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Name:
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Michele Keller
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Student Number:
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10
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Photoshop:
Chapter 6: Photoshop Interface
and
Textbook Blog
The native file type for Photoshop is
PSD, so you may often see the abbreviation PSD to refer to Photoshop.
PART 1: READ Chapter 6 from Photoshop CS
6 Visual QuickStart Guide, then:
- Answer
all questions below, briefly but completely.
- Change
the color of the answer to BLUE.
- Copy this information and paste
in a new post in your DIGITAL GRAPHICS blog.
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Tools Panel:
Photoshop has so many tools, it
collects them under tool buttons on the Tools panel. Look on pages 102-104 for the Tools panel;
you will see that the second button down (the selection tool called the RECTANGULAR MARQUEE TOOL) has a little
black triangle in the lower-right corner. In Photoshop, if you click on this,
you will see the box appear that contains other selection tools.
Briefly describe the
purpose of the following Photoshop tools:
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1.
Elliptical Marquee Tool (NOTE:
Photoshop calls the “marching ants” in a selection a marquee): Creates oval and
circular selections.
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2.
Magnetic Lasso Tool: Creates free-hand selections that snap to
high-contrast edges in an image.
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3.
Quick Selection Tool: Selects shapes that it detects in the image.
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4.
Magic Wand Tool: Selects pixels that are similar in color to the one
that’s clicked.
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5.
Crop Tool: Crops the image (unconstrained or fixed ration).
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6.
Eye Dropper Tool: Samples colors from an image.
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7.
Ruler Tool: Measures a distance or angle, or straightens the
image.
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8.
Healing Brush Tool: Corrects flaws based on a sampled area.
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9.
Content-Aware Tool: Re-positions or extends an area of an image.
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10.
Brush Tool: Applies brush strokes.
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11.
Mixer Brush Tool: Simulates traditional paint strokes, allows colors
to mix and smudge.
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12.
History Brush Tool: Restores pixels from a history state or snapshot.
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13.
Background Eraser Tool: Erases a sampled area to transparency.
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14.
Gradient Tool: Creates soft blends between two or more colors.
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15.
Sharpen Tool: Sharpens edges and details.
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16.
Smudge Tool: Smudges colors.
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17.
Dodge Tool: Lightens pixels.
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18.
Burn Tool: Darkens pixels.
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19.
Pen Tool: Draws curved or straight-edged shapes or paths.
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20.
Horizontal Type Tool:
Creates
horizontally oriented editable type.
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21.
Vertical Type Tool: Creates vertically oriented editable type.
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22.
Ellipse Tool: Creates oval shape layers or paths.
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23.
Hand Tool: Moves a magnified image in the document window.
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24.
Zoom Tool: Changes the document zoom level.
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25.
Set Foreground Color Tool: Displays (and lets you change) the current
foreground color.
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Other Photoshop Panels:
Briefly describe the purpose of the following Photoshop panels:
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1.
Actions panel: A recorded sequence of commands that can be replayed
on one image or on a batch of images.
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2.
Adjustments panel: You can use this to apply flexible color and tonal edits
and corrections to an image.
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3.
Brush panel: This is used to choose brush tips and custom brush
settings for tools, such as the Art History Brush, Blur, Brush, Burn, etc.
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4.
Channels panel: Lists and displays the thumbnails for all the color
channels in the current document.
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5.
Character panel: You can choose attributes for the type tools on this
panel.
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6.
Color panel: This is another way to choose color.
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7.
Histogram panel: You can view a graph of the distribution of tonal
(light and dark) values in the current image.
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8.
History panel: Shows the history of edits made in an image during
the current work station.
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9.
Info panel: Provides up to the minute data about your document.
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10.
Kuler panel: Pronounced “cooler”.
It is a free, Web-hosted Adobe application that lets users create and
upload color groups, called color schemes.
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11.
Layers panel: This shows all the layers that were put on the
image. It also shows what layer that
you are currently working on.
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12.
Navigator panel: You can move a magnified image in the document
window, change the document zoom level, or target an area for magnification.
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13.
Paragraph panel: When creating or editing paragraph type, you can use
the paragraph panel to apply paragraph-level settings.
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14.
Properties panel: Adjustments to layers can be conducted on the
Properties panel.
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15.
Styles panel: Each style in Photoshop is a unique collection of
layer settings.
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16.
Swatches panel: Stores predefined and user-defined solid color
swatches, which are applied by various tools, filters, and commands.
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17.
Timeline panel: You can compose a sequence using audio clips and
video files.
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PART 2: Photoshop & Illustrator Textbook Blog
The Quickstart
textbook authors, Elaine Weinman and Peter Lourekas, maintain a Photoshop and
Illustrator blog with “tips, tutorials, and design concepts” to supplement
the Quickstart Guide books. You will subscribe to this blog and follow it
during the class term (you may unsubscribe when the course is over, or you
may decide to continue following this blog to learn more about Photoshop and
Illustrator after the class is over).
1.
Follow these instructions to find
and follow the blog:
3.
Scroll throughout the page to see
the latest postings.
4.
Previous Postings: Notice the previous months listed
on the right; click several of them to see other graphics postings. (You can
also use the CATEGORY dropdown list or the SEARCH box to find specific topics
of interest.)
5.
Subscribe: Scroll down the page and look for
the Subscribe via Email to receive
new post updates. Enter your gmail email address to subscribe, then click
SUBMIT.
6.
WORD PRESS: Scroll to the very bottom of the
blog and look on the right; do you see this blog is powered by WORD PRESS? WORD PRESS, like BLOGGER,
is a free, popular blogging tool. (If you would like to find more about WORD
PRESS, click on the POWERED BY WORD PRESS link. Note: WORD PRESS must be
downloaded in order to use it, while BLOGGER is a cloud blog application.)
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Textbook Blog Post: SILHOUETTES
From the Quickstart blog, scroll
down to find the SEARCH box. Enter the word SILHOUETTES (be careful to spell this correctly! Or just copy and
paste from this document.) then click the Search button. Scroll down through
the post and click on the CONTINUE READING link.
1.
Explain the technique described in
this posting and ways in which you could use it: All that is needed to be done is to
click or drag across a shape that has a distinct edge, and the tool stops the
selection at the first color or shad boundary that it detect. To add the selection, click or drag again
in an unselected area (no need to hold down the Shift).
2. Scroll down to find the cup of coffee silhouette pasted on the
café tables. Click the image, then save it, and paste it here:
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Coffee Cup Image:
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Other Photoshop Blogs:
From GOOGLE, search for PHOTOSHOP BLOG. Look through some of the
results and click on several blogs. Choose one posting that you liked and
provide this information:
1.
Blog Address (copy from address bar
at the top of your browser window):
2.
Blog Posting (describe the technique
discussed in the blog posting):
This blog
explained how this individual tool took a photograph of a rusty fire hydrant
turned it into an imaginary planet.
Way cool. Please go to the blog
address above and you can see how it was created. There were a lot of layers and selection
tools used to created the image of a planet.
The blogger suggested that anyone working in Photoshop to use
adjusting layers instead of applying hard adjustments and using layer masks
instead of deleting pixels. He will
use the images that he creates in his cinematography class.
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