Introduction to Adobe Photoshop CS 3

Adobe Photoshop is the ‘Industry Standard’ for correcting and manipulating photographic images. The program reads a wide
range of file formats (MAC and PC) and can convert and produce images suitable for external and in-house printing,
photocopying and web pages.

New Document Settings Work Area

“move tool” (icon that has a cursor and crosshair on it). Use this tool to move objects on the screen around
“rectangular Marquee tool”. Use this tool to make squares around areas in an image to cut them out [4 variations]
“lasso tool.” Allows you to highlight an image. This tool likes to have smooth hard edges to follow. [3 variations]

“crop tool”. It is like a marquee tool except it is made specifically for cutting square pieces out of images.
“slice tool.” Allows you to slice an image into smaller pieces. Usually used in web design with the use of tables.
“image problem fixing tools”. Spot Healing Brush / Healing Brush / Patch tool / Redeye tool .
Drawing tools - Brush tool / Pencil tool / Color Replacement tool
Stamp tools - Clone Stamp tool to edit out an area of a picture. Pattern Stamp tool to stamp a specific pattern.
History Brush tool to restore original image in part of an image. Art History Brush tool to copy texture of an image
Eraser tools - Eraser / Background Eraser Tool / The Magic Eraser tool
Gradient tool - to make colors stretch from high to low in intensity. Paint Bucket tool is capable of filling in a space
Blur tool blurs the area. Sharpen tool increases the contrast. Smudge tool blends the pixels.
Dodge tool lightens an area. Burn tool darkens an area. Sponge tool changes level of saturation.
Pen tool - to create paths, curves, and anchor points. Freeform Pen tool / Add Anchor Point tool
Type tools (Horizontal & Vertical). Type Mask tool for text that is filled with a patter or an image as the font color.
Path Selection tool and Direct Selection tool are both used for paths.
Rounded Rectangle tool / Ellipse tool / Polygon tool / Line tool
Notes tool to add small notes to your images in the background. Audio Annotation tool to add verbal notes
Eyedropper tool to sample color from an area. Color Sampler tool / Ruler tool / The Count tool
Hand tool is used to move objects that are in a layer
Zoom tool helps you zoom in on a picture or object
Default Foreground & Background Colors tool to return back to black and white
Switch Foreground & Background Color tool to switch the colors you using.

Each of these features has its sub-features displayed at the top of the work area when you click on them.
toolbar

Resolution: • The higher your resolution, the better the quality of the print, the bigger the file size and the slower your
computer will be handling it all.
• For in house printing, a good resolution is 150 dpi, for commercial printing 300 dpi is recommended and
this should be set in the File/ New Document dialogue box first.
• Any image for the Internet should be set at 72 dpi because this the common Monitor resolution. Images
should also be saved as a JPEG with appropriate compression for the internet. Images should not be greater
that 100 KB, if possible.
1. Starting 1. Load Photoshop and go to the top left of the screen and select file > new.
2. Set the New Document settings (see Resolution), and then OK - to present you
with a blank window with the name of the file, percent of the resolution it is viewing
at, and the color mode you have chosen at the top of the window.
2. Resizing To change the physical (printable) size of an image choose Image > Image size
and adjust your Print Size Dimensions as required. Note options of cms, inches and
pixels (recommend pixels). Leave the Constrain Proportions option selected unless
you deliberately want to distort your image.
Cropping A useful means of resizing and/or deleting unwanted parts of the image. Select the
part of the image you wish to keep with the Marquee tool and go to Image > Crop.
3. Simple 1. Select a Drawing tool to draw
Drawing 2. Use the Options toolbar at the top to choose options (toolbar available through
WINDOW > Options)
3. Use EDIT menu to undo or step backward
4. Use Eraser tool to erase
5. Use Marquee tool to select for copy or cut (Use SELECT > Deselect to
deselect Marquee tool”
4. Working with 1. Use FILE > PLACE to insert graphic
graphics Move and double click to confirm placement
2. You can also open a graphic using FILE > Open
- if you want to edit you have to rasterize first
5. Image Go to the IMAGE > Adjustments > Brightness and Contrast.
appearance
6. Layers LAYERS - Photoshop creates a new layer each time you paste down
another image. Any action you wish to apply to an image will only apply
to the selected layer. Layers can be closed, created/deleted, sent to the
front or back etc. Filters can be applied to specified layers as well. Any
object on a layer can be transformed in a number of ways e.g. flipped,
scaled, rotated etc.

Go to the LAYERS Menu > Transform, to experiment with the options

available.

7. “image Spot Healing Brush tool allows you to fix areas of an image by replacing or blending
problem fixing the colors in an area so that it is like growing a new piece of skin over a bad rash.
tools”. Healing Brush tool allows you to fix problems in the image by sampling the
surrounding area around the problem and trying to replicate the pattern in the area that
is problematic. Patch tool is pretty much a mix of the Healing Brush and the Lasso
tool. It is allows you to highlight the area that is scratched or empty and sample the
surrounding area to fix the problem. Lastly, Redeye tool allows you to select the
common problem of red eyes and correct them with sampling a piece of the black pupil
area and replacing the red eye with the natural pupil color.
8. Manipulation FILTERS - The is an amazing number of distortion filters available for this application.
Many are over used and cliched but interesting nevertheless. They work best when
used for specific effects or on smaller areas.

SELECTIONS - On the tool bar, you can select specific areas of your image to work
on. You have a rectangular, elliptical, vertical, horizontal and crop tool to choose from.
The Lasso tool lets you select irregular area using free hand or straight line selections.
The Magic Wand tool lets select areas of similar colour. It’s dialogue box allows you to
adjust ‘tolerance’ which refers to the degree of similarity. The default setting should be
32. The lower the number the more similar tone and colours must be etc. Careful
manipulation of the selection tools is an important skill to develop with this program.
9. Importing Digital Camera: To open scanned or digital camera images, open Photoshop and open
images your images from the File menu.