PSD: Chapter 6

Name:

Viridiana Arreguin

Student Number:

02

 

Photoshop: Chapter 6: Photoshop Interface

And Textbook Blog

 

The native file type for Photoshop is PSD, so you may often see the abbreviation PSD to refer to Photoshop.

 

PART 1: READ Chapter 6 from Photoshop CS 6 Visual Quick Start Guide, then:

1. Answer all questions below, briefly but completely.
2. Change the color of the answer to orange.
3. Copy this information and paste in a new post in your DIGITAL GRAPHICS blog.

 

Tools Panel: Photoshop has so many tools; it collects them under tool buttons on the Tools panel. Look on pages 102-104 for the Tools panel; you will see that the second button down (the selection tool called the RECTANGULAR MARQUEE TOOL) has a little black triangle in the lower-right corner. In Photoshop, if you click on this, you will see the box appear that contains other selection tools.   Briefly describe the  purpose of the following Photoshop tools:

1.    Elliptical Marquee Tool (NOTE: Photoshop calls the “marching ants” in a selection a marquee)- Creates oval and circular objects

2.    Magnetic Lasso Tool-  creates freehand selections that snap to high-contrast edges in an image

3.    Quick Selection Tool-  detects in the image it makes a selection

4.    Magic Wand Tool- makes selections by picking a similar color

5.    Crop Tool- crops the image

6.    Eye Dropper Tool- samples colors from an image

7.    Ruler Tool- measures a distance or angle, or straightens the image

8.    Healing Brush Tool- corrects flaws based on a sampled area

9.    Content-Aware Tool- repositions or extends an area of an image

10. Brush Tool- applies brush strokes

11. Mixer Brush Tool- simulates traditional paint strokes; allows colors to mix and smudge

12. History Brush Tool- restores pixels from a history state or snapshot

13. Background Eraser Tool-erases a sampled color area to transparency

14. Gradient Tool- creates soft blends two or more colors

15. Sharpen Tool- sharpens edges and details

16. Smudge Tool- smudges colors

17. Dodge Tool- lightens pixels

18. Burn Tool- darkens pixel

19. Pen Tool- edges shapes or path

20. Horizontal  Type Tool-  creates horizontally oriented editable type

21. Vertical Type Tool- creates vertically oriented editable type

22. Ellipse Tool-creates oval shape layers or paths

23. Hand Tool-moves a magnified image in the document

24. Zoom Tool-changes the document zoom level

25. Set Foreground Color Tool-displays  the current foreground color

 

Other Photoshop Panels:   Briefly describe the  purpose of the following Photoshop panels:

1.    Actions panel- has different default actions you can use

2.    Adjustments panel- each button produces a different type of adjustment

3.    Brush panel- use it to choose different brush

4.    Channels panel-  Lists/displays the thumbnails for all the color channels in the current document

5.    Character panel- Chose attributes for the type tools

6.    Color panel- A way to select colors in Photoshop

7.    Histogram panel- You can view a graph of distribution of tonal values in the current image.

8.    History panel-  Lists all the edits made in the current work sessions

9.    Info panel- Provides up-to-minute data about your document.

10. Kuler panel- Is a free, web-hosted Adobe application that lets users create and upload color groups, called color themes

11. Layers panel- You can see all of the layers you have

12. Navigator panel-  You can move a magnified image in the document window, change the document zoom level, or target an area for magnification

13. Paragraph panel- This is so when you are creating or editing a paragraph type you can apply paragraph-level settings.

14. Properties panel- Has an options to choose mask or color balance

15. Styles panel-  Each style in Photoshop is a unique collection of layer settings

16. Swatches panel- Stores predefined and user-defined solid color swatches, which are applied by various tools, filters, and commands.

17. Timeline panel- You can compose a sequence using audio clips and video files.

               

PART 2: Photoshop & Illustrator Textbook Blog The Quickstart textbook authors, Elaine Weinman and Peter Lourekas, maintain a Photoshop and Illustrator blog with “tips, tutorials, and design concepts” to supplement the Quickstart Guide books. You will subscribe to this blog and follow it during the class term (you may unsubscribe when the course is over, or you may decide to continue following this blog to learn more about Photoshop and Illustrator after the class is over). 1.    Follow these instructions to find and follow the blog: 2.    Go to: http://elaineandpeter.com 3.    Scroll throughout the page to see the latest postings. 4.    Previous Postings: Notice the previous months listed on the right; click several of them to see other graphics postings. (You can also use the CATEGORY dropdown list or the SEARCH box to find specific topics of interest.) 5.    Subscribe: Scroll down the page and look for the Subscribe via Email to receive new post updates. Enter your Gmail email address to subscribe, then click SUBMIT. 6.    WORD PRESS: Scroll to the very bottom of the blog and look on the right; do you see this blog is powered by WORD PRESS? WORD PRESS, like BLOGGER, is a free, popular blogging tool. (If you would like to find more about WORD PRESS, click on the POWERED BY WORD PRESS link. Note: WORD PRESS must be downloaded in order to use it, while BLOGGER is a cloud blog application.)

Textbook Blog Post: SILHOUETTES   From the Quickstart blog, scroll down to find the SEARCH box. Enter the wordSILHOUETTES (be careful to spell this correctly! Or just copy and paste from this document.) Then click the Search button. Scroll down through the post and click on the CONTINUE READING link. 1.    Explain the technique described in this posting and ways in which you could use it: All that is needed to be done is to click or drag across a shape that has a distinct edge, and the tool stops the selection at the first color or shad boundary that it detected.  Click and drag in the un-selected area to select the area.     2.    Scroll down to find the cup of coffee silhouette pasted on the café tables. Click the image, then save it, and paste it here:

Coffee Cup Image: