Introduction to Adobe Photoshop CS5

Graphics Design & Image Processing

Table of Contents
• What is Photoshop?
• The toolbox
• The option bar
• What’s on the Menu
• Opening and Saving files
• Selection modes
• Transformations
• Color modes and color models
• Retouching and Transforming

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What is Photoshop?

was created in 1988 by Thomas and

John Knoll.
is a raster graphics editor developed and
published by Adobe Systems for macOS
and Windows.

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The Toolbox

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Photoshop CS5

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The Option Bar

A. Gripper bar
B. Tool tip

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What’s on the Menu

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Opening and Saving File

Working with Files

•Opening Files
•Using the Browser
Saving Your Work
•Reducing File Size
•Choosing a Format
Undoing and Redoing
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Selection Modes

The Selection Tools

•Rectangular and Elliptical Marquees
•Lasso
•The Polygonal Lasso Tool
•The Magnetic Lasso
•Magic Wand

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The Selection Menu
•Feather
•Modifying Selection
Selecting Large Areas
Cutting and Cropping
Cropping

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Transformations

Resizing
• Resizing an Image,Canvas & Selection
Rotating
• Rotate 180 degrees and 90 degrees
Clockwise or Counterclockwise
• Rotate by Degrees
• Rotate a Selection
• Free Transform
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Transformations con’t.

Flipping
Selection Transformation
• Skewing Selections
• Distorting Selections
• Changing the Perspective of a Selection
Liquify

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Color Modes and Color Models

Color Models
•RGB
•CMYK
•HSB
•CIE Lab Model

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Color Modes and Color Models con’t.

The Modes and Models of Color

•Bitmap and Grayscale
•RGB
•Indexed Color
•CMYK
•Converting Between Modes

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