The document provides an overview of the Photoshop workspace and basic tools. It describes the five main components of the Photoshop workspace: the Application Bar, Tools Panel, Options Bar, Document Window, and Panel Dock. It also summarizes key tools for creating images, working with text, drawing, painting, and layers. Basic functions of tools like the Pen, Shape, Brush, Eraser, and Layer tools are outlined.

1. PHOTOSHOP
TUTORIAL
Basics of Photoshop

2. Choose a topic:
 Workspace
 Creating Images
 Type Tool
 Drawing
 Painting
 Layers

3. Workspace

4. Workspace
The Photoshop workspace consists of
five main components:
 Application Bar
 Tools Panel
 Options Bar
 Document Window
 Panel Dock

5. Workspace
The Application Bar
The Application Bar, new to Photoshop CS4, is located across the top of the
screen. It contains the old menu bar, along with a number of other controls.
The menu bar contains controls for managing and editing files, manipulating
images, managing layers, and more.

6. Workspace
Tools Panel
The familiar Tools Panel contains a
collection of tools for creating, selecting,
and manipulating images. Tools that have
a similar function are grouped together.

7. Workspace
Options Bar
The Options Bar is located below the Application Bar. The options change
depending on the tool you have selected. For example, when you select the
Type tool, options pertaining to text editing will appear across the bar.

8. Workspace
Document Window
The Document Window displays the
file you're working on.

9. Workspace
Panel Dock
A vertical dock of panels is located on
the right of the workspace. Panels help
you manage and edit your images,
allowing for quick and easy access to
the most common controls for a
particular task. By default, three panels
will appear when you open Photoshop:
the layers, adjustments and styles
panels.

10. Creating Images

11. Creating Images
How to create new image?
To create a new image, follow these steps:
1. Click File from the Application Bar.
2. Click New. A dialog box will open, allowing
you to define the following elements of your
image:
 Name
 Sizes
 Resolution
 Color Mode
 Background Content

12. Creating Images
 Name - allows you to name your image.
 Size - allows you to predetermine the width and height of your
image. Photoshop offers preset dimensions for sizing your image, or you can customize
your own size using many types of measurements including
pixels, centimeters, inches, and millimeters.
 Resolution - allows you to set the image resolution. A resolution of 72 ppi (pixels
per inch) is generally used for Internet images. If you wish to use your images for print or
video, they will need to be a higher resolution.
 Color Mode - allows you to control the color mode of your image. The standard
color mode is RGB (Red Green Blue). You can also choose to create your image in
grayscale, bitmap, and more. Some modes will limit your color range.
 Background Content - allows you to choose the initial background color of your
image.

13. Creating Images
3. When you are happy with your selections, click OK.

14. Type Tool

15. Type Tool
The Type Tool is used to create text in Photoshop. It is a feature used mostly
with desktop publishing and the Web, as most people don't tend to print out
home photos with text on the pictures.
1. Open the image that you want to add text to.
2. Click the Type tool from the Tools Panel.
3. Click the document where you want the text to appear.
4. Type your text.

16. Type Tool
Photoshop provides many different options for writing text. To access these
options, hold the mouse down on the Type Tool on the Tools Palette. The
following options will appear.
Type examples:
 Arched Text
 Vertical Text
 Formatted Text

17. Drawing

18. Drawing
Vector graphics are made with mathematical
equations and formulas. When you zoom in on a
vector graphic, its variables change to
accommodate your action and you end up with a
graphic that looks exactly the same, except
bigger.
Raster graphics (Bitmap) store picture data as
a matrix of pixels (dots). When you zoom in on
the picture, the pixels become enlarged,
resulting in a fuzzy, jagged picture with visible
pixels.

19. Drawing
The main drawing tools are located on the
Tools Palette: the Pen Tool, Shapes Tool,
Path Selection Tool. To expand the options
for a tool, hold the mouse down on the tool
icon.

20. Drawing
Pen Tool
Use the Pen tool to create drawing paths. You
can create custom shapes and complicated
curves that can be scaled easily. By accessing
the expanded Pen tool, you can add, delete and
covert points on your drawing path.

21. Drawing
Path Selection
Use the Path Selection tool to select an existing
drawing path. You can also use it to move,
resize, copy, or delete paths. Use the Direct
Selection tool to reshape a path, or to delete a
component of a path.

22. Drawing
Shape Tool
Use the Shape tool to create paths with a certain
shape. It creates the same path points that the
Pen tool does. Each shape can be modified with
the Path Selection tool.

23. Drawing
Type Tool
Use the Type tool to add text to your image.

24. Painting

25. Painting
Each of the expanded options (shown on
the right) for Photoshop's painting tools can
be accessed by holding down the mouse on
a tool.

26. Painting
Patch Tool
It retouches image using sampled pixels or
pattern.
It works as a combination of the Healing
Brush with the Lasso Tool.

27. Painting
Brush Tool
When working with all of the drawing tools
(except the Gradient tool), the Brushes
option is available in the toolbar to allow
you to use different brushes and textures.
You can also load one (or several) of
Photoshop's included brush sets by clicking
on the black triangle at the top right hand
corner of the Brushes menu.

28. Painting
Clone tool
Allows you to copy a part of an image to
another area of the image by pressing and
holding the key while clicking on an image
and then using the tool in another area.
The Pattern Stamp tool is slightly different
in that you may paste the copied image
more than once

29. Painting
History Tool
The History tool allows you to combine
previous versions of your image with the current
version.
When working with an image, you may decide
that you like some of the current changes as
well as some of the past changes.
You can combine the two by selecting the
history state (from the History palette) that
includes the old changes that you liked and
using the History tool to paint the past image
onto the current state.

30. Painting
Eraser Tool
The default Eraser tool replaces the erased
portion of the image with the current
background color.
When using the Background Eraser tool,
however, the erased portion simply
disappears.
The Magic Eraser tool behaves similar to
the Magic Wand tool in that it will select
similar shades of a certain color and erase
portions of the image with those colors and
erase them.

31. Painting
Gradient Tool
This tool is a very simple way to paint a
gradient between colors into your image. The
default settings produce a linear gradient
between the current foreground and
background colors.
Radial, angle, reflected, and diamond gradients
are also available. Adding more colors and
settings can be done in the Gradient tool's
toolbar.
The Pain Bucket Tool fills an area of an image
based on color similarity. Click anywhere in the
image and the paint bucket will fill an area
around the pixel you clicked.

32. Painting
Blur, Sharpen, & Smudge Tool
Blur Tool is the simplest way to blur
desired spot of an image.
Sharpen Tool increases contrast in the
areas where you paint.
Smudge Tool blends the pixels where you
paint simulating the action of dragging a
finger through wet paint.

33. Painting
Each of the expanded options (shown on
the right) for Photoshop's painting tools can
be accessed by holding down the mouse on
a tool.

34. Layers

35. Layers
Layers are a basic founding concept you
need to understand when working with
Photoshop.
Each time you add something to your image
(for example text or shapes), Photoshop will
create it as a layer.

36. Layers
This is layer 1, a transparency with a black
border and a red circle in the upper-left
corner.
This is layer 2, a transparency with a green
circle in the middle.
This is layer 3, our final transparency with a
blue circle in the bottom-right corner

37. Layers
If we place layer 2 (green circle) over layer
1 (red circle), and then place layer 3 (blue
circle) over layer 2, we'll get an overlapping
of colors within a single image. That's how
layers work!

38. Layers
The Layers palette is located on the right
of the workspace, in the palette dock. All of
your layers are displayed in hierarchical
order on the Layers palette.

39. Layers
• Layer Lock - allows you to lock a layer, or
specific features within a layer.
• Eye icon - allows you to hide a layer. You can still
work on a layer even though you can't see it.
• Paintbrush icon - indicates which layer is
currently selected. A layer must be selected before
you can make any modifications to it. To select a
layer, simply click it. Selecting a layer makes it
visible.

40. Layers
You can also rearrange layers. For example, in our
color circle example, the blue circle could be placed
beneath the red and green circles. To do this, you
simply click and drag the layer to be above or below
other layers in the Layers list.
Dragging a layer to either to the New/Copy
Layer or Delete Layer buttons on the bottom of
the palette will copy or delete the layer.

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Source: http://www.washington.edu/lst/help/graphics/photoshop