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 Toolbox Main Menu Tool Options Bar Canvas Palettes Status Bar

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 Tools 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

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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