design for america adobe creative suite introduction
DESCRIPTION
On February 19, 2013 I led a tutorial introducing Adobe Creative Suite and the basic need-to-know functions of Adobe Photoshop for Vanderbilt's DFA General Body. I also passed out copies of the presentation for the 25 undergraduate students, 2 graduate students, and 1 faculty member present.TRANSCRIPT
V A N D E R B I L T
D E S I G N F O R
A M E R I C A
GENERAL BODY MEETING
FEBRUARY 19, 2013
8 – 9 PM
CURB CENTER
ADOBE CREATIVE SUITE
Adobe Crea*ve Suite (CS): Collec3on of applica3ons under Adobe Systems used for -‐ graphic design -‐ video edi3ng -‐ web development
Adobe InDesign desktop publishing applica3on Adobe Illustrator vector graphics editor Adobe Photoshop raster-‐graphics editor
THE POWER O F I M A G E
hMp://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/showcase.html
W E L L , C R E A T I N G I M A G E S
Important Thoughts
• Why use Photoshop? • What are the benefits
of image enhancement?
• Are there moral implica3ons specifically with edi3ng images of people?
• Seeing media through the lens of Photoshop
PHOTOSHOP
LAYERS
LEFT TOOLBAR
Right Toolbar
Window
Image + Image Size
ROTATE CANVAS
Image + Adjustments
Filters
PHOTOSHOP SHORTCUTS Command + Op*on + Shi> + K (see all key shortcuts) H (hand tool) Z (zoom tool) F (cycle between screen types) X (flip colors) D (change colors to black and white) B (brush tool)
[ (smaller brush) ] (larger brush Shi` + [ (decrease brush so`ness) Shi` + ] (increase brush so`ness)
Op3on + Delete (fill screen with background color) Command + S (save) Command + I (invert layer) Command + E (merge layers) Command + Shi` + N (new layer) Command + D (deselect) Command + Shi` + I (select inverse) Command + J (copy layer)
RESOURCES:
hMp://www.adobe.com/products/photoshopfamily.html?promoid=JOLIW hMp://tv.adobe.com/ hMp://www.youtube.com/user/photoshop
Shameless Promo3on
hMp://www.vanderbilt.edu/artscrea3ve/acedesign/index.php
hMps://anchorlink.vanderbilt.edu/organiza3on/ace/availableforms
