Introduction to Adobe Photoshop.

Students will be introduced to the various tools available in Adobe Photoshop and learn how they are used by graphic designers. Students will also complete a simple Adobe Photoshop wallpaper project.

1. Install the Adobe Photoshop Software to your PC or laptop. 2. Learn the basic of Adobe Photoshop by exploring the Adobe Photoshop Interface.3. Your lecturer will explain about the interface including features and tools available.

4. Interface (Adobe Photoshop CS3)

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Layout (working space)

Toolbox

Toolbar Menu bar

5. About tools and Palettes

Adobe PhotoShop is a powerful image editing program that allows you to edit and colorize images, retouch proofs and create original or composite artwork. Whether you're an art director, an electronic publisher, a photographer, an animator, a multimedia producer, or a service bureau, PhotoShop gives you the tools you need to get top-quality, professional results.

PhotoShop works with bitmapped, digitized images [that is, continuous-tone images that have been converted into a series of dots, or pixels]. You can bring images into PhotoShop by scanning a photograph, slide, or graphic [as we have already seen]; by capturing a video image; or by importing artwork created in drawing programs. You can also import previously digitized images -- such as those produced by a digital camera [again, as we have already seen] or obtained from a photo CD of "copyright free" pictures &/or graphics.

There are more than 40 tools available in the PhotoShop Tool palette. Describing all if them in detail would take up way too much space and probably bore you to death! So, for now, take a look at the tool palette [on the right] and don't worry about not knowing what some of them do. No doubt, as you work with PhotoShop and gain more confidence, you will discover -- through exploration and experimentation -- what most of the tools are capable of helping you accomplish.

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Rectangular Marquee Tool

Lasso Tool

Crop Tool

Clone Stamp Tool Tool

Blur Tool

Pen Tools

Hand Tool

Healing Brush Tool

Eraser Tool

Path Selection Tool

Notes Tool

Foreground Color

Magic Wand

Move Tool

Slice Tools

Pencil Tools

History Tools

Paint Bucket Tool

Dodge Tools

Type Tools

Rectangle Tools

Eyedropper Tools

Zoom Tools

Background Color

Working With Text (CS3 version)

The Type tool lets you add text to your image. You can format the text in many ways, including font, size, style, color, alignment, horizontal or vertical orientation, kerning, leading, tracking, indenting, line spacing, and more. You can even stretch and warp the shape of the text in varied and interesting ways!

1. Horizontal Type Tool and Vertical Type Tool

Use Horizontal Type Tool (T) and Vertical Type Tool (T) to create horizontal or vertical type anywhere in an image. When you create type, a new type layer is added to the Layers palette. In Photoshop, you can also create a selection border in the shape of the type.

Depending on how you use the type tools, you can enter point type or paragraph type. Point type is useful for entering a single word. You can create point type by click in the image to set an insertion point for the type. The paragraph type is useful for entering and formatting the type as one or more paragraphs. You can create paragraph type by drag the tool to define a bounding box for the type.

2. Horizontal Type Mask Tool and Vertical Type Mask Tool

Horizontal Type Mask tool (T) or Vertical Type Mask tool (T) let you create a selection in the shape of the type. Type selections appear on the active layer, and can be moved, copied, filled, or stroked just like any other selection. For more information about working with selections

You can also create text on a path by using any type tool. To create text on path, position the pointer on the path, so the baseline indicator of the type tool turn to , and click. After clicking, an insertion point appears on the path.

Shape Changing Using Text

1. Type any word using Type Tool. For example :

2. On the same layer, from the menu bar, click on Layer>Type>Create Work Path.3. Then, still on the same layer, choose Layer>Type>Convert to Shape.4. Click on the toolbox, choose Direct Selection tool.5. Click on the font that you wish to change the shape. You will notice that, tiny box will be

appeared.

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6. Base on your creativity, change the shape of the font. For example like below :

7. When you have finished changing the shape of the font, right click on the layer pallete > Blending Options. Apply shadow, Outer Glow and other effects, as you wish. Then, save your work. Finally, the result will looks like below :

Apply pattern into text.

1. By choosing Horizontal Type Mask Tool, Type any word using Type Tool>Horizontal Type Mask Tool. For example :

2. Then you’ll get this kind of text, do not deselect them :

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3. Then, open any suitable image to combine with text, for example :

4. From the menu bar choose >Edit >Define pattern, dialog box Pattern Name will be appeared..

5. Get back to the previous text, on the menu bar, Edit >Fill > Pattern. Choose the image that has been patterned. Click on OK button.

6. The pattern will be applied into the mask text. The result will be as follows :

7. Finally you can add any other effects to make it interesting like blending options etc. Don’t forget to save your work!

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Perspective Shadow

1. Type any word using Type Tool. For example :

2. From the bar menu, click on Layer > Layer Style > Dropshadow. Click on OK. Your text will be as follow. Then, click on Layer > Layer Style > Create Layer.

3. After new layer has been created, you’ll notice that the shadow layer will be separated from the text layer, like below :

4. Choose Drop shadow layer, Press Ctrl+T or click on Edit > Transform > Warp (or any other transform).

5. Change to any transformation as you wish, make sure to save your work. For example:

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