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Menus, Toolbars, and Panels
For Editing and Adding Elements |
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| Allow for adding commands and filters |
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| RASTER GRAPHICS and VECTOR GRAPHICS |
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| Bitmapped; composed of colored dotsmade up of PIXELS (picture elements); lose clarity when increased in size because the dots get bigger |
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| Made up of lines and curves; mathematically defined; scalable without distortion |
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| Which Graphics do you use with drawing programs? |
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| Which Graphics are used with Photoshop's native file format? |
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| What is Photoshop's native file format? |
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| .bmp, .gif, jpg, and tif and Adobe Photoshop |
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.wmf, .eps, .ai, and .cgm. Work on Adobe Illustrator (Drawing Program).
Mathematically defined with coded instructions to define angles and relationships between every line in the image. |
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| Where are Rasterized Images imported from? |
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digital cameras
commercial CDs
Scanner
Captured video images
Artwork created in drawing programs
Websites |
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Start> All Programs > Adobe Web Premium CS4 > Photoshop CS4.
Reset preferences before working on each lesson. Control+Alt+Shift |
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| Tools Panel: Tools are organized by function. |
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| Tools Panel: Small triangle in upper right corner means... |
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| Other HIDDEN tools. Right click or hold down to display hidden tools. Click << to toggle between 1 & 2 columns. Tools have shortcuts. |
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| Hide/Show Window Elements: TAB |
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| Tab: Hides or Shows tools panel, options bar, and all floating panels. |
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| Hide/Show Window Elements: SHIFT + TAB |
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| Hides or shows all floating panels only |
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| Hide/Show Window Elements: CTRL-TAB |
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| Toggle between image windows |
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* Preview multiple files
* Grouping files (Ctrl+G)
* Ungrouping files - select and drag out of group
* Assign Keywords: Events, People, or places
* Filtering Files (Type, Keywords, Date)
* Add your most used folders to favorites |
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Zoom In (CTRL +)
Zoom Out (CTRL -)
Fit in Screen (CTRL 0)
Type percentage in Zoom Level
Zoom Tool, Navigator Panel |
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CTRL TAB
Arranging Windows (Cascade, Tile, Consolidate All to Tabs, Float in Window, Float ALL in Window) |
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Arrange your panels.
Save. Name. Capture. Save.
Reset Default Settings: CTRL-ALT-SHIFT while opening Photoshop |
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| Horizontal Typing Tool (T) |
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| Properties are modified in Options bar; properties can be modified using pallets; CTRL-Select allows for quick resizing; right-click to display context menu |
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| UNDO & Step Backward/Forward |
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| CTRL-Z; ALT-CTRL-Z; SHIFT-CTRL-Z |
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| SELECTION TOOLS: Rectangular Marquee Tool |
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| Use to select rectangular images |
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| SELECTION TOOLS: Elliptical Marque Tool |
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| Used to select elliptical or circular images. With SHIFT, perfect circle. With ALT, center elliptical. ALT-SHIFT-SELECT, Center circle. |
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| SELECTION TOOLS: Lasso Tool |
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| Free form tool for making selections. Click, Hold, and Drag. |
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| SELECTION TOOLS: Pologon Lasso Tool |
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| Use when you have straight lines. |
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| SELECTION TOOLS: Magnetic Lasso Tool - the most used. |
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Selects between colors.
Looks for differences in colors.
Hit backspace to backup.
Hold ALT key and click to switch between lasso tools. |
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Area that is selected becomes only editable area of an image. Area outside the selection is protected.
* CTRL-D to deselect (ESC does not work).
* Point inside a selection to drag.
* Inverting a selection: SELECT-> INVERSE. SHIFT-CTRL-I. |
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| Windows: File extensions (.psd, .doc, .jpg, .tif, .gif, .ppt, etc.) MAC: none, but "append file extension" for easier communication across platforms |
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| BASIC GRAPHIC FILE FORMATS |
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| Photoshop: psd, pdf (portable document), eps (encapsulated postscript), tiff (tagged image file format), gif (Compuserve Graphic Interchange Format), jpg or jpeg (joint photographic experts group), bmp (Windows bitmap), png (portable network graphic) |
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| Creating a smaller file from a larger file. Stores data in a format that requires less space than the original format. |
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| Storage (less space); Speed/efficiency (can execute or read smaller files in less time); Bandwidth/transfer time decreased. |
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| No data is lost. Compression process is reversible. RLE, LZW, Huffman, ZIP |
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| Some data is lost. Process is irreversible. JPEG, Genuine Fractals, Mr. SID. |
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| PDF: Portable Document Format |
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Designed for Paperless office.
Read with Adobe Acrobat Reader
Represents both Vector & Bitmapped graphics.
Contains electronic document search and navigation features and also hypertext links.
Can be created from almost any application.
Cannot be edited except with Adobe Acrobat
Maintains formatting, fonts, colors, etc., across platforms |
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GRAPHICS INTERCHANGE FORMAT
Industry standard for onscreen viewing, NOT for printing.
Best for all images except scanned photographs (use JPEG). Supports lossless LZW compression. |
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Joint Photographic Experts Group
Preferred for scanned photographic images; not meant for printing.
Not good for images with lots of solid color, vector drawings, type, or line art, or images with Web-safe colors. LOSSY Compression (Save and archive the original) |
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GIF: Lossless; limited to 8 bit color (256 unique colors); Screen captures/line art.
JPEG: Lossy; limited to 24 bit color (16,777,216 unique colors); photographs. |
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| Elements on a Photoshop CS4 Workspace |
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| Menu Bar, Options Bar, Tools Panel, Zoom Status Bar, Floating Panels, Application Bar, Workspace Menu, Adobe Bridge Button (Explorer) |
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