PhotoshopPhotoshop

Photoshop What is Photoshop? An image editing program used to create and modify digital images What is a digital image? – A picture in an electronic form

Application bar Tools panel Workspace options Thumbnails of minimized panels Expanded panels Zoom controls Layers panel Workspace

TOOLS

Zoom Tool Used to enlarge and reduce the image on your screen Three ways to ZOOM IN Choose the Zoom tool Press Z Type a magnification value Three ways to ZOOM OUT Release the Z Type a magnification value Choose Zoom out from the VIEW menu

CROP TOOL Cropping an image is a basic task in which you define an area of an image that you want to keep and then discard the remainder of the image. Two ways to CROP – Image>Crop – Use the Crop Tool To cancel the crop, hit ESC.

UNDO Three ways to UNDO an action – CTRL + Z – File, Revert – History Panel

Resolution A bitmap graphic is a graphic composed of pixels. The word pixel is derived from the words picture and element. A bitmap image is a grid of pixels. Photoshop images are bitmap graphics. Resolution is a measurement: the number of pixels per inch (ppi).

Image Size and File Size Image Size refers to the physical dimensions of the image – width and height. – 8 x 10 – 5 x 7 File Size refers to how big the file is in computer memory – how much storage space it takes up on your computer – 42 MB (megabytes)

Standard File Formats for Photoshop Files File FormatExtensionUse Bitmap.bmpBitmap images, popular with Windows operating systems CompuServe GIF.gifWeb graphics Photoshop EPS.epsPhotoshop graphics with shape layers or live type Photoshop PSD.psdBasic format for all Photoshop documents JPEG.jpg,.jpegWeb graphics, images to be ed PICT.pct,.pictGraphics to be used in presentation programs, such as Powerpoint Portable Network Graphics.pngHigh-quality Web graphics Tagged Image Format.tif,.tiffGraphics to be used for print in page layout programs