WK 08 - INTRODUCTION of PHOTOSHOP...

Adobe Photoshop is the premier photo editing software tool available. Whether you are working on a webpage, Powerpoint presentation, or a document to be printed, Photoshop can be used to enhance your images. Participants will learn about image file types, cropping images, compositing (putting several images together), ghosting images (for use as webpage backgrounds), using layers, creating masks, applying filters, and formatting text with bevels and other effects.


WHY USE PHOTOSHOP?
The internet was originally created by U.S. Department of Defense researchers to exchange textual documents. Once someone discovered how to add graphics to the exchanged document, however, the internet really began to take off.
As HyperStudio author Roger Wagner has observed, we live in a mediacentric society that increasingly relies upon multimedia in its varied forms to both inform and entertain us. It is natural for people living within this media-saturated culture to want to create some of that media-- and Adobe PhotoShop is the perfect tool for that task.
With PhotoShop, you can:

1. Create original artwork
2. esign graphics for a webpage or website
3. Make "ghosted" images that can be used as the background for webpages 
4. Correct flaws and imperfections in a photograph
5. create a photo collage : a compostition made up of several different photos
6. Create a deceptively realistic photo that is not real
7. Alter photographs for political / propaganda purposes
8. Design smashing layouts for a classroom newspaper, brochure, or flyer
9. Have a ton of fun being CREATIVE!

PhotoShop is a program that is so rich, complex, and powerful, people literally spend most of the waking hours of their life using it, and are still always learning new tricks and techniques! Thankfully, however, the learning curve for PhotoShop is not steep, and users can create very appealing products with a short introduction to the concepts and tools of PhotoShop. That is one of the primary goals of this workshop!
To help spark your own creativity, I have provided documentation of how I created the images used in this online curriculum in the last section, "Graphics Techniques." Every image in this curriculum that is not a "screenshot" is clickable to the provided documentation.


OBTAIN THE SOFTWARE

Minimum Requirements for Windows	Minimum Requirements for Macintosh
Intel® Pentium® processor Microsoft® Windows® 98, Windows Millennium, Windows 2000, or Windows NT® 4.0 64 MB of available RAM 125 MB of available hard-disk space Color monitor with 256-color (8-bit) or greater video card Monitor resolution of 800x600 or greater	PowerPC® processor Mac OS software version 8.5, 8.6, or 9.0 64 MB** of available RAM (with virtual memory on) 125 MB of available hard-disk space Color monitor with 256-color (8-bit) or greater video card Monitor resolution of 800x600 or greater ** 128 MB of RAM required to run Photoshop and ImageReady concurrently

WORKING WITH IMAGES
From the WINDOW menu, make sure LAYERS and NAVIGATOR have checkmarks beside them. These are floating palettes that are in the bottom right and upper right corners of the screen by default.
These basic techniques will help you view and navigate around within an image in PhotoShop:

1. Select a Layer
   1. In the Layer palette (lower right corner) click on a layer to selected it.
   2. The layer will be blue when selected:
2. Hide / Show a layer
   1. Click on the eye () next to a layer to hide it.
   2. Click on the same box (which will be empty when the image is hidden) to show the layer again.
3. Use the Navigation Palette to zoom in/out and move around in a zoomed image
4. Resize the displayed window
   1. Click on the lower left corner of a PhotoShop window and hold down the mouse
   2. Drag the corner to resize the window
5. Move contents of a layer with the MOVE tool
   1. Select the layer containing the content you want to move or reposition (hide/show to find it).
   2. Click on the move tool (arrow tool) in the upper left corner of the toolbar (left side of the screen):
   3. Click and drag on the layer to move it as desired.

Other PhotoShop Palettes can be viewed or hidden from the WINDOW menu at the top of the screen.
Basic Keyboard Shortcuts can also be helpful:

Windows	Macintosh
Ctrl + A Select all Ctrl + C Copy Ctrl + V Paste Ctrl + N Create a new file Ctrl + S Save your file	Command + A Select all Command + C Copy Command + V Paste Command + N Create a new file Command + S Save your file