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Introduction to Adobe
Photoshop |
The following
items appear when you start Photoshop:
 | Opening Screen, as seen on the left |
| Toolbox: The various tools that you can use
to add color, write text, duplicate, or fix a picture. |
| Palettes: This will give access to color
choices, brushes, layers, some neat Photoshop actions (great set of tools
that are often overlooked by teachers), etc. |
| Options bar: A way to change the
settings of the tool you choose to work with. |
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Photoshop screen
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(works also in PageMaker and Premiere)
To hide the Toolbox and all open palettes, press the Tab key,
then hit the Tab Key again to reopen them.
Shift+ Tab opens and closes only the
palettes and leaves the Toolbox visible.
See me for a handout on
additional shortcuts for Adobe products! |
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Black Triangle Tool Tip
There are more tools to the toolbox than the one's you see. There is a black triangle in the lower-right corner of some tools.
Hold down the mouse button on the triangle and more tools will appear. |
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The following illustration shows
you what each tool is used for in the toolbox and it also shows
you what
letter you can hit on your keyboard to activate a tool. |
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For an expanded view of
each tool in the toolbar. |
| Selection tools--
which allow you to select different parts of your image. Select the tool or
its keyboard shortcut (M for rectangular marquee) , and then click and drag
with your mouse over the portion of the image you wish to select.
Hint: Always use the MOVE tool to move a selection
or to drag a part of an image onto another open image. |
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Painting and picture altering tools-You can paint a new color, erase
part of an image, and burn, smudge or clone part of the image you are
working on. Photoshop now has a Healing Brush, which you can remove
scratches from old photos and scars from faces. |
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| The remaining tools are
vital to your work. Work with words, lines, and shapes. Zoom in
to a small part of your image. Add text and match a color from
your image or the swatches. To know the full value of the tools takes
practice and experimentation! |
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Photoshop Palettes |
| Adobe programs use palettes to
display various types of information. Palettes display layers of your image,
image properties and swatch colors, brush sizes and even a history of
what actions you have taken.
Remember, all of the Adobe programs use palettes and once
you understand them in one program, your learning curve on the next program
is much greater! |
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