Photoshop

Photoshop Basics

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Basics & Viewing Images

• Open an image, multiple images, close files
  • Command “O”
  • Hold shift
  • Click the “X” on top
• Undo something you’ve done
  • Command “Z”
• View workspace panels
• Using the tools panel
  • On the left side of the page
  • It is where you find most of your work tools.
• Zooming & Hand tools
  • Helps you be able to move things around

Making Selections

• Marquee tools
  • To select parts of the picture you want to change (not cropping)
  • Hold shift to make a perfect shape (circle or square)
• Lasso tool
  • A way to highlight a certain part of the picture with out making a specific shape 
• Quick selection
  • Allows you to highlight a specific part of an image
    • make a cut out
• Magic Wand tool
  • allows you to refine the image you want to work using like colors
• Inverting selections
  • Click shift on the shift menu, then click inverse
    • or shift, Command, “i”
• Refining selections
  • After selecting image, click on the button “refine edge”
    • Makes edges more smooth
• Using Quick Mask mode
  • Lets you paint over things you don’t want to be selected

Layers

• Creating a new layer
  • It allows you to be able to change the picture but not effect the actual picture.
• Changing the layer visibility
  • Click on  the eyeball next to the layer
• Deleting the layer
  • Highlight the layer and press delete
• Changing the opacity of a layer
  • Click on the opacity option
• Duplicating a background
  • Select background, Right click on mouse
    • Select duplicate layer

Enhancing and Retouching Photos

• Cropping a photo
  • click on the crop option
    • move it to where you want and press enter
• Straightening an image with the Ruler tool
  • Go to ruler
    • Make a line
    • Click Straighten
• Adjusting brightness and contrast
  • same as saturation except pick brighten and contrast
• Removing red eye
  • Click on the bandaid
    • Go ro red eye function
• Spot Healing Brush tool & Healing Brush Tool
  • Go to band aid tool