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How to use this Tutorial?

Step 1 > The next page will show you the table of contents Step 4 > Once you become familiar with this application you can use this tutorial as a reference tool. Step 2 > Use the mouse and click on the topic links to begin learning Step 3 > You can learn at your own pace, click on the Action buttons to review the material as much as you need to. To begin learning click on this button>>

A. Introduction

1. Adobe Photoshop?

• The professional image-editing standard

2. Two general usage of Photoshop

• Creating images
• Editing existing images Table of Content

3. How to get started?

• 1 st

option

Click “Start” >

Find & click “Photoshop 7.0”

• 2 nd option (Click)

B. Preparation before starting work

- Option1; Creating a image

- Option 2; Editing existing images

* Option 1: Creating a image

• Step1: Click “File”  Select “New”
• Step2: Type a name for your work in the name box  Decide the size of your work

C. Menu

1. File

2. Edit

3. Image

4. Layer

5. Filter

6. View

7.Windows

1. File

a. Save, Save as, Save for web

• Save
• Save as: Save as a new filename
• Save for web: Save a image as a form of “.jpg” or “.gif” which is used for web image b. Import, Export
• Import: Bring another image into the canvas you are working
• Export: Sending the image you are working to other applications c. Print

3. Image

a. Mode: Select a type of color b. Image size, Canvas size

• Image size: Change the size of the image
• Canvas size: change the size of the canvas where you are working (Bottom of your image) c. Rotate canvas: Changing the direction of your canvas

4. Layer

a. New, Delete

• New: Create a new layer
• Delete: get rid of a layer you selected b. Arrange
• change the order of layers c. Merge
• Make layers into one layer

6. View

a. Zoom in/out

• Zoom in
• Zoom out b. Print size
• Help you to print only what you need c. Extras
• Showing horizontal and vertical lines by dividing into separate sectors

7. Windows

• The same function with “view” in other Windows applications such as MS-Office You can select what you want to make visible on your page and what you don’t want to make visible on your page

1. Marqee, Lasso, Magic Wand, Crop a. Marqee: Select a part of an image you are working with arranged form such as rectangular and elliptical. b. Lasso: Draw selection paths freehand with a mouse - If you click and hold, you can change the tool so that you can draw polygons c. Magic wand: select all the same-color or similarly colored adjacent pixels d. Crop: Crop the image - The selected area will be surrounded with a blinking dotted line

2. Move
   • Move the image on a selected layer to other part of canvas you are working
3. Brush, Gradient, Paint Bucket a. Brush: basic tools for drawing a line b. Gradient: this help you to paint stage by stage with more than 2 colors c. Paint Bucket: fill out a cropped part with just one click of this tool