Photoshop Ch. 6

Name:

Lesli Ferra

Student Number:

7

Photoshop: Chapter 6: Photoshop Interface

and Textbook Blog

 

The native file type for Photoshop is PSD, so you may often see the abbreviation PSD to refer to Photoshop.

PART 1: READ Chapter 6 from Photoshop CS 6 Visual QuickStart Guide, then:

 

1. Answer all questions below, briefly but completely.
2. Change the color of the answer to BLUE.
3. Copy this information and paste in a new post in your DIGITAL GRAPHICS blog.

 

Tools Panel: Photoshop has so many tools, it collects them under tool buttons on the Tools panel. Look on pages 102-104 for the Tools panel; you will see that the second button down (the selection tool called the RECTANGULAR MARQUEE TOOL) has a little black triangle in the lower-right corner. In Photoshop, if you click on this, you will see the box appear that contains other selection tools.   Briefly describe the  purpose of the following Photoshop tools:

1.      Elliptical Marquee Tool (NOTE: Photoshop calls the “marching ants” in a selection a marquee) : This creates oval and circular selections.

2.      Magnetic Lasso Tool: This creates freehand selections that snap to high-contrast edges in an image.

3.      Quick Selection Tool: Selects shapes that it detects in the image.

4.      Magic Wand Tool: Selects pixels that are similar in color to the one that's clicked.

5.      Crop Tool: Crops the image (unconstrained or fixed ratio)

6.      Eye Dropper Tool: Samples colors from an image.

7.      Ruler Tool: measures a distance or angle, or straightens the image.

8.      Healing Brush Tool: Corrects flaws based on a sample area.

9.      Content-Aware Tool: Repositions or extends an area of an image.

10.  Brush Tool: Applies brush strokes.

11.  Mixer Brush Tool: Simulates traditional paint strokes; allows colors to mix and smudge.

12.  History Brush Tool: Restores pixels from a history state or snapshot.

13.  Background Eraser Tool: Erases a sampled color area to transparency.

14.  Gradient Tool: Creates soft blends between two or more colors.

15.  Sharpen Tool: Sharpens edges and details.

16.  Smudge Tool: Smudges colors.

17.  Dodge Tool: Lightens pixels.

18.  Burn Tool: Darkens pixels.

19.  Pen Tool - Draws curved or straight-edged shapes or paths.

20.  Horizontal Type Tool: Creates horizontally oriented editable type.

21.  Vertical Type Tool: Creates vertically oriented editable types.

22.  Ellipse Tool: Creates oval shape layers or paths.

23.  Hand Tool: Moves a magnified image in the document window.

24.  Zoom Tool: Changes the documents zoom level.

25.  Set Foreground Color Tool: Displays (and lets you change) the current Foreground color.

 

 

 

Other Photoshop Panels:   Briefly describe the  purpose of the following Photoshop panels:

1.      Actions panel: A recorded sequence of commands that can be replayed on one image or on a batch of images. You can record, store, edit, play, delete, save, and load actions.

2.      Adjustments panel: You can use it to apply flexible color and tonal edits and corrections to an image.

3.      Brush panel: To choose brush tips and custom brush settings for tools. Such as, Art History Brush, Blur, Brush, Burn, Clone Stamp, Dodge, Eraser, History Brush, Mixer Brush, Pattern Stamp, Pencil, Sharpen, or Smudge. You can also choose special options for a graphics tablet and stylus.

4.      Channels panel: Lists and displays the thumbnails for all the color channels in the current document. You can also use this to save and load alpha channels.

5.      Character panel: You can choose attributes for the type tools.

6.      Color panel: Where you choose a color, colors in photo shop.

7.      Histogram panel: You can view a graph of the distribution of tonal values in the current image, and compare them with modified tonal values as you apply color and tonal adjustments.

8.      History panel: Each edit that is made to a document during the current work session is listed as a separate state on here.

9.      Info panel: Provides up-to-the-minute data about your document.

10.  Kuler panel: A free, web-hosted adobe application that lets users create and upload color groups, called color themes. You can access and browse those themes.

11.  Layers panel: With this you can create, hide, show, duplicate, restack, group, link, lock, merge, flatten, and delete layers. You can also use this to change the blending mode, opacity, or fill opacity of a layer; attach a mask to a layer; and apply layer effects.

12.  Navigator panel: With this you can move a magnified image in the document window, change the document zoom level, or target an area for magnification.

13.  Paragraph panel: To create or edit paragraph type. To apply paragraph-level settings.

14.  Properties panel: This is for choosing and edit adjusting settings.

15.  Styles panel: This is used to apply a style to a layer, and to create custom styles.

16.  Swatches panel: Stores predefined and user defined solid color swatches.

17.  Timeline panel: With this you can compose a sequence using audio clips and video files. You can  also  alter the duration of a clip, apply a filter or adjustment effect to all or part of a clip, apply present transition effects, then render a group of tracks into a choice of video file formats.

 

                   

 

P0ART 2: Photoshop & Illustrator Textbook Blog The Quickstart textbook authors, Elaine Weinman and Peter Lourekas, maintain a Photoshop and Illustrator blog with “tips, tutorials, and design concepts” to supplement the Quickstart Guide books. You will subscribe to this blog and follow it during the class term (you may unsubscribe when the course is over, or you may decide to continue following this blog to learn more about Photoshop and Illustrator after the class is over). 1.      Follow these instructions to find and follow the blog: 2.      Go to: http://elaineandpeter.com 3.      Scroll throughout the page to see the latest postings. 4.      Previous Postings: Notice the previous months listed on the right; click several of them to see other graphics postings. (You can also use the CATEGORY dropdown list or the SEARCH box to find specific topics of interest.) 5.      Subscribe: Scroll down the page and look for the Subscribe via Email to receive new post updates. Enter your gmail email address to subscribe, then click SUBMIT. 6.      WORD PRESS: Scroll to the very bottom of the blog and look on the right; do you see this blog is powered by WORD PRESS? WORD PRESS, like BLOGGER, is a free, popular blogging tool. (If you would like to find more about WORD PRESS, click on the POWERED BY WORD PRESS link. Note: WORD PRESS must be downloaded in order to use it, while BLOGGER is a cloud blog application.)

Textbook Blog Post: SILHOUETTES   From the Quickstart blog, scroll down to find the SEARCH box. Enter the word SILHOUETTES (be careful to spell this correctly! Or just copy and paste from this document.) then click the Search button. Scroll down through the post and click on the CONTINUE READING link. 1.      Explain the technique described in this posting and ways in which you could use it:  I like the way she describe everything clearly so i can understand it easily. I also like how those a lot of pictures of examples   2.      Scroll down to find the cup of coffee silhouette pasted on the café tables. Click the image, then save it, and paste it here:

Coffee Cup Image:

Other Photoshop Blogs: From GOOGLE, search for PHOTOSHOP BLOG. Look through some of the results and click on several blogs. Choose one posting that you liked and provide this information: 1.      Blog Address (copy from address bar at the top of your browser window): http://planetphotoshop.com/compositing-unruly-hair.html 2.      Blog Posting (describe the technique discussed in the blog posting): I really like the way this person explained everything, this a very useful skill, especially for model picutes.