This document provides information about Photoshop, its uses, and some key tools and techniques. Photoshop is a raster graphics editor developed by Adobe for image editing. It is commonly used by photographers, web designers, graphic designers, and advertisers to edit, create, and manipulate digital images. The document outlines some popular Photoshop tools like the Burn Tool, History panel, Crop Tool, and Blur Tool. It also discusses common file formats for saving Photoshop images like JPEG, GIF, and PNG and their best uses. Finally, it advertises an online course that teaches advanced Photoshop techniques for retouching portraits, understanding lighting, and working with extensions like Lightroom and Bridge.

1. What is Photoshop?
• Adobe Photoshop is a raster graphics editor developed and
published by Adobe Systems for Windows and OS X.
• Photoshop was created in 1988 by Thomas and John Knoll.

2. Who uses Photoshop?
- Photographer
Photographers just don’t take stunning pictures; they create them using the help of
Photoshop.
- Web Designer
As a web designer, you will be creating logos, navigational bars, backgrounds,
headers and additional images to help create a webpage.
- Graphic Designer
Graphic designers are the people who design fancy intricate images, graphics, and
even your favorite comic book character
- Advertiser
As an advertiser you will be using Photoshop to create logos and branding icons,
product packaging, company advertisements and more.

3. Burn Tool- It darkens areas and can be used to work on highlight, midtone or shadowed areas.
History - Complete list of tasks performed on an image. Allows to perform, undo or the deletion of a
previous step.
Gamut – The range of colors that a color system can display or print.
Crop Tool -The Crop tool is used to shave off unwanted areas at the edge of a digital image.
Sharpen - The Sharpen tool increases the sharpness (focus) of an image, by increasing the contrast of
neighboring pixels.
Smudge - The Smudge tool spreads color in an image, displacing pixels of corresponding colors.
Blur - The Blur tool reduces the sharpness (focus) of an image. It does this by reducing the color contrast
of neighboring pixels.
Dodge- This tool lightens a part of an image, if the cursor is dragged across it.
Sponge- The Sponge tool affects the saturation and contrast of an image.
Popular Tools of Photoshop?

4. Popular File Formats to Save images in Photoshop
In Photoshop there are 3 popular File formats to save your images:
• JPEG – Joint Photographic Experts Group
• GIF – Graphics Interchange Format
• PNG – Portable Network Graphics

5. • Best for photos of continuous tone, full-color images
• Uses 16 million colors
• Browsers use reasonable approximations
• Work in RGB mode
• Uses lossy compression
• Saving (Standard, Optimized, Progressive)
JPEG

6. • Best for solid color images (buttons, logos)
• Uses 256 colors
• Browsers use 216 colors
• Work in Indexed mode
• Good compression
• Interlaced
GIF

7. PNG (8-bit)
• Best for line art (logos)
• Compresses solid areas of color well and maintains sharp detail
• Generally, has better compression than GIF (10-30% smaller)
• If considering saving as GIF, also consider saving as PNG (8-bit)
• Not supported by older browsers
PNG (24-bit)
• Best for continuous-tone images
• Compresses well, but can be larger than JPEGs
• If considering saving as JPEG, could also consider PNG (24-bit)
• Not supported by older browsers

8. Advance Photoshop Techniques for Designers
- Course by Eduonix
Topics Covered
SECTION 1 : Introduction
SECTION 2 : Beauty Techniques
SECTION 3 : Working with Adobe Lightroom
SECTION 4 : Working with Bridge

9. What Will You Learn From this Course
• How to use and manipulate advance Photoshop techniques to produce more
interesting photos
• How to retouch beauty photos including retouching hair, face, skin, lips and
even teeth
• How to work with Adobe extensions such as Lightroom, Bridge and Camera
Raw
• Quick retouching techniques for men and women
• How to retouch photos to accentuate lighting
• Understanding the difference between lighting photos for portrait, product,
fashion and creative

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