Adobe Photoshop

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Adobe Photoshop

• The Basics

Yamini Nafde
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A Quick Tour

• Selecting (part of an image)
• Layers
• Filters
• Painting
• Retouching
• Saving a file

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Selecting to modify part of an image

• Select a marquee tool
• Using the
• move tool,
• free transform,
• magic wand,
• bucket / fill
• Select ? inverse

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Layers

• Window ? show layers
• Opacity
• Duplicate
• Arrange
• Merge
• Style blending options

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Filters

• Select a layer
• Apply filters
• Artistic
• Texture
• Sketch
• a gamut of filters to be explored.

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Painting

• Paintbrush tool
• Brush size
• Opacity
• Eyedropper tool
• History palette
• Window ? Show History
• Gradient tool

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Retouching
Setting the basic contrast and tonal range
between the highlights and shadows.

• Tools dodge, burn, sponge
• Image ?Adjust ?
• Levels
• Color Balance
• Replace Color
• Selective Color

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Getting Started

• File New / Open
• File Save / Save As

• Let us attempt a Michael Angelo!
• PSD or BMP / JPG / GIF / TIF / PDF

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Thank You

• Yamini Nafde
• Infosys Technologies Ltd.
• Pune - 411 027
• INDIA
• Phone [phone]
• Email yamini_nafde_at_infosys.com
• ynafde_at_yahoo.com