LESSON 05 – INTRODUCTION TO PHOTOSHOP

INTRODUCTION

Photoshop is the industry standard in photo and graphic editing. It is so well known around the world that people use the word “photoshop” as a verb meaning “altered a photo”. Here are a few neat (or crazy) alterations done with photoshop.

TOOLS & OPTION BAR

Photoshop has many tools that are fairly consistent with all graphics programs. You will see that you recognize many of them. For each tool, you will find an option bar at the top that will allow you to configure the tool.

SELECTION TOOLS

One aspect of Photoshop that you must get use to is making accurate selections. Using the multiple selection tools and their options, you will be able to select around full people or other complex objects. This in turn will allow you to apply effects (filters) to very specific parts of your images.

Options

Each selection tool has a set of options. These options allow you to make a new selection, add to a selection and even remove from a selection. Mastering these options is very important.

Important shortcut keys

· CTRL-D – Deselect. This will get rid of any selections.

· CTRL-I – Inverse selection. This will switch your selection to its opposite. So if you have a circle selected, you now have everything else selected so it would look like a square donut.

LEARNING PHOTOSHOP

Now that you have worked with two graphic editors, learning photoshop should be fairly easy. There are few new concepts that you need to be concerned about.

Your learning of Photoshop will occur through the completion of MiniTasks. The purpose of these MiniTasks will be to force you to use all the important tools in PS.