An Introduction to

Photoshop

By Fred Nick
 What is Photoshop?
The digital equivalent of a Dark Room.
Photo editing lab.
Creative tool chest.
Translator of formats characteristics.
A scanning package.
Everything above and more all in one
package.
 What Photoshop is not.
A drawing package.
A slide organizing package.
A movie making program.
An internet tool.
A web page development tool.
 Major Categories of Photoshop
Use
Scanning and then Manipulating.
Photo Retouching and Alterations.
Adding Special Effects using Filters
Preparing Images to be Printed.
 Preparatory Concepts-Color
RGB (Screen based)
CMYK (Printing full-color Prints)
Lab (Cross platform standard)
Bitmap (Black & White)
Grayscale (256 Shades of gray)
Duotone (Two-four color channels posters)
Indexed (256 colors in one channel)
MultiChannel (24 spot channels)
 Preparatory Concepts-
Terminology
Layers - Overlays of separate parts of the final Images.
Like transparencies.
Channels - Separation of the colors of the final images
onto distinct sheets.
Paths - Recorded tracings from the image. Some tools
will follow the path while performing a task. Vectors not
part of the image.
Canvas versus image. Canvas is AREA you can work in.
Image is presently used area.
Actions - Recorded series of tasks for repeating or
automating steps.
 Preparatory Concepts-
Terminology
History Complete list of tasks performed.
Allows multiple step undoes or the deletion of a
previous step followed by the remaining steps.
Gamut The range of colors that a color system
can display or print. The Spectrum of colors seen
by the human eye is wider that the gamut
available in any color model.
Preparatory Concepts - Gamut
Lab

RGB

CMYK