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Environment Palettes Tools & Options Status bar Preferences History & Undo Preset Manager Rulers – Guides - Grids Workspace Screen modes
Document handling Document windows New view Page set up Save options File info Image size & Canvas Integrated image browser
File types Gif – bitmap / greyscale / index colours Jpg Png Tiff – PC / MAC Psd Eps/Dcs – ASCII / Binary Bmp Pdf
Palettes Tools Options Navigator / info History / Actions / Tool presets Colour / Swatches / Styles Character / Paragraph Layers / Channels Brushes
General Concepts Pixels / mm / points / picas
1 inch = 72 pixels = 2,54 cm = 6 picas 1 cm = 28,3 pixels = 0,393 inch = 2,358 picas
Image size and resolution DPI = Pixel Dimensions divided by Image Size,
in inches. Image depth
number of colours in the image Interpolation & resampling Transparency
General Concepts (2) Anti-Aliasing & dithering Blending & Blending modes: blending colour +
base colour = result colour Raster & Vector images – rasterizing or
“pixilation” Raster images are comprised of individual pixels. Vector images are comprised of line segments and
anchor points (scale well) Kerning & Tracking Gamma: represents the contrast in the mid-
tones of an image.
Colour aspects Using colour palette Using colour picker / eyedropper Colour swatches / maps / tables Hue / Saturation / Light – HSB model Colour modes:
RGB : Additive color = add visible wavelengths of light to arrive at a color CMYK : Subtractive color = based on wavelengths of light that are reflected
back to the human eye Gray scale : up to 256 shades of gray Indexed : refers to positions on a color look-up table. L*a*b color provides standard color descriptions.
Gamut Colour depth 8 / 24 bits Colour Management Calibration means adjusting the monitor, software, and printer to produce
expected results in any color mode.
The toolbox (1)
Info / Navigator Tools for selections
Rectangular / elliptical Lasso / polygonal lasso / magnetic lasso Magic wand
Retouching Healing brush / Patch tool
Painting Brush / pencil Clone / Pattern stamp Paint Bucket / Gradient
The toolbox (2) Focus
Blur / Sharpen Smudge
Erasing tools Eraser / background eraser / magic eraser
Transforming Crop tool Move tool
Adjustment Dodge / exposure (tonal) Sponge (colour)
Typing tools
The toolbox (3) Pen tool Drawing tools
Rectangle tool Ellipse tool Polygon tool Line tool Custom shape tool
Colour Eye dropper Colour sampler Measure tool
Hand tool Zoom tool
Making Selections With selection tools / combinations with Shift & Alt
Marquee Lasso Magic wand New - Add to - Subtract from - Intersect with Feather / anti-aliasing
With Quick mask With Masks Colour selections Changing selections
invert / modify transforming selections
Saving / loading / exchanging selections
Transforming Images Resizing / resolution / resampling Cropping / Trimming Canvas Flipping / Rotating Scaling / Skewing Image extracts Image Liquify Moving in combination with ctrl & shift
Filling effects Filling
Foreground and background colour Patterns
Gradients & custom gradients Edit Fill Edit Paste into Edit Copy merged Edit Stroke
Image adjustments Adjustments with basic tools Image modes Levels Colour balance HSL levels Replacing colours Inverting / Threshold Gradient map Variations
Working with layers Layer aspects
Visibility / Locking Background Write / link Opacity / Fill / Blending modes Layer sets
Creating layers / renaming / copying / deleting / moving / merging
Transferring layers between # files Using Layer styles Fill / adjustments layers Use & selection of layers (in combination with Alt & Ctrl
keys)
Working with Text Type layers = vector objects
Type tool Type Mask tool
Text options Anti aliasing Shadow Paragraph and character settings
Rasterising text Specifics
Warped text Text boxes
Masks
Channels RGB channels CMYK channels Alpha channels
Quick mask mode Creating masks / layer masks Manipulating masks
Painting Painting tools Option bar
Blending applies to all painting tools Airbrush available for all tools
Using brushes the brush palette hard-edged soft-edged Anti-aliased edges
Pencil tool ideally for B/W, bitmap images no anti-aliasing
Paintbrush tool soft edges, smooth, blended colour always anti-aliased
Filters Sharpening Rendering Blurring Pixilation Texture Strokes Specific stand-alone filters
Extracting Pattern Maker Liquify
Exercises (1) Soft Asterix Grasp those balloons Show me the path 3D sphere Feathered edges Blurry borders Thunder & lightning Extract it A button for my website We want blood
Exercises (2) Create fire X files Smooth it ! Make some sound Grid line patterns Blend them together Red eye fever Just retouch it Text on a curve
Shortcuts & tips (1) F to cycle through # modes Ctrl + - to zoom in & out / Ctrl + 0 100% Ctrl z : undo Ctrl F6 : switch between files Tab to hide palettes 2x click in a workspace to open document I = Eyedropper ; T = Text ; B = Brush ; P =
Pen ; M = Marquee; L = Lasso ; W = Magic Wand ; E = Erase ; I = Eyedropper; V = move ; S : Stamp ; C = Crop
Alt + tool to switch
Shortcuts & tips (2)
Ctrl + click on a layer to select Ctrl key to move layers Ctrl + J to copy layer Alt + Move to duplicate Shft + Backspace is Edit Fill Shft + File Close to close all open windows Alt + File New to open new file with previous
dimensions
Shortcuts & tips (3)
Shft key to keep proportions Shft key to draw straight lines 2x click on zoom icon for actual pixels Ctrl + H to hide marching ants Ctrl D to de-select Ctrl Z to undo Ctrl U HSL
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Web specifics
Save for the web Web Gallery Transparent gifs Working with slices and slices tool Exchange with ImageReady
Colour Management & Colour modes
Duo / Index / ... Image mode / colour table Image retouching / colour correction
Tools – enhanced & unplugged
Paths Slice tool Erase / Brush to History plus Artistic
effect Using tool presets – f.i. of tools without
any options
Channels & Masks By using save selection By using channels pallet Loading selections
From pallet From selection/load From another image
Alpha channels / Composite channels / spot channels
Calculations / Combining 2 channels Multi-channel mode
Layers
Layers styles / Scale / Global light Grouping / Clipping Layer sets (pass through) Matting layers
Blending Unplugged
Specifies how info from two sources is combined
Accessible through layers palette or options bar
Blending modes: Normal, Dissolve, Darken, Multiply, Color
Burn, Lighten, Screen, Color Dodge, Linear Dodge, Overlay, Soft Light, Hard Light, Vivid Light, Linear Light, Pin Light, Difference, Exclusion, Hue, Saturation, Color, and Luminosity.
Paths
Creating path layers (vector shapes) Different tools
Pen tool Freeform pen tool Path selection tools Path editing tools Magnetic pen tool
Editing anchor points, line segments & curves
Paths (2)
Specific use Creating a path from a Text Converting selections into paths and vice
versa Transforming paths Applying outline or colour to paths
Managing paths Saving, deleting, duplicating Showing/hiding Aligning and distributing paths
Levels
Values and tones of an image Presented as a histogram:
Shadows left Middle tones middle High tones right
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