ADOBE PHOTOSHOP

Adobe Photoshop is an Image Processing software package that enables you to create & edit images on IBM personal Computers. Adobe Photoshop is acknowledged in professional fields as the cutting-edge Program, the final word in Commercial Art. 

SALIENT FEATURES

· With Photoshop's tools you can paint a likeness of a physical object.
· Mixing and Manipulating of colours at a click of a button.
· You can Blend 2 Images.
· You can create Patterns and Artistic Designs using Fills and Colours.
· You can manipulate your Design images with Special Effects and Techniques.
· You can Import and Export your Images.
· Retouch, Manipulate and Enhance Designs & patterns. 

APPLICATIONS

· It has been used to edit and create images as diverse as Commercial Art, Cosmetic ads, New Photos, Motion picture footage, Animation cells & Fine Art work.
· Creates original Art & converts it to desired Platforms.
· Retouch, manipulate & enhance photographs of Digital arts.
· Master the special effects you've always wanted.
· Learn the secrets of Output & Storage of your Images.
· Web page designing.

Introduction

1) What is Photoshop CS2?

Adobe Photoshop CS2 software, the professional image-editing standard and>leader of the digital imaging line, delivers more of what you crave. Groundbreaking creative tools help you achieve extraordinary results. Unprecedented adaptability lets you custom-fit Photoshop to the way you work. And with more efficient editing, processing, and file handling, there's no slowing you down.

a) New in Photoshop CS2

b) System Requirements

c) RAM Requirements

d) Digital Tablets and Mice

2) Interface

a) The Welcome Screen

b) Color Spaces

c) Document Window

d) The Toolbox

e) Menus

f) Palettes

g) Options Bar

h) Shortcuts

i) Getting Assitance
 
j) Workplaces

3) Adobe Bridge

a) Adobe bridge

Adobe Bridge is the control center for Adobe Creative Suite. You use it to organize, browse, and locate the assets   you need to create content for print, the web, and mobile devices

b) Metadata
 
Metadata is information about the file, such as its author, resolution, color space, copyright, and keywords applied   to it

c) Keywords and ranking

 
The Keyword panel lets you create and apply Bridge keywords to files.

d) Adobe Stock Photos pt. 1

e) Adobe Stock Photos pt. 2

4) File Menu

a) New

b) Open

c) Close

d) Close All

e) Save As

f) Save

5) Tool Bar

a) Rectangle Marquee Tool

b) Ellipitical Marquee Tool

 
- The marquee tools make rectangular, elliptical, single row, and single column selections.

c) Move Tool

d) Default color

e) Recover File

f) Zoom Tool

g) Hand Tool

h) Lasso Tool

i) 1) Edit Lasso Tool

 
- The lasso tools make freehand, polygonal (straight-edged), and magnetic (snap-to) selections.

j) Polygon Tool
 
1) Edit Polygon Tool

 
- The Polygonal Lasso tool is useful for drawing straight-edged segments of a selection border.

k) Crop Tool
 
- The Crop tool trims images.

l) Deselect the Selection

m) Magic wand Tool

- The Magic Wand tool selects similarly colored areas.

n) Move selection

 
- You can move a selection border around an image

o)Copy Using Move Tool

- You can use the Move tool to copy selections as you drag them within or between images

p) Perfect Rectangle & circle

6) Edit Menu

a) Free Transform
 
b) Transform

Scale

- Horizontal scale and vertical scale specify the proportion between the height and width of the type.

ii Rotate

 
- The Rotate commands let you rotate or flip an entire image.

iii Skew

iv Distort

- The Distort filters geometrically distort an image, creating 3D or other reshaping effects.

v Perspective

vi Wrap

vii Rotate 180°

viii Rotate 90° cw

ix Rotate 180° ccw

x Flip Horizontal

xi Flip Vertical

7) Select Menu

a) Color Range

8) Drawing and Painting Tools

a) Brush Tool

- The Brush tool paints brush strokes.

b) Air-Brush Tool

c) Pencil Tool

- The Pencil tool paints hard-edged strokes.

d) Eraser Tool
 
e) PaintBucket Tool

- The Paint Bucket tool fills similarly colored areas with the foreground color.

f) Gradient Tool

 
- The Gradient tool creates a gradual blend between multiple colors. You can choose from preset gradient fills or create your own.

g) Smudge Tool

 
- The tool picks up color where the stroke begins and pushes it in the direction you drag.

h) Define Brush

i) Load Brush

j) Create a new Layer

k) Delete Layer

9) Layers

- Layers allow you to work on one element of an image without disturbing the others. Think of layers as sheets of acetate stacked one on top of the other.

a) Rename a Layer
- As you add layers to an image, it’s helpful to give them names that reflect their content. Descriptive names make layers easy to identify in the palette.

b) Position the Layers

c) Layer Opacity

 
- A layer’s opacity determines to what degree it obscures or reveals the layer beneath it. A layer with 1% opacity appears nearly transparent, whereas one with 100% opacity appears completely opaque.

d) Draging Layer
 
e) Link Layers

f) Invisible Layers

g) Merge visible layers

 
Merge - When you have finalized the content of layers, you can merge them to create partial versions of your composite image

h) Flatten image.

- Flattening reduces file size by merging all visible layers into the background and discarding hidden layers.

i) Edit Gradient colors

j) Swatches Palette 

 
- The Swatches palette stores colors that you need to use often.

k) Eraser Tool

10) Image and Text Editing.

a) Image Size

b) Different Modes for filling colors

i Color Mode
ii Multiply Mode
iii Screen Mode
iv Opacity of color
v Save selection
vi Load selection
vii Fill gradient
viii Merge Down
ix Strokes/outlines
x Rasterize the shapes
xi Canvas Size
xii Type Tool
xiii Vertical Type Tool
xiv Type Mask Tool
xv Adjustments   - Brightness/contrast 
 
- An adjustment layer applies color and tonal adjustments to your image without permanently changing pixel values

11) Channel Palette and Mask Mode options

- The Channels palette lets you create and manage channels. The palette lists all channels in the image—composite channel first (for RGB, CMYK, and Lab images).

a) Standard Mode

b) Quick Mask Mode

 
- Quick Mask mode Lets you edit any selection as a mask.

c) Channel Palette

d) Load a channel as a selection

e) Adjustments

a) Auto levels

f) Inverse Selection

g) Filters
 
a) Artistic - Colored Pencil

12) Feathers

a) Feathers

b) Add Revelal Selection

c) Rulers

d) Clipping Mask

e) Adjustment - Hue/Saturation

f) Color Balance

- The Color Balance command changes the overall mixture of colors in an image for generalized color correction.

13) Drawing & Editing Paths

a) Path

b) Pen tool

 
- The Pen tool creates straight lines and smooth flowing curves.

c) Convert to curve

d) Filter - Neon Glow

 
- Neon Glow Adds various types of glows to the objects in an image. This filter is useful for colorizing an image while softening its look.

e) Clone Stamp

- The Clone Stamp tool takes a sample of an image, which you can then apply over another image or part of the same image.

 
f) Adjustment - Replace color

- The Replace Color command lets you create a mask to select specific colors in an image and then replace those colors.