Free PDF Manual Guide

What is Photoshop?
Photoshop is a professional image editing software application.
Accessing Photoshop:
• A trial version of Photoshop is available at the following URL: http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/tryreg.html. Note that this tryout version does not allow you to save, print, export, or copy files to other applications via the clipboard or use drag-and-drop to copy images to other files.
• The computer labs at 53 Church St, the Grossman Library, and the Science Center all have Photoshop installed on their PCs and Macintosh computers.
Using Photoshop:
• On the PCs in the labs, Photoshop can be found off of the “Start” menu in “Programs”.
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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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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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When placing an image on a web page your image should be only as large as it needs to be to display correctly on the page. If your image is too large (800 x 600) and you resize it within the Dreamweaver application by dragging its corners, the file size is not reduced, just the visual size of the image. If you reduce the image size in Photoshop to display the correct size on the web page, you can save file space/size and allow the viewer to view the image much quicker. (For example: An image sized at 800 x 600 could be a 2MB file. If that file is reduced to the size needed on the page, e.g., 360 x 413, the file size can be brought down to 436k. This file is easier for someone to view on a web page through their network connection and saves space on the server.
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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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For this exercise you will start with a scanned photograph and make typical kinds of adjustments. You will learn to use a variety of tools & functions including
• Crop, Measure
• Rotate
• Zoom
• Variations
1. Open Adobe Photoshop Path: Start > Programs > Adobe Photoshop CS2
2. Open picture of girl and ball Path: File > Open > Desktop > Adobe Class > Exercise 1 > Photo_album_scan.jpg
3. Working with the picture. Before doing any adjustments to the picture use the Save As command and save the picture to the desktop with the file name using default settings. The picture has been scanned upside down along with another picture that was on the same page. We are going to select and crop the picture of the girl.
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Using these techniques you can aquify almost any shape. In this tutorial we will aquify a circle. There are three characteristics that set an ‘aqua’ image apart from a flat image:
1. Glare
2. Proper Lighting
3. Drop Shadow
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If possible, it is best to start out with an original uncompressed image file that has been prepped and is at minimum no less than 27 inches or 1920 pixels after cropping, adjusting contrast, adjusting color, sharpen, etc. You will be adjusting these files to meet the CaFÉ™ image specification size by following the steps below. Jpeg files work fine if a raw or tiff is not available. CaFÉ image upload requirements: 1920W x 1920H pixels, saved as JPEG & less than 1.8MB.
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In the previous tutorial we learned how to scan hand drawn graphics. In this tutorial we will learn how to enhance and edit the scanned hand drawn graphics. The tutorial will explain changing the brightness and contrast, removing unwanted or extra lines and adding colors to various regions to improve the aesthetic quality of the scanned graphic. The tutorial will discuss these topics with the help of various examples.
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Batch Cropping allows the user to crop any number of images in a folder in an automated manner, using the “Actions” scripting feature found in the full version of Photoshop. This is called Automation, and in this case, Batch Processing. Automation uses a set of user-defined actions to perform a series of tasks automatically. For example, when slides are scanned in bulk, they often have a thick black border around the resultant images. Using Batch Cropping, you could remove these borders from a folder full of images with only a few clicks, rather than manually cropping out the black border from each slide.
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