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Basic Photoshop Skilhahls For Assignment

The document provides instructions for basic Photoshop skills needed for a book cover assignment, including how to open and rotate templates, insert and adjust images, use tools like rulers, cropping, and magic wand to edit images, and add elements like fonts, shapes, and save files in the appropriate formats. It also discusses using adjustments like hue/saturation and filters like Gaussian blur to edit images and create contrast on the book cover layout.

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Basic Photoshop Skilhahls For Assignment

The document provides instructions for basic Photoshop skills needed for a book cover assignment, including how to open and rotate templates, insert and adjust images, use tools like rulers, cropping, and magic wand to edit images, and add elements like fonts, shapes, and save files in the appropriate formats. It also discusses using adjustments like hue/saturation and filters like Gaussian blur to edit images and create contrast on the book cover layout.

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Basic Photoshop Skills

for Book Cover Assignment

1. Opening a new blank template: FILE > NEW

* If you intend to have a landscape cover page: IMAGE > ROTATE CANVAS > 90o CW

2. If your template has no rulers on the top and left side: VIEW > RULERS

Right click on any side of the ruler and drag the guidelines out (do not lift your finger from the mouse until you are satisfied with the position of the guideline)

* Rulers are useful as it acts as a guideline in placing your fonts / images

3. Inserting image into the template a. Open the images in photoshop: - double click on the grey background or FILE > OPEN b. To bring image over to the template: - left click on the image and do not release the mouse while dragging the image over to the template

4. Adjusting the image: a. Ensure that the two boxes on the upper left hand side has a tick in them b. Left click on one of the sides (e.g. red dot) + press shift / both shift + alt at the same time to adjust the image (this would avoid the image from going out of proportion)

*Ensure that the toolbox is clicked on the cursor shaped tool or else you would not be able to see the two items above.

5. Cropping the image (using magic wand): *recommended for plain background a. Click on the image, then click on the image wand b. Click on the white background and press the delete button c. Press Ctrl + D to remove the lines d. If there is still part of the background left, you may use the crop tool to remove the remaining areas (refer to the next slide for the steps)

a.

b.

c.

d.

Ensure that you have your LAYERS + HISTORY windows opened as you need these to work with. LAYERS: to work on a selected layer / duplicate a layer / remove a layer / flatten the entire layout etc. HISTORY: to undo the steps taken

5. Cropping the image (using cropping tool): a. Click on the image that youll be cropping b. Using the crop tool, trace out the outline of the image c. Ensure that you create a closure by ending the last point and the first point d. Press Delete e. Press Ctrl + D

Recommended to use as it is easier to control

6. To create contrast or change the colour of the image: IMAGE > ADJUSTMENTS > HUE/SATURATION

6. To create contrast between background and foreground (through blurring): a. Select the background image b. FILTER > BLUR > GAUSSIAN BLUR

6. To add fonts: a. Click on the T in the tool box b. Left click on any area on the background c. Type out your words d. Make size or font type adjustments above

6. To add shapes: a. Click on the shape icon [

] in the tool box

6. To save file [pt 1]: a. FILE > SAVE AS b. Type in a name under File Name c. Ensure that FORMAT is PHOTOSHOP (.psd, .pdd) [this is to allow you to make changes to your layout later on]

6. To save file [pt 2]: a. Click on background, right click and click on FLATTEN IMAGE b.FILE > SAVE AS c. Type in a name under File Name d. Ensure that FORMAT is JPEG (.jpg) [This is to be done for printing. The .psd file is too big of a file to print and it would take some time for the printer to read.]

HAVE FUN TRYING OUT!

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