Parts From: Learning Media Design with Adobe CS3

Exercise 34
 About Photoshop
Create a New Image
Photoshop Tools
Choose a Foreground or
Background Color
Select a Drawing Mode
Commit a Change
 Design tool to create, correct, &
enhance images
Known as THE industry standard
Allows you to…
Select portions of an image for
manipulation
Correct image flaws
Enhance images with color & special
effects
 Designed for work with bitmap
(raster) images
Created from groups of pixels of
various colors
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Click File (Alt + F)
Click New (N)
(Optional) Click Name (Alt + N) and
type image name
Click Preset (Alt + P, ↓) if desired
and select preset size
OR
Click Width (Alt + W) and type
value
Click Height (Alt + H) and type
value
 Click Resolution (Alt + R) and
type resolution value
Click Color Mode (Alt + M, ↓) and
select desired mode
Click Background Contents (Alt +
C, ↓) and select background color
option
Click OK and Enter
Move pointer over tool
View name and shortcut key in tool
tip.
 Click on tool that shows a small
triangle at bottom right.
Hold down mouse button until
hidden toolbar displays
To set color using the toolbox:
Click Set foreground color or Set
background color button on toolbox to
open the open the Color Picker.
Click a hue in the color slider (narrow
band) in middle of Color Picker dialog box.
Click a color in the select foreground
color field
The name of the large field box at the left is
Select background color when you're
selecting a background color.
Click OK (Enter)
 To set color using the Color
Palette:
Display color palette if necessary
(F6)
Click Set foreground color or Set
background color button, if needed
Drag color sliders as desired, OR
click a color in the color ramp, OR
create a color using the color
picker.
 To set color using the Swatches
palette:
Display swatches palette.
Click desired color swatch to set
foreground color.
Ctrl + click desired color swatch to
set background color
 Click Switch Foreground and
Background Colors button on
toolbox
OR
Press X
Click Default Foreground and
Background Colors button on toolbox
OR
Press D
 Select a shape tool or the pen
tool from the toolbox.
Click the desired drawing mode
on the options bar:
Shape Layers
Paths
Fill Pixels
 Make a change using the text
tool or another tool that requires
changes to be committed
Click Commit button on the
options bar (Enter)
OR
Click cancel button (Esc)
Complete Exercise 34
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Complete “On Your Own”
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