Welcome to Photoshop level I
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Today's Outline:
- 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
- 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