Design for America Adobe Creative Suite Introduction

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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.

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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