1. Using Photoshop for Business
Introduction and Lesson 1

2. Why use Photoshop?
Photoshop is a great tool for adapting photographs so they better suit your purpose
Photographers use this program all the time to touch up photographs but businesses will also use it to enhance photos that will appear in advertisements and brochures

3. What are we doing today? We will be learning how to:
Select a photo for editing
Select an object within that photograph
Blur a background
Change the background from colour to black and white

4. Step 1 – Get your photo Open up Adobe Photoshop Elements 8
Go to File  Open and find the picture you want to edit

5. Step 2 – Creating a background layer
Now that you have your picture, go to Layer  Duplicate Layer and duplicate as background copy

6. Step 3 – Selecting your item
Now you want to choose the Quick Selection Tool
Ensure that the plus (+) tool is clicked (top left) and click auto enhance
Now, holding down your mouse, draw around the item you want to separate from the photo
It will predict what you are trying to select but if it selects more, you use the minus (-) tool to remove the extra selection
If you click on the percentage (%) number at the bottom Left of the picture and increase the number, you can zoom in on your picture to be more precise in your selection

7. Step 3 – Selecting your item

8. Step 4 – Make corrections to your selected object
You can make corrections or adjustments a number of ways, most notably through the enhance or filter menus
Depending on what you are trying to do, play around with some of these functions
We want to make one thing colour with everything else black and white so you will probably leave your selected object in colour

9. Step 5 – Selecting the background
When you are finished adjusting your centre object, you want to select the background
Select the background by clicking Select  Inverse
Now you can adjust the background of the item

10. Step 6 – Blurring the Background
Now that you have selected the background, to blur it click on
Filter  Blur  Gaussian Blur
By increasing the
numbers, you
increase the
amount of blur

11. Step 7 – Changing the background to black and white
Changing the background colour scheme can be adjusted through the filter tab
Filter  Adjustments  Gradient Map
Choose the black / white option
Now you have
created a dual
colour / BW photo

12. Step 8 – De-selecting and Saving
To get rid of the crawling ants that denote your selections, click Ctrl-D
To Save, click
File  Save As 
Select the location you want to save it in (Create a file on your M Drive called Photoshop Pictures and save it there)
Change the format to JPEG
Click OK

13. The Results
Here is an example of what you can do !

14. Your Assignment
You are to adjust 2 different photographs to include a portion colour and a portion Black/White
Some of the photos objects must be clear but backgrounds must be blurred
Have Fun!