Free PDF Manual Guide

Part One—Basic Layers There are a million different reasons to use layers. You might want to apply fancy filters to a specific area or add text that, days or weeks later, you want to edit. But almost everyone experiences their first giddy, layer-induced thrill when they learn how to use layers to combine objects from different photos into one image. That’s what you’ll learn how to do in this tutorial. Along the way, you’ll find out how to put objects onto different layers and how to combine layers
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The aim of this document is to introduce the basics of image processing using Adobe Photoshop.
By the end of this course you will be able to:
• crop an image;
• correct perspective problems;
• adjust the tone and colours of an image;
• sharpen an image;
• scale an image;
• retouch a damaged photograph;
• save an image in a suitable format;
• make selections using a variety of tools;
• blend images to create a seamless montage;
• add and edit text.
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Using background images in your website can create a professional design for your website, or it can curse your site as amateurish. In this tutorial, create a wrapable background image for a website. Following the tutorial are some recommendations on background image design.
Loading a background image into a webpage is simple, you define and image as the background image, and the browser repeats that image as a pattern, for the width and height of the browser window. It works just like your desktop pattern on your computer, the bigger the desktop, the more times the pattern is repeated.
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The following is intended as an introduction to Paint.Net and an explanation of how to use the main tools. It is not meant as a guide to fixing images, because I am still very much a beginner in this area. More information can be obtained from the material in the Help file, and the tutorials and helpful hints in the on-line Forum. Those of you, who have already done some editing with Photoshop or other imaging programs, will find it much easier than those just starting out. If you don’t want to do any more than a slight tweaking, straightening and cropping of your photos then a program like Picasa is probably all you really need. If you want more control over the results, you need an imaging and photo manipulation program like Paint.Net.
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Developing images for the web (or for distribution through a web browser) is tricky in that you have to walk a fine line between having beautiful graphics and having images that load quickly. The larger the image (memory-wise), the longer it will take to load, and the more impatient your user will get waiting for it.

In addition, you can’t use just any file format for the web, you have to use one that is compatible with browsers and html. Currently, you have two file format options for web images, GIF and JPEG.
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This tutorial will show you how to add a coloured and/or graduated background to your bead photo. You can use Steps 3 and 4 together, or individually depending on the effect you are after. There are many ways of tackling this in Photoshop, but this is my preferred method.

1. Selecting the background
For the purposes of this exercise, I am using the previously cleaned up bead photo from Tutorial 1. A clean and simple background and well defined objects makes this easier to do, but is not essential. In the tools palette select the magic wand and use the following suggested settings.
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1. To begin, reset your tools and palettes. To reset the tools, underneath the top line menu and the word “File,” right click on the tool icon. Select “Reset All Tools”. Then select Window > Workspace > Reset Palette Locations. This is advisable in the Interactive Media Center where users may change Photoshop settings.
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1. Interface
Besides being the most apparent change when you launch Photoshop CS3, the new interface builds on the strengths of Photoshops past. Part of the beauty of the new interface is that although it’s familiar, there are some important changes that make it more efficient. The Palette Well is gone, and the Workspace menu appears right in the Options Bar. The palettes can be collapsed to small icons, and if you press Shift+Tab to hide all the floating palettes, the palettes will reappear when you hover over the right side of the work area. This new interface is all about giving you a larger work area and from what I can tell, it takes the average user around 47 seconds to love this new interface
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Creating a watermark in Photoshop is very simple and easy to do. Watermarks protect images against theft due to the difficulty in removing them from the image.
First, select the image that you want to embed a watermark into…
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1) Document navigation
• Tab will hide your palettes and tools.,Shift + Tab only hides the palettes.
• Rolling the cursor to the edge of the screen while the palette and tools are hidden reveals them (move away to hide).
• Control + Tab will cycle though all open documents.
• The Page Up and Page Down keys move you one full screen up or down one full screen.
• Command (Mac) / Control (Win) + Page Up and Page Down moves left or right one full screen.
• The Home key moves to upper left corner,the End key moves to lower right.
• Use Window > Arrange to “Match Zoom”,Match Location”or”Match Zoom and Location”in all open documents.
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