3 00 Understanding Adobe Photoshop 8 Photo Shop

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Photo. Shop Workspace q q q Options Bar Document Panel Tools Panel History Panel Color Panel Layers Panel

Customize Workspace q Your Photo. Shop workspace can be changed to best meet your needs as a video editor. ☐ Change document views ☐ Rearrange/resize windows and panels ☐ Add or remove tools on toolbar ☐ Create and save custom workspace q These same techniques can be used to customize other Adobe software.

Options Bar Control Panel q Displays options for the currently selected tool. Options Bar with Type tool selected Options Bar with Paint Bucket tool selected

Document Panel q Displays the file you’re working on. q Multiple graphic files can be opened and worked on. q Grids and Rulers are measuring tools used to assist in the scaling, arranging, and spacing of design components.

Non-Printing Design Elements q Rulers help you accurately place and measure objects in an document. q Grid appears behind your artwork and helps you align items on the canvas. q Guides help you align text and graphic objects. You can create straight vertical or horizontal ruler guides. q Smart Guides are temporary snap-to guides that appear when you move objects. They help you align, edit, and transform objects relative to other objects.

Tools Panel q Contains tools for creating and editing images, artwork, page elements. q Related tools are grouped together. q A small triangle at the lower right of the tool icon signals the presence of hidden tools

History Panel q Each time you apply a change to an image, the new state of that image is added to the panel. q Jump to any recent state of the image created during the current working session.

Color Panel q Displays the color values for the current foreground and background colors. q Using the sliders, you can edit the foreground and background colors using different color models.

Layers Panel q Lists all layers, layer groups, and layer effects in an image. q You can use to show and hide layers, create new layers, and work with groups of layers. q Introduction to Layers directions and video.

Stacking Order q Layering - separating components of a design individually or into groups in order to make adjustments specific to the layer. q The stacking order can be changed by moving the layer in the Layers Panel. q Or by using Arrange and: ☐ Send to Back ☐ Send Backward ☐ Send to Front ☐ Send Forward

Photo. Shop Photo Manipulation q Destructive Editing ☐ Changes the original photo in a way that cannot be reversed after saving and closing; i. e. cropping, deleting a selection. q Non-Destructive Editing ☐ Makes changes to the original photo that can always be reversed; i. e. masking.

Smart Objects q Preserve an image’s source content with all its original characteristics, enabling you to perform nondestructive editing. You can: ☐ Perform nondestructive transforms. You can scale, rotate, skew, distort, perspective transform, or warp a layer without losing original image data. ☐ Work with vector artwork, that otherwise would be rasterized in Photoshop. ☐ Edit one Smart Object and automatically update all its linked instances. Smart Objects Video

Linked Images Remain independent of the new file. q Pros ☐ Keeps documents relatively small. ☐ Allows you to edit your linked images in another application and the edits will automatically be applied to the linked image within your document. q Cons ☐ Moving or deleting folders/files, can lead to unlinked images. ☐ Anytime you send the file containing the link to someone else, you have to make sure to send the linked images as well.

Embedded Images Are actually contained within the new document at full resolution. q Pros ☐ Self sufficient document – You do not have to worry about images unlinking. q Cons ☐ Can result in large document sizes. ☐ Have to reimport images after editing them in outside applications.

Color Management q A process where the color characteristics for every device in the imaging chain is known precisely and utilized in color reproduction. q It often occurs behind the scenes and cannot guarantee identical color reproduction, but it can at least give you more control over any changes which may occur.

Color Profile q A pre-determined subset of specific colors assigned to an image; preset for devices like scanners, digital cameras, monitors, and printers so that the color of an image remains true from source to destination. q RGB (Red, Green, Blue) ☐ Monitor Color Profile: optimized for viewing on a screen. q CMYK (Cyan, Yellow, Magenta, Black) ☐ Printer Color Profile: optimized for printing purposes.

Color Terms q Color Gamut ☐ The range of colors that is defined by the color profile; when working within a given color profile, color choices are selected from the gamut. q Color Libraries ☐ Color system manufacturers create standardized colors for communicating color information across apps and processes, i. e. Pantone.