ELIZABETH SETON SCHOOL

Main: BF Resort Village, Las Pias City South: Anabu II-D, Imus, Cavite High School Unit Makabayan Department S. Y. 2009-2010 Class No.:____________ Name:_________________________________________________ Year & Section: _________________________________________ Quarter: First Quarter . HANDOUT NO. 1 in COMPUTER II Introduction to Adobe Photoshop Ms. Tin

Adobe Photoshop - It is a graphics editing program (also known as a DPP, Desktop Publishing Program) that used to create and modify digital images. - It was developed and published by Adobe Systems. - It is the current and primary market leader for commercial bitmap and image manipulation software. A. HISTORY Adobe Photoshop release history, starting with the first versions by independent creators Thomas and John Knoll in the summer of 1988. - The license to distribute the program was purchased by Adobe Systems in October 1988. Adobe Systems Incorporated It is an American computer software company headquartered in San Jose, California, USA. The company has historically focused upon the creation of multimedia and creativity software products, with a more-recent foray towards rich Internet application software development. VERSION HISTORY Version 0.63 1.0 2.0 3.0 4.0 5.0 6.0 7.0 CS (8.0) CS2 (9.0) CS3, CS3 Extended (10.0) CS4, CS4 Extended (11.0)

Codename

Fast Eddy Tiger Mountain Big Electric Cat Strange Cargo Venus in Furs Liquid Sky Dark Matter Space Monkey Red Pill Stonehenge

Release date October 1988 February 1990 June 1991 September 1994 November 1996 May 1998 September 2000 March 2002 October 2003 April 2005 April 16, 2007 October 30, 2008

CS stands for Creative Suite, a complete design environment. The Adobe Suite consist of Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, Adobe GoLive, Adobe Distiller, Adobe Bridge, Adobe Designer and Adobe Acrobat

A. FUNCTIONS OF PHOTOSHOP 1. Photoshop as a simple paint program. 2. Photoshop works with images from a variety of sources. 3. Photoshop as a photo retouching and image construction program. 4. Photoshop allows the user to optimize, preview and animate images and text. 5. Photoshop can apply a variety of special effects to text and images. 6. Photoshop as a image format converter B. GRAPHIC FILE FORMATS SUPPORTED BY ADOBE PHOTOSHOP

FILE FORMAT Photoshop Bitmap Graphic Interchange Format

FILE EXTENSION .PSD .BMP .GIF

DESCRIPTION - It is the default file format and the only format that supports all Photoshop features - It is a standard Windows image format on DOS and Windows-compatible computers - It supports animation and it is used to display images in the Web - A file format that supports compression, works at all color depths but it does not support transparency and it is used for display of images on the World Wide Web. - A higher level of compression results in lower image quality, and a lower level of compression results in better image quality. - It is used for lossless compression and for display of images on the World Wide Web. - This format is good for any type of images and its supports transparency. - It is used to exchange files between applications and computer platforms. - It supports all of the color modes and features that are supported in standard Photoshop format. - This format is designed specifically for high-end graphics applications, such as those used for rendering threedimensional images and animation. - It is commonly used by IBM PC-compatible computers. -It is widely used among Mac OS graphics and page-layout applications as an intermediary file format for transferring images between applications.

Joint Photographic Experts Group

.JPG, .JPE, JPEG

Portable Network Graphic Tagged Image File Format Photoshop PDF (portable document format) Pixar PC Paintbrush PICT File Corel Draw Kodak PhotoCD

.PNG .TIF, .TIFF .PDF .PXR .PCX .PCT, .PIC, .PICT .CDR .PCD

C. ADOBE PHOTOSHOP WORK ENVIRONMENT Work Space - It is the work area within the program Photoshop window, from the command menus at the top of the screen to the status bar at the bottom.

Components of Work Area:

a. b.

Menu bar - The menu bar contains menus for performing tasks. The menus are organized by topic. For example, the Layers menu contains commands for working with layers. Image Window - It is where the document image appears.

c. Title Bar d. e. Toolbox f. Options bar g.

h.

- It displays the program name and if the image window is maximized, it displays the filename of open file. Status Bar - It displays information such as the file size of the active window and a description of active tool. - The toolbox holds tools for creating and editing images. - Some tools have additional hidden tools indicated by a small black triangle in a lower-right corner of the tool. - It provides options and current setting for each tool. The options bar is context sensitive and changes as different tools are selected. Palette well - It is an area where you can assemble, organize and, manage palettes for quick access. - Palettes are considered hidden when stored in the palette well. Clicking on the title of a palette stored in the well shows the palette until you click outside the palette. Palettes - These are small windows that are used to help monitor and modify images. - By default palettes appear in stacked groups at the right side of the window.

D. LIST OF PALETTES File Browser Palette Navigator Palette Info Palette Color Palette Swatches Palette Styles Palette History Palette Action Palette Tool Preset Palette Layers Palette Channel Palette Paths Palette Brushes Palette Character Palette Paragraph Palette - It lets you view, sort, and process image files. It is used to perform tasks such as creating new folders; renaming, moving, and deleting files; and rotating images. - It is used to quickly change the view of an image - It is used to display information about the color values beneath the pointer and, depending on the tool in use, other useful measurements. - It displays the color values for the current foreground and background colors. - You can choose a foreground or background color from the Swatches palette, or you can add or delete colors to create a custom swatch library. - It is used to view and select preset layer styles. - It is used to revert to a previous state of an image, to delete an image's states, and in Photoshop, to create a document from a state or snapshot. - It is used to record, play, edit, and delete individual actions. This palette also lets you save and load action files. - It is used to save and reuse tool settings. You can load, edit, and create libraries of tool presets using the Tool Preset picker in the options bar, the Tool Presets palette, and the Preset Manager. - It lists all layers, layer sets, and layer effects in an image. You can accomplish many tasks--such as creating, hiding, displaying, copying, and deleting layers--using the buttons in the Layers palette. - It is used to create and manage channels and monitor the effects of editing. - It lists the name and a thumbnail image of each saved path, the current work path, and the current vector mask. - It provides list of available brushes and brushs strokes settings. - It provides options for formatting characters. Some formatting options are also provided in the options bar. - It is used to set formatting options for a single paragraph, multiple paragraphs, or all paragraphs in a type layer.

PARTS OF A PALETTE

a. Palette Tab

- It displays the palette name and makes palette active and appear at the front of its group if it is selected. b. Tab Menu Button - It is used to access a special menu of tab-related operations. c. Palette Menu - It contains buttons that apply actions relevant to the contents of a palette. d. Palette Display - It shows list of palettes contents.

CUSTOMIZING THE PALETTE DISPLAY Palettes help you monitor and modify images. By default, palettes appear stacked together in groups. You can rearrange your palettes to make better use of your work area. To display one palette, choose the palette name in the Window menu. Docking palettes together lets you view multiple palettes at the same time and move them as a group. Entire palette groups cannot be docked together at once, but you can dock the palettes from one group to another, one at a time. To rearrange or separate a palette group, drag a palette's tab. Dragging a palette outside of an existing group creates a new group. To move an entire palette group, drag its title bar. To make a palette appear at the front of its group, click the palette's tab, or choose the palette name from the Window menu. To move a palette to another group, drag the palette's tab to that group. To display a palette menu, position the pointer on the triangle in the upper right corner of the palette, and press the mouse button. To change the size of a palette, drag any corner of the palette or drag the size box at its lower right corner. Not all palettes can be resized. To collapse a group to palette titles only, click the Minimize/Maximize box (Windows) or the Zoom box (Mac OS), or double-click a palette's tab. You can still access the menu of a collapsed palette. To show or hide all open palettes, the options bar, and the toolbox, press Tab. To show or hide all palettes, press Shift+Tab. To reset the Palettes arrangement choose the WINDOW menu > Work Space > Reset Palette Location.

Source:

Reding, Elizabeth Eisner, Adobe Photoshop CS2-Revealed Deluxe Education Edition, Thomson Course Technology, 2006.