Adobe Photoshop Cs 5 Note

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ADOBE PHOTOSHOP CS 5

Lesson 1: Navigating the Workspace The Menu Bar The Status Bar The Toolbox The Palettes Review Quiz

Lesson 2: Working with Documents

Navigator Palette & Hand Tool New View & Duplicate Image Size & Resolution Image Size Dialog Box Resizing Practice [V5.x] [V6.x] Canvas Size Crop Tool Crop Tool Practice
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Additional Crop Tool Practice[for v6.0 only] History Palette Basics Saving Images Review Homework Assignment

Lesson 3: Image Modes & Color Selection

Color Primer The Color Picker Color & Swatch Palettes Custom Swatch Exercise Eyedropper & Info Palette Review & Assignment

Lesson 4: Selections and Masks

Marquee Selection Tools Lasso & Wand Selection Tools Selection Tool Practice Select Menu Commands Transforming Selections Quick Mask Mode More Quick Mask Alpha Channels & Channel Palette Mask/Selection Practice Exercises

Lesson 5: Layers and Blend Modes

Intro to Layers The Layers Palette [V5.x] [V6.x] Important Layer Information Move, Copy & Transform Layers Advanced Layer Features Layers Review

Lesson 6: Adding and Working with Type

Working With Type Introduction The Type Tool (v.5.x) The Type Tool - Continued (v.5.x)
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The Type Tool (v6.x) The Type Tool - Continued (v6.x) Type Palettes and Text Warping (v6.x) Type Tool Exercises 1-5 Type Tool Exercises 6-10 and Homework

Lesson 7: Painting Tools

Intro, Paint Bucket and Fill Command Gradient, Pattern and Line Tools Brushes and Fade Command Pencil, Paintbrush and Airbrush Tools Eraser Tools Painting Exercises:12345678910

Lesson 8: Retouching Tools

Retouching Tools Intro & Tips Blur, Sharpen, Smudge Dodge, Burn, Sponge Clone Stamp, History Brush, Art History Brush Retouching Exercises:1&234&56&78910
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The Menu Bar

The menu bar consists of 11 menus:

File, Edit, Image, Layer, Select, Filter, View, Window, and Help.

Take a few moments now to look at each of the menus. You may notice that

some menu commands are followed by ellipses (...).

This indicates a command that is followed by a dialog box where you can

enter additional settings. Some menu commands are followed by a right

pointing arrow. This indicates a submenu of related commands.

As you explore each menu, be sure to take a look at the submenus as well.

You'll also notice that many commands are followed by keyboard shortcuts.Gradually, you'll want to get to know these keyboard shortcuts as they can

be incredible time savers.

As we make our way through this course, we'll be learning the most usefulkeyboard shortcuts as we go along.

In addition to the menu bar, Photoshop often has context sensitive menusfor accessing some of the most likely commands depending on which tool is


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selected and where you click. You access the context sensitive menu by

right clicking in Windows, or pressing the Control key on a Macintosh.

One of the most convenient contextual menus can be accessed by rightclicking/Control clicking on the title bar of a document for quick access

to the duplicate command, image and canvas size dialogs, file information,and page setup. If you already know how to open an image, go ahead andtry it now. Otherwise, you'll learn how in the next section.

The Toolbox

Now let's explore more of the Photoshop toolbox.

If you have the Quick Reference Card that came with Photoshop, it

would be a good idea to locate it now.

When you look at the toolbox, notice how some of the buttons

have a tiny arrow in the lower right corner.

This arrow indicates that other tools are hidden under that tool.

To access the other tools, click and hold down on a button and

the other tools will pop out.

Try this now by clicking on the rectangle marquee tool andchanging to the elliptical marquee tool. The hidden marquee

tools are shown here.

Now hold your cursor over one of the buttons and you should see a

tooltip appear that tells you the name of the tool and its keyboardshortcut.

All the marquee tools have a shortcut ofM.

An easier way to switch between the different hidden tools is to use the

keyboard shortcut along with the Shift key modifier.


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For the marquee tools, the Shift-M combination toggles between the

rectangular and elliptical marquee tools. The single row marquee tools areless often used and must be selected from the toolbox flyout. Another

shortcut for cycling through the hidden tools is to Alt/Option click on thetoolbox button.

Take a few moments now to familiarize yourself with the tool names usingthe tooltips. Use the shortcuts you've just learned to explore all the hidden

tools. As you select each tool, note the hints provided in the status bar areafor each tool.

Moving down in the toolbox, we come to the color swatches.This is where the foreground and background colors are

displayed.

The tiny arrow to the top right allows you to swap

foreground and background colors.

The tiny black and white swatch symbol to the lower left allows you to resetthe colors to the default of black foreground and white background.

Hold your cursor over those two areas to learn the keyboard shortcuts.

To change a color, simply click on either the foreground or background colorswatch and select a new color in the color picker.

Experiment by changing the foreground and background colors and then

resetting them back to defaults.

The next two buttons on the toolbox allow you to toggle between

quick mask and selection mode. We'll learn more about this later in future

lessons.

Below that you have a set of three buttons that allow you to change

the appearance of the workspace. Hold your cursor over each button to seewhat it does. Notice the keyboard shortcut for all three is F. Hitting F

repeatedly toggles between all three modes. Try it now.

This is a convenient place to mention a few more shortcuts for modifying the

workspace appearance. Feel free to try them out as you read. When in either


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of the full screen modes, you can toggle the menu bar on and off with the

Shift-F key combination. In any screen mode you can toggle the toolbox,status bar, and palettes on and off with the Tab key. To hide only palettes

and leave the toolbox visible, use Shift-Tab.

The last button on the toolbox is for moving your document to ImageReady.We will not be exploring ImageReady in this course.

Before we move on to the palettes, let's review what we learned about the

toolbox:

1. An arrow indicates a flyout of hidden tools.2. Each main tool has a single letter keyboard shortcut assigned to it.3. The Shift key combined with a tool shortcut allows you to toggle the

hidden tools.

4. D = resets the foreground color to black and background color to white.5. X = swap foreground and background colors.6. F = toggles screen modes7. Shift-F = Turns menu bar on and off in full screen modes8. Tab = toggles the toolbox, status bar, and palettes on and off9. Shift-Tab = toggle only the palettes on and off

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The Palettes

When you first open Photoshop, the palettes arestacked along the right edge of your screen inpalette groups. The first group contains the

Navigator, Info, and Options palettes. Next is the Color Swatches, and Brushes palettes.

Below that are the History and Actions Palettes.

Finally, you have the Layers, Channels, and PathsPalettes.

Palette groups can be moved around in theworkspace by clicking on the title bar and dragging.Each palette group has a collapse and a close buttonin the title bar area.

Try the collapse button for each of the palette groupsnow.

You'll notice the button works as a toggle, clickingthe button a second time after the palette iscollapsed will expand the palette again. You may also

notice that some palettes do not completely collapse.Try collapsing the color palettes and you'll see thatthe

For palettes that partially collapse, you can completelycollapse them by holding down the Alt/Option key asyou press the collapse button. You can also collapse a

group by double clicking on any of the palette tabs. Todisplay a collapsed palette, just click once on the palettetab if it's in the back of the group, or double click if it's in

the front of the group.

Palettes can be resized either by holding your cursor over an edge and

dragging when the cursor changes to a double pointing arrow, or by clicking


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and dragging on the right corner. Only the Color, Options, and Info palettes

are not resizable.

When you click the close button on a palette group it closes all the palettesin the group. To display a palette that is not shown, you can either choose

the command from the Window Menu, or display the palette using itskeyboard shortcut. They are:

Enter or Return = Show/Hide Options Palette (V5.x only) Double click tool button = Show/Hide Options Palette (V5.x only) F5 = Show/Hide Brushes Palette F6 = Show/Hide Color Palette F7 = Show/Hide Layers Palette F8 = Show/Hide Info Palette F9 = Show/Hide Actions PaletteAnd don't forget these which we learned in the last lesson:

Tab = Show/Hide Toolbar and all Palettes Shift-Tab = Show/Hide all PalettesTo bring a grouped palette to the front of the group, click on the palette's

tab. You can also ungroup and rearrange the palettes by clicking on a tab

and dragging it outside of the group or to another group. Try it now bydragging the navigator palette out of it's default group. Then put it back by

dragging it back onto the palette group.

First, the Navigator palette. If yours is not showing, display it now using anyof the methods you learned previously.

You'll also need to open a document. In the center of the Navigator palette,you'll see a small thumbnail representation of your image, surrounded by a


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red outline representing the visible area of your document. If your entire

image is visible, the outline surrounds the entire thumbnail. If you look atthe palette menu, you can choose palette options to change the color of the

outline.

Below the thumbnail, we find even more controls for

zooming. The text entry field lets you type in any magnification number, andthe slider lets you adjust magnification up and down, and the two buttons on

either side of the slider allow you to zoom in and out by set intervals.

If you move the slider all the way to the right, you'll see the maximum zoom

level is 1600%. Move the slider back and forth a few times slowly and

observe the red outline in the Navigator preview. As you can see, it givesyou a visual clue as to what part of your image you are viewing. Click

anywhere in the Navigator preview to move the focus to that area of the

image. Click and drag in the preview to pan around your document.Remember, you can drag the edges of the navigator palette to change itssize. The preview will increase as you increase the palette size.

Another way to pan around a document is with the Hand tool. When thehand tool is selected you can just click and drag in your document to pan the

visible area. Try it now. Okay, now that you've tried it... make that the lasttime you ever use the Hand tool because I am going to tell you the one

keyboard shortcut you will find yourself using all the time: Spacebar =Hand tool.

No matter which tool is active, the spacebar always temporarily activates thehand tool. Learn it; use it; and never look at the hand tool again. I'm not

even going to bother telling you the shortcut and modifiers for the Hand

tool; if you're curious, you know by now how to find that out.

At any time while working, when you need the most accurate representation

of what you're working on, you should set the magnification to 100%. At anyother magnification, there is going to be some level of distortion. Remember

the current magnification level will always be displayed in the status bar, the

navigator palette, or in the title bar of the document window.


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Graphics File Format

1.JPEG - JPEG is best for photos when you need to keep the filesize small and don't mind giving up some quality for a significant

reduction in size. JPEG is not suitable for images with text, large

blocks of color, or simple shapes, because crisp lines will blur

and colors can shift. Only JPEG offers the options of Baseline,

Baseline Optimized, or Progressive.

2.TIFF- TIFF is good for any type ofbitmap(pixel-based)images. TIFF produces large files, but there is no loss in quality.TIFF also preserves layers, alpha transparency, and other special

features when saved from Photoshop. The type of extra

information stored with TIFF files varies in different Photoshop

versions, so consult Photoshop's help for more information.

3.PSD, PDD - PSD and PDD are Photoshop's nativeformat. Use PSD when you need to preserve layers,

transparency, adjustment layers, masks, clipping paths, layer

styles, blending modes, vector text and shapes, etc. The PDD

extension was used in Adobe PhotoDeluxe (now discontinued),

but it is identical to PSD format and the two can be used

interchangeably.

4.BMP - Use BMP for any type of bitmap (pixel-based)images. BMPs are huge files, but there is no loss in quality. BMP

has no real benefits over TIFF, except you can use it for

Windows wallpaper. .
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5.PICT - PICT is an old, Mac-only bitmap format, similar toBMP for Windows. PICT is not often used today.

6.PNG - Use PNG when you need smaller file sizes with noloss in quality. PNG files are usually smaller than TIFFs, in my

experience. PNG also supports alpha transparency (soft edges)

and was developed to be a Web graphics replacement for GIF.

7.GIF- Use GIF for simple Web graphics having limited colors.GIF files are always reduced to 256 unique colors or less and

they make very small,fast-loading graphics for the Web. GIF is

great for Web buttons, charts or diagrams, cartoon-like drawing,

banners, and text headings. GIF is also used for small, compact

Web animations. GIF should rarely be used for photos.
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