Adobe Photoshop

Leading digital image editing application for internet, print, and

other new media disciplines

What is Photoshop ?

Developed and published by Adobe Systems

Photoshop was created in 1988 by Thomas and John Knoll

Became the de facto industry standard in raster graphics

editing

For Windows & OS X

Vast support for graphic file formats

Naming Scheme

CCCS

Ver.No

Naming Scheme

1 - 7

• From Version 1 to Version 7

CS

• Creative Suite• Introduced on Oct. 2003• Standard & Extended Editions on CS3 to CS6

CC• Creative Cloud• Introduced on June 2013

Early History

Creation on 1987 Thomas Knoll

Support of brother John Knoll

Demonstration At Silicon Valley

Adobe Purchases Photoshop on September 1988.

VersionsVersion Platform Release Date

0.07

Macintosh

January 1988

0.63 October 1988

0.87 March 1989

1.0 February 1990

2.0 June 1991

2.5November1992

Windows

IRIX, Solaris November1993

3.0 Macintosh September 1994

Windows, IRIX, LayersSolaris

November 1994

Version Platform Release Date

4.0

Macintosh, Windows

November 19965.0 May 19985.5 February 19996.0 September 20007.0 Mac OS 'Classic'/Mac

OS X, WindowsMarch 2002

7.0.1 August 2002CS (8.0) Mac OS X, Windows October 2003

CS2 (9.0) Mac OS X, Windows 2000 / XP

April 4, 2005

CS3, CS3 Extended (10.3)

Universal Mac OS X,Windows XP SP2 or

later

April 16, 2007

Versions

Version Platform Release Date

CS4, CS4 Extended(11.0)

Universal Mac OS X,Windows XP SP 2 or

later

October 15, 2008

CS5, CS5 Extended(12.0)

Mac OS X, WindowsXP SP3 or newer

April 30, 2010

CS5.1, CS5.1 Extended (12.1, 12.0.4)

May 3, 2011

CS6 (13.0) May 7, 2012CC (14.0)

Mac OS X, Windows7 or newer

June 17, 2013CC (14.1) September 2013CC (14.2) January 2014

CC 2014(15.0 or20140508.r.58)

June 2014 (current)

Versions

PhotoshopThe

workspace

Before getting into workspace…

…5 Things

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

Color Space ?

Image Types ?

Resolution ?

Dimensions?

File Formats?

1. Color space

Gray scale

For black and white images

RGB Red, Green, Blue

Default choice.

Different monitors display differently

CMYK

Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, blacK

Colors will look different than on the screen

Index Reduced size

2. Image Types

Plot images on pixel by pixel basis

Bitmaps [ Raster ]

Vectors

Uses nodes and edges

3. Resolution

Number of pixels per square inch ( ppi )

72 ppiMonitors Display :

Printers : 300 ppi

4. Dimensions

Amount of pixels contained in the width and height of an image

640 x 480800 x 600

1024 x 7681280 x 7681360 x 7681366 x 768

Screen Dimensions

5. File Formats

GIF

Graphics Interchange Format

Internet Image StandardJPEG

Joint Photographic Experts Group

Internet Image Standard

PNG

Portable Network Graphics

Internet Image Standard

Standards Supported by PS

.PSD, .tiff, .bmp, etc…

Workspace - Toolbar

Marquee Tools

Used for making rectangular, elliptical, or single

row selctions

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Move Tool

Used for moving the contents of selections or

layers

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Lasso Tools

Used for making selections

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Magic wand / Quick Selection

Used for quick selections

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Crop Tool

Used for Cropping images

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Eyedropper

Used for finding color values or choosing colors.

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Healing Brush

Used for seamless merging of cloned image data.

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Brush Tools

Used for Painting

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Clone Stamp

Used for Painting with copied image of data

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History Brushes

Used for Painting

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Eraser

Used for removing portions of images

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Gradient / Paint Bucket

Used for adding colors

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Blur Tool

Used for retouching

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Dodge Tool

Used to lighten tones.

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Pen Tools

Used for creating paths.

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Type Tools

Used for adding text to images.

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Path Tools

Used for adding text to images.

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Shape Tools

Used for creating paths in geometric shapes.

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Hand Tools

Used to move the view of an image.

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Zoom Tool

Used to change the image’s magnification.

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Foreground & Background color

Used to choose foreground and background

colors.

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