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Learning Guide
Navigating in Photoshop CS
Opening Images
Because Photoshops interface is different from the Microsoft
Office products, navigating within the Photoshop environment can
take some practice. Viewing existing images in the Photoshop
environment is a great way to become acquainted with the
Photoshop interface. To view an existing image:
From the File menu, select Open.
Maximize
Close
Zoom Tool
Tip: When you position the cursor over any tool, Photoshop
displays a pop-up box containing the tool's name and its keyboard
shortcut.
After you select the Zoom Tool, your cursor will appear as a
magnifying glass whenever you place it on your image.
To zoom out:
o Press the ALT key on your keyboard.
o The symbol within the magnifying glass cursor will
change from a plus sign to a minus sign.
o As you press the ALT key simultaneously click on the
image with the magnifying class cursor.
o Each time you click on the image, it will reduce in size
and the percentage of its magnification will decrease.
To zoom out
Original Image
From the submenu that appears, select the rotation you wish to
apply to your image.
To rotate your image.
Choose.
Upside-down
180
90o CW
90o CCW
Arbitrary
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Tip:
When you constrain the proportions of an image in Photoshop, it is
as if you are dragging on the corner of an image box in
PowerPoint; both the height and width are changed
proportionally. Conversely, changing the dimensions of an image
without checking the Constrain Proportions box is similar to
stretching the image in PowerPoint by dragging on the side or
bottom of its image box.
In some cases, distorting your image can be useful. For example,
you may want to make an image appear larger, but you may only
have room to increase its proportions in one direction.
Furthermore, in some cases, you may want your image to appear
stretched or warped so that you can strongly emphasize one aspect
of the image.
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Crop Tool
After you select the Crop Tool, your cursor will appear as a
cropping symbol whenever you place it on your image.
With the cropping cursor click and drag to draw a large box
around the portion of your image that you wish to keep. This
part of your image within your selection is known as the
cropping marquee.
Photoshop will darken the part of your image that is outside the
cropping marquee. This darkened portion will be removed
from your image when the cropping is complete.
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You can access the option bar by selecting the crop tool from the
floating tool bar or typing C as your keyboard shortcut. The crop
tool option bar will change to reflect crop utilities at the top of
your Photoshop window.
Example:
A digital image may have a resolution of 2600 x 1800 pixels at
72dpi. The print size of this picture would be enormous without
some adjustments. You may want to center in on a particular
section of the photo without distorting the image. By using a
combination of the Image Size information and the crop tool
option bar, you can easily and quickly size your picture to a print
size that you desire without losing any quality to the picture.
This original picture was 500 x 667 pixels at 72 dpi. Using the
option bar, you can center in on Jean Mayers head to make the
cropped image a 2 inch by 3 inch photo at 100 dpi.
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From the Current Size region at the top of the Canvas Size
window, locate the actual dimensions of your image.
Width
Current
Dimension
330 pixels
Plus Border
Width
+ 10 pixels
New
Dimension
= 340 pixels
Height
397 pixels
+ 10 pixels
= 407 pixels
Example
Tip: The Anchor area at the bottom of the Canvas Size window
indicates where your existing image will be positioned on the new
canvas. The default option, with the central square selected,
positions your image at the center of the new canvas and adds a
border evenly to each side of your image.
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The hue of your new foreground color will appear at the top of
the color selection rectangle to the right of the color slider.
Your original foreground color appears at the bottom of the
rectangle.
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Tips:
You can click on any state within the History Palette to return
your image to that state.
Once you select a previous image state from the History
Palette, the image states beneath the state you picked become
deselected.
If you make a change to your image after returning to a
previous state, all the states that had been deselected will be
removed and your most recent changes will be recorded.
By default, the History Palette only lists the 20 most recent
states of your image. Previous states are automatically deleted
to free more memory for Photoshop.
In addition to using the History Palette, you can undo the most
recent change to your image by selecting the Undo command
from the Edit menu.
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o When you release the mouse button, the area that was
chosen for deselection will be removed from your final
selection.
Tip: If you accidentally click away from your selected area and
lose your selection, you can use the History Palette to restore your
selected area. You can also use the History Palette to correct your
selection mistakes.
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After you select the Elliptical Marquee Tool, your cursor will
appear as a cross-hair symbol whenever you place it on your
image.
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After you select the Magic Wand Tool, your cursor will
appear as a magic wand symbol whenever you place it on your
image.
With the magic wand cursor click on the colored area of your
image that you wish to select.
The entire similarly colored area will be selected.
Tip: Selecting all the areas of your image that are the same color
Sometimes you may want to select more than one area of you
image that is the same color. In the previous example, you might
want to change all the blue areas of the TUFTS letters to brown.
Instead of individually adding each blue area to your selection, the
Magic Wand Tool allows you to select all the blue areas at once.
To select all of the areas of your image that have the same color:
On the magic wand options bar locate the Contiguous
checkbox.
Click on the box to remove the checkmark. Without a
checkmark in this box, youll be able to select non-adjacent
areas of the same color.
With the magic wand cursor click on the area of your image
that is the color you want to select.
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Photoshop will select all the areas of your image that are the
color which you chose.
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After you select the Paint Bucket Tool, your cursor will
appear as a paint bucket symbol whenever you place it on your
image.
To fill your selected area, position the paint bucket within the
selected area of your image and click.
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JPEG:
Best format for photographs or images with subtle color
changes.
Offers compression to reduce the size of your image files.
Permits 16.7 million colors.
Does not work well for images that have large stretches of a
single color.
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Format Menu
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Quality Menu
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At the top right corner of the Preset area, confirm that GIF
appears in the Format menu. If GIF does not appear:
o Click on the down-facing arrow next to the Format
menu.
o From the drop-down menu that appears select GIF.
o The different menus within the Preset area will change
to those that correspond with the GIF format.
Directly to the right of the Format menu locate the box labeled
Lossy.
Click within the Lossy box and type 15.
Lossy
Box
Format
Menu
Tip: The Lossy box is similar to the Quality box for JPEG format.
The Lossy box allows you to choose the amount of data that will be
selectively discarded to reduce the size of your images file. The
higher the Lossy value, the more data that will be discarded.
You can often apply a Lossy value of 5-10, and sometimes up to
50, without degrading the image. By using the Lossy menu you can
often reduce the file size of your image by 5%-40%.
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Place your cursor over one of the image versions, then drag to
display a section of the image that was previously hidden.
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Unlocking an image
When you borrow an image from the web, it may be locked to
protect it from changes. If your image is locked, a small padlock
symbol will appear on the Background layer in the Layers
Palette at the lower right corner of the Photoshop window.
Padlock Symbol
In the New Layer box that appears, enter a name for your
unlocked background layer in the box labeled Name.
Click OK to finish unlocking your image.
After you have done so, the layer will look like the one below.
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Within the Color Table click on the small, gray and whitecheckered color swatch.
A black border will appear around the color swatch once it is
selected.
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