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Adobe has just launched its free and long-anticipated online version of Photoshop, Photoshop Express Web App. Photoshop Express is a Flash based editor with about a quarter of the options and tools of Photoshop for desktop. Anyhow, it look like a good application for anyone who wants to edit, then share their photos. The service is free and comes with 2G of album storing, import from Picasa, Facebook and others.
In magazines, posters, ads we use Photoshop a lot to alter an image for multiple reasons. It’s ok to modify an image, but it shouldn’t be noticeable and viewer shouldn’t see weird things like a third hand! Photoshop Disasters is a new blog on horrible published Photoshop error. It’s fun to laugh on other work, specially when it your competitor, but make sure we won’t see your work in there!
In the previous workspace tutorial, we learned what the toolbar was. Now, we’ll go in detail for some of the tools. I won’t explain the options in the Options bar for each tools, but be sure you discover them as well, you can find them very useful. In this tutorial, you’ll learn on the:
Most of the time, when using Photoshop, we start with an image that we need to edit.To open the file, you go in the FILE menu then click ‘Open …’ (or Ctrl + O) then browse to your file. It’s always better to not save it under your original image. Always keep your original somewhere. When you add a layer and save it, it will be save as a .psd file so you can work on it later.
Other way is to copy an image (per example on the Web, right click ‘Copy image’) and paste it directly in Photoshop. To paste it in Photoshop, you have to create a new file first, so from your FILE menu click on ‘New…’ (Or Ctrl + N). You’ll see, the dimension specify is exactly the one of your copied file. If you are going to make a montage, you can make the size bigger. You can change it after as well. Remember that when you create a new file, you have to save it first, or it will just a temporary work.
Now we can use the tools on our image…
You create and manipulate your documents and files using various elements such as panels, bars, and windows. Any arrangement of these elements is called a workspace. When you first start Photoshop, you see the default workspace, which you can customize for the tasks you perform there. For instance, you can create one workspace for editing and another for viewing, save them, and switch between them as you work. You can restore the default workspace at any time by choosing the default option on the Window > Workspace menu.
Photoshop workspace elements:
A) Menu bar: organizes commands under menus.
B) Options bar: displays options for the currently selected tool from the tools palette.
C) Tools palette (Toolbar): contains tools for creating and editing images, artwork, page elements, etc. Related tools are grouped together.
D) Document window: displays the image you’re working on. It’s possible to have more than one document window opened.
E) Panels (Palette): used to help you monitor and modify your image. Some panels are displayed by default, but you can add any panel in the Window menu. Panels can be grouped, stacked, or docked.
I’ll start my tutorials with the basics (to help some of my beginner friends) as I am exploring Adobe Photoshop CS3. I learned Photoshop 7 at school (Learned previous version by myself before school as well), worked with Photoshop CS for 3 years and I am now in front of Photoshop CS3 which was a huge, but happy shocked for me. I must admit that I was a big Photoshop user before school, but since work I have more interest in Illustrator. ^_^;
My basics tutorial will cover the basics of how to use Photoshop to work with your digital images. and introduce you to the concepts in Photoshop. The best way to develop your skills is to experiment it, but a good base is a must.
So I’ll start with some definitions to be sure you know what I’m talking about.
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