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Adobe Photoshop 7.0
Photoshop lets you create, modify, combine, and optimize digital images.
Ø It's a photo editor.
Ø It's a photo composed.
Ø It's a picture format converter.
Ø It's a picture mode converter.
Ø It's graphic mode converter.
Photoshop excels at editing digital photographs. You can use the program to make subtle slight changes, such as to adjust the color in a scanned photo, Photoshop printing features as well as photo editor. You can apply colors or patterns to your images with a variety of brush style. You can combine different image elements Photoshop. Your compositions can include photos, scanned art text and anything else you can save on your computer as a digital image. By putting elements in Photoshop onto separate layers, you can move transform, and customize them independently of one another. After you edit your work, you can use your images in a variety of ways Photoshop lets you print your images, save them in a format suitable for use on a web page, or prepare them for use in a page layout program.
To run/open the Adobe Photoshop application
Ø Click on Start button
Ø Select programs
Ø Select Adobe
Ø Select Adobe Photoshop
Ø Re-select Adobe Photoshop 7.0 and then hold down the mouse button.
To make the new image
Ø Click on file menu
Ø Select New
Ø Then, the new dialog box will be displayed
Ø Type a name for the new image
Ø Type the desired dimensions and resolution
Ø Select required type of pixels the new image to the initially made up of e.g. White, or Background color, or Transparent
Ø Click on Ok button
Regulation: Photoshop displays the resolution of the image. The resolution, combined with the number of pixels in an image, determines the size of a printed image.
How do choose a resolution for a new image.
The appropriate resolution depends on how the image will eventually be used. For web multimedia images, select 72 pixels/inch (the standard resolution for on screen images). for black and white images to be printed on regular paper on a laser printer, 150 pixels/inch probably suffices. For full-color magazine or brochure images, you should use a high resolution at least 250 pixels/inch.
Understanding the pixels: Digital images in Photoshop are made up of tiny (very small solid color squares called pixels. Photoshop works its magic by rearranging and re-coloring these squares.
Using the tool Options Bar
Most tools have options that are displayed in the tools options bar. The option Bar context sensitive and changes as different tools are selected. Some setting in the options bar common to several tools (such as painting modes and opacity), and some are specific to or tools (such as the Auto Erase setting for the pencil tool).
You can move the options bar anywhere in the work area. In photoshop, you can dock it at the top or bottom of the screen.
To display the tool options bar
Ø Click on window menu
Ø Select Show options
Note: You can double click the title bar at the left edge to collapse the options bar, showing only the tools icon.
Clone stamp Tool: The clone stamp tool paints with a sample of an image. Pattern Stamp Tool: The pattern stamp tool paints with part of an image as a pattern.
History Brush Tool: (History Brush Tool and Art History Brush Tool
History Brush Tool: The History Brush tool paints a copy of the selected state or snapshot into the current image window.
Art History Brush Tool: The Art History Brush tool paints with stylized stroke that simulate the look of different paint styles, using a lectied state or snapshot.
Eraser Tool: (Eraser Tool, Background Eraser Tool, Magic Eraser Tool)
Eraser Tool: The Eraser tool erases pixels and restores part of an image to a previously saved state.
Background Eraser Tool: The background eraser tool erases areas to transparency by dragging.
Magic eraser tool: The magic eraser tool erases solid-colored areas to transparency with a single click.
Gradient Tool: (Gradient Tool and Paint Bucket Tool)
Gradient Tool: The gradient tools create straight-line, angle, reflected, and diamond, blends between colors.
Paint bucket tool: The paint bucket tool fills similarly colored areas with the foreground color.
Blur Tool: (Blur Tool, Sharpen Tool, Smudged Tool)
Blur Tools: The blur tools blurs hard edges in an image.
Sharpen Tool: the sharpen tool sharpens soft edges in an images.
Smudge tool: The Smudge tool smudges data in an image.
Dodge Tool: (Dodge Tool, Burn Took, Sponge Tool)
Dodge Tool: The Dodge tool lightense areas in an image.
Burn Tools: The Burn tool darkens areas in images.
Sponge Tool: The sponge tool changes the color saturation of an area.
Path Selection Tool: The path Selection tools make shape or segment selections showing anchor points. Direction lines and direction points.
Type tool: The type tool creates type on an image.
Pen Tool: The pen tool let you draw smooth-edged paths.
Custom Shape Tool: The custom shape tool makes customized shapes selected from a custom shape list.
Audio Annotation Tool: The annotations tool makes notes and voice anothations that can be attached to an image.
Eyedropper Tool: Thy eyedropper tool samples colors in an image
Measure Tool: The Measure tool measures distances, locations, and angles.
Hand tool: The Hand tool moves and image within its window.
Zoom Tool: The Zoom tool magnifies and reduces the view of an image.
Image Map Tool: The image map tools define image map areas in an image.
Toggle Image Map Visibility Tool: The toggle image map visibility tool toggles between showing and hiding image maps.
Toggle slices visibility tool: The toggle slices visibility tool toggles between showings and hiding slices in an image.
Rollover preview tool: The Rollover Preview tool previews rollover effects directly in image Ready.
Preview in default browser tool: The preview in default browser tool previews animation in a web browser.
Ø Type the layer's name.
Ø Select required color and color mode option
Ø Set the opacity of the layer
Ø Click on OK button
Changing the Layer Properties
The Layer Properties dialog box provides for changing a layer or layer's set's name a its color code in the palette.
Ø Double click the Layer set name.
Ø OR
Ø Click on Layer menu
Ø Select Layer Properties
Ø Appear the dialog box
Ø Select/Set the required layer option
Ø Click on OK button
Add to a Laver
Ø Open another image
Ø Using a selection tool, select the content you want to copy in the other image.
Ø Click on Edit menu
Ø Select Copy
Ø Click the image window where you created the new layer to select it.
Ø Select the new layer in the layers palette.
Ø Click on Edit Menu
Ø Select Paste
Note : Background Layer: the background layer is the default bottom layer that appears when create a new image or when you import an image from a scanner you can create new layers top of a Background layer. Unlike other layers a Background layer cannot contain transpar pixels.
Hide a Layer
Ø you can hide a layer to temporarily remove elements in that layer from view.
Ø Select a Layer from the Layer Palette
Ø Click on Show/hide button for the layer
Note: Hidden layers will not display when you print or use the save fore web command.
Move a Layer
You can use the move tool to reposition the elements in one layer without moving the in others.
Ø Select a layer
Ø Click /Select the move tool on the toolbox
Ø Click and drag inside the window to the object.
Content in the selected layer moves. Content in the other layers remains in same location.
Duplicate a layer
By duplicating a layer, you can manipulate elements in an image while keeping a copy their original state.
Ø Select a layer
Ø Click on Layer menu
How do quickly return an image to 100% magnification?
Ø Double click on Zoom tool
Ø OR, Click on View menu
Ø Select Actual Pixels
Ø OR, Press "Alt + Ctrl + O"
Adjust views with the HAND tool
Ø You can move an image within the window by using the Hand tool.
Ø Click on Hand tool
Ø Click and drag inside the image window
Note: For the Hand tool to produce an effect, the image must be larger than the image window.
Changing Screen Mode
You can switch the screen mode to change the look of your workspace on-screen.
Ø Click on Full screen mode with menu bar button
Ø Photoshop puts the current image window in the center of a blank full screen canvas with the menu options at the top of the screen.
Ø Note: The standard screen mode lets you view multiple images at once each in a different window.
View Rulers and Guides
You can turn on rulers and create guides, which help you accurately place elements is your image.
Ø Click on view menu
Ø Select show Rulers
To draw the rulers Guides
Photoshop adds rulers to the top and left sides of the image window.
Ø Click one of the rulers and drag the cursor into the window
A thin colored line called a guide appears.
Note: Guides help you position the different elements that make up your Photoshop image. These lines do not appear on the printed image.
How do change the units of rulers
Ø Click on Edit menu
Ø Select preferences
Then, Units and Rulers a dialog box appears that lets you change the unit of pixels inches, centimeters, prints, picas, or percent.
View a Grid
You can turn on a grid those overlays you image. The grid is similar to a set of elements within your image.
Ø Click on view menu
Ø Select show
Ø Select Grid
Ø A grid appears on top of the image
Undo command or Revert to the last saved state
You can undo multiple commands or revert to a previously saved started by using the history palette. You can use the undo multiple commands from the History palette.
To Show/Hide the History Palette
Ø Click on Window menu
Ø Select Show History
Ø The History palette lists recently executed commands with the most recent command at the bottom.
Ø Click and drag the History slider upward to undo or apply the previous command.
Ø OR, Click on previous command in the History palette
Changing the On-Screen size of an image
You can change the size at which an image is displayed on your computer monitor so that viewers can see the entire image.
Ø Click on Image menu.
Ø Select image size.
Ø Photoshop displays the height and width of the image in pixels.
Then, the dialog box will be displayed.
Ø Make sure that resample image is checked.
Ø Type a size for a dimension.
Ø Click on OK button
Note: The constrain properties setting change the other dimension proportionally. How do preview an image's printed size?
Ø Click and hold the status bar of the application window. A diagram appears showing how.
Ø The image will display on the printed page.
What is the difference between an image's on screen size and print size?
On screen size depends only on the number of pixels that make up an images. Print size depends on the number of pixels as well as the print resolution (which is the density of the pixels on a printed page) window monitors display at 96 pixels pre inch so at that resolution on screen size and print size are the same (on a Macintosh, that are the sane at 72 pixels per inch.) Higher resolutions print a smaller image, while smaller resolutions print a larger image.
Change the Resolution of an image
You can change the prints resolutions of an image to increase or decrease the print quality.
Ø Click on image menu
Ø Select image size
Photoshop displays the current resolution, of the image. The resolution combined with.
The number of pixels in an image determines the size of a printed image.
Ø Type the amount of a new resolution
Ø Click on dropdown arrow to change the resolution units
Ø Click on OK button
Note: The greater the resolution is the better the image will look on the printed page (u… to limit that varies with the type of printer).
Changing the canvas size of an image
You can change the canvas size of an image to change its rectangular shape or to ad…. blank space to its sides.
Ø Click on Image menu.
Ø Select Canvas size
Ø Photoshop displays the current dimension of the canvas.
Ø Type the new canvas dimension
Ø Click on drop down arrow to change the unit of measurement.
Ø You clan modify how Photoshop change the canvas size by selecting an anchor point.
Ø Click an anchor point (such as the middle one).
Ø Click on OK button.
Crop an image
You can use the crops tool to change the size of an image.
Ø Select crop tool from the toolbox
Ø Click and drag to select the area of the image you want to keep.
Ø Click and drag the side and corner handles to adjust the size of the cropping boundary.
Ø Double click inside the cropping boundary or press ENTER key.
Note: You can also crop an image by changing its canvas size. Photoshop crops the image, deleting the pixels outside of the cropping boundary.
Select with the marquee tool
You can select a rectangular or elliptical area of your image by using the marquee tools. Then you can more, delete, or stylize the selected area using other Photoshop commands.
Ø Click the Rectangular marquee tool
Ø Click and drag diagonally inside the image window.
A rectangular portion of your image is selected. Now you can perform commands on the selected area.
Select all the pixels in an image
You can select all the pixels in an image by using a single command. This lets you perform subsequent command on the entire image, such as coping it to a different image window.
· Click on select menu
· Select all
The entire image window is selected.
Select with the Lasso tool
You can create oddly shaped selections with the lasso tool. Then you can move, delete, or stylize the selected are using other Photoshop commands.
· Select with the Regular Lasso
· Click on the Lasso tool
· Click and drag with your cursor to make a selection
· Drag to the beginning point and release the mouse button to complete the selection.
Select with the Polygonal Lasso
The polygonal lasso tool lets you easily create a selection made up of many straight line.
Ø Click on lasso tool and then select required tool from the box that appears.
Ø Click multiple times along the border of the area you would like to select.
Ø To complete the selection, click the starting point.
Ø Note: You can also double-click anywhere in the image and Photoshop will add a fi…. straight line connected to the starting point.
Select with the magnetic lasso tool
You can select element of you image the have well redefined edges quickly and easily with the magnetic lasso tool.
Ø Click on lasso tool and select the magnetic lasso tool from the box that appears.
Ø Click the edge of the element you want to select.
Ø This creates a beginning anchor point.
Ø Drag your cursor along the edge of the element.
Ø The magnetic lasso shapes to the edge of the element as you drag. You can click to add anchor pints as you go along. This helps guide the lasso
Ø Click on the beginning anchor point to finish your selection.
Ø Alternatively, you can double-click anywhere in the image. Photoshop completes the selection for you. The magnetic lasso is less useful for selecting areas of an image where there is little contrast.
Select with the magic wand tool
You can select groups of similarly colored pixels with the magic want tool.
Ø Click the magic wand tool
Ø Type a number from 0 to 255 into the Tolerance field on the properties toolbar.
Ø Click on the area you want to select inside the image. Photoshop selects the pixel you clicked, plus any similarly colored pixels near it.
Ø To add your selection, press shift and click elsewhere in the image. Photoshop add to your selection.
Note: The magic wand tool offers a quick way to separate an element from its background.
Select with the color range command
You can select a set range of colors within an image with the color range command. This allows you to quickly select a region of relatively solid color, such as a sky or a blank wall.
Ø Click on Select menu
Ø Select Color Range
Ø The color range dialog box appear
Ø Click inside the image window.
Ø To increase the range of color moves the fuzziness slider to the right.
Ø You can decrease the color range by moving the slider to the left.
Ø Click on Ok button to make a selection in the image window.
Add to or subtract from your selection
You can add to or subtract from your selection by using various selection tools.
Ø Make a selection, using one of Photoshop's selection tools.
Ø Click Lasso tool and select your image.
Ø Click the add tool to selection button in the options bar.
Ø Select the area to be added by using the lasso tool.
Ø Complete the selection by closing the lasso path.
Note: You can also add to a selection by pressing the shift key as you make your selection.
Subtract from a selection
Ø Make a selection using one of Photoshop selection tools.
Ø Click on Marquee tool
Ø Click on subtract from selection button in the option bar.
Ø Select the area to be subtracted.
Expand or Contract Selections
You can expand or contract a selection by a set number of pixels. This lets you easily fine-tune your selections.
Expand a selection
Ø Make a selection using one of Photoshop's selection tools.
Ø Click on Select tool
Ø Select Modify
Ø Select Expand
Ø Type a value in the Expand by field box. Eg. 10
Ø Click on OK button
Ø Photoshop expands the selection by the specified number of pixels.
Contract a selection
Ø Make a selection using one of Photoshop's selection tools.
Ø Click on Select menu
Ø Select Modify
Ø Select Contract
Appear the dialog box.
Ø Type a value in the contract by field box
Ø Click on OK button
Using the Grow and Similar Commands
You can increase the size of your selection using the Grow and Similar commands.
Using the Grow command
Ø Make a selection using one of Photoshop's selection tool
Ø Click on Select menu
Ø Select Grow
Ø The selection expands to include other similarly colored pixels.
Move a Selection
You can move a selection by using the move tool, which lets you rearrange elements of your image.
In the Background
Ø Click the Background layer in the layers palette
Ø Make a selection with a selection tool
Ø Select/click the move tool
Ø Click inside the selection and drag
Ø The area where the selection used to be fills with the current background color.
In a Layer
Ø Click a layer in the layer menu
Ø Make a selection with a selection tool
Ø Click the move tool
Ø Click inside the selection and drag
Ø Note: you can put elements of your Photoshop image ion their own layers.
Copy and Paste a selection
Ø You can copy a selection and make a duplicate of it somewhere else in the image.
Using the keyboard and mouse
Ø Make a selection with a selection tool
Ø Select/click the move tool
Ø Press Alt key while you click and drag the selection
Ø Release the mouse button to drop the selection.
Ø A duplicate of the selection is created and appears in the new location.
Using the Copy & Paste command
Ø Click Edit menu
Ø Select Copy Ctrl + C
Ø Use a selection tool, select the area where you want to copied element to be pasted If you do not select an area, Photoshop pastes the copy over the original.
Ø Click on Edit menu
Ø Select Paste Ctrl + V
Photoshop pastes the copy into a new layer. You can move it independently of the original image.
Delete a selection
You can delete a selection to remove elements from your image.
Ø Make a selection with a selection tool
Ø Press Delete key
Ø The selection is deleted. If you are working in the background layer, the empty selection fills with the background color (mottos case, white, the default background color).
Flip a selection
You can flip a selection horizontally or vertically to reverse the orientation of an element in your image.
You can only flip selections made in a non-background layer.
Ø Make a selection with a selection tool
Ø Click on Edit menu
Ø Click Transform
Ø Select flip Horizontal or Flip Vertical
Rotate a selection
You can rotate a selection to tilt or turn up side down an element in your image. You can only rotate selection made in a non-background layer.
Ø Make a selection with a selection tool
Ø Click on Edit menu
Ø Select Transform
Ø Select Rotate
Ø Select required rotate option. e.g. Rotate 1800, Rotate 900
Rotate using free Transform
Ø Make a selection with a selection tool
Ø Click on Edit menu
Ø Select free transform
Ø Click and drag outside the bounding box to rotate the selection.
Ø To apply the rotation, double click inside the bounding box.
Scale a selection
Ø You can scale a selection to make it layer or smaller.
Ø Make a selection with a selection tool
Ø Click on Edit menu
Ø Select Transform
Ø Select Scale
Ø Click and drag a corner handle to scale both the horizontal and vertical axes.
Ø To apply the scaling, double click inside the bounding box or press "ENTER" key.
Skew or Distort a selection
Ø You can transform a selection using the skew or Distort command. This lets you stretch elements in your image into interesting shapes.
Ø Make a selection with a selection tool
Ø Click on Edit menu
Ø Select Transform
Ø Select skew
Ø Click an drag a handle to skew the selection
Ø Double click inside the bounding box to apply the effect.
Note: The skew command works along a single axis, you can drag either horizontally or vertically.
Distort a selection
Ø Make a selection with a selection tool
Ø Click on Edit menu
Ø Select Transform
Ø Select Distort
Ø Click and drag a handle to distort the selection
Ø Double click inside the bounding area to apply the effect.
Note: The distort command works independently of the selection's different axes. you can drag a handle both horizontally and vertically.
Feather the border of a selection
You can feather a selection's border to create soft edges.
Ø Make a selection with a selection tool
Ø Click on select menu
Ø Select Feather
Ø Appear the dialog box
Ø Type a pixel value to determine the softness of edge.
Ø Click on OK button
To delete the part of the image surrounding the selection
Ø Make a selection with a selection tool
Ø Click on select menu
Ø Select inverse
Ø The selection is inverted but still feathered.
Ø Press Delete key
Ø By deleting the surrounding pixels. You can see the effect of the feathering.
Using the Rubber Stamp tool
You can clean up small flaws or erase elements in your image with the rubber stamp tool. The tool copies information from one area of an image to another.
Ø Make a selection with a selection tool
Ø Click the Rubber stamp tool in the toolbox
Ø Click on Brush drop down tool on the properties bar
Ø Select the required brush size and type.
Ø Press "Alt" key and click the area of the image that you would like to copy from.
Ø Click and drop inside the selection to apply the rubber stamp.
Ø The area is copied to where you click and drag.
Ø Click and drag repeatedly over the area to achieve the desired effect.
Using the Eraser tool
You can make parts of your image disappear with the eraser tool, which turns pixels in your layers transparent (the eraser tool has no effect on an image's background layer)
Ø If you want to limit where the erases will be applied, you can make a selection with selection tool.
Ø Click on Layer/ Select the layer
Ø Click on Eraser tool on the toolbar
Ø Click the Brush drop down tool on the property bar
Ø Select a brush size and type
Ø Click and drag inside the selection
Ø The tool turns areas of the layer transparent. The tool has no effect on the background layer.
Using the Magic Eraser tool
You can quickly turn large areas of a layer transparent with the magic eraser tool.
Ø Click and hold the Eraser tool and select the Magic Eraser tool from the box.
Ø Type a number from 0 to 255 into the Tolerance field on the properties bar.
Ø Click inside the image again to delete more pixels.
Using the Background erase tool
The background erases tool accessible by clicking and holding the eraser tool in the Toolbox, samples the color from your image where you first click it. Then it eraser similarly colored pixels as you drag it. This makes it useful for erasing the solid background around elements in your image.
Using the Extract command
You can remove an element in an image from its background using the Extract command. If you make a selection before you perform the Extract command, only the selection will be displayed.
Ø Click on Filter menu
Ø Select Extract
Photoshop displays the image in the extract dialog box.
Ø Click on the highlighter tool
Ø Highlight edge of the element that you want to extract from the background.
Ø You can change the size of the highlighter. For defined edges, use a smaller brush size for fuzzier edges, use a larger brush size.
Ø Click the paint Bucket tool and click inside the highlighted element to fill it.
Ø Click on Preview button
Ø The element is extracted from the background
Ø Click on OK button to return to the original image window with the element extracted.
Creating slices
You can divide a large image that you want to display on the web into smaller rectangular section called slices. The different slices of an image can then be optimized independently for faster download.
· Click the Slice tool
· Click and drag inside the image to create a slice
Photoshop creates a slice where you clicked and dragged
· Click and drag to define another slice in your image
Work in RGB mode
You can work with color image in RGB mode is the most common mode for working with color image menu
Ø Click image menu
Ø Select Mode
Ø Select RGB color
You can view the different color components of an RGB image with the channels palette.
To show the channels Palette
Ø Click on Window menu
Ø Select Show Channel
Ø Click the Red Channel
Ø Click the Green Chanel
You can see the channel selection in the title bar.
Ø Click Blue Channel
Ø Click the RGB Channel to return to the full-color image
Work in CMYK mode
Photoshop's CMYK mode represents an image's color information as a mix of cyan (c), magenta (M), yellow (Y), and black (k), you can use CMYK mode when your image needs to under color separation in preparation for Offset printing.
- Image/Mode/CMYK Color
Convert color image to grayscale
You can remove the color form your image by converting it to grayscale pixels that are white, gray and black.
Ø Click on Image menu
Ø Select Mode
Ø Select Grayscale
How do make just part of my image grayscale?
Ø Define the area you would like to turn gray with a selection tool
Ø Click Image menu
Ø Select Adjustment
Ø Select Desaturate
Grayscale images have a single channel (compared to an RGB image's three see "work in RGB mode"), so grayscale image files take up less space then RGB image.
Creat a duotone
You can convert a grayscale image to a duotone. If necessary, convert a color image to grayscale (see "grayscale color image to grayscale").
Ø Click on image menu/select Mode
Ø Select Duotone
Ø Click on type drop down box and select duotone.
Ø Click the first color swatch to open the color picker.
Ø Click inside the window to select you first duotone color.
You can click and drag the slider to change the color selection. You cam also enter values in the boxes on the right to define a precise color.
Ø Click on Ok button.
Ø Click the second color swatch to open the cosmos colors dialog box.
Ø Click the inside the window to select yours second duotone color.
Ø You can click and drag the slider to create the color selection.
Ø Click on Ok button.
Ø Click on Ok button in the duotone options dialog box.
Ø Photoshop uses the two selected colors to create the tones in the image.
Create a bitmap image
You can convert a grayscale image to a bitmap image. In Photoshop, a bitmap image is made up of only black and white pixels.
If you are working with a color image, convert it to grayscale (see "convert color images o gray scale").
Ø Click on image menu.
Ø Select Mode.
Ø Select Bitmap.
Then the box appears.
Ø Click on method drop down box and select an option for simulating the grayscale tones with black and white pixels.
Ø Click in Ok button.
Create an indexed color image
You can reduce the number of colors that make up an image with the indexed color mode.
Ø Click on image menu.
Ø Select Mode.
Ø Select indexed color
The indexed color dialog box appears.
Ø Click on Palette drop down box and select local (Selection)
Ø Select the number of colors box and then select a Dither option
Ø Click on Ok button
Note: The color palette you choose determines how Photoshop reduces the number of colors in the image.
Choose the Foreground and Background colors.
You can select two colors to work with at a time in Photoshop a foreground color and a background color. Pointing tool such as the paintbrush apply foreground color. You apply the background color when you use the Erase tool, enlarge the image canvas, or cut pieces out of your image.
Choose the foreground color
Ø Click the Foreground color tool on the toolbox.
Ø To change the range or colors that appears in the window, click and drag the slider.
Ø To select a foreground color, click in the color window
Ø Click on Ok button.
Ø Click a painting tool in the toolbox.
Ø Click and drag to paint with the foreground color.
Choose the Background color
Ø Click the Background color tool on the toolbox.
Ø Select required color.
Ø Click on Ok button.
Ø Select Eraser tool from the toolbox.
Ø Click and drag it.
The tool "Erse" by painting with the background color.
Note: This erasing occurs only in the background layer. In other layers, the eraser turns pixels transparent.
Reset the foreground and Background color
Ø Click the Default icon to the lower left of the Foreground and Background icon Doing so resets the colors to black and white.
Select a color with the Evedropper tool
You can select a color from an open image with the eyedropper tool. The eyedropper tool enables you to paint using a color already present in your image.
Ø Click the Eye Dropper tool on the toolbox.
Ø Place the mouse pointer over an open image.
Ø Click to select the color of the pixel beneath eyedropper's tip
The color becomes the new foreground color.
To show the color palette
Ø Click on window menu
Ø Select Color.
Ø Click and drag the sliders to define the foreground color.
To define the background color click the Background icon on the toolbox.
You can also select a color by clicking the color ramp. This can be faster than opening the color picker dialog box. e.g.Select a color with color palette.
You can select a color with the color palette.
Ø 
Click the color palette option button
Click the color palette option buttonØ Select a slider configuration from the color palette
Ø Using the swatches palette
You can select or store colors using the swatches palette.
Ø Click on Window menu.
Ø Select Swatches.
Ø Click a color swatch to select a foreground color.
Select a web-safe color
You can select a web -safe color in the color palette or color picker. Web-safe colors are important when creating images for display on web pages. A web pages. A web-safe color is guaranteed to display accurately in all web browsers no matter what type of color monitor a user has.
Ø Click the Foreground icon.
The color picker window appears.
Ø Click on only web colors check box.
Ø Click/select a color.
Ø Click on Ok button.
Using the Paintbrush tool
You can use the paintbrush tool to add color to your image.
Ø Click the Paintbrush tool on the toolbox.
Ø Click the Foreground icon to select a colors to paint with.
Ø Click the brush drop down tool on the properties/ options bar and select a brush size and type.
Ø Type a percentage value to change the opacity of the brush strokes.
Ø Click the Brush drop down tool on the Properties bar and select a brush style
Ø Click and drag to create a rougher effect.
Change Brush Styles
You can change the style of your brushes by loading pre-made styles or creating a custom style from scratch.
Ø Click on Brush drop down tool on the options bar.
Ø 
Click on option button and then select Load Brushes option.
Click on option button and then select Load Brushes option.Ø The load dialog box appears.
Ø Click/select required brushes file. e.g. Assorted Brushes option.
Ø Click on Load button.
Ø Click the Brush drop down box on the option bar and then select a brush size and style.
Ø Click to apply the brush inside the image.
Save new Brush style
Ø Make the required image.
Ø Click on Brush drop down box on the options bar.
Ø 
Click on option button and select Save Brushes.
Click on option button and select Save Brushes.Ø Type the new brush name.
Ø Click on Save-button.
Using the Paint Bucket tool
You can fill areas in your image with solid color using the Paint Bucket tool.
Ø Click and hold down the gradient tool on the toolbox.
Ø Select the foreground color icon to select a color for painting.
Ø Type a Tolerance value from 0 to 255 on the option bar.
Ø Click on inside the image.
Ø To fill an area with a semitransparent color, type a percentage value of less than 100 in the opacity field.
Ø Click on inside the image.
Fill a Selection
You can fill a selection with the fill command. The fill command is an alternative to the Paint Bucket tool (see using the Paint Bucket tool").
Ø Define the area you want to fill using a selection tool.
Ø Click on Edit menu and then select fill.
Ø Appear the dialog box.
Ø Click on use drop down box and select what to fill with. e.g. Foreground color.
Ø Click on Ok button.
Photoshop fills the area
The fill command differs from the Paint Bucket tool ("see using the Paint Bucket tool") in that it fills the entire selected area, not just adjacent pixels based on a tolerance value.
Draw Shapes
You can create solid shapes in your image using Photoshop's many shape tools
Ø Click the rectangle tool on the toolbox.
Ø You can select other tools in the options bar.
Ø Click the foreground color icon to select a color for the shape.
Ø Click and drag to draw the shape.
The shape appears in its own layer.
Draw styled shapes
Ø Click a shape tool on the toolbox.
Ø Click on Layer style drop down tool on the option bar and select a layer style.
Ø Specify other attributes of the shapes such as sides and opacity.
Ø Click and drag to draw the shape.
Stroke a selection
You can use the stroke command to draw a line along the edge of a selection.
Ø Select an area of the image with a selection tool.
Ø Click on Edit menu and then select stroke.
Ø Appear the dialog box. 
Ø Type a width of the stroke.
Ø Select inside option to stroke a line on the inside of the selection center option to stroke a line addling the selection, or Outside option to stroke a line on the outside of the selection.
Ø You can click the color swatch to define the color of the stroke.
Ø Click on Ok button.
Photoshop strokes a line along the selection.
Apply a Gradient
You can apply a gradient, which is a blend from one color to another.
Ø Make a selection by using selection tool.
Ø Click on the Gradient tool on the toolbox.
A liner gradient is the default. You can select different geometries in the options bar.
Ø Click the gradient swatch to open the gradient Editor on the option bar.
Ø 
Appear the dialog box.
Appear the dialog box.Ø Select a present gradient type from the top window, or define a custom gradient using the settings below.
Ø Click on Ok button.
Ø Click and drag inside the selection
Using the History Brush
You can use the History Brush to paint a previous state of your image from the history palette in to the current image.
Ø If the History is not visible, you can click Window and then History to display it.
Ø Click the New Snapshot button in the history palette.
Ø Modify your image to make it different from the newly created snapshot.
Ø Click to the left side of the snapshot to select it as the History Brush source.
Ø Click the History Brush on the toolbox.
Ø Click and drag inside the image.
Pixel content from the previous snapshot is painted into the image.
Ø Click and hold down the History tool and select the Art History brush tool from the toolbox.
Ø Specify the settings for the brush such as mode, opacity and style etc.
Ø Click and drag to apply an artistic effect.
Adjusting colors
Changing Brightness and contrast
The brightness/contrast command provides a simple way to make adjustments to the highlights and shadows of your image.
Ø Click on image menu.
Ø Select Adjustment.
Ø Select brightness/Contrast.
Ø A dialog box opens with sliders set to 0.
Ø Click and drag the Brightness slider: Drag it to the bright to0 lighten the image, or drag it to the left to darken the image.
Ø Click and drag the contrast slider: Drag it to the right to increase the contrast, or drag it to the left to decrease the contrast.
Ø Click on Ok button.
Using the Dodge and Burn Tools
You can use the Dodge and Burn tools to brighten or darken a specific area of an image respectively.
Using the Dodge tool
Ø Click on the Dodge tool on the toolbox.
Ø Click the Brush drop down box on the option bar.
Ø Select the tool size that you would like to use.
Ø Click and drag over the area that you want to lighten.
Note: Dodge is a Photographic term that describes the diffusing of light when developing a film negative.
Using the Burn tool
Ø Click on the Dodge tool and hold down this tool.
Ø Select Burn tool in the box that appears
You can select the Brush size, the range of colors you want to affect and the tool's exposure.
Ø Click and drag over the area that you want to darken.
Note : Burn is a Photographic term that describes the focusing of light when developing a film negative.
Adjust Levels
The levels command lets you make fine adjustments to the highlights, mid tones or shadows of an image.
Ø Click on Image menu.
Ø Select adjustment.
Ø Select levels
The input sliders let you adjust the brightness of the shadow (left) mid tones (middle) and highlights (right).
Ø Appear the dialog box.
Ø Click and drag the left right slider to adjust the shadows in the image.
Ø Click and drag the right slider to the left to lighten the bright areas of the image.
Ø Click and drag the middle slider to adjust the mid tones of the image
The Output Sliders let you decrease the contrast while either lightening (using the left slider) or darkening (using the right slider) the image.
Ø Click and drag the left slides to the right to darken the image.
Ø Click and drag the right slider to the left to lighten the image.
Ø Click on Ok button.
Adjust Hue
You can change the hue to shift the component colors of an image. You can change the saturation to adjust the color intensity in an image.
Ø Click on Image menu.
Ø Select Adjustment.
Ø Select Hue/Saturation
Ø Appear the dialog box.
Ø Click and drag the Hue
Dragging the slider left or right shifts the colors in different ways Adjusting the hue has changed the red to magenta and the blue to green
Ø Click and drag the saturation slider to the right or to the left to increase or decrease the intensity of the images colors respectively.
If you check colorize, Photoshop turns the image even a grayscale one into a monotone (one-color) image. You can adjust the color with the sliders.
Ø Click on Ok button.
Using the Sponge tool
You can use the sponge tool to adjust the color saturation (color intensity) of a specific area of an image.
Increase the Saturation
Ø Click on Dodge tool on the toolbox.
Ø Select the sponge tool from the box that appears.
Ø Click the brush menu or drop down tool on the option bar.
Ø Select the tool size that you would like to use.
Ø Make sure that saturate is selected.
Ø Click and drag to increase the saturation of an area of the image.
Decrease saturation
Ø Click on mode drop down tool on the option bar and select Desaturate.
Ø Click and drag to decrease the saturation of an area of the image.
Adjust color Balance
You can use the color balance command to change the amount of specific color in our image.
Ø Click on Image menu.
Ø Select Adjustment.
Ø Select Color Balance.
Ø Appear the dialog box.
Ø Select the tones in the image that you want to affect. e.g. Shadow
Ø Click and drag a color slider toward the color you want to add more.
Ø Click on Ok button.
To add a warm cast your image you can drag a slider toward red magenta. To add a cool cast, you can drag a slider toward blue or cyan.
Using the Variations command
The variations command gives you a user friendly interface with which to perform color adjustments in your image.
Ø Click on Image menu.
Ø Select adjustment.
Ø Select Variations.
Ø Appear the dialog box.
Ø Select required tonal range or saturation option. e.g. Mid tones.
Ø Move the slider left to make fine (small) adjustments or right to make coarse (large) adjustments.
Ø To add a color to your image, select required one of the more thumbnails.
Ø To increase the brightness of the image, click Lighter.
You can decrease the brightness by clicking Darker.
Ø Click on Ok button.
Using the Blur and Sharpen tool
You can sharpen or blur specific areas of your image with the Sharp and Blur tools.
Ø Click the Blur tool on the toolbox.
Ø Select required tool size from the Brush drop down tool on the options bar.
Ø Click and drag to blur an area of the image.
Apply the Sharpen tool
Ø Click and hold down the Blur tool on the toolbox and select the sharpen tool.
Ø In the pressure drop down tool click and select required value from 1% to 100%
Ø Click and drag to blur an area of the image
Marge and Flatten Lavers
Merging layers lets you permanently combine information from two or more separation layers. Flattening layers combines all the layers of an image into one.
Merge the lavers
Ø Arrange your layers so that the two layers you want to merge are next to one another.
Ø Select the topmost of the two layers.
Ø Click on Layer menu.
Ø Select Merge Down.
Flatten an Image
Ø Click on Layer menu.
Ø Select Flatten image
Then, all the layers are merged into one.
Create an adjustment Layer
Adjustment layers let you store color and tonal changes in a layer rather than having them permanently applied to your iamge.
Ø Click on layer menu.
Ø Select New Adjustment Layer.
Ø Select required adjustment command e.g. Hue/Saturation.
Ø Appear the dialog box.
Ø Give the new name of the adjustment layer.
Ø Select required option.
Ø Click on Ok button.
An adjustment layer is added to the image.
Edit an Adjustment Laver
You can change the color and tonal change that defined in an adjustment layer.
Ø Double-click on the adjustment layer in the layers palette.
The Hue/Saturation dialog box appears.
Ø Make adjustment in the dialog box.
Ø Click on Ok button.
Link Lavers
Licking causes different layers to move in using when using move tool. Linking is useful when you want to keep elements of an image with one another, but do not want to merge their layers. Keeping layers unmerged lets you still apply affects indepently to each.
Ø Select one of the layers you want to link.
Ø Click the box next to the other layer that you want to link doing so turns on a linking icon.
See the effect of the link
Ø Select move tool.
Ø Click and drag inside the image window.
The liked layers move together.
Blend Layers
You can use Photoshop's blending modes to specify how pixels in a layer are blended with the layers below it.
Ø Click on Layer menu.
Ø Select Layer Style.
Ø Select Blending Options.
Ø Appear the dialog box.
Ø Click on Blend Mode drop down ox and select required option.
Ø Click on Ok button.
Apply Layers Effect
You can apply a drop shadow to make a layer look like it is raised off the image canvas.
Ø Select the Layer to which you want to add a drop shadow.
Ø Click on Layer menu.
Ø Select Layer Style.
Ø Select Drop Shadow.
Ø Appear the dialog box.
Ø Type an opacity value to specify the shadow's darkness.
Ø Click the color swatch to select a shadow is displaced.
Ø Type a spread value to specify how far the shadow is displaced.
Ø Type a spread value to specify the Fuzziness of the shadow's edge.
Ø Type a spread value to specify the size of the shadow's edge.
Ø Click on Ok button.
Photoshop creates a shadow in black of the selected layer.
Apply an Outer Glow
The outer glow effect adds faint coloring to the outside edge of a layer.
Select the layer to which you want to add an outer glow.
Ø Click on Layer Style.
Ø Select Outer Glow.
Ø Appear the dialog box.
Ø Type an opacity value to specify the glow's darkness.
Ø Specify a noise value to add specking (specify) to the glow.
Ø Click the color swatch to choose the color of the glow.
Ø Type a size value to specify the size of the glow.
Ø Click on Ok button.
Photoshop creates a glow around the edge of the selected layer.
Apply Beveling and Embossing
You can bevel and emboss a layers to give it a three dimensional look.
Select the layer that you want to bevel and emboss.
Ø Click on Layer menu.
Ø Select Layer menu.
Ø Select Bevel and Emboss.
Ø Appear the dialog box.
Ø Select an effect style inner creates a three dimensional look.
Ø Specify the direction of the effect's shading e.g. Up or Down.
Ø Select an effect style. Inner Bevel creates a three dimensional look.
Ø Specify the direction of the effect's shading. e.g. Up or Down.
Ø Type Depth and size value to control the magnitude of the effect.
Ø Specify the direction of the shading with the Angle and Altitude values.
Ø Click on Gloss Contour drop down box and select one of the gloss contour setting to apply abstract effects to your layer.
Ø Click on Ok button.
Photoshop applies the level and emboss setting to the layer.
Apply multiple effects to a layer
You can apply multiple layer effects to layers in your image. This enables to you to style your layers in complex ways.
Ø Select the layer to which you want to apply the effects.
Ø Click on Layer menu.
Ø Select Layer Style.
Ø Select required option. e.g. Drop Shadow.
Ø Set the required option to the Drop Shadow effect.
Ø Select another option as your requirement e.g.Inner Shadow Color Overlay.
Ø Set the required options to the selected options.
Ø Click on Ok button.
Apply Color Overly
You can apply the color overly effect to change the color layer or image.
Ø Select required image or layer.
Ø Click on Layer menu.
Ø Select Layer Style.
Ø Select Color Overlay.
Ø Appear the dialog box.
Ø Click on Color switch button to change the color.
Ø Select required color from the color option.
Ø Click on Ok button.
Ø Re-click on Ok button.
Edit a Layer Effect
You can edit a layer effect the you have applied to your image. This lets you fine-turn to effect to achieve an appearance that suits you.
Ø Select the layer whose effect you want to edit.
Ø Click on Layer Style.
Ø Select Stroke.
Photoshop displays the current configuration values for the effect.
Ø Edit the value in the layer style dialog box.
Ø Click on Ok button.
Edit a layer Effect
You can edit a leyer effect that you have applied to your image. This lets you fine-turn to effect to achieve an appearance that suits you.
Ø Select the layer whose effect you want to edit.
Ø Click on Layer menu.
Ø Select Layer Style.
Ø Select stroke.
Photoshop displays the current configuration values for the effect.
Ø Edit the values in the layer style dialog box.
Ø Click on Ok button.
Apply Styles
You can apply a Photoshop style to a layer to give the layer a colorful or textured look. Styles are predefined combinations of Photoshop effects such as drop shadow and outer glow.
Show the styles palette
Ø Click on Window menu and then select Styles.
Apply Styles
Ø Select the layer to which you want to apply a style.
Ø Click the styles palette tab to display Photoshop's style.
Ø Select required style.
Photoshop applies the style to the selected layer.
Brush filter (see the section" Apply an artistic filter: The Dry Brush filter"), the crosshatch filter converts similarly colored areas in your image to solid colors to produce its effect.
Ø Select the layer to which you want to apply the filter.
Ø Click on Filter menu.
Ø Select Brush Strokes.
Ø Select Crosshatch.
Ø A Small window displays a preview of the filter's effect.
Ø Fine-tune the filter effect by adjusting the stroke length, sharpness and strength values.
Ø Click on Ok button.
Apply a Distort Filter
The Spherize Filter
Photoshop's Distort filters stretch and squeeze areas of your image. For example, the spherize filter produces a fun-house effect. It makes your image look like it is being reflected off a mirrored sphere.
Ø Select the layer to which you want to apply the filter.
Ø Click on filter menu.
Ø Select Distort.
Ø Click Spherize
Ø A small window displays preview of the filter's effect.
Ø Click and drag the amount to control the amount of distortion added.
Ø Click on Ok button.
Apply a Noise Filter
The add Noise Filter
Filters in the Noise menu add or remove graininess in your image. You can add graininess with the add Noise Filter.
Ø Select the layer to which you want to apply the filter.
Ø Click on filter menu.
Ø Select Add Noise.
Ø A small window displays a preview.
Ø Click on Filter menu.
Ø Select Noise.
Ø A small window displays a preview.
Ø Click and drag the amount slider to control the amount of noise added.
Ø Select the way you want to noise distributed. e.g. Uniform.
Ø Click on Ok button.
Apply a Pixelate Filter
The Pointillize filter
The Poixelate filters divide areas of your image into solid colored shapes. The pontillize filter, one example of a pixelate filter, re-creates your image using colored dots.
Ø Select the layer to which you want to apply the filter.
Ø Click on Filter menu.
Ø Select Pointillize.
Ø A small window displays a preview of the filter's effect.
Ø Click and drag the cell size slider to adjust the size of the dots.
Ø Click on Ok button.
Apply the Mosaic Filter
The mosaic filter converts your image to a set of solid-color squares. You cam control the size of the squares in the filter's dialog box.
Ø Click on Filter menu.
Ø Select Pixelate.
A small window displays a preview of the filter's effect.
Ø Click and drag the cell size slider to adjust the size of the dots.
Ø Click on Ok button.
Apply a Render filter
The Lighting Effects filter
The Render filters use numeric techniques to apply effects to your image. The lighting Effects filter for example, lets you add spotlight and other lighting chancements.
Select the layer to which you want to apply the filter.
Ø Click on Filter menu.
Ø Select Render.
Ø Select Lighting Effects.
Ø Appear the dialog box.
Ø Click on Style : drop down box and select required lighting style.
Ø Click and drag the slider of the lighting by clicking and dragging the handles in the preview window.
You can click and drag the center point to change where the light is centered.
Lens flare
Lens flare is the extra flash of light that sometimes appears in a photo when too mush light enters a camera lens. Photographers try to avoid this effect, but if you want to add it, you can use the lens flare filter. (The effect can make your digital image look more like an old fashioned Photograph).
Ø Click on Filter menu.
Ø Select Render.
Ø Select Lens Flare.
Apply Sharpen Filter
Unsharp Mask Filter
Photoshop's sharpen filters intensity the detail and reduce blurring in your image. The Unsharp mask filter has advantage over the other sharpen filters in that it lets you control the amount of sharpening applied.
Ø Select the layer to which you want to apply the filter.
Ø Click on Filter menu.
Ø Select Sharpen.
Ø Select Unsharp Mask.
Ø Appear the dialog box.
Ø Click and drag the sliders to control the amount of sharpening applied to the image.
Amount controls the overall amount of sharpening. radius controls where sharpening is confined to edges in the image or added across the entire image (high Radium setting).
Threshold control how mush control must be present for an edge to be recognized and sharpened.
Ø Click on Ok button.
Apply a Sketch Filter
The Charcoal Filter
The sketch filters add outlining effects to your image. The charcoal filter, for example, makes an image look as if it was sketched by using charcoal on paper.
Ø Select the layers to which you want to apply the filter.
Ø Click on filter menu.
Ø Select sketch.
Ø Select Charcoal.
Ø Appear the dialog box.
Ø Click and drag the sliders to control the filter's effect.
Ø Click on Ok button.
Apply Stylize Filter
The Glowing Edges Filter
The Glowing Edges filter, one ezample of astylize filter, applies a neon effect to the edge in your image. Areas between the edges are turned black. Other stylizes filters produce similarly extreme artistic effects.
Ø Select the layers to which you want to apply the filter.
Ø Click on filter menu.
Ø Select Stylize.
Ø Select Glowing Edges.
Ø Appear the dialog box.
Ø Click drag the slider to control intensity of the glow added to the edges in the image.
Ø Click on Ok button.
Note: The Edge width and Edge Brightness values have been increased to intensity the neon effect.
Apply a Texture filter
The Texturizer filter
You can overlay other texture on your image with the Texturizer Filter. The other Texture filters let you apply other texture filters let you apply other patterns.
Ø Select the layer to which you want to apply the filter.
Ø Click on filter menu.
Ø Select Texture.
Ø Select texture.
Ø Appear the dialog box.
Ø Click on Texture drop down box and select required texture style.
Ø Adjust the sliders to control the intensity of the overlaid texture.
Ø Click on Ok button.
Apply a filter from the other submenu
The offset filter
The filters in the other submenu produce interesting effects that do not fall under the other menu descriptions. For example, you can shift your image horizontally or vertically in the image window using the other menu's offset filter.
Ø Select the layer to which you want to apply the filter.
Ø Click on filter menu.
Ø Select Other.
Ø Select Offset.
Ø Appear the dialog box.
Ø Type a horizontal and vertical offset value.
Ø Select required undefined undefine area option e.g. Set to Background.
Ø Click on Ok button.
Add Type to an Image
Adding type enables you to label elements in your image or use letters and words in artistic ways.
Ø Select the text tool from the Toolbox.
Ø Click where you want the new type to appear.
Ø Click on drop down tool on the options bar and select a font, style and size for your type.
Ø Click the color swatch to select a color for your type.
Change the formatting of type
You can change the font, style, size and other characteristics of your type.
To show the character/Paragraph palette
Ø Click on Window menu.
Ø Select Character/Paragraph.
Ø Select the type layer that you would like to edit.
Ø Click and drag to select some text.
Ø Select required options from the options bar.
Ø Adjust the spacing between characters by specifying a value from character palette.
Ø Stretch the characters horizontally or vertically by typing percentage values in the scale fields.
Ø Press "ENTER" key on your keyboard or click another tool to deselect the type layer into a regular Photoshop layer. Rasterzed type can not longer be edited using the type tools.
Ø Select the type layer to which you would like to apply a filter.
Ø Click on Filter menu and then select Noise.
Ø Select Add Noise.
WARP Type
Photoshop's warp feature lets you easily bend and distort layers of type.
Ø Select the type layer that you would like to warp.
Ø Click on Layer menu and then select type.
Ø Select Warp Text.
Ø The warp text dialog box appears
Ø Click the style drop down box and select required warp style.
Ø Adjust the Bend
Ø Click on Ok button.
Record an Action
You can record a sequence of commands as an action and replay them on other image files. This can save you time when you have a task in Photoshop that you need to repeat.
Ø Click on Window menu.
Ø Select Actions.
Ø Click on New action button.
Ø Type in a name for you action in the dialog box.
Ø Click on record button.
Ø Perform the sequence of commands that you would like to automate on the image e.g.
Ø Click on Image menu.
Ø Select adjustment.
Ø Select auto Contrast.
Ø Click on Ok image menu and then select image size.
Ø Set the image size as your requirement.
Ø Click on Ok button.
Ø Click the stop button to stop recording.
The Action palette lists the commands performed under the name of the letting you execute multiple Photoshop commands with a single click.
Play a Single Action
You can play an action from the actions palette on an image. This saves tine by letting you execute multiple Photoshop commands with a single click.
Play a single Action
Ø Click can play an action that you would like to perform.
Ø click the play button to perform the action on the image Photoshop applies the command that make up the action to the image.
Play Multiple Action
Ø Click to select the action that you would like to perform.
Ø Click the play button to perform the action on the image.
Photoshop applies the command that make up the action to the image.
Play Multiple Actions
Ø Click to select the action that you would like to perform.
Ø Press "Shift" key + click to select other actions to perform.
Ø Click on Play button to play the selected actions.
Photoshop performs the actions in the order they are listed in the actions palette ( top to bottom).
Create and Apply a Droplet
You can store an action as an icon in a folder on your computer. You can then drag and drop image files or folders of image files onto, called a droplet, to apply the action.
Create a Droplet
Ø Click the action that you would like turn into a droplet.
Ø Click on File menu.
Ø Select Automate.
Ø Select Create Droplet.
Ø Appear the dialog box.
Ø Click Action drop down box and select required option. e.g. Shrink.
Ø Click on Choose to select the folder in which to save the droplet.
Ø Click on Destination drop down box and select a destination for the processed files.
Ø Select your folder.
Ø Click on Ok button.
Apply a Droplet
Ø Navigate to the folder where you saved the droplet in the file directory system of your computer. (Open your folder by using my computer icon).
Ø Click and drag an image file onto the droplet icon.
Note: You don't need to have Photoshop open to apply a droplet. Photoshop applies droplet's action to the image.
Create a Vignette Effect
You can create a soft edge around content in your image by using Photoshop's vignette action.
Ø Select the image by using the background color as the Vignette background.
Ø Select the Vignette action form the action palette.
Ø Click on Play button.
Ø Appear the dialog box.
Ø Type a pixel value in the Feather selection dialog box.
Ø Click on Ok button.
Note: The pixel value determines the width of the soft edge of the vignette effect. Photoshop applies a soft edge around the selection.
Create Buttons
Photoshop comes with several pre-built actions that automatically create small button your image.
Ø Click on window menu and select Actions to display the actions palette.
Ø Click the foreground color swatch.
Ø The color picker dialog box appear.
Ø Click to select a foreground color.
Ø Click on Ok button.
Note: This will be the color of the button.
Ø Select a button action from the action palette e.g. Large Round Button.
Ø Click on Play button
Photoshop create a beveled button in the image window
Ø Click the layers tab in the layers palette to select the button.
Photoshop create the button in its own layer, which means that you can easily propos it in your image.
Batch Process by using actions
You can apply an action to multiple images automatically with Photoshop's command. The command is a great saver for tasks such as optimizing large number digital photos.
Ø Place all the images you would like to apply an action to into a folder.
Ø Create a separate folder in which to save your batch-processed files.
Ø Click on file menu and then select Automatic.
Ø Select Batch.
Ø Appear the dialog box.
Ø Click on Action drop down box and then select optimize.
Ø Click on Choose button and select the folder where your batch-processed files.
Ø Re-click choose button and select the folder where you would like your batch-proc file to be saved.
Ø Specify how you would like your batch-processed files to be saved.
Ø Click on Ok button.
Photoshop opens each image in the specified folder on are the time applies the action and then saves the files in the destination directory. The processed files are listed in the destination directory.
Create a Web Photo Gallery
You can have Photoshop automatically create a photo gallery web site that shows cases your image. Photoshop not only size and optimizes your image files for the site, but it also creates the web pages that displays the images and links those pages together.
Ø Place the image you would like to feature in your photo gallery in a folder.
Ø Click on file menu.
Ø Select Automate.
Ø Select Web Photo Gallery.
Ø Appear the dialog box.
Ø Click on style drop down box and select a photo gallery style.
Ø Enter title information for your web pages.
Ø Click on Source button and select the folder where you placed your original files.
Ø Click on Destination button and select the folder where you would like your photo gallery to be saved.
Ø Click on Ok button.
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