INTRODUCTION

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PHOTOSHOP

TOPICS TO BE DISCUSSED……….

Introduction

Features

Work Area

Introduction

An image editing software developed and manufactured by Adobe Systems Inc.

Photoshop is considered one of the leaders in photo editing software. The software

allows users to manipulate, crop, resize, and correct color on digital photos. The

software is particularly popular amongst professional photographers and graphic

designers.

Photoshop files have default file extension as .PSD, which stands for "Photoshop

Document." A PSD file stores an image with support for most imaging options

available in Photoshop. These include layers with masks, transparency, text  settings

etc.

Features of Photoshop

SELECTION

LAYERS

CROPPING

MERGING IMAGES

REMOVEL OF UNWANTED ELEMENT

SELECTIVE COLOR CHANGE

SLICING

KEEP HISTORY

WEB OPTIMIZATION

INTEGRATED ADOBE USER INTERFACE

PAINTING

HEALING SPOTS

SELECTION

This is the most powerful feature of Photoshop. We can select only part of

the image within we want changes take effect. this is done with the tools

like marquee tool, lasso and pen tool.

LAYERS

Layers is a set of different stacked elements that contains different parts of

an image. This is one of the best feature of Photoshop. Layers helps you to

work on different parts of a photo and put them together for a finish.

CROPPING

Cropping helps you to select a portion of the image that you want to retain

and deletes the rest.

MERGING IMAGES

This feature allows two or more images to merged as one.

REMOVAL OF UNWANTED ELEMENTS

This technique involves the use of clone tool to maintain the texture of the

image. This is useful when you want to get rid of distracting objects in an

image which gives more focus on the subject. This feature can enhance

close up portraits.

SELECTIVE COLOR CHANGE

This feature lets you alter certain parts of an image, keeping the rest of the

color original

SLICING

This features the ability of slicing a whole image into parts and labeled

with different files and later on used as contents of a website.

TRACK OF EDITING HISTORY

The history log in Photoshop can help you remember how to repeat a

technique and record time tracking information for client work. This

option is disabled by default.

WEB OPTIMIZATION

Adobe Photoshop includes various features for producing the highest quality web

graphics with smallest possible size. With the use of Photoshop we can precisely

balance image quality and file size and these images can be easily uploaded and

downloaded through internet.

PRECISE MASKING

With magic eraser and background eraser tool we can add transparency to

images . we can use magic eraser to erase similar pixels on a layer with a click of

mouse. Background eraser dynamically erase pixels on a layer and creates

transparency.

INTEGRATED ADOBE USER INTERFACE

Photoshop integrates tightly with adobe’s professional publishing and

dynamic media tools. Photoshop shares a common user interface and

compatible with Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Premiere and other adobe

products.

PAINTING

A few painting tools like brush, pencil, paint bucket are available in Photoshop.

These can be used to retouch images by altering and adding color pixels.

Original images can be created using brush tool. It has many different brush-tips

and brush stocks that can be easily adjusted in size. Pencil tool allows user to

paint rough strokes on the canvas ,creating a similar effect to a real pencil on

paper. The paint bucket tool is used to fill areas of canvas with color.

HEALING SPOTS

With improvement retouching tools like the clone stamp too, and healing brush

tool, imperfections of an image can easily be removed.

Photoshop Work Area

A. Menu Bar – The menu bar contains menus for performing tasks. The

menus are organized by topic. For example, the Layers menu contains

commands for working with layers.

B. Options Bar – Contains options for the currently selected tool.

C. Toolbox - The toolbox holds tools for creating and editing images.

D. Document Window – The Containing Window of a document being

worked on inside of Photoshop.

E. Active Image Area – The Document Window contains the Active

Image Area (Shown in White above). This is the area an artist works in.

F. Navigator – A small version of the current documents active image

area. Used for navigating large images, or when zoomed in.

G. Color Palette – A palette used to select foreground and background

colors for painting / drawing with.

H. History – Constantly updating record of previous changes made inside

of a document. Can be used to reverse steps taken.

I. Layers – Layers in Photoshop allow you to work on a single canvas,

letting some things appear above or below others.

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