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Madeleine Wright. Peter Wentworth. PUBLISHER 2007. Some Popular Image Editors. Photoshop Professional tool, packaged with Adobe Creative Suite, an expensive ( > R15 000) publishing package. Student / university license is about R1 700 per machine.
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Madeleine Wright Peter Wentworth PUBLISHER 2007
Some Popular Image Editors • Photoshop • Professional tool, packaged with Adobe Creative Suite, an expensive ( > R15 000) publishing package. • Student / university license is about R1 700 per machine. • Used here in Journalism and a few other departments. • http://www.getpaint.net/ • Free image editor. Works on Windows. Many skills transferable to Photoshop. • The GimpAn open source package popular with users of Linux / Unix systems, but also available for Windows. • Artweaver – the tool we'll use, which has a free version
Key uses ... • Photo retouching • Image composition • Image authoring.
Images currently open Title Bar Menu and toolbars
Preview • See as much close detail as you want
Tools Brush tool; Move Tool; Shape Selection Tool; Magic Wand ToolLasso Tool; Crop Tool Perspective Grid Tool; Text Tool Eraser Tool; Stamp ToolDropper Tool; Paint Bucket Tool Zoom Tool; Hand Tool
Shape tools • Rectangle, Rounded Rectangle, Ellipse, Polygon, Freeform. • Tip: for first four, holding Shift constrains aspect ratio to be square (i.e. Ellipse becomes a circle)
More fun tools • Lasso - draw your own selection around something... • Magic wand: select all pixels similar to this one... • Paint bucket: fill pixels adjacent to, and approximately similar to this one. • Recolor – substitute one (approximate) colour for another
Read the Help file • It is well organized, and helpful!