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Photoshop

WHAT IS IT?

  • Adobe Photoshop is the predominant photo editing and manipulation software.

  • It is the premier graphics and photo editing program used by almost all professionals.

  • Photoshop CC supports all formats of images, including BMP, GIF, JPG, PCX, TIF, and allows for virtually any image to be imported, edited, and customized into almost anything imaginable.

  • Photoshop is about creative.

Photoshop Logo

  • Double-click on Set-up exe.

  • Follow the installation instruction .

  • And open the Photoshop application by double-clicking on it.

Tools

Tool Options (Property Bar)

Layers

Windows

WORKSPACE

Menu Bar

  • You can create project by clicking on File menu > New Project.

  • Set the following as required.

Double click on empty field

File > New

OR

Set Resolution

Set Background

Set File Name

Create File

LAYERS

  • The layers palette lets you see all the layers in your document.

  • It'll let you organize and arrange your layers, set blending modes, set visibility and opacity of layers, group and merge layers, and much more.

Photoshop Layers panel

Top Layers

Bottom Layers

DIFFERENT TOOLS

  • Here we will discuss what each tool does. 

DIFFERENT TOOLS

Marquee (Keyboard: M)

  • The marquee lets you select part of the canvas in a specific shape.

  • We can select rectangular, ellipse or perfect circle in shape.

Move Tool (Keyboard: V)

  • Lets you move objects in a given layer around the Photoshop canvas.

  • To use it, click anywhere on the canvas and drag.

  • As you drag, the Photoshop layer will move with your mouse.

Lasso (Keyboard: L)

  • This is free-form selection tool that lets you drag around the canvas and select anything which it covers.

  • It has also polygonal lasso, which lets you create a selection by clicking around on the canvas and creating points.

  • A magnetic lasso, which works the same as the regular lasso but attempts to detect edges for you and automatically snap to them.

Crop Tool (Keyboard: C)

  • Used to crop your picture.

  • You can specify the exact size and constrain the crop tool to the proportions.

Eyedropper (Keyboard: I)

  • It lets you click on any part of the canvas and sample the color at that exact point.

Healing Brush (Keyboard: J)

  • Removes spots from your photo by selecting a part of your photo as the reference point.

  • You can sample part of the photograph and use it to paint over another part.

  • Eye tool (Y): Removes the red eye effect, pet eye effect, and corrects closed eyes in your photos. 

History Window

Brush tool (B)

  • Creates soft or hard strokes of color. You can use it to simulate airbrush techniques.

Clone Stamp (Keyboard: S)

  • Like the healing brush, the clone stamp lets you sample part of the photograph and use it to paint over another part.

History Brush (Keyboard: Y)

  • The history brush lets you paint back in time.

  • Photoshop keeps track of all the moves you make and the history brush lets you paint the past back into the current photo.

  • Make a screenshot of the picture .

  • And set a source for History Brush.

Eraser Tool (Keyboard: E)

  • The erase tool is almost identical to the paintbrush, except it erases instead of paints.

  • Select the Eraser tool.

  • Drag through the area you want to erase.

  • Background Eraser tool: You can erase the background while maintaining the edges of an object in the foreground. 

  • Magic Eraser tool: The tool changes all similar pixels to transparent. 

  • For Brush and Pencil modes, choose a brush preset, and set Opacity and Flow in the options bar.

  • E

Toolbar Menu

Blur Tool

  • Blur tool will blur the area where you paint.

  • The sharpen tool will sharpen it.

  • And the smudge tool will smudge the area all around the canvas.

  • Choose brush size and style.

  • Set the tool's strength.

  • And drag on image.

Pen Tool (Keyboard: P)

  • The pen tool is used for drawing vector graphics. 

  • The standard Pen tool lets you draw straight segments and curves with great precision.

  • The Freeform Pen tool lets you draw paths as if you were drawing with pencil on a piece of paper. 

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Type Tool (Keyboard: T)

  • The type tool lets you type horizontally.

  • Tools hidden beneath the horizontal type tool will let you type vertically and also create horizontal and vertical text masks.

  • The other type-related tools available in the Tool Options bar are:

  • Vertical Type

  • Horizontal Type Mask

  • Vertical Type Mask

  • Text on Selection

  • Text on Shape

  • Text on Custom Path

Path Tool (Keyboard: A)

  • The Path Selection Tool selects and moves existing path's / vector shape anchor points.

  • It's like the move tool, but for paths.

Shape Tool (Keyboard: U)

  • The shape tool lets you create vector rectangles, rounded rectangles, circles, polygons, lines, and custom shapes. 

  • These tools are very useful when designing or when creating shape masks for photos.

  • Create your own custom shape as a vector.

  • To save click on Edit > Define Cusom Shape > give a shape name > OK.

To Save Custom Shape

Create Custom Shape

Edit >

Define Custom Shape >

Give a name >

OK

Zoom Tool (Keyboard: Z)

  • The zoom tool lets you zoom in and out of the Photoshop canvas by clicking on a given area.

  • By default, the zoom tool only zooms in. To zoom out, hold down the option key and use the zoom tool as you normally would.

You can give a zoom value.

Zoom Tool Bar

Color Selection & Layer Mask

  • Here we can select a color and change its original color.

  • Open an image.

  • Click Select > Color Range.

  • Color Range window will appear.

  • Select and sample the color. ( White will change the color).

  • Click OK.

  • After selecting the color range, create a new layer mask.

  • Click Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Hue/Saturation.

  • Change the color according to you.

  • And here our white magic mouse is changed to blue.

Change the color here

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