INTRODUCTION TO

MULTIMEDIA
APPLICATION
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01 INTRODUCTION 03 WORK AREA

02 FEATURES
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INTRODUCTION
 INTRODUCTION!
An image editing software developed and manufactured by Adobe Systems Inc. Photoshop is
considered one of the leaders in photo editing software. The software allows users to
manipulate, crop, resize, and correct colour on digital photos. The software is particularly
popular amongst professional photographers and graphic designers.

Photoshop files have default file extension as .PSD, which stands for "Photoshop Document." A
PSD file stores an image with support for most imaging options available in Photoshop. These
include layers with masks, transparency, text  settings etc.
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FEATURES
 FEATURES
 SELECTION  KEEP HISTORY

 LAYERS  WEB OPTIMIZATION

 CROPPING  INTEGRATED ADOBE USER

INTERFACE
 MERGING IMAGES
 PAINTING
 REMOVE OF UNWANTED
ELEMENT  HEALING SPOTS

 SELECTIVE COLOR CHANGE

 SLICING
 SELECTION
This is the most powerful feature of Photoshop. We can select only part of the image within
we want changes take effect. this is done with the tools like marquee tool, lasso and pen tool.

LAYERS
Layers is a set of different stacked elements that contains different parts of an image. This is
one of the best feature of Photoshop. Layers helps you to work on different parts of a photo
and put them together for a finish.
 CROPPING
Cropping helps you to select a portion of the image that you want to retain and deletes the rest.

MERGING IMAGES
This feature allows two or more images to merged as one.
 REMOVAL OF UNWANTED ELEMENTS
This technique involves the use of clone tool to maintain the texture of the image. This is useful when
you want to get rid of distracting objects in an image which gives more focus on the subject. This
feature can enhance close up portraits.

SELECTIVE COLOR CHANGE

This feature lets you alter certain parts of an image, keeping the rest of the color original
 SLICING
This features the ability of slicing a whole image into parts and labeled with different files and later on
used as contents of a website.

TRACK OF EDITING HISTORY

The history log in Photoshop can help you remember how to repeat a technique and record
time tracking information for client work. This option is disabled by default.
 WEB OPTIMIZATION
Adobe Photoshop includes various features for producing the highest quality web graphics with
smallest possible size. With the use of Photoshop we can precisely balance image quality and file size
and these images can be easily uploaded and downloaded through internet.

PRECISE MASKING
With magic eraser and background eraser tool we can add transparency to images . we can use
magic eraser to erase similar pixels on a layer with a click of mouse. Background eraser
dynamically erase pixels on a layer and creates transparency.
 INTEGRATED ADOBE USER INTERFACE
Photoshop integrates tightly with adobe’s professional publishing and dynamic media tools. Photoshop
shares a common user interface and compatible with Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Premiere and other
adobe products.

PAINTING
A few painting tools like brush, pencil, paint bucket are available in Photoshop. These can be used to
retouch images by altering and adding color pixels. Original images can be created using brush tool. It
has many different brush-tips and brush stocks that can be easily adjusted in size. Pencil tool allows
user to paint rough strokes on the canvas ,creating a similar effect to a real pencil on paper. The paint
bucket tool is used to fill areas of canvas with color.
 HEALING SPOTS
With improvement retouching tools like the clone stamp too, and healing brush tool, imperfections of
an image can easily be removed.
PHOTOSHOP WORK AREA
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A. MENU BAR - The menu bar contains menus for performing tasks. The menus are
organized by topic. For example, the Layers menu contains
commands for working with layers.

B. OPTIONS BAR - Contains options for the currently selected tool.

C. TOOLBOX -The toolbox holds tools for creating and editing images.
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D. DOCUMENT VIEW - The Containing Window of a document being worked
on inside of Photoshop.

E. ACTIVE IMAGE AREA - The Document Window contains the Active Image Area
(Shown in White above). This is the area an artist works in.

F. NAVIGATOR -A small version of the current documents active image area.

Used for navigating large images, or when zoomed in.
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G. COLOR PALETTE - A palette used to select foreground and background
colors for painting / drawing with.

H. HISTORY - Constantly updating record of previous changes made

inside of a document. Can be used to reverse steps taken.

-Layers in Photoshop allow you to work on a single canvas,

I. LAYERS
letting some things appear above or below others.
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