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For purposes of this tutorial, we will be working with a number of image files located in a folder called Photoshop Class Samples. This folder should already be on your desktop if you are part of the Photoshop class. Create another folder on the desktop with your name. We will want to preserve our original photos in the Photoshop Class Samples folder, and store our working copies in this new folder. We only want to work on the files in the working files folder, which will later be saved for the web. Never work from your master images. That way, you can always start over from the original image if necessary.
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Adobe Photoshop is an industry leading image editing software package that offers a variety of powerful tools for creating and editing images for print and Web presentation. This tutorial covers the fundamental procedures for doing simple adjustments to images and saving them for publication on the Web. To follow the procedures outlined in this tutorial, you will need to have image file available for experimentation.
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Images created in Photoshop, or still photos can be saved at a variety of quality settings or resolutions. Here are the very basics of importing an image created or edited in Photoshop into Final Cut Pro. USE RGB COLOR SCALE!! Final Cut Pro does not recognize the CMYK color scale, and it won’t allow you to import the image into your project. This can be adjusted in Photoshop under “Image->Mode->RGB.”
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Often times images are posted on the web and resized with HTML code. This leads to an image full of jagged edges. By resizing your image in an image editing program, such as Adobe Photoshop, you can utilize smoothing algorithms that will make an image look much smoother. Additionally, resizing the image will reduce the file size, allowing a web page to load faster than usual. This document will be written in the sense that you’re working on a CAE workstation.
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One of the most common tasks in PhotoShop includes improving the quality of images. Most improvements can be made with just a few commands that are outlined below. Steps to Making Improvements
The basic steps towards better image quality (ACTORS):
1. Adjust contrast and brightness by adjusting Levels.
2. Correct color with the Variations command.
3. Trim the image using Crop, Image Size and Canvas Size.
4. Orient using Rotate.
5. Repair the image using painting tools and Rubber Stamp.
6. Sharpen the image with Unsharp Mask.
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Photographs are continuous-tone images because you cannot distinguish divisions, or gradations, between colors. Printed images are not continuous-tone images. Instead, printers create the illusion of many colors using halftone dots. Most printed images are made up of rows of dots of varying sizes, called halftone screens, which produce the appearance of multiple tones when printed.

The quality of a printed image is greatly influenced by the refinement of its halftone screen. The finer the screen, the less apparent the dot pattern, because there are more dots per area and they are closer together. A high-resolution imagesetter, which can produce a high number of dots per inch, will accommodate a fine halftone screen.
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Make sure resolution is the same and then that sizes are appropriate. First, size your base image.
Target dpi
For viewing on web page, most practical: 72dpi and actual size you want it seen.
For printing in class, 200 dpi
For commercial printing, 300 dpi

Make resolution of images you are adding the same as the base image. Reduce or enlarge images you are adding to the size you will want them to be or slightly larger Choose one of several ways to move images onto the base image.
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Cool Tools & Techniques for Enhancing Images of Paintings, Sculptures, Drawings and Prints
PAINTING & other 2D art instructions updated for Photoshop CS3 for Mac & PC
Command key on Mac / Control key on PC – underlined phrases = sorry, much more detailed instructions needed than provided here 1a – Correct keystoning of rectangles and squares IF distortion is slight: Crop Tool (C)  draw crop, then on Options Bar checkmark
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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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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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