...INTRODUCTION How to Learn Photoshop A huge advantage of Photoshop is you have more ways to learn it, like this page here, than any other program. So many people know it it's easy to learn just about anywhere. The best way to learn Photoshop is to take a class at your local community college to learn the basics of Lightening Underexposed Images and Correcting Color Casts and White Balance Problems. These basic adjustments are covered in every introductory Photoshop class and book so I'll just cover them quickly below. You must be fluent in these to get anywhere with Photoshop for optimizing images. Photoshop also has built-in help as well as free tutorial usually included in the box. All you need to do is choose how you learn best and go that way. Personally I learn best from an in-person class or having an expert show me in person. When I have a question about how to find some obscure tool or how to make a command work I just choose help from the HELP menu. Basic Operation and Tricks of the Trade All these adjustments work with every kind of image. That's why skilled photographers feel sorry for people who toil away with RAW files just so they can correct exposure and white balance later. You can do it all to any JPG image in Photoshop without all the hassle. The tricks below presume you have at least a basic navigational familiarity with Photoshop. You can get that from any book or community college class, or even the built-in help! Photoshop has been around since...
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...of the fact that Photoshop is questioning Photojournalism, there are some cases when this tool really helps to understand the context of the Image and it helps to complement it. Furthermore media is totally subjective. Photoshop is really helpful but it should be used carefully. Within, both of this texts “ Distorted Picture” by Sherry Ricchiardi and “ The Reality of a Fake Image”...
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...O ’ R E I L L Y D I G I T A L S T U D I O Professional Tips & Workflow Strategies for Using Photoshop to Enhance Your Digital Photography Skills Digital Photography Expert Techniques Ken Milburn rs CS ve op Co osh ot Ph Bringing Out the Best Picture So you’ve taken the shot. Is that it? Certainly not. In the world of digital photography, you can use a wide variety of techniques to “bring out” the best picture possible from the shot you’ve taken. You might be wondering, “How is that possible?” Well, in order to explain that, we should provide some background on how cameras differ from our own brains. The human brain can process more color range at any given instant than a computer monitor or a digital print can display. Our eyes don’t actually see more range than film or digital sensors; rather, our brain instructs our eyes to composite different areas of the image into a single whole. The brain does this “multiple-exposure” blending so quickly that we think we are looking at only one image. The camera, on the other hand, doesn’t have our brain inside. It records only one instant in time, which is why we are often so disappointed when we look at a base picture. (“That’s not how I remember the color and the details!”) And it gets worse: cameras are notorious for losing all the little details in the highlights and shadows of a shot. Thankfully, we can use the camera and the computer to minimize these deficiencies, and bring out a wider range of brightness and...
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...Introduction to Phase 1, How to Use the eBook, Introduction to Dreamweaver, How to Choose the Right Colors, Introduction to Photoshop and Phase 1 IP Demo; is to help students understand what is needed to complete the project. In the follow paragraphs, will explain how this work. With the ‘Introduction to Phase 1’ video, the instructor shows what the class is about and what to do in a step-by-step matter with the Dreamweave. It also states how to use the videos if someone gets overwhelm, what do to. In the next video, ‘How to Use the eBook’, it helps students understand how the eBook works alongside Photoshop and Dreamweaver while the student is building their web site. In the ‘Introduction to Dreamweave’ video, the instructor explains to students how Dreamweave is used, as well as some advice where to start and how to get comfortable with the program. The video ‘How to Choose the Right Colors’ shows how and why to pick the right colors for your web site, which can make all the difference between a bad or great web site. As in the ‘Introduction to Dreamweave’ video, ‘Introduction to Photoshop’ it helps the student understand how to take a screenshot, using the Clipboard and cropping images. Finally, in the video ‘Phase 1 IP Demo’, he gives an overview for students to use for the upcoming Individual Project and some steps on how to put the web site together. As shown above, the videos; Introduction to Phase 1, How to Use the eBook, Introduction to Dreamweave, How to Choose the Right...
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...Back to Contents Tutorial ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 5.0 Photo Retouching Adobe® Photoshop® provides you with a variety of tools and commands for improving the quality of a photoreserving an extensive body of work assembled by a team of photographers from 1991 to 1995, The Architecture of Italy CD-ROM disc is a compilation of more than three hundred sumptuous photographs. With crossreferenced text provided for each photograph, this collection can be used as a resource for many endeavors. Much more than a "digital coffee-table book, "you are free to modify, rent, lease, distribute, or create derivative works based upon the original images found in this collection. Included in this collection are St. Mark's Cathedral in Venice; the Tower and Baptistry at Pisa; the Colliseum, the Forum, the Vatican, and highlights from the Vatican Museum in Rome; the Duomo, the Medici Palace, the Ponte Vecchio, and the Gates of Heaven in Florence. More than 75 superb architectural examples, which have received little recognition, have also been included. Gina Antonelli is known for her works on Italian fine art, as well as several previous photographic publications: "Italy's Best Loved Gardens," the series "Italian Tradition in Color and Form" (Dress; Cuisine; Architecture; Pastimes), and two editions of the book "Italian Traditional Patterns." In addition to completing the Rome and Naples photography assignment, photographer and art historian Tomas Panini assembled and edited the explanatory notes for...
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...Adobe Photoshop A leading paint program from Adobe Systems, Inc. For many years, Photoshop has been the model against which other paint programs are compared. Initially, it ran only on Macintosh systems, which was a strong selling point for Macs, especially among graphic artists. Today, Photoshop runs on both Macs and Windows PCs. Basic Components of Adobe Photoshop Menu Bar Option Bar Tool Bar Drawing Canvass Palettes Different Tools in Adobe Photoshop Move Tool The move tool allows you to move objects. You can select layers with it, so if each of your objects is on a separate layer, this tool will move those objects just by clicking on them and dragging. Measure Tool Lets you measure length, width, angle and location of areas in your image. If you scan something in a little crookedly, use this tool to measure the angle and then use "rotate canvas" to correct the rotation by the exact amount. To measure, choose the measure tool from the tool box. (It looks like a little ruler). Draw a line with it, and look at the info palette to see the angle, width, length and coordinates of your line. Magnetic Lasso For shapes that contrast with the background, this tool will snap to the edge when making a selection. Double click on the magnetic lasso icon to open the dialog box. You can set the strength of the "magnet" by entering values in the dialog box. Frequency is the rate at which the lasso will fasten points. Enter a rate between 0 and 100. Lasso width...
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...Lights! Camera! Photoshop? Photoshop has been a major detail when making magazines, newspapers, etc. But is it really good for the celebrities ego when they use it and is it making them look good or a bit worse? In my opinion photoshop shouldn’t be used for these purposes, because it makes them look fake and it’s overly abused as it is . Celebrities shouldn’t let computers and stingy agents decide how they look. They should try doing it by themselves, but it’s at anyone’s free will, as long as it isn’t taken too far. Photoshopping someone with three heads is too far! On the other hand, it can help boost a rising star to the higher ranks of being famous. But when it comes to everyday things like newspapers, magazines and websites it is easily noticed and could make them look worse than what they started with....
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...books, magazines, newspapers, etc. He is most famous however for his photograph of Sharbat Gula, or as most of the world knows her, “The Afghan Girl”. Unfortunately, McCurry has come under fire for a recent botched photograph that shows careless and blatant use of photoshop. This image has since sparked up controversy, as more and more visibly altered photographs have been discovered on McCurry’s website. These findings have stirred up a debate on the ethical aspect of professional photographers using photoshop to enhance or alter their images. Personally, I believe there is absolutely nothing wrong with a photographer...
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...500 people nation wide, had sales of $4.22 billion in 2014, and was ranked #74 by Forbes on their list of the World’s Most Innovative Companies (Forbes, 2015). Adobe is most famous for its program Photoshop, which helps it to drive industries in three major business segments: “Digital Media, Digital Marketing, and Print & Publishing” (Forbes, 2015). In the following paper, I will focus on the core Adobe programs for the print and publishing industry, which include Photoshop, Illustrator, and Indesign. Photoshop. Business and investing author and scholar, Peter F. Drucker said, “If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old” (Shore, 2014). In 1987, Thomas Knoll was an engineering PhD student the University of Michigan and wanted to process his photographs on his newly purchased Apple Macintosh Plus to help him with his PhD work. Unfortunately, his Mac computer was unable to translate his images into a grey-scale display, and so, needing something new, Knoll went to work on making something new. As a software engineer, Knoll wrote a program he called Display to properly render his images on the screen. With his brother Thomas’s help and encouragement, Display turned into a program called ImagePro, which had the ability to manipulate digital images similarly to how a photographer would manipulate prints in a darkroom (dodge and burn, contrast, hue, etc). Within a year, the brothers packaged their software program and licensed it to Adobe in 1988, and in 1990...
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...packages used in graphic work I will be comparing two different software, being Adobe Photoshop and Microsoft Paint. Photoshop is used professionally by graphics designers around the world, and it’s the most common graphics editing software. The possibilities with Photoshop are endless and pretty much any images can be edited. Images can be edited in a number of different ways; these include colour corrections, special effects, lighting and background changes. Lasso tools and magic wand tools can be used to cut out images so they can be placed elsewhere, these go on colour so certain bits of images that are the same colour can be cut out. Layers are also available in Photoshop;...
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...Team work is an inevitable life experience. Working as a team helps you to develop lot of skills. We shared our thought and ideas and gained knowledge. There were lot of discussion and at last we made a draft poster on how it should look. We also developed our skills in certain software. At the beginning we tried to make our poster in PowerPoint as it would be easier for us. Later as we go further we realized that the whole poster cannot be made from PowerPoint. So we all discussed together and came to a conclusion to go with Microsoft Publisher. As we don’t know anything about publisher we watched lot of tutorial in you tube about how to make a poster in Publisher. We also watched many videos about how a poster should be designed and presented. After watching all those videos we came to a conclusion to go with Publisher. At the beginning we practised what we saw in videos and did as it is said in video. As time passes we gained confidence and learnt lot of things in Publisher. We learnt about all the tools and practised each and every tool how it works. Later after gaining knowledge about Publisher we started to design our poster. At first we tried to make a good background for the poster and no one was satisfied with the background what came up with the publisher. We then tried to make a background which was designed by the Toshiba. Even then we faced a difficulty in making that as background. We got a background were we had Toshiba logo in the centre and bigger arrows on each...
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...photoshopping in the media and they suspected there was more photo editing in magazines and advertisements than newspapers. 3 Chapter 1 In every publication there are most likely photos accompanying articles, advertisements, or exist as an article by themselves. Pictures help support an article, promote a product, tell a story, and bring the viewer in. Nowadays there are an abundance of software programs that help edit photos. These programs are also continuously improving, making editing much easier. Artists and photographers enjoy using this software because of all the opportunities they have to make their pictures even better. However, when it comes to publishing a photo in a magazine, newspaper, or advertisement there should be a limit to how much they edit. As a piece...
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...Line Art Tutorial Recommended for Intermediate Level Photoshop Users First up I’d like to ease your mind and let you know that you don’t need to know how to draw to complete this tutorial. It’s basically tracing, except that tracing is alot easier in Adobe Photoshop. Creating line art with this technique will take several hours to do a good job…if you want a tutorial that just applies a couple of filters, then this tutorial is not for you! You will need to know how to use the PEN TOOL for this tutorial. (If you don’t know how to use the pen tool complete the fast tutorial found HERE first). I suggest you read through the entire tutorial first, before you begin. 1. Preparing the Layers Open your photo in Photoshop. Rename the layer “original”. If your picture is quite dark you will need to lighten it a little. The reason for this is that we will be tracing over the photo in black so we need to be able to see the lines we are creating clearly. Adjust the Brighness of the photo Image >> Adjustments >> Brightness/Contrast… Duplicate the “original” layer. Rename this new layer “top”. Create two more new layers. Place them under the “top” layer. Fill the layer closest to the “original” layer white and rename it “background”. Leave the other layer transparent and rename it “line art” Turn the visibility OFF for the “background” and “top” layers.< Visibility ON for the “line art” and “original” layers and the “line art” layer is active. See image below...
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...the glistening silver button on my camera thinking, “Is this how I want this moment to be remembered?” Through the eyes of many, a camera is just a tool that you point at an object to take a picture; to a photographer, it is so much more. According to Dictionary.com, the definition of photography is, “The process of producing images on a sensitized surface by the action of light.” However, there is one point that this simple definition fails to state, and that is photography is used to capture a single moment in time, in one frame. A single picture can tell a multitude of stories, and can hold countless memories. Whether done as a profession, a hobby, or a creative outlet, the art of photography can appeal to everyone in the world. Known as a “camera obscura,” the first elements of photography were shown in 384 BC when Mo-Ti, a Chinese philosopher, created the device (Camera Obscura History). The physics behind his invention was that when a lighted area was separated from a dark area with only a pinhole opening between them, it created an inverted image of the lighted area. This technology was further improved by inserting a lens to create a clearer picture (History of Photography). Since then, the art of photography has continued to evolve. Many photographers still rely on natural lighting in their pictures, however today photographers choose to use digital photo editing with programs such as Adobe Photoshop and Light Room. These great advances in technology and the...
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...to be one of the great relievers. Then came in the concept of automation of task i.e. a sophisticated task could take place by itself with the help of computers and robots. During the last 5-6 years there has been a tremendous amount of development in the field of graphics which includes photography, animation etc. So the need for image editing soft wares increased and thus image editing soft wares like Adobe Photoshop, Image ready, GIMP etc were developed. In order to make the job of professional photographers and animators easy and quicker automation was introduced in this field also. With the help of which they could easily edit many images and animation at the same time. . AUTOMATION IN PHOTOSHOP The automate commands simplify complex tasks by combining them into one or more dialog boxes. You can send files directly from the file browser to any of the automation plug-ins that processes multiple images To use an automated command: Choose File > Automate, and then choose any of the commands There are various automate commands available in Photoshop and ImageReady like : 1. Batch 2. PDF Presentation 3. Create Droplet 4. Conditional Mode Change 5. Contact Sheet II 6. Crop And Straighten Photos 7. Fit Image 8. Multi-Page PDF To PSD 9. Picture Package 10. Web Photo Gallery 11. Photo merge In the next few pages these commands are discussed THE BATCH COMMAND The Batch command lets you play an action on a folder of files and subfolders. If you have a...
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