670 likes | 1.55k Views
Photoshop CS3. Parts From: Learning Media Design with Adobe CS3 Exercise 34. Learning Objectives: Skills Covered. About Photoshop Create a New Image Photoshop Tools Choose a Foreground or Background Color Select a Drawing Mode Commit a Change. Photoshop Basics.
E N D
Photoshop CS3 Parts From: Learning Media Design with Adobe CS3 Exercise 34
Learning Objectives: Skills Covered • About Photoshop • Create a New Image • Photoshop Tools • Choose a Foreground or Background Color • Select a Drawing Mode • Commit a Change
Photoshop Basics • Design tool to create, correct, & enhance images • Known as THE industry standard • Allows you to… • Select portions of an image for manipulation • Correct image flaws • Enhance images with color & special effects
Photoshop Basics • Designed for work with bitmap (raster) images • Created from groups of pixels of various colors
Read for Information • Read Pages 174 to 178
Create a New Image(Ctrl + N) • Click File (Alt + F) • Click New (N) • (Optional) Click Name (Alt + N) and type image name • Click Preset (Alt + P, ↓) if desired and select preset size • OR • Click Width (Alt + W) and type value • Click Height (Alt + H) and type value
Create a New Image(Ctrl + N) • Click Resolution (Alt + R) and type resolution value • Click Color Mode (Alt + M, ↓) and select desired mode • Click Background Contents (Alt + C, ↓) and select background color option • Click OK and Enter
Display Toolbox Names • Move pointer over tool • View name and shortcut key in tool tip.
Display Hidden Toolbar Tools • Click on tool that shows a small triangle at bottom right. • Hold down mouse button until hidden toolbar displays
Choose a Foreground or Background Color • To set color using the toolbox: • Click Set foreground color or Set background color button on toolbox to open the open the Color Picker. • Click a hue in the color slider (narrow band) in middle of Color Picker dialog box. • Click a color in the select foreground color field • The name of the large field box at the left is Select background color when you're selecting a background color. • Click OK (Enter)
Choose a Foreground or Background Color • To set color using the Color Palette: • Display color palette if necessary (F6) • Click Set foreground color or Set background color button, if needed • Drag color sliders as desired, OR click a color in the color ramp, OR create a color using the color picker.
Choose a Foreground or Background Color • To set color using the Swatches palette: • Display swatches palette. • Click desired color swatch to set foreground color. • Ctrl + click desired color swatch to set background color
Switch Foreground and Background Colors • Click Switch Foreground and Background Colors button on toolbox • OR • Press X
Reset Foreground and Background Colors to Defaults • Click Default Foreground and Background Colors button on toolbox • OR • Press D
Select a Drawing Mode • Select a shape tool or the pen tool from the toolbox. • Click the desired drawing mode on the options bar: • Shape Layers • Paths • Fill Pixels
Commit a Change • Make a change using the text tool or another tool that requires changes to be committed • Click Commit button on the options bar (Enter) • OR • Click cancel button (Esc)
Practice • Complete Exercise 34 • Page 179 • Complete “On Your Own” • Page 180