This document provides an introduction and overview of the basic functions and tools in Adobe Photoshop. It describes what Photoshop is, its expectations and capabilities. It outlines the main menu ribbon and its options, including File, Edit, Image, and Layers. It also describes the tool box and its selection, crop, measuring, retouching, painting, drawing and navigation tools. Additionally, it covers common image formats like JPG, TIF, GIF and PNG and provides instructions for opening an image and saving it as a JPG file format.

1. Photoshop
By: Marco Antonio Hernández Murillo
11th Grade
01/09/2017

2. Table of Contents
• Description of the Guide
• Photoshop Description
• Expectations
• Main Menu Ribbon
• Tool Box
• Photoshop Terms
• Images and Types
• .jpeg. Guide

3. Introduction to Adobe Photoshop
This is a tutorial for starters on Photoshop.
Here you will learn the basic functions of the program, special features
and how to access them in order to start creating or editing images.
In addition to the principal features of the program, you will also know
the main formats of images in addition to how to save images of
photoshop as .jpeg.
Are you ready? Let's get into it!

4. What is Photoshop?
Before we begin exploring the different features that this program
has, first we need to have a clear idea of what it is.
Adobe Photoshop is a program created by the mentioned company in
order to edit or create images with different tools the program offers.

5. Expectations for Photoshop
In this program you basically can:
• Create images
• Edit images
• Digital Painting
• Graphic Design
• Web Design

6. Main Menu Ribbon
The Main Menu Ribbon of Photoshop is the options found on the
upper part of the program when its open, here we will evaluate the
main features that this section can offer.

7. Ribbon Options
File-This is the main part of this section where you can open different
images and manage the changes you make to save them and use
them at will.
Edit-This, as its name tells us, is the main editing menu of the
program that lets us transform, paste, or copy elements to and from
the image we are working on at a given time.
Image-This option controls aspects of the image that involve its
position and size in addition to being able to modify other features
like its color or tone.

8. Ribbon Options (Continued…)
Layer-As its name tells us, this features basically permits you to edit
the different layers of an image and the elements found in them in
addition to their arrangement and appearance.
Select-In this feature you can essentially select certain elements of
the image worked on, or even from your computer's memory, and
edit them on a manage of size or presence in the picture.
Filter-This option basically serves to give different effects to the
picture as is the case of a watermark, a distortion, a blur, a sketch or a
texture.

9. Ribbon Options (Continued…)
View-In here you can practically change the way you are viewing your
image on photoshop in terms of zooming in or out, viewing in
fullscreen or on normal screen and many other options of view.
Window-On this feature you can basically add different animations to
your picture in addition to other extensions you can have fun with
when using Photoshop.
3d-This feature is essentially to manage or add 3d layers and shape to
a certain image in addition to managing certain characteristics of
these objects.

10. Ribbon Options (Continued…)
Analysis-This option is basically to evaluate the measurements and
dimensions of your image with special scales and tools such as the
ruler tool or the count tool.
Help- As its own name tells us, this feature functions basically to
provide help to users that don’t know how to perform certain actions
on the program.

11. Tool Box
This is a region of Photoshop that includes certain features that can
make the managing of an image within the program very easy for
certain aspects of the editing.
On the following slides we are going to evaluate the tools included in
this option and how they can help your experience while using this
program.
For reasons of space and time we are going to evaluate this features in
little sets of related functions.
*The letter in parenthesis is the shortcut key to access the following
features.

12. Tool Box Features

13. Tool Box Options
Selection Tools-These options are basically in order to select different
elements of different forms while editing an image. Some examples
from this division are Selection Tool (V), Lasso (L), Rectangular
Marquee (M) and Quick Selection (W).
Crop and Slice Tools-As their names tell us, these features are
essentially for cutting images and deleting certain parts of them that
will not function on our image editing. The tools on this division are
the Crop (C) and Slice (C)

14. Tool Box Options (Continued…)
Measuring Tools-These tools basically serve a function of measuring,
adding notes or even to add color to certain parts of your edition
while using the program. The tools included here are the Eyedropper
(I), Ruler (I), Note (I) and Count (I).
Retouching Tools-The functions of these is basically to add certain
things to our pictures such as patches, color, stamps, in addition to
also giving us the opportunity to erase if we want to. The tools in this
section are Spot Healing Brush (J), Clone Stamp (S), Eraser (E), Blur
and Dodge (O)

15. Tool Box Options (Continued…)
Painting Tools-The function here is very simple, add color or gradients
to pictures in different thicknesses and longitudes. The tools on this
feature are Brush (B), History Brush (Y), and Gradient (G) along with
their derivatives.
Drawing and Type Tools-The options here offer us the abilities of
drawing or inserting certain shapes along with also inserting text if we
want to our pictures. The features of this set are Pen (P), Horizontal
Type (T), Path Selection (A) and Rectangle (U) along with their
various derivatives.

16. Tool Box Options (Continued…)
Navigation and 3D Tools-In this section you can basically alter the
form you are viewing your pictures in terms of zooming in addition to
being able to rotate or move a picture on a 3-Dimensional landscape.
The tools included here are as follows: 3D Object Rotate (K), 3D
Rotate Camera (N), Hand (H), Zoom (Z) and Rotate View (R) along
with their derivatives.

17. Images and their Formats
Images are the basic material to use on Adobe Photoshop but have
different formats in which they come.
They main image formats that exist are:
JPG (JPEG)-The most widely used format because of how it
compresses data into a very small file. Most images you will find
come on this format.
TIF-Lossless format ideal for commercial work and that comes in
many different features such as fax or multipage documents.

18. Formats (Continued…)
GIF-Widely known common image format that in addition to
portraying the image it offers some level of movement that can be
seen when opening a gif image.
PNG-Image format suitable for presentations when the image is
portrayed without the characteristic white background, making it
more convenient on presentations or papers including images.

19. .jpeg. Guide
How to open an image and save it as a .jpeg format?
1. Open Photoshop
2. Go to the file option and select “Open”
3. Open the image of your choice
4. Do the changes or editing you would like the image have.
5. Go to the file option and select “Save as”
6. Select your predestined folder and below the name you can see
the file format options, select .jpeg.
7. You have saved your edited image on your computer as a .jpeg.
File.

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