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Photoshop:
Chapter 6: Photoshop Interface
and
Textbook Blog
The native file type for Photoshop is
PSD, so you may often see the abbreviation PSD to refer to Photoshop.
PART 1: READ Chapter 6 from Photoshop CS
6 Visual QuickStart Guide, then:
- Answer
all questions below, briefly but completely.
- Change
the color of the answer to BLUE.
- Copy this information and paste
in a new post in your DIGITAL GRAPHICS blog.
Tools Panel:
Photoshop has so many tools, it
collects them under tool buttons on the Tools panel. Look on pages 102-104 for the Tools panel;
you will see that the second button down (the selection tool called the RECTANGULAR MARQUEE TOOL) has a little
black triangle in the lower-right corner. In Photoshop, if you click on this,
you will see the box appear that contains other selection tools.
Briefly describe the
purpose of the following Photoshop tools:
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1.
Elliptical Marquee Tool (NOTE:
Photoshop calls the “marching ants” in a selection a marquee) creates oval and circular
selections
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2.
Magnetic Lasso Tool =Creates freehand selections
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3.
Quick Selection Too= Selects shapes that it detects in the image
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4.
Magic Wand Tool=Selects pixels that are similar in color to the one
that’s clicked
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5.
Crop Tool =
Crops the image to selected size
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6.
Eye Dropper Tool =Sample color from an image
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7.
Ruler Tool= Measures
a distance or angle, or straightens the image
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8.
Healing Brush Tool = Corrects flaws based on a sampled area
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9.
Content-Aware Tool =Repositions or extends an area of an image
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10.
Brush Tool= Applies
brush strokes
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11.
Mixer Brush Tool = Simulates traditional paint strokes
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12.
History Brush Tool= Restores pixels from a history state or snapshot
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13.
Background Eraser Too = Applies brush strokes
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14.
Gradient Tool= Creates soft
blends between two or more colors
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15.
Sharpen Tool = Sharpens edges and details
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16.
Smudge Tool= Smudges colors
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17.
Dodge Tool= Lightens
pixels
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18.
Burn Tool= Darkens
pixels
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19.
Pen Tool=Draws
curved or straight- edged shapes or paths
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20.
Horizontal Type Tool= Creates
horizontally oriented editable type
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21.
Vertical Type Tool= Creates vertical selections in the shapes of type
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22.
Ellipse Tool= Creates oval shape layers or paths
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23.
Hand Tool = Moves
a magnified image in the document window
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24.
Zoom Tool= Changes
the Document zoom level
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25.
Set Foreground Color Tool= Displays the
current Foreground color
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Other Photoshop Panels:
Briefly describe the purpose of the following Photoshop panels:
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1.
Actions panel = is a recorded sequence of commands
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2.
Adjustments panel= Produces different adjustment layer.
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3.
Brush panel= Has different brush settings
such as brush pose and Tip
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4.
Channels panel= Lists and displays the thumb-nails for all the color
channels in the current document.
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5.
Character panel=Has different attributes for the type tool
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6.
Color panel= Has different
ways of selecting colors vie slider or quick-select
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7.
Histogram panel= Is a graph view of distribution tonal values in the
current image.
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8.
History panel= documents the edit history of the image.
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9.
Info panel= provides
up-to-the- minute data about the document.
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10.
Kuler panel= has upload color groups, called color themes, that can be created or
upload by user.
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11.
Layers panel= let you edit/duplicate each item placed on the canvas.
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12.
Navigator panel= let you target an area for magnification.
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13.
Paragraph panel= has different paragraph settings such as alignment,
spacing, and hyphenation.
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14.
Properties panel= has adjustments layer options on it.
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15.
Styles panel= is a collection of effects settings.
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16.
Swatches panel= Stores predefined and user predefined solid color swatches.
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17.
Timeline panel= con compose a sequence using audio clips and video
files.
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PART 2: Photoshop & Illustrator Textbook Blog
The Quickstart
textbook authors, Elaine Weinman and Peter Lourekas, maintain a Photoshop and
Illustrator blog with “tips, tutorials, and design concepts” to supplement
the Quickstart Guide books. You will subscribe to this blog and follow it
during the class term (you may unsubscribe when the course is over, or you
may decide to continue following this blog to learn more about Photoshop and
Illustrator after the class is over).
1.
Follow these instructions to find
and follow the blog:
2.
Go to: http://elaineandpeter.com
3.
Scroll throughout the page to see
the latest postings.
4.
Previous Postings: Notice the previous months listed
on the right; click several of them to see other graphics postings. (You can
also use the CATEGORY dropdown list or the SEARCH box to find specific topics
of interest.)
5.
Subscribe: Scroll down the page and look for
the Subscribe via Email to receive
new post updates. Enter your gmail email address to subscribe, then click
SUBMIT.
6.
WORD PRESS: Scroll to the very bottom of the
blog and look on the right; do you see this blog is powered by WORD PRESS? WORD PRESS, like BLOGGER,
is a free, popular blogging tool. (If you would like to find more about WORD
PRESS, click on the POWERED BY WORD PRESS link. Note: WORD PRESS must be
downloaded in order to use it, while BLOGGER is a cloud blog application.)
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Textbook Blog Post: SILHOUETTES
From the Quickstart blog, scroll
down to find the SEARCH box. Enter the word SILHOUETTES (be careful to spell this correctly! Or just copy and
paste from this document.) then click the Search button. Scroll down through
the post and click on the CONTINUE READING link.
1. Explain the technique described in this posting and ways in
which you could use it: They used the Quick Selection t tool to select the object the wanted form the image. The showed how to distort the background such as blur.
2. Scroll down to find the cup of coffee silhouette pasted on the
café tables. Click the image, then save it, and paste it here:
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Coffee Cup Image:
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Other Photoshop Blogs:
From GOOGLE, search for PHOTOSHOP BLOG. Look through some of the
results and click on several blogs. Choose one posting that you liked and
provide this information:
1.
Blog Address (copy from address bar
at the top of your browser window): www.psdisasters.com/
2.
Blog Posting (describe the technique
discussed in the blog posting):
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