Saturday, September 16, 2006By: April M. Bowser

Photoshop 7Session 1

Photoshop 7 - Objective

What is Photoshop Navigate around in Photoshop Open and Saving files Create a New file Copy and Paste Crop and Straighten Correct Red-Eye

Photoshop 7 – Objective cont. How to use your photograph in Word How to use your photograph in

PowerPoint Layers Instant 3D Type Semi-transparent Type Perspective Cast Shadow Visual Color Change

What is Photoshop An application that allows you to edit

photographs Add two photographs to make them

one Restore old photographs to make them

look as they did originally Add color to black and whites or

change colors to black and white You are only limited by your

imagination

Navigate around Photoshop

Explore the Toolbox

Menu and Option Bar

The Menu Bar gives additional options related to this application.

The menu bar looks the same as in any windows application.

The Option Bar is specific to Photoshop

Displays controls that let you customize the selected tool you are using from your toolbox

Palettes Gives more controls

over your creation Many different

palettes gives maximum control

Palettes used frequently are: Layers Channels History Color

Open and Saving Files

To OPEN: Use the menu bar, FILE, Open

Photoshop allows you to open a wide range of graphical extensions JPG,GIF, TIF, BMP, RAW, and many more Photoshop extension is: PSD

Open and Saving Files cont. To SAVE: Use the menu bar, FILE, SAVE or

SAVE AS FILE, SAVE

Allows you to save a file with the extension of .PSD

Doing this always gives you the original to make changes to

FILE, SAVE AS Allows you to save a file with a different

extension such as .jpg to be use on the web

Open and Saving Files cont.

It is important to know where you save files

Create folders for your photographs so you can locate them easily

It is recommended that you always save a .psd (original copy of work)

Create a New File

For New: Use the menu bar: FILE, NEW

Copy and Paste

Works much the same in Photoshop that it does in word

Copy uses the clipboard Paste adds it to a new worksheet or a

photograph you want to add it to. Keyboard strokes are:

Copy: ctrl+c Paste: ctrl+v

Crop and Straighten

Select the crop tool from your toolbox

The crop tool will keep what is inside the selection.

Correct Red-Eye

Zoom in to the area of the eye that needs fixed

Select the magic wand Select the eye-dropper to select the

color needed Select paint bucket Fill area selected by the magic wand

How to use your photograph in Word

Open Word Select New Blank Page From menu Bar: select INSERT,

PICTURE, FROM FILE, (remember where you save your file)

Select Filename, click OK

How to use your photograph in PowerPoint

Open PowerPoint Select New Blank Slide From menu Bar: select INSERT,

PICTURE, FROM FILE, (remember where you save your file)

Select Filename, click OK

Layers Photoshop works like adding

transparent on top of transparent to give a full illusion

Instant 3D Type

File; New (size:w653,h641,R72, RBG) Text Tool; then Type Layer; Type; Convert to Shape Ctrl-T; Hold down Shift-Alt-Ctrl; grab

the top right corner, drag upward. Press Enter to accept Layer; Rasterize; Shape

Instant 3D Type cont…

Click and drag layer to the copy layer icon

Press “d” (changes foreground to black)

Hold shift-alt-press backspace (this changes the color to black)

Alt-ctrl; press-and –hold right arrow to add 3D effect

Instant 3D Type cont…

Hide your top layer and background layer by clicking on the eye icon This leaves all the black type layers

Use the pop-down menu; Merge Visible

Optional: click on Lock Transparency button, click on Gradient to create a gray effect.

Semi-transparent Type

File; Open (photograph) Text Tool; Type your text Ctrl-click on text layer

Makes text active selection Click eye icon at type layer to hide Click on background layer Ctrl-J (create layer1)

Semi-transparent Type cont…

Click add a Layer Style (“f” at bottom of the Layer Palette )

Choose Drop Down Shadow Choose Inner Shadow Choose Inner Glow Now Click OK Click on type layer & drag to trash to

delete layer

Semi-transparent Type cont…

Optional: Click on Background Layer Ctrl-L

Adjust Darker-Lighter Use Pointer to move words to different

location

Visual Color Change

Open a photograph that contains and object or part that you would want to change the color

Select the object, by using a lasso tool Magnetic Lasso works great for this

Outline the object

Visual Color Change cont…

Image, Adjustments, choose Hue/Saturation Then click on Colorize Move the Hue Slider to the desired color Click Ok

Perspective Cast Shadow

File – Open (perspectiveShadow363039.psd)

Make a copy of the layer Drag layer to New Layer icon Press “d” to change foreground black Press Shift-alt-backspace to fill option

black Ctrl-T (Free Transform)

Perspective Cast Shadow cont… Right click directly in free transform

box From pop-up list choose Distort Lie the copy layer almost flat by

grabbing the center point Press Enter to accept Press “g” for Gradient tool In Layer palette, click Lock

Transparent pixels

Perspective Cast Shadow cont…

Drag Gradient tool from one end to the other

Shadow should go black to gray Turn of transparency lock Filter Menu-Blur-Gaussian Blur In dialog box enter 2 for Blur radius

Click OK

Perspective Cast Shadow cont…

Drag copy layer under Layer 1 This puts shadow behind image

Use the Rectangular Marquee to draw a rectangle of the top quarter of the shadow

Select-Feather- 5 pixel Filter-Blur-Gaussian Blur-2pixel Ctrl-D (deselect)

I Hope You Had Fun

Any Questions?

Anything you would like to learn that we did not

cover today?