Adobe Photoshop E-Book

Bittu Kumar

• Herausgeber: V&S Publishers
• Kategorie: Wissenschaft und neue Technologien
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2018

Seitenzahl: 162

Beschreibung

The world's best imaging and photo editing software

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Publisher’s Note

After successfully publishing youth-oriented books and getting commendable appreciation from students, teachers and parents alike, V&S Publishers is venturing into the arena of student and job-oriented books with a series of computer books on various important subjects for readers of all ages. Written and presented in lucid language and simple terms, without any computer jargon, these books are an easy-to-follow manual for readers. For the convenience of readers the information is set out in an easy to understand, step-by-step format, with clear illustrations and detailed explanations to accompany each action. Besides, every book is accompanied by an interactive CD/DVD for better understanding of the readers.

Today we live in a world of computers. The present scenario is that computers are used in every field be it education, business, trade and commerce, home and hobby, or even our ordinary day-to-day life. The importance of computers is an undeniable fact in today’s world. In fact, we can’t think of a world without computers.

Realising this indisputable fact, we are coming up with the series of “Comprehensive Computer Learning (CCL)” books. The series currently includes –

1. Comprehensive Computer Learning (CCL)

2. Comprehensive Computer Learning – A Youngsters’ Guide

3. Comprehensive Computer Learning – Microsoft Office 2010

4. Comprehensive Computer Learning – Desktop Publishing (DTP)

5. Comprehensive Computer Learning – Adobe Photoshop

Key features of these books:

Written in simple and lucid language

Presented in step-by-step, easy-to-understand format with detailed explanations with appropriate images & screenshots, charts & tables

Useful tips and notes given in every chapter as additional information

Accompanied by interactive CD/DVD for better understanding

This book “Comprehensive Computer Learning – Adobe Photoshop” has been explicitly written keeping in mind the needs of Youngsters and Executives. The book is a concise handbook for any one and every one who intends to learn Photoshop and play with images and photographs.

While every effort has been made to minimise printing and other errors, it may be possible that a few might have managed to escape the wakeful eyes. We would like to request the readers to bring these errors to our notice so that we can rectify the same in subsequent editions.

Contents

Chapter 1 - Introduction to Photoshop

What is Photoshop?

Versions of Photoshop

Features of Photoshop

How to install Photoshop

Getting started

Chapter 2 - The Photoshop Workspace

Customizing your Workspace

Rearranging palettes

Displaying different information in document window status bar

Saving your Customized Workspace

Chapter 3 - Working in Photoshop

Creating New Documents

Opening Files

Saving Files

Snappy Presets

Saving Files for the Web

Double-clicking Power

Saving Files For The Web In Fireworks

Photoshop Layers

Hiding A Layer

Quick Keyboard Shortcuts

Chapter 4 - Photoshop Toolbox

Secret Selections

Chapter 5 - Useful Tasks and Shortcuts

Zooming

Making a Selection Using the Layers Palette

Making a Selection Using a Quick Mask

The History Palette

When Photoshop Stops Working

Backing Up Your Preferences File

Chapter 6 - User interface in Photoshop

The Menu Bar

The Tools Panel

The Panels

Workspaces

The Document Window

The Application Frame

Chapter 7 - The Tool Box

Anatomy of the Toolbox

Selection Tools

Retouch Tools

Painting Tools

Vector Drawing & Type Tools

Using Tools

Retouch & Healing Tools

Spot Healing Brush Tool

Healing Brush Tool

Patch Tool

Clone Stamp Tool

Blur & Sharpen Tools

Pen Tools

Let's Acquaint ourselves with The Cursors

Best Practice Suggestions

Photoshop Painting Tools

Photoshop Colour Replacement Tool

Chapter 8 - Understanding Layer Masks in Photoshop

Chapter 9 - Layer Styles in Photoshop

What are Layer Styles?

Using Layer Style Presets

Chapter 10 - Working with Layer styles - Understanding Bevel and Emboss

Bevel and Emboss options

Chapter 11 - Understanding Drop Shadows

Chapter 12 - Photoshop Filters

Using Filters from the Filter Gallery

Filters Disabled?

Chapter 13 - Applications of Clone Stamp Tool

Cloning a "Baby" Car

Getting To Grips With Vanishing Point Filter

Chapter 14 - The hidden power of Photoshop Brush Tool

Chapter 15 - Create your own Photoshop custom shapes

Chapter 16 - Using palettes in Photoshop

The Palettes

Arranging Palettes

Resizing, Showing, and Hiding Palettes

Closing, Opening, and Resetting Palettes

Setting Options in Palettes

Drop-down Menus

Sliders

Swatches & Styles

Chapter 17 - Simple organic shapes in Photoshop

Create the shape

Add Linear Gradient Mask

Duplicate and change colour

Build a 'pile' of shapes

Group in a Layer Set and add a Radial Gradient Mask

Duplicate the 'pile', rotate and re-colour

Chapter 18 - Using Pen tablets in Photoshop

Getting Started

Setting Up Your Tablet

Adjusting Pen Settings in Photoshop

CD Script

WINDOWS 8

chapter 1

Introduction to Photoshop

What is Photoshop?

Photoshop is the leading digital image editing application for the Internet, print and other new media disciplines. It is embraced by millions of graphic artists, print designers, visual communicators, and regular people like you and me. It’s likely that nearly every picture you’ve seen (such as posters, book covers, magazine pictures, and brochures) has either been created or edited by Photoshop. The powerful tools used to enhance and edit these pictures are also capable for use in the digital world including the infinite possibilities of the Internet.

Versions of Photoshop

The table below shows the various versions of Adobe Photoshop.

Features of Photoshop

Among various features of Photoshop the following ten features are most important and mostly used.

1. Document navigation

2. Cropping

3. Layers and Groups

4. Tool presets and the preset manager

5. Layer Styles

6. ACR - healing multiple images and setting presets and applying them in Bridge

7- Creating New Files

8. Soft Proofing and Printing

9. Resetting Photoshop’s preferences and Plugin Folder when Launching

10. Alternate ways to open files

How to install Photoshop

The following steps will show you how to install Photoshop on your computer.

1. Browse for the setup.exe in your DVD/ Downloaded.

2. Run Setup.exe.

3. Wait for setup to start, a dialog box will open.

4. Read the agreement and click install.

5. Enter your license number or click to install as trial, select your Language and continue

6. Create your adobe ID or skip if you want

7. Choose directory to install your product

8. Click on button Install, this screen will appear. Wait for some time and you are finished.

9. You are done! Now you can begin....!

Getting started

Photoshop enables you to create, modify, combine, and optimize digital images. You can then save the images to print, share via e-mail, publish online, or view on a handheld device, such as an iPod.

You’ve heard of Photoshop, right? Of course you have - you wouldn’t be reading this book otherwise! You’ve probably heard of Photoshop’s sidekick, Fireworks, too, but you might not be quite sure of what it does or where it fits in. Here we will discuss all that you think of but never try yourself.

Photoshop is the most commonly used tool in the web designer’s arsenal. From the preparation of initial design comps to generating optimized graphics for a web page, most web designers rely heavily on these two programs.

So what are you waiting for? Open up Photoshop and let’s start!

chapter 2

The Photoshop Workspace

In this introductory chapter, we’ll cover some of the basic tools and tasks that we’ll draw on in later chapters. We’ll also share some of the shortcuts and time-savers that we use frequently. This chapter won’t give you an exhaustive review of the many things that Photoshop can do, but it should provide the bare bones that will help get beginners started. If you’re already familiar with the interface and can perform tasks like making selections, applying gradients, and working with layers, you might want to skip ahead to the next chapter.

Photoshop’s "out of the box" workspace consists of the following components:

Menu bar - You will probably already be familiar with the menu bar from other programs. This runs across the top of your Photoshop window, and contains various menu options for Photoshop’s tools.

Options bar - The options bar sits beneath the menu bar and holds contextualized options for different tools. It also contains the workspace menu, where you can save and load arrangements of palettes.

Toolbox - By default, the toolbox sits to the left of your Photoshop window, and contains shortcuts to Photoshop tools.

Now that you’re going to work in Photoshop, you might want to start talking like a designer. Designers, like professionals in most specialist fields, have their own terminology and words for things. A comp (short for "composite") refers to a mockup of the final solution that a designer has in mind. Traditionally, "comp" is used in the print world to refer to page layouts, but for web designers it usually refers to a static interface prepared entirely in Photoshop for the client to look over before he or she decides to proceed. You might even hear it being used as a verb: "comping" is the process of creating that mockup site.

Palettes - Individual "panes" that hold information or options for working with your file, known as palettes (or panels), float on the right-hand side. Each palette is labelled with a tab, and can be minimized, closed, grouped with other palettes, or dragged in and out of a panel dock. In the example that follows, the Navigator palette contains a thumbnail of the image that allows you to zoom in or out of the image quickly, and to change the part of the image displayed on the screen.

Document windows - Each open document has their own document window with a status bar along the bottom. The status bar sits to the right of the zoom percentage displayed in the bottom left-hand corner, and displays information that’s specific to the document.

Customizing your Workspace

You can customize your Photoshop workspace to suit you or your project - almost everything within your workspace can be repositioned and reconfigured. You might choose to customize your workspace by:

Changing the look of the menu bar

You can change which menu items are visible in your menu bar, and even add colour to your menu items. If you wanted, you could also assign new or different keyboard shortcuts to menu commands (which I don’t recommend until you feel very comfortable with Photoshop or have a compelling reason to do so!). Go to Edit > Menus and use the dialog box to modify the menu bar and palette menus.

Moving the options bar

If you want to move the options bar, you can do so by clicking on the handle on its left side and moving it around. The options bar will "dock" to the top or bottom of the screen automatically if moved near those areas.

Moving the toolbox

The toolbox is extremely portable, and can be moved to any location on your screen. Move the toolbox by clicking on the light gray area at the top of it and dragging it around. You can switch between different toolbox layouts by clicking the double arrow along the top of the toolbox.

Rearranging palettes

There are many ways to rearrange your palettes. You might want to separate a palette from its palette group, and move it into another group. You can do this by dragging the palette tab out of its original group and into the new group. You may want to expand or collapse a dock, by clicking on the double arrows at the top of the dock. You might also decide to drag some of your palette tabs out of their dock, and close the rest. To display a palette that has been closed, go to Window and select the palette you want to show.

Displaying different information in document window status bar

The status bar displays the document file size by default. The file size is shown as two numbers separated by a forward slash: the first number is an approximation of the image file size with all layers merged (known as "flattening" the image), and the second number is an approximation of the total file size of the image with layers intact. If all this sounds new to you, don’t worry - we’ll be discussing layers shortly. You can set the status bar to display different information, such as the document dimension in pixels, or the version number of the file. To do this, click on the arrow icon next to the status bar, select Show and choose the information you’d like to see.

Saving your Customized Workspace

As you become more proficient with Photoshop, you may discover that you use certain sets of palettes for different types of projects, and that there are some palettes that you don’t use at all. Photoshop allows you to save and load different workspaces - different arrangements of palettes, menus, and even different keyboard shortcuts - to help you work more efficiently.

After you’ve customized your workspace to your satisfaction, select the Workspace menu in the options bar, click Save Workspace and enter a name for your workspace, such as Creating Thumbnails or My Default Workspace. You can then load your different workspaces by opening Workspace and selecting your custom workspace from the menu list.

chapter 3

Working in Photoshop

Now that you’ve been introduced to the Photoshop workspace and have a basic idea of where everything is, let’s start getting our hands dirty.

Creating New Documents

You can create a new document by selecting File > New from the menu bar, or pressing the keyboard shortcut Ctrl-N on a PC or Command-N on a Mac. The New dialog box will appear, where you can specify the document size and other settings.

Opening Files

Open files by selecting File > Open from the menu bar, or pressing Ctrl-O (Command-O on a Mac). You can select and open multiple files by holding down Ctrl (Command on a Mac) and clicking on all the files you require in the file dialog box.

Saving Files

Save a file by selecting File > Save, or pressing Ctrl-S (Command-S on a Mac). For a newly-created document, this will save your work in Photoshop Document (PSD) format. If you would prefer to save a copy of the document, you can use File > Save As or pressing Ctrl-Shift-S (Command-Shift-S on a Mac) instead.

Snappy Presets

If you’re designing for a website with a minimum screen size of 800A—600 pixels, I’d recommend you to start with a 750A—550 pixel document. The smaller dimensions give you a better estimate of your actual screen area after you take into account scroll bars and menu bars. Also, be sure to set the resolution at 72dpi to reflect the actual screen resolution. If you want easy access to these dimensions for other new documents, it’s probably a good idea to click Save Preset and give the settings a name like Web Page. The next time you create a new document, you will be able to load your Web Page settings from the Preset list.

Saving Files for the Web

Photoshop files themselves can’t be embedded into a web page. You will need to export your file and save it in a web-friendly format. There are three formats for web graphics: GIFs, JPEGs, and PNGs.

GIF

The GIF format (pronounced “jiff” or “giff” depending on which side of the tracks you grew up) can have a maximum of 256 colours. GIF files support transparency and animation, and work best with graphics that have large areas of the same colour.

JPEG

The JPEG format (pronounced “jay-peg”) works best with photographic images or images that have more than 256 colours and gradient. Images saved in JPEG format are compressed, which means that image information will actually be lost, causing the image to degrade in quality.

PNG

The PNG format (pronounced “ping”) is similar to the GIF format in that it supports transparency and works best with solid-colour images, but it’s superior to the GIF format as it has the ability to support true levels of transparency for coloured areas. Transparent PNGs are currently not in widespread use on the Web because older versions of Microsoft Internet Explorer do not support them; however, they’re often used in Macromedia Flash movies. PNGs can produce a better quality image at a smaller file size than can GIFs. Photoshop allows you to save an image as a PNG-8 file (which works the same way as a GIF would with 256 colours) or a PNG-24 file (which allows for millions of colours as well as variable transparency).

Double-clicking Power

As if keyboard shortcuts weren’t quick enough, Windows users have even more ways to open and save files, such as: holding down Ctrl and double-clicking the work area to create new documents, double-clicking the work area to pull up the Open dialog box, to open files holding down Alt and double-clicking the work area to open existing files as new documents, holding down Ctrl-Shift and double-clicking the work area to save documents, holding down Shift and double-clicking the work area to access Adobe Bridge - Adobe’s "control centre" and file browser. The work area is the gray area behind the document windows. If your shortcuts aren’t working, check that you are clicking on an empty spot on the work area, and not in one of the document windows or Photoshop tools! Alas, Photoshop on a Mac does not have a work area, so Mac users won’t get to enjoy the goodness of double-click shortcuts.

To save for the Web in Photoshop, select File > Save for Web & Devices... or press Ctrl-Alt-Shift-S