Photoshop

Photoshop Basics

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Basics & Viewing Images

• Open an image, multiple images, close files
  • File, Open, or Command O
    
  • Shift to select multiple images. Tabs represent each image.
  • Click X on top of tab.
• Undo something you’ve done
  • Command Z, edit step backwards
• View workspace panels
  • On side
• Using the tools panel
  • On Left side of screen, colors are called swatches
• Zooming & Hand tools
  • Hand tools helps you move around. On tool panel, hand button

Making Selections

• Marquee tools
  • Tool panels, shift for perfect shape
• Lasso tool
  • L, or in tool panel and highlights certain things
• Quick selection
  • W, or tools to select
  • Options subtract from selection tool and deselect certain
• Magic Wand tool
  • Click and hold on quick selection tool. Selects colors of photo
  • Change tolerance to be accurate
• Inverting selections
  • To have one part of image.
  • Select, inverse
• Refining selections
  • Refining
• Using Quick Mask mode
  • Pick brush or B
  • Foreground color set to black
  • Click on quick mask mode button, paint and unclick button.

Layers

• Creating a new layer
  • Go to layer panel, then click on new layer button on bottom right. Or go to layer, to new, and to layer and name it.
• Changing the layer visibility
• Deleting the layer
• Changing the opacity of a layer
• Duplicating a background

Enhancing and Retouching Photos

• Cropping a photo
• Straightening an image with the Ruler tool
• Using the Smart Sharpen filter
• Adjusting saturation
• Adjusting brightness and contrast
• Using neutral density gradient
• Using the Dodge & Burn tools
• Removing red eye
• Spot Healing Brush too