Welcome to Photoshop level I

• Intro - Your goals with Photoshop
  • The photoshop side benefits - your holiday photos / retouching / etc
  • With great power comes family favors - watch out!
  • find some note space to jot down the most important points for this class
• Photoshop Optimization: worth a quick glance
  • virtual or paging memory or swap space (referring to the same thing)
  • the open and close thing - retake
• Photoshop, The Interface -
  • Toolbox, Workspace, Palettes, Options Bar, File Menus.
  • Working with new Documents
  • Working with multiple Documents
  • The "canvas" work area.
  • The first tool: The paint brush tool ...first exercise
  • Closing documents
  • Saving documents (file formats - part one)
  • BACKING UP OUR WORK!!! aka: how to avoid pain and suffering.
• Zooming In And Out Of Our Work - Getting more detail
  • 100% is the actual or (original) size of our document in Photoshop
    (View > Actual Pixels)
  • zooming in and out with our document

• Brush Attributes - very fun, and also extremely useful later (photoshop_II).
  These following techniques work with 90% of all tools with photoshop!
• Brush size (bracket icons "[ ] ")
• Brush hardness (Shift + "[ ]")
• Brush opacity (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,0 numbers)
• Some work time
• Brush presets
• Image Resizing-
  • Making images smaller or bigger
  • The golden rule: get the highest quality originals possible, and keep a copy always
  • Pixels measuring units
  • displaying pixel rulers on the canvas
  • The easiest way to resize an image.
  • common pitfalls when resizing:
    • too much scaling UP can affect image quality
    • don't let it stretch! hold the shift key down to maintain aspect ratio.
• prepping files for Print
  • prepping files for print - find a good printer (talk to someone there)
  • ask what format they need
  • linear resolution (Pixels per inch)
  • when in doubt double check with your print vender to be sure
• prepping files for web - The web formats:
  • jpeg
  • gif
  • png
  • dimensional resolution
• SELECTION - what is "selection" in photoshop
  • Selection tools-
    • marquee
    • circle
    • lasso
• Main Project- " Kid Stuff"
  • selecting the individual blocks with selection
  • saving the selections for later use
• layers - what are they why do they make our lives way easier
  • creating a new layers (layers exercise 1,2,3,4)
  • unlocking the "default" background
  • deleting layers
  • introducing the move tool, that's all it does.
  • using our saved selections to make new layers:
    • Layer > new > layer via copy
  • adding other images to the composition
  • finish up the project
  • blending modes and Effects
  • Final thoughts
  • Thanks for being here - class evaluations