ADOBE

PHOTOSHOP
INTRODUCTION
Adobe Photoshop is an image editing software developed and published by Adobe Systems Inc. it can enhance
and even manipulate images to get your desired output. You can create a collage, alter a photograph or add special
effects. You can also crop or resize an image, or even save a document in different file types.
There are number of sources for documents that can be manipulated in Photoshop: photographs from digital
cameras, artwork or drawing created in other software, scanned images from magazine, or still pictures from a video.

HISTORY OF ADOBE PHOTOSHOP
On the year 1987, Thomas Knoll was writing a thesis about image processing in Ann Arbor, Michigan and was
dismayed that his computer could not display the grayscale level of his images. Being able to write computer programs,
he wrote a code that would do the job. He called the program Display.
Thomas’ brother, John, was so impressed by the program that he convinced his brother to make the software
commercially available. At that time, John was working with ILM (Industrial Light and Magic), a company specializing in
special effects for movies.
In the following months, they worked together on the program and the result was an image editing software
they called ImagePro. Unfortunately, most companies were not interested in the program or were developing their own,
until BarneyScan allowed the program, renamed it Photoshop, to be bundled with their scanners.
In September 1988, Adobe Systems purchased the license to distribute Photoshop, and after some major
improvements, it was officially released in February 1990 as Photoshop 1.0. the Program continued to adopt the version
number until the version 8 renamed it as Photoshop Creative Suite.

WHAT IS ADOBE PHOTOSHOP CS6?
Photoshop CS6 is a tool to create, modify, combine and optimize digital photos and image in your computer.
This program excels in digital photograph and is used to perform subtle changes such as adjusting brightness and
contrast of the image, combines different image elements and keeps your images organized.
GETTING TO KNOW ADOBE PHOTOSHOP CS63
Workspace
Option Bar Options
Menu Bar

Document
Panels
Tab

Panel Dock

Tools Panel Status Bar
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NAME FUNCTION
Menu Bar Displays menus that contain most of the Photoshop Command
Options Bar Displays the controls that are used to customize the selected tool in the Toolbox
Document Tab Displays the name, color code and magnification of the open file or image.
Tools Panel Displays the different icons or tools that are used to modify or edit the image
Status Bar Displays the magnification of the image and he image information
Document Window Displays the image or the file that you have opened
Workspace Option Displays the controls that are used for a pre-set like 3D, Motion, Painting, Photography and
Typography
Panels They are the small windows that allow you to access common commands. These panels can
be moved anywhere within the window
Panel Dock The location where the panels can be stacked together to allow a full view of the image

Marquee Tool Move Tool

Lasso Tool Quick Selection Tool

Crop Tool Eye Dropper Tool

Spot Healing Brush Brush Tool

Tool

Stamp Tool History Brush Tool

Erase Tool Paint Bucket Tool

Blur Tool Dodge Tool

Pen Tool

Text Tool

Path Selection Tool Line Tool

Hand Tool Zoom Tool

Toggle between foreground
and background

Toggle between foreground Set Foreground Color

and background

Edit in Quick Mask Mode Full Screen Mode

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SELECTION TOOLS
NAME FUNCTIONS SHORTCUT
Move Tool Moves Selection, layers and Guides V
Marquee Tool Makes Rectangular Selection M
Lasso Tool Makes free hand or snap to the selections L
Quick Selection Tool Makes you quickly paint a selection using a round brush tip W
Crop Tool Crops the Image C
Slice Tool Makes you slice the images free handedly

RETOUCHING TOOLS
NAME FUNCTIONS SHORTCUT
Spot Healing Brush Tool Removes blemishes from objects J
Brush Tool Paints brush strokes B
Stamp Tool Clones and area of the image that is selected to be stamped S
History Brush Tool Paints a copy of the selected state into the current image window Y
Erase Tool Erase pixels E
Paint Bucket Tool Applies solid colors to and object or image G
Blur Tool Blurs hard edges images
Dodge Tool Lightens areas in images O

DRAWING AND TYPE TOOLS

NAME FUNCTIONS SHORTCUT
Pen Tool Draws smooth edges paths P
Text Tool Creates texts T
Path Selection Tool Makes shapes or segment selections showing anchor points, direction lines A
and points
Line Tool Draws lines U

ANNOTATIONS, MEASURING AND NAVIGATION TOOLS

NAME FUNCTIONS SHORTCUT
Note tool Makes notes and annotations attached in the image I
Eye Dropper Tool Samples colors in an image I
Hand Tool Moves your image within the window H
Zoom Tool Zooms in and zooms out your image Z

OTHER TOOLS
NAME FUNCTIONS
Toggle between foreground and background Toggle between foreground and background colors
Set Foreground Color Allows you to set the foreground color
Edit in Quick Mask Mode Edits the image in quick ask mode
Screen Mode Allows you to toggle between Standard Screen Mode, Full Screen
Mode with Menu Bar or Full Screen Mode

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UNDERSTANTING COLOR AND IMAGE MODE

A color mode determines how colors make up an image. Here are the modes of color.

Ø Bitmap – only the colors black and white can be used in images. Line art images use this mode.

Ø Grayscale – uses up to 256 shades of gray. The color black is given a value of 0 and all numbers between
1 and 254 are increasingly lighter shades of gray. White have a value of 255. This mode is used for
images that contain only black, gray and white.

Ø RGB Color – uses three primary colors, red, green, and blue and is the format that is used on computer
monitors. Within this color mode, up to 16.7 million different colors can be displayed. RGB color is
normally used for color images as all file formats and filters within Photoshop support this mode.

Ø CMYK Color – used primarily for printing. Within this mode, colors are given percentage value for each
of the process inks – cyan, magenta, yellow and black. When working with print images, the editing is
often done within RGB Mode and the mode is changed to CMYK as the final step.

PHOTOSHOP FILE FORMATS

Ø Photoshop (.psd / .pdd) – the native file format. It cannot be used with other programs, but it allows the
greatest flexibility when working with images. It supports all color modes and features as alpha
channels, paths and layers. Although the file format compresses the image file, the file is still larger than
compressed files of other formats. This file format is usually used to create and edit the image and a
final copy is save in another format for use in Web Pages, print or Multimedia Presentation.

Ø Bitmap (.bm / .rle) – the most basic graphic file format. When saving a bitmap file, the operating system
must be specified, wither windows or OS/2 and configure the depth of the image up to a value of 32
bits. Channels and layers cannot be saved in this format. They are typically uncompressed files so expect
the files to be quite large.

Ø Compressed GIF (.gif) – Graphic Interchange Format was developed as a way to compress image sizes. It
is used fir internet images, animations and images with transparent sections. The GIF format supports
up to 256 colors (8bit) and is not suitable for complex images such as photographs.

Ø Photoshop EPS (.eps) Encapsulated Post Script format, used for vector or bitmap image, is appropriate
when importing images to an editing program, such as Illustrator, PageMaker, or QuarkXpress. The EPS
Format is normally used in the print process, so images will often need to be changed to CMYK Mode.