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An Introduction to Adobe
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About the Author
About the Author
After leaving school in Sheffield, UK, Steve worked in the print industry for 10 years before being made redundant
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After his current contract had expired, he undertook a course in Photoshop Artistry at the University of Sheffield
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The lecturer asked if Steve would take over in teaching the course as he was leaving
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Steve taught at the University of Sheffield for three years and then decided to pursue a career in providing bespoke training
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Steve remains an avid consumer of knowledge and education and has completed over thirty online courses and has become
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Introduction
An Introduction to Adobe Photoshop
Foreword
When Photoshop was first introduced back in February of 1990 it caused quite a stir amongst the creative community
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It started a revolution that continues to this day
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However, Adobe’s image editing software has seen
off all comers and after 21 years, it is still the industry standard program in its field
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In this publication I aim to provide a tour of the Photoshop user interface and cover some of the basic
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Photoshop Panels and Tools
1 Photoshop Panels and Tools
Photoshop is modular in it is layout and it is infinitely customizable
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There is also a standard menu bar at the very top of the application
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There are a number of pre-set workspaces that can be selected
from the right hand side of the menu bar, the default workspace is called “Essentials” and can be recalled at any time
by clicking on the button
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2 a close up of the workspaces available from the top right corner of the menu bar
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2, they can be accessed by clicking on the >> icon
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Each open panel has its own fly-out menu that contains commonly used functions
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3 an example of a fly-out menu, in this case, accessed from the layers panel
Some panels are often represented by a strip of icons docked on the left hand side of the open panels
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However, it is not always clear to beginners what these icons mean
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This will expand the icon strip to
reveal the name of the function associated with that icon
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Photoshop Panels and Tools
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It contains mouse based tools that
are used for editing and navigation in Photoshop
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This indicates that these are more tools that can be accessed by clicking and holding down
the mouse button
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5 an example of multiple tools, available from a single tool icon
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You may notice that there are small lines
or spacers separating the groups of tools
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At the
bottom of the tool bar there is colour picker and very bottom is an icon that allows you to enter the quick mask mode
for creating and editing selections
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Navigation tools
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Colour picker
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Text and Vector editing tools
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Which is to say, that it changes depending on which tool is selected in the
tool bar
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For example, in fig 1
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We have the show transform controls
and a range of alignment options, which are faded in appearance, because in this case, no layer was highlighted in the
layers panel
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7 the options associated with the move tool
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8 all of the menus and items located in the menu bar of the Photoshop standard edition
The menu bar contains many menu items and many sub menu items
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Many
of the functions in these menus are accessible from the Fly-out menus in the various panels
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We will cover many of the menu items in detail in subsequent chapters, and some of the more advanced menus in
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Basic Operations
2 Basic Operations
Opening Files
Open
As with most programs, the option to open a file can be found in the File menu, fig 2
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This operation also has a keyboard
shortcut Ctrl-O/Cmd-O (PC/Mac)
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1 opening a file from the file menu
Once you’ve selected to open a file, the Open dialogue box will appear
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2 the Open dialogue box
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The Open As dialogue box is
almost identical to the Open dialogue box, except that it allows you open an image in one format and have it appear in
Photoshop as a different format, Fig 2
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Fig 2
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A useful application of the Open As command is that you can open most single layered file formats as a Camera Raw
document
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4) that is part of Abobe Photoshop
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Basic Operations
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A Smart Object allows non-destructive editing of your image and is
useful if you are planning on making extreme edits or multiple transformations, such as scaling, to your image
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There are several other ways of getting an image into Photoshop, including simply dragging an image onto the work area
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Basic Operations
Saving Your Work
When you need to save your work you will go to the File menu and choose Save or Save As
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If the document has not been previously saved you will
see the same dialogue box as if you had pressed Save As
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6) where you can name the file, choose the properties that you
wish to be included in the file and also choose the file format
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6) you will notice that Photoshop
allows you to save your file in many different formats
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Others are specialist formats used in areas such as medical imaging
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Popular and Useful File Formats:
PSD: This is Photoshop’s native file format and if you only use Photoshop as you image editor, it’s the one that will give you
the most flexibility
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This format also
supports high bit depth filed up to 32bits
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TIFF: Tagged-Image File Format (TIFF, TIF) has most of the same attributes as the PSD format (when opened in
Photoshop)
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It also allows
the use of several different compression methods to reduce the size of your file
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This file format uses “Lossy” compression, which is to say, that data is lost during the compression process
resulting in a much smaller file, but may also compromise image quality
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GIF: Graphics Interchange Format (GIF) is used to display indexed colour mode graphics
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However, it has several characteristics that have made
it very popular in web graphics
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The PNG format is a lot more flexible in its
support for 24bit photographic images and alternative colour modes than the GIF format
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We will look at the JPEG, GIF and PNG formats in more detail when we cover saving images for the web in book three
of this series
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It has the benefit of supporting compression, 16bit format and common colour modes, whilst retaining font, vector, raster
information and Photoshop editing (if selected)
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The New dialogue box allows you set all of the parameters for your new document and has a number of presets
to get you started, fig 2
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For example, you need it to be
at the correct size and resolution for its intended purpose
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Likewise, if a web preset is selected the resolution will be set accordingly
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There are other options in the New dialogue box that also need to be determined:
• Colour Mode – For example, RGB for web design and photography and CMYK for commercial print
• Bit Depth – 8 bit is generally fine unless you are intending to perform some major image editing or have a
lot of gradients in a design, in which case it would be better to work in 16 bit mode and then convert to 8
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• Background Contents – This determines the colour of your background layer
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• Pixel Aspect Ratio – in almost all cases this should be set to Square Pixels
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Navigating and Zooming
3 Navigating and Zooming
The Navigator Panel
When you are zoomed in to and image in Photoshop it is easy to lose where you are
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1) will indicate the zoomed area
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In CS5, flick panning is possible and can be enabled
or disabled in the general preferences dialogue box which is found in the Edit menu on the PC, or the Photoshop menu
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The Zoom Tool
When the zoom tool is selected, the default setting is to enable you to zoom in to an image in two ways:
• Click on the desired portion of the image to zoom in predefined increments
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If you have the Scrubby Zoom option selected (fig 3
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You can then zoom back out by clicking and dragging to the left
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• Print Size – show the image at the size it will be printed based on the documents resolution setting
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Useful Keyboard Shortcuts
Experienced Photoshop users will often use keyboard shortcuts for navigating and zooming
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Simple Global Adjustments
4 Simple Global Adjustments
In this section we are going to take a look at Global Adjustments
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It can also be used a special effect to create a specific look
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The first is to go to the Image menu and
choose Adjustments:
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However, if you apply an adjustment
to your image and save it, the adjustment is permanent and destructive
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Alternatively, you can create an adjustment layer from the Layers menu by choosing
New Adjustment layer
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The Adjustment list is visible in the Adjustments panel if no adjustment layer is highlighted in the Layers panel
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2 the list of Adjustment Layers available from the Layer menu
You will notice that this time there are only 15 adjustments instead of the 22 we saw previously
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3 an Adjustment Layer in the Layers Panel and the Adjustment Panel
Once you’ve added the adjustment layer it will be visible as a new layer above your image in the Layers panel, fig 4
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The
dialogue box for the adjustment will also appear in the Adjustments panel (if you can’t see the Adjustments panel, select
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Simple Global Adjustments
Levels
Levels is an extremely powerful tool for adjusting exposure problems and can also be used to colour correct an image
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4 the Levels Adjustment
When you apply a Levels correction you will notice that there is a histogram, this is a representation of all of the tonal
values in the image
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This gives us a complete range of 256 possible values
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If the Gamma is adjusted to the left (towards
the black end of the scale) the image will get lighter in the mid tones and the opposite will happen if you move it to the
right, the image will get darker in the mid tones
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This means that there are no true blacks or whites in the image and
this may result in the image lacking in contrast
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The black and white values have been changed and in the left hand box the input value now reads 14
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Similarly, the right hand input box now reads 238
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By moving these sliders inwards to
meet where the pixel values begin and end, we now have an image that contains a full range of values from pure black to
pure white
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If you are confident as to where your black points and white point should be in your image, you can select the appropriate
sample point selectors (commonly known as the eyedropper tools, fig 4
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The eyedroppers will also attempt to created neutral values, so they will remove any colour
cast that your image may have
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7 the black point, gamma and white point eyedroppers
Hue Saturation
The Hue/Saturation adjustment allows us to manipulate the colours in an image, either globally or independently
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8 Hue/Saturation in the Adjustments Panel (left) and as a free floating dialogue box (right)
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In the Hue/Saturation dialogue
box we have three main sliders:
• Hue: affects the colour value
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This is not useful as a
global adjustment but can be very useful when applied to a specific colour
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Moving the sliders value to the right will make the colours
in your image appear stronger
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For the best and most natural looking
results you should do this on a per-colour basis
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The default setting is to affect all of the colours in the image, as indicated by “Master” in the drop down menu
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8 (right), or by using the small icon that depicts a finger on a left and right pointing arrow, to click directly on the
image
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Near the bottom of the panel is a check box called Colorize, fig 4
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If you click in this box your entire image will be
tinted with one specific colour
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Layers
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Layers
Beginners to Photoshop often have a problem with the concept of layers and how they can be made to interact with one
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So what are layers? Layers are simply stacks of images, objects or text
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Let’s look at an example
of a layered document, fig 5
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In the image of the Layers panel, fig 5
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From the bottom upwards, there is
a Background layer, an image of the Sky, a layer containing a Square, a layer containing a Circle and a Text layer which
contains the word “LAYERS”
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The two shape layers and the Text layer do not completely cover the Sky layer because they are surrounded by transparency
which allows the underlying layers to show through
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Finally, the Text layer is a special kind of layer
and although text is always surrounded by transparency, it does not show in the Layers panel
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Aligning and Moving Layers
To move the contents of a layer, select the Move tool which is located at the top of the Tools panel, fig 5
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You must then
highlight the layer you wish to move by clicking on it in the Layers panel
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3 the “Circle” layer is selected, as indicated by the blue highlight
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All of the layers between the two selected layers will be highlighted in blue, fig 5
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Non-adjacent layer can be selected by
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Fig 5
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With several layers highlighted, multiple layers can be moved simultaneously
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If you wish to change the position of the layers so that they are aligned with one another, you
can use the Alignment tools that are present in the Options bar once the Move tool is selected, fig 5
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Layer Interactions
The manner in which the individual layers in a document may interact with each other is editable in a number of ways
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By default the Opacity of a layer is 100%, but this can be adjusted by moving the
slider that appears when you click on the right pointing arrow at the side of the Opacity value, fig 5
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Alternatively, you can
just position your cursor over the word “Opacity” and drag to the left to reduce the value, and to the right to increase it
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5 the Opacity of the “Circle” layer has been lowered to 40%
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6 the reduced Opacity of the “Circle” layer allows the underlying layers to show through
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Blend Modes
Layer can also interact with one another by using Blend Modes
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We will be taking a look at the Blend Modes in more detail in the second book in this series
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Naming Layers
It can be very easy to lose track of which layer is which if you have a many layered document
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To rename a layer simply double click on the mane of the layer in the
Layers panel and type in the new name
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Layers
Text Layers
Adding a text to an image is very simple and can be done in two ways
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A
flashing cursor will appear and you can commence typing
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Now when you type, it will be contained within the box
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We will take a look at more advanced text functions and formatting in subsequent books
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8, the default setting in the associated Options bar is to create what is
known as a Shape layer
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Shape layers consist of a solid colour layer with a vector mask, fig 5
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A vector mask is like a stencil, only allowing the
colour to be seen where the shape has been drawn
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The icon will reflect the currently chosen colour
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11, allowing you to choose any colour you wish
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10 Shape layers created using the shape tools
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11 the Colour Picker – use the slider on the right to choose a colour and then click inside the main box to specify the saturation and
luminance values for that colour
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We can then edit the selected region without affect the rest
of the layer
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In this book we will start by taking
a look at some of the simple selection tools
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To
access a stacked tool, simply click and hold on a particular tool to see the other tools available in that location
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The Options bar functions associated with the Magic Wand tool play an important role in its functionality, fig 6
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• Tolerance: determines how much of the image is selected when you click on a particular part of your image
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• Contiguous: when this option is selected only neighbouring pixels are selected, fig 6
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When unchecked all
pixels of the chosen Tolerance value will be selected, fig 6
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• Sample All Layers: if chosen, will take all layers into consideration and not just the highlighted layer
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Simple Selections
Fig 6
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There are other icons in the Magic Wands Options that allow us to make more accurate selections
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In fig 6
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The poppy
contains a surprising amount of different tones so it’s very difficult to make an accurate selection
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We don’t want this,
so a better solution for an image like this, is to keep the tolerance value relatively low (in this example, I used a value
of 20) and chose the Add to Selection icon in the Options bar
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If you still manage to have unwanted selection areas appear, click on the Subtract
from Selection icon to remove those values from the selection (note: take care not to leave this icon selected once you’ve
removed the unwanted selection areas)
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Once the selection is complete you can go to the Image menu>Adjustments>Hue/Saturation
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5 the Hue/Saturation adjustments are only applied to the selected area
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In fig 6
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6 the selection was used to apply the Plastic Wrap filter
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Once you’ve finished with your selection you can remove it by
choosing Deselect from the Select menu
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7 the Select menu
The Marquee Tools
The Marquee tools allow us to draw basic shapes with selections, fig 6
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As with the Magic Wand tool, the selection can
then be used to edit the image
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8 the Marquee selection tools
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However, you will notice
that you also have an option called Feather
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However, by
entering a pixel value in to the Feather option we can create a selection that will have a soft edge
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9 a hard edged selection and a feathered selection filled with the foreground colour
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• Stroke with an outline (fig 6
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• Apply an Adjustment or Filter to the selected area (as was saw with the Magic Wand tool, fig 6
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The Fill and Stroke commands can be found in the Edit menu, fig 6
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12 the Fill and Stroke commands in the Edit menu
Marquee Selection Modifier Keys
When drawing a selection using the Marquee tools there are a number of keys on the keyboard that will alter how the
selection is drawn
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• Alt key – draws a selection from the centre instead of the edge
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• Alt key (after the selection is drawn) – temporarily chooses the Subtract from Section option
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The selection was
then filled with a gradient using the Gradient tool
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The Lasso tools comprise of:
• The Lasso tool – a completely hand drawn selection
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• The Magnetic Lasso tool – used for drawing selections around image contents by detecting contrast changes
around the edge of the subject
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It allows you to work nondestructively, by applying edits to a new layer instead of the original pixels that are located in the Background layer
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Fig 6
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There are a number of ways to copy an item to a new layer
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Alternatively, you can use one of the most useful keyboard shortcuts in Photo shop to do the same
task – Ctrl J
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Select the Move tool (the first tool in the tool bar) and reposition the
item as required
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15, a large feathered selection will help the new layer blend more
effectively with the one below for a more seamless result
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Once you’ve made your Transform edits, you must click on the tick
in the Options bar in order to accept the changes (if you don’t like what you’ve done, click on the X to cancel the edits)
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The reason for having a background colour is that it can be
switched for the foreground colour very quickly by clicking on the double headed arrow icon (fig 7
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The background
colour can also be used in gradients – in this case drawing a gradient with the gradient tool will result in a blue to red
gradient being drawn (using the default gradient settings)
Fig 7
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The black and white icon in fig 7
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Changing the Colours
You can change the selected colours by simply clicking on either the foreground or background colour chips at the bottom
of the Tools panel
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Choosing Colours
Fig 7
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The brightness of the colour can be adjusted by clicking higher or
lower in the large area on the left dialogue box, which represents variations of the chosen colour with respect to brightness
and saturation
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If your color picker dialogue box does not look like the one in fig 7
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Firstly, the operating
system colour picker has selected in the General Preferences, found in the Edit menu
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The colours represented in the Adobe Color Picker may also appear different
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To have the dialogue box appear as in
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There are two small warning boxes that may appear to the right of the new/current box
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The lower one is warning that the colour may not be displayed correctly if viewed in a web browser
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• Click on the “Add to Swatches” button in the Color Picker dialogue box
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Swatches are extremely useful for graphic and web designers because you can create your own set of custom colours from
a layout or web page
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The colours are changed by either moving the sliders or by clicking directly on the spectrum
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The most useful setup for this
panel, is to have the sliders set to HSB and the colour spectrum set to RGB
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Guides and Rulers
8 Guides and Rulers
Designers of all types will find using guides and rulers a great help in laying out pages for the web or for print
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1 the View menu
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You can create guides by clicking on the New Guide option in the View menu
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Clicking and dragging from the vertical ruler will
create a new vertical guide and performing the same procedure from the horizontal ruler will result in a horizontal guide
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Once your guides have been created, you can change or refine your layout by selecting the move tool and repositioning
the guides
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When
the cursor changes, you can then move the guide
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2 the Move tool
You will notice that the guides are cyan in colour by default
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The Preferences are found in the Edit menu and the guide settings are found in the sub category
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will appear in your layout, fig 8
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Drawing with Vector Shapes has many similarities to using the Selection Marquee
tools
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Once your design is complete you may wish to view it without the guides
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A better way to work is to Hide the guides
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Your guides will be saved with your document, but they will not appear in a print or an exported web slice
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If you make a mistake in Photoshop you can undo that mistake by going to the edit menu and choosing either Undo or
Step Backward
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Selecting the Step Backward option take you once set backwards in
the History panel, fig 9
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The History panel can be opened from the Window menu and contains a record of operations
performed up to a finite number
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I recommend 20-30 History states for a beginner
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This Snapshot appears at the top of the History panel
and is the default source for the History brush, fig 9
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If you make many edits to your document and make a mess of
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If you are making several edits to your document and are about to run out of History states you can click on the camera
shaped icon at the bottom of the History panel in order to create another Snapshot
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to rename any new Snapshots that you make by assigning them a descriptive name
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An alternative to working with Snapshots is to create an entirely new document from a History state
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Keyboard shortcuts:
Action
Keyboard Shortcut (Mac and PC)
Undo
Cmd/Ctrl + Z (Mac/PC)
Redo
Cmd/Ctrl + Z (Mac/PC)
Step Backward (in History states)
Cmd + Option/Ctrl + Alt + Z (Mac/PC)
Step Forward (in History states)
Cmd + Shift/Ctrl + Shift + Z (Mac/PC)
The History Brush & Fill History
You can apply any History state to a specific area in two different ways
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This way you will be working in a good non-destructive workflow and you can always discard the
layer is you don’t like the changes
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Click in the left hand box at the appropriate History State in the History panel
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In the dialogue box that appears (fig 9
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The selection will be filled with selected History
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9 the selection has been filled with the Snapshot History State in a new layer
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The first and most commonly used method,
is to use the Crop tool, fig10
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The Options panel that is associated with the Crop tool is unusual in that, before the crop area is drawn there are one set
of options
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2 two sets of Crop option
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The lower set of options will appear after the Crop is drawn
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This is very useful if
you need the document output to specific criteria, to fit a certain print size or if the image has to be placed inside a design
or web page layout
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You can change the colour and opacity of the shield and you can also use the small drop down menu to determine
which type of grid overlay is visible, fig10
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3 a cropped area, showing the shield and grid overlay
You are not restricted to the original crop boundaries
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Please note that if a specific size has been entered in the first Options panel, the aspect ratio of the crop cannot
be changed
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The final document will then
be interpolated to match the required output size
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Typically, their prints don’t look like the on-screen
version of the document
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Having said that, there are a number of things that we can
do to help narrow the gap
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There are many calibration devices on the market
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This kind of device will create
custom “Profiles”, which Photoshop can use to display and print you documents accurately
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If you have strong colours in the room that you are
working in, try working in the dark
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• If you are working with images, make sure that you adjust your image so that there is good detail in both the
highlight and shadow areas
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Turn off your printers colour management options
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The Photoshop Print Dialogue Box
When you wish to make a print go to the File menu and choose the Print option, fig 11
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• Set Photoshop Manages Colors from the Color Handling drop down list
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• For photographic documents, have the Rendering Intent drop down menu set to either Perceptual or
Relative Colorimetric and make sure that the Black Point Compensation Check box is ticked
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• Click on Print Settings to open up you printers settings (this will be different for every printer – refer to
your user manual for how to make the required settings)
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Find the Colour Management settings for your printer and turn them off, fig 11
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Turn off the printers colour management options
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Enter a percentage value in the Scale box (make sure that the Scale to Fit Media check box is unchecked or you
will not be able to do this)
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Prints are almost always darker than their on
screen versions, so it’s a good idea to make a Levels Adjustment Layer (see Chapter 4) and brighten the image slightly before
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