Knowledge base and resources for next class

Below are the Photoshop topics we will be covering on Thursday... Please take some time to look into the links below and get acquainted with the Application prior to class:

Introduction and Navigation to Photoshop
• Discussion about the uses of Photoshop. • Opening/Closing documents.
• Maximizing view.
• Preferences & Interface
• Panels & Workspace Arrangement (WINDOW>all panels) • Tolls, nested tolls, and custom tool bar (EDIT).
• Short cut Keys + Holding it to go back and forth.
• Multiple Tabs/documents open + dragging documents + other views (WINDOW>Arrange)
• Selection Tool
• Zoom: command+/-/1, scrubby zoom, marquee, scroll bars & Navigation panel
• Panning: space+command=zoom in, space+command+option=zoom out.
• Rotating view tool: like sketching > (Reset View)

Resolution & File formats
Understanding how the computer displays images and how this affects the way in which you choose the photos you use for an assignment.
• File fomats (List on blog)
• Color modes
• Color Space
• Resolution. Discuss ways in which file sizes can be changed: color mode, resolution, flatten image, and file dimensions.
• Resize x re-sampling images
• Undo (EDIT> undo), command +z, & History Panel (Preference- es>performance>50), Revert it.
• Crop image size/canvas size

Selection Tools
Selection tools are used to contain an area of an image that will be modified while the rest of the image is protected:
• Marquee, Lasso, wand
• Transform selection: shift=+, option= -
• Selection into masks & touch up 


Here are some resources where you can get and practice the information above:

https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/tutorials.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xS5uh5TCXcU

http://lifehacker.com/5753459/learn-the-basics-of-photoshop-in-under-25-minutes