90 likes | 290 Views
An Introduction to Photoshop. By Fred Nick. What is Photoshop? . The digital equivalent of a Dark Room. Photo editing lab. Creative tool chest. Translator of formats characteristics. A scanning package. Everything above and more all in one package. What Photoshop is not.
E N D
An Introduction to Photoshop By FredNick
What is Photoshop? • The digital equivalent of a Dark Room. • Photo editing lab. • Creative tool chest. • Translator of formats characteristics. • A scanning package. • Everything above and more all in one package.
What Photoshop is not. • A drawing package. • A slide organizing package. • A movie making program. • An internet tool. • A web page development tool.
Major Categories of Photoshop Use • Scanning and then Manipulating. • Photo Retouching and Alterations. • Adding Special Effects using Filters • Preparing Images to be Printed.
RGB (Screen based) CMYK (Printing full-color Prints) Lab (Cross platform standard) Bitmap (Black & White) Grayscale (256 Shades of gray) Duotone (Two-four color channels – posters) Indexed (256 colors in one channel) MultiChannel (24 spot channels) Preparatory Concepts-Color
Preparatory Concepts-Terminology • Layers - Overlays of separate parts of the final Images. Like transparencies. • Channels - Separation of the colors of the final images onto distinct sheets. • Paths - Recorded tracings from the image. Some tools will follow the path while performing a task. Vectors not part of the image. • Canvas versus image. Canvas is AREA you can work in. Image is presently used area. • Actions - Recorded series of tasks for repeating or automating steps.
Preparatory Concepts-Terminology • History – Complete list of tasks performed. Allows multiple step undoes or the deletion of a previous step followed by the remaining steps. • Gamut – The range of colors that a color system can display or print. The Spectrum of colors seen by the human eye is wider that the gamut available in any color model.
Preparatory Concepts - Gamut Lab RGB CMYK