and Image Window Status bar status bar Status bar – The bottom-left corner of each and every image window sports a status bar that includes a zoom value, the file size, a preview box, and a pop-up menu of various preview options. Illustration

15. Interface and Image Window Size box size box Size box – The size box allows you to drag the bottom-right corner of the image window to make it bigger or smaller. Illustration

16. Interface and Image Window Cursor cursor Cursor – The cursor (sometimes called the pointer) is your mouse’s on-screen representative. It moves as your mouse moves and changes to reflect the active tool or operation. Keep an eye on it and you’ll have a better sense of where you are and what you’re doing. Illustration

17. Interface and Image Window Window controls window controls. Window controls – Whether you’re working on a Mac or PC, you’ll see three controls in the title bar that let you hide, size, and close an image window. These are called your window controls. – The Mac controls are on the left. – The Window controls are on the right. Illustration

18. Adobe Photoshop Tips … You can customize the arrangement of palettes by dragging a tab from one palette and dropping it anywhere inside another. super palette Drag a tab onto the bottom of a palette to attach one palette to the bottom of another, resulting to a super palette. Then click the tabs to switch between palettes. Illustration

19. Adobe Photoshop Tips … Press the Tab key to hide the toolbox, options bar, and all palettes. Press Tab again to bring them back. (If Tab does not summon the toolbox, choose Window Tools.) To hide or show the palettes independently of the toolbox and options bar, press Shift+Tab. Illustration

20. And now…. Open Adobe Photoshop CS2 and explore the Image Window. Locate each of the items shown today and when you do, check the item on your notes.

21. STOP COMPLETE WORKSHEETS PROVIDED BEFORE MOVING ON.

22. Adobe Photoshop Toolbox The tool section of the Toolbox consists of four groups of squares (6, 8, 4 and 4) immediately below top rectangle. There are 22 tools visible at any time. The Toolbox is actually made up of 46 tools.

23. Selection Tools (1 st group of 6 tools) Marqueetools – The Marquee tools make rectangular, elliptical, single row, and single column selections. Movetool – The Move tool moves selections, layers, and guides. Lassotools – The Lasso tools make freehand, polygonal (straight-edged), and magnetic (snap-to) selections. Magic Wand – The Magic Wand selects similarly colored areas. Croptool – The Crop tool trims images. Slicetool – The Slice tool creates slices. Slice Select tool – The Slice Select tool selects slices.

24. Painting Tools (next group of 8 tools) Healing brushtool – The Healing brush tool paints with a sample or pattern to repair imperfections in an image. Spot Healing brushtool – The Spot Healing brush tool allows you to click or paint flaws away, remove entire objects, and heal across all layers with your choice of blending and sample modes. Patchtool – The Patch tool repairs imperfections in a selected area of an image using a sample or pattern. Red Eyetool – The Red Eye tool removes red eye in flash photos of people and white or green reflections in flash photos of animals. Brush tool – The Brush tool paints brush strokes on an image. Pencil tool – The Pencil tool makes hard-edged brush strokes. Color Replacement tool – The Color Replacement tool substitutes one color for another.

25. Painting Tools (next group of 8 tools) Clone stamp tool – The Clone stamp tool paints with a sample of an image. Pattern stamp tool – The Pattern stamp tool paints with a part of an image as a pattern. History brushtool – The History brush tool paints a copy of the selected state or snapshot into the current image window. Art History brush – The Art History brush paints stylized strokes that simulate the look of different paint styles, using a selected state or snapshot. Erasertool – The Eraser tool erases pixels and restores part of an image to a previously saved state. Background Eraser tool – The Background Eraser tool erases areas to transparency by dragging. Magic Eraser tool – The Magic Eraser tool erases solid-colored areas to transparency with a single click.

26. Painting Tools (continued) Gradienttool – The Gradient tool creates straight-line, radial, angle, reflected, and diamond blends between colors. Paint Buckettool – The Paint Bucket tool fills similarly colored areas with the foreground color. Blurtool – The Blur tool blurs hard edges in an image. Sharpentool – The Sharpen tool sharpens soft edges in an image. Smudgetool – The Smudge tool smudges data in an image. Dodgetool – The Dodge tool lightens areas in an image. Burntool – The Burn tool darkens areas in an image. Spongetool – The Sponge tool changes the color saturation of an area.

27. Mixed (Next 4 tools have various uses.) Path Selectiontools – The Path Selection tools make shaped or segment selections showing anchor points, direction lines, and direction points. Typetool creates – The Type tool creates type in an image. Text becomes a bitmap and does not remain editable as text after it is placed in an image. – The Type mask tools – The Type mask tools create a selection in the shape of type. Pentools – The Pen tools draw smooth-edged paths. Custom Shape tool – The Custom Shape tool makes customized shapes selected from a custom shape list.

28. Navigating ( Final group of 4 tools) Annotation tools – The Annotation tools make notes and audio annotations that can be attached to an image. Eyedropper tool – The Eyedropper tool samples colors in an image. Measure tool – The Measure tool measures distances, locations, and angles. Color Sampler tool – The Color Sampler tool samples up to four areas of the image. Handtool – The Hand tool moves an image within the image window. Zoomtool – The Zoom tool magnifies and reduces the view of an image. Shortcut: **Shortcut: Double-clicking the Zoom tool restores the image instantly to 100% view.**

29. Color Controls (Located under tools) large squares – The large squares represent the current foreground and background colors. Clicking on either square brings up the Color Picker, which allows you to change the colors. two small overlapping squares – The two small overlapping squares represent a single control, which allows you to automatically change the foreground to black and the background to white with a single click. line with arrowheads – The line with arrowheads allows you to swap the foreground and background colors. Shortcut **Shortcut: Pressing “X” swaps colors.**

30. Photoshop’s Viewing Modes Standard mode tool – The Standard mode tool is used to toggle out of the Quickmask mode which you can enter by clicking on the right-hand icon. Standard screen mode – The Standard screen mode shows the image window normally. Full screen mode with menu bar – The Full screen mode with menu bar fills all the space behind the image window and palettes with a light gray, leaving the menus visible. Full screen mode – The Full screen mode hides the menu bar and turns the background black. – The bottom button allows you to switch between ImageReady™ and Photoshop ®.

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32. Interface Tools Review

33. Toolbox Menu bar Options bar Title bar Image Window Docking well Palettes Shortcut menu Status bar Cursor Scroll bar Size box

34. Adobe Photoshop Layers

35. ImageReady Tools Toggle Image Map Visibility tool – The Toggle Image Map Visibility tool toggles between showing and hiding image maps. Toggle Slices Visibility tool – The Toggle Slices Visibility tool toggles between showing and hiding slices in an image. Preview Document tool – The Preview Document tool previews rollover effects directly in ImageReady. Preview in Default Browser tool – The Preview in Default Browser tool previews animations in a Web browser. Tab Rectangletool – The Tab Rectangle tool draws a rectangle with rounded upper corners. Pill Rectangletool – The Pill Rectangle tool draws a rectangle with all corners rounded.