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Introduction to Photoshop
Beginning Class Concepts/Skills Activities
Class 1 (Jan 22) Cropping, file handling, window views, undo bring 5 'non precious" photos for experimenting
Class 2 (Jan 29)

Additive / Subtractive Color
marquis tool, constrain

web article

munsell

no homework- play with hues, selections
Class 3 (Feb 05)

value /wand, selecting, subtracting from selections

 

clipboard, history

jam709-scan.jpg


jam709c.jpg
click images above to enlarge, then right-click and copy image | new(file menu) phoshop image, paste | desaturate & undo to see equivalent values | select and correct

Class 4
(Feb 12)

 

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fade
color/value correction
(lasso tool)->

layer intro.
combining photos
->

in class & homework:
copy, new, paste, combine

 

 

 

easy: finished

http://www.braa.arts.bev.net/kudos/kudos-2008-jan.html#js0802
card scan 1
card scan 2

more tricky:
http://www.braa.arts.bev.net/social/lunch.html

source photo 1
source photo 2
Class 5 (Feb 19)

distortions, actions, panorama

 

brush (darken/lighten)

smudge

  
  
 


rough align


balance, feather-erase


tidy-up, fill, crop, done

Class 6 intro (Feb 25)
Class 1 intermediate (Feb 25)
combined class with 1st intermediate group meeting.

Review;
Print/web adjustments
Actions

3 kinds of size!

  • file size
  • height and width
  • dpi (pixel size)

print-outs have variable dpi. Depending on the capacity of the printer, the actual pixels change size

Scale images with photoshop to approximate print height/width and:

  • ~100 dpi (web documents)
  • ~300 dpi (home printers)
  • >300 dpi (magazines)

More is not better! larger than necessary image file sizes used in a word document increases the word document's file size too.


internet images are always 72 dpi (height and dpi settings are ignored.)

Therefore optimized

  • thumbnails (~150px) and
  • enlargements (~800px)

are necessary.

More is not better! larger file sizes slow downloading time.

   


Always view images at "actual pixels" before sizing and optimizing.

  • When increasing image size - use "bucubic smoother"
  • When decreasing image size - use "bicubic sharpen"
link - intermediate photoshop

link - photoshop classes

link - www.leslyebloom.com