Introduction to Photoshop

Isabela State University-Jones Campus

REONEL FERRERIA
JAYSON GUILLERMO
Student Handout

What is Adobe Photoshop

- Photoshop is the leading professional image-editing program, released by Adobe.

- Photoshop is useful for both creating and editing images to be used in print or
online. Easy to use, but full of high-quality features, Photoshop is the best choice
for any image manipulation job.

Different File Format Supported by Photoshop

• PSD file - A PSD file stores an image with support for most imaging options
available in Photoshop.
• JPEG stands for “Joint Photographic Experts Group”. It's a standard image
format for containing lossy and compressed image data.
• TIFF (Tagged Image File Format)- is a computer file format for storing raster
graphics images, popular among graphic artists, the publishing industry and
photographers.
GIF (Graphics Interchange Format) - is an image file format commonly used for images on the
web and sprites in software programs. manipulation job.

- Photoshop is the leading

professional image-editing
program, released by Adobe.
- Photoshop is useful for both
creating and editing images to
be used in print or online. Easy
to use, but full of high-quality
features, Photoshop is the best
choice for any image
manipulation job.

Different File Format Supported

by Photoshop
• PSD file - A PSD file stores
an image with support for
most imaging options
available in Photoshop.
What is Adobe Photoshop • JPEG stands for “Joint
Photographic Experts
Group”. It's a standard image
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format for containing lossy
and compressed image data.
• TIFF (Tagged Image File
Format)- is a computer file
format for storing raster
graphics images, popular
among graphic artists, the
publishing industry and
photographers.
• GIF (Graphics Interchange
Format) - is an image file
format commonly used for
images on the web and
sprites in software programs.
. around a shape.
Photoshop Basic Tools
Move tool (V)
Moves selections or layers.
Rectangular Marquee tool (M)
Selects an area in your image in
a rectangular box.
Elliptical Marquee tool (M)
Selects an area in your image in
an elliptical shape.
Lasso tool (L)
Selects an area in your image in
a free-form shape.
Magnetic Lasso tool (L)
Selects part of an image by
selecting the high-contrast edges
Polygonal Lasso tool (L)
Draws straight-edged segments
of a selection border.
Quick Selection tool (A)
Makes a selection based on color
and texture similarity when you
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click or click-drag the area you
want to select.
Selection Brush tool (A)
Selects the area where you paint
with the brush.
Magic Wand tool (A)
Selects the pixels with similar
colors in a single click.
Refine Selection Brush tool (A)
Adds or removes areas to and
from a selection by automatically
detecting the edges.
Auto Selection tool (A)
Automatically makes a selection
when you draw a shape around
the object you want to select.
Red Eye tool (Y)
Removes the red eye effect, pet
eye effect, and corrects closed
eyes in your photos.
Spot Healing Brush tool (J)
Removes spots from your photos.
Healing Brush tool (J)
Removes spots from your photo
by selecting a part of your photo
as the reference point.
Smart Brush tool (F)
Applies tonal and color
adjustments to specific areas of a
photo.
Detail Smart Brush tool (F)
Paints the adjustment to specific
areas of a photo just like a
painting tool.
Clone Stamp tool (S)
Paints with an image sample,
which you can use to duplicate
objects
Pattern Stamp tool (S)
Paints with a pattern defined from
your image, another image, or a
preset pattern.
Blur tool (R)
Softens hard edges or areas in
an image by reducing detail
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ACTIVITY 1.0
Creating a Wallpaper

Objective: At the end of the activity, students are expected to design their own wallpaper by
applying the different photoshop tools
1. Select a theme for your wallpaper. For example Movies, Animals, Cars and Landmarks. For this
tutorial, the preset theme is from Pixar.
2. Choose a background picture which will be the main picture of the wallpaper.
4. Now open your Background Picture and Logo.
5. Drag the background picture into the new document you created. Resize the picture and
make it fit.
6. Rename the layer to 'Background Picture'
7. Create new guides by going into 'View > New Guide'
Make three vertical guides at 0%, 50% and 100%
Make three Horizontal guides at 40%, 50% and 60%
8. Now drag the logo in and centre it. Make sure it fits in between the 40% and 60% guides.
9. Select the rectangle shape and make the fill a gradient. Now click on the gradient which will
open a new window. Bring the two small boxes on the left into the middle. Make the colour of
the bottom one white. Now click on the top small box on the right. Make the opacity 0%. Now
click on the left hand side (Top) to make a new small box. Make sure it is 0%. Then click 'Ok'.
10. Use the rectangle tool to make a rectangle shape in the rectangular box that the guides
make.
11. Double click on the rectangle box layer and make the opacity around about 50%.
12. Now create a new layer and place it at the top of all the layers.
13. Select the gradient tool and select the last gradient preset. Change the style to radial and
click and drag from the bottom of the document to the top. This will make a fade.
14. Now save two copies. One 'PSD' and the other 'PNG'. Use the 'PNG' as your Wallpaper.