An introduction to photoshop
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The document provides an introduction to Photoshop, outlining its functionalities such as photo editing, scanning, and preparation for printing, while clarifying what it is not, like a drawing or web development tool. It discusses major categories of use, various color models such as RGB and CMYK, and terminology including layers, channels, and actions. The document emphasizes the importance of understanding color gamut and the distinctions between canvas and image.
An introduction to photoshop
- 2. 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.
- 3. What Photoshop is not. – A drawing package. – A slide organizing package. – A movie making program. – An internet tool. – A web page development tool.
- 4. Major Categories of Photoshop Use – Scanning and then Manipulating. – Photo Retouching and Alterations. – Adding Special Effects using Filters – Preparing Images to be Printed.
- 5. 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)
- 6. 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.
- 7. 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.