Basics of Photoshop

PHOTOSHOP
TUTORIAL
Choose a topic:

 Workspace
 Creating Images
 Type Tool
 Drawing
 Painting
 Layers
Workspace
Workspace
The Photoshop workspace consists of
five main components:

 Application Bar
 Tools Panel
 Options Bar
 Document Window
 Panel Dock
Workspace
The Application Bar
The Application Bar, new to Photoshop CS4, is located across the top of the screen. It
contains the old menu bar, along with a number of other controls. The menu bar
contains controls for managing and editing files, manipulating images, managing
layers, and more.
Workspace

Tools Panel
The familiar Tools Panel contains a collection of
tools for creating, selecting, and manipulating
images. Tools that have a similar function are
grouped together.
Workspace
Options Bar
The Options Bar is located below the Application Bar. The options change depending
on the tool you have selected. For example, when you select the Type tool, options
pertaining to text editing will appear across the bar.
Workspace

Document Window
The Document Window displays the file
you're working on.
Workspace
Panel Dock
A vertical dock of panels is located on the
right of the workspace. Panels help you
manage and edit your images, allowing for
quick and easy access to the most common
controls for a particular task. By default,
three panels will appear when you open
Photoshop: the layers, adjustments and
styles panels.
Creating Images
Creating Images
How to create new image?

To create a new image, follow these steps:

1. Click File from the Application Bar.
2. Click New. A dialog box will open, allowing you
to define the following elements of your image:

 Name
 Sizes
 Resolution
 Color Mode
 Background Content
Creating Images
 Name - allows you to name your image.

 Size - allows you to predetermine the width and height of your image.
Photoshop offers preset dimensions for sizing your image, or you can customize your own size using
many types of measurements including pixels, centimeters, inches, and millimeters.

 Resolution - allows you to set the image resolution. A resolution of 72 ppi (pixels per
inch) is generally used for Internet images. If you wish to use your images for print or video, they will
need to be a higher resolution.

 Color Mode - allows you to control the color mode of your image. The standard color
mode is RGB (Red Green Blue). You can also choose to create your image in grayscale, bitmap, and
more. Some modes will limit your color range.

 Background Content - allows you to choose the initial background color of your image.
Creating Images
3. When you are happy with your selections, click OK.
Type Tool
Type Tool
The Type Tool is used to create text in Photoshop. It is a feature used mostly with
desktop publishing and the Web, as most people don't tend to print out home photos
with text on the pictures.

1. Open the image that you want to add text to.

2. Click the Type tool from the Tools Panel.
3. Click the document where you want the text to appear.
4. Type your text.
Type Tool
Photoshop provides many different options for writing text. To access these options,
hold the mouse down on the Type Tool on the Tools Palette. The following options will
appear.

Type examples:
 Arched Text
 Vertical Text
 Formatted Text
Drawing
Drawing
Vector graphics are made with mathematical
equations and formulas. When you zoom in on a
vector graphic, its variables change to accommodate
your action and you end up with a graphic that looks
exactly the same, except bigger.

Raster graphics (Bitmap) store picture data as a matrix

of pixels (dots). When you zoom in on the picture, the
pixels become enlarged, resulting in a fuzzy, jagged
picture with visible pixels.
Drawing

The main drawing tools are located on the Tools

Palette: the Pen Tool, Shapes Tool, Path
Selection Tool. To expand the options for a tool,
hold the mouse down on the tool icon.
Drawing
Pen Tool

Use the Pen tool to create drawing paths. You can

create custom shapes and complicated curves that can
be scaled easily. By accessing the expanded Pen tool,
you can add, delete and covert points on your drawing
path.
Drawing
Path Selection

Use the Path Selection tool to select an existing

drawing path. You can also use it to move, resize, copy,
or delete paths. Use the Direct Selection tool to
reshape a path, or to delete a component of a path.
Drawing
Shape Tool

Use the Shape tool to create paths with a certain

shape. It creates the same path points that the Pen
tool does. Each shape can be modified with the Path
Selection tool.
Drawing

Type Tool

Use the Type tool to add text to your image.

Painting
Painting
Each of the expanded options (shown on the
right) for Photoshop's painting tools can be
accessed by holding down the mouse on a tool.
Painting
Patch Tool
It retouches image using sampled pixels or
pattern.
It works as a combination of the Healing Brush
with the Lasso Tool.
Painting
Brush Tool
When working with all of the drawing tools
(except the Gradient tool), the Brushes option is
available in the toolbar to allow you to use
different brushes and textures.
You can also load one (or several) of
Photoshop's included brush sets by clicking on
the black triangle at the top right hand corner
of the Brushes menu.
Painting
Clone tool

Allows you to copy a part of an image to another

area of the image by pressing and holding
the key while clicking on an image and then
using the tool in another area.

The Pattern Stamp tool is slightly different in that

you may paste the copied image more than once
Painting
History Tool

The History tool allows you to combine previous

versions of your image with the current version.
When working with an image, you may decide that
you like some of the current changes as well as some
of the past changes.
You can combine the two by selecting the history
state (from the History palette) that includes the old
changes that you liked and using the History tool to
paint the past image onto the current state.
Painting
Eraser Tool
The default Eraser tool replaces the erased
portion of the image with the current
background color.
When using the Background Eraser tool,
however, the erased portion simply disappears.
The Magic Eraser tool behaves similar to
the Magic Wand tool in that it will select similar
shades of a certain color and erase portions of
the image with those colors and erase them.
Painting
Gradient Tool
This tool is a very simple way to paint a gradient
between colors into your image. The default settings
produce a linear gradient between the current
foreground and background colors.
Radial, angle, reflected, and diamond gradients are
also available. Adding more colors and settings can
be done in the Gradient tool's toolbar.
The Pain Bucket Tool fills an area of an image based
on color similarity. Click anywhere in the image and
the paint bucket will fill an area around the pixel you
clicked.
Painting
Blur, Sharpen, & Smudge Tool

Blur Tool is the simplest way to blur desired spot

of an image.
Sharpen Tool increases contrast in the areas
where you paint.
Smudge Tool blends the pixels where you paint
simulating the action of dragging a finger
through wet paint.
Painting
Each of the expanded options (shown on the
right) for Photoshop's painting tools can be
accessed by holding down the mouse on a tool.
Layers
Layers
Layers are a basic founding concept you need to
understand when working with Photoshop.

Each time you add something to your image (for

example text or shapes), Photoshop will create it
as a layer.
Layers
This is layer 1, a transparency with a black
border and a red circle in the upper-left corner.

This is layer 2, a transparency with a green circle

in the middle.

This is layer 3, our final transparency with a blue

circle in the bottom-right corner
Layers

If we place layer 2 (green circle) over layer 1 (red

circle), and then place layer 3 (blue circle) over
layer 2, we'll get an overlapping of colors within
a single image. That's how layers work!
Layers

The Layers palette is located on the right of the

workspace, in the palette dock. All of your layers
are displayed in hierarchical order on the Layers
palette.
Layers
• Layer Lock - allows you to lock a layer, or specific
features within a layer.

• Eye icon - allows you to hide a layer. You can still work
on a layer even though you can't see it.

• Paintbrush icon - indicates which layer is currently

selected. A layer must be selected before you can make
any modifications to it. To select a layer, simply click it.
Selecting a layer makes it visible.
Layers
You can also rearrange layers. For example, in our color
circle example, the blue circle could be placed beneath the
red and green circles. To do this, you simply click and drag
the layer to be above or below other layers in
the Layers list.

Dragging a layer to either to the New/Copy

Layer or Delete Layer buttons on the bottom of the
palette will copy or delete the layer.
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