Photoshop: Chapter 6: Photoshop Interface and Textbook Blog

Name:

Jessica Stephens

Student Number:

X00147734

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:

1. Answer all questions below, briefly but completely.
2. Change the color of the answer to BLUE.
3. Copy this information and paste in a new post in your DIGITAL GRAPHICS blog.

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:

1.       Elliptical Marquee Tool (NOTE: Photoshop calls the “marching ants” in a selection a marquee)

Magnetic Lasso Tool  Creates freehand selections that snap to high-contrast edges in an image

1.       Quick Selection Tool Selects shapes that it detects in the image

2.       Magic Wand Tool Selects pixels that are similar in color to the one that’s clicked

3.       Crop Tool Crops the image (unconstrained or fixed ratio)

4.       Eye Dropper Tool Samples colors from an image

5.       Ruler Tool Measures a distance or angle, or straightens the image

6.       Healing Brush Tool Corrects flaws based on a sampled area

7.       Content-Aware Tool Repositions or extends an area of an image

8.       Brush Tool Applies brush strokes

9.       Mixer Brush Tool Simulates traditional paint strokes; allows colors to mix and smudge

10.   History Brush Tool Restores pixels from a history state or snapshot

11.   Background Eraser Tool Erases a sampled color area to transparency

12.   Gradient Tool Creates soft blends between two or more colors

13.   Sharpen Tool Sharpens edges and details

14.   Smudge Tool Smudges colors

15.   Dodge Tool Lightens pixels

16.   Burn Tool Darkens pixels

17.   Pen Tool Draws curved or straight-edged shapes or paths

18.   Horizontal  Type Tool Creates horizontally oriented editable type

19.   Vertical Type Tool Creates vertically oriented editable type

20.   Ellipse Tool Creates oval shape layers or paths

21.   Hand Tool Moves a magnified image in the document window

22.   Zoom Tool Changes the document zoom level

23.   Set Foreground Color Tool Displays (and lets you change) the current Foreground color

Other Photoshop Panels: Briefly describe the  purpose of the following Photoshop panels:

1.       Actions panel An action is a recorded sequence of commands that can be replayed on one image or on a batch of images.

2.       Adjustments panel Each button on the Adjustments panel produces a different kind of adjustment layer, which you can use to apply flexible color and tonal edits and corrections to an image

3.       Brush panel Use the Brush Presets panel to store, display, and choose from an assortment of predefined and user-created brush presets

4.       Channels panel The Channels panel lists and displays the thumbnails for all the color channels in the current document

5.       Character panel You can choose attributes for the type tools on the Character panel

6.       Color panel After selecting a color model from the panel menu, you can either mix a color via the sliders or quick-select a color by clicking in the color ramp.

7.       Histogram panel On the Histogram panel, you can view a graph of the distribution of tonal (light and dark) values in the current image, and compare them with modified tonal values as you apply color and tonal adjustments.

8.       History panel Each edit that is made to a document during the current work session listed as a separate state on the History panel, from the “Open” unedited state of the document at the top to the most recent state at the bottom

9.       Info panel The Info panel provides up-to-the-minute data about your document.

10.   Kuler panel free, Web-hosted Adobe application that lets users create and upload color groups, called color themes

11.   Layers panel Using the Layers panel, you can create, hide, show, duplicate, restack, group, link, lock, merge, flatten, and delete layers..

12.   Navigator panel Using the Navigator panel, you can move a magnified image in the document window, change the document zoom level, or target an area for magnification

13.   Paragraph panel When creating or editing paragraph type, you can use the Paragraph panel to apply paragraph-level settings, including horizontal alignment, indentation, spacing before, spacing after, and automatic hyphenation.

14.   Properties panel

15.   Styles panel

16.   Swatches panel

17.   Timeline panel

                       

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: 2.       Go to: http://elaineandpeter.com 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.)

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: 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:

Coffee Cup Image:

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):