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An Introduction To Photoshop

The document introduces Photoshop as a digital darkroom and creative tool that can edit photos, add special effects, and prepare images for printing. It discusses that Photoshop is not a drawing, slideshow, movie making, or web development program. The major categories of Photoshop use are scanning and manipulating photos, retouching and altering photos, and adding special effects and preparing images for print. Key concepts explained include color modes, layers, channels, and terminology like history and gamut.

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An Introduction To Photoshop

The document introduces Photoshop as a digital darkroom and creative tool that can edit photos, add special effects, and prepare images for printing. It discusses that Photoshop is not a drawing, slideshow, movie making, or web development program. The major categories of Photoshop use are scanning and manipulating photos, retouching and altering photos, and adding special effects and preparing images for print. Key concepts explained include color modes, layers, channels, and terminology like history and gamut.

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An Introduction to

Photoshop

By Fred Nick
What is Photoshop?
 The digital equivalent of a Dark Room.
 Photo editing lab.
 Creative tool chest.
 Translator of formats characteristics.
 A scanning package.
 Everything above and more all in one
package.
What Photoshop is not.
 A drawing package.
 A slide organizing package.
 A movie making program.
 An internet tool.
 A web page development tool.
Major Categories of Photoshop
Use
 Scanning and then Manipulating.
 Photo Retouching and Alterations.
 Adding Special Effects using Filters
 Preparing Images to be Printed.
Preparatory Concepts-Color
 RGB (Screen based)
 CMYK (Printing full-color Prints)
 Lab (Cross platform standard)
 Bitmap (Black & White)
 Grayscale (256 Shades of gray)
 Duotone (Two-four color channels – posters)
 Indexed (256 colors in one channel)
 MultiChannel (24 spot channels)
Preparatory Concepts-
Terminology
 Layers - Overlays of separate parts of the final
Images. Like transparencies.
 Channels - Separation of the colors of the final
images onto distinct sheets.
 Paths - Recorded tracings from the image. Some
tools will follow the path while performing a
task. Vectors not part of the image.
 Canvas versus image. Canvas is AREA you can
work in. Image is presently used area.
 Actions - Recorded series of tasks for repeating
or automating steps.
Preparatory Concepts-
Terminology
 History – Complete list of tasks performed.
Allows multiple step undoes or the deletion of a
previous step followed by the remaining steps.
 Gamut – The range of colors that a color system
can display or print. The Spectrum of colors seen
by the human eye is wider that the gamut
available in any color model.
Preparatory Concepts - Gamut
Lab

RGB

CMYK

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