This Photoshop tutorial is designed for both beginners and professionals. This tutorial is useful for photographers, graphic designers, and other professionals.
I. WHAT IS PHOTOSHOP?
Photoshop is a photo-editing software. It is a popular image changing software package. It was developed in 1987 by the American brothers Thomas and John Knoll. There are two types of graphic software – Vector Graphic and Raster Graphics.
Workspace and Interface :
Opening on laptop, welcome screen will appear. To work on any photo select it. On the left, tools will appear and on right, layer panel and panel appear.
How to make new workspace ?
- Go to windows on upper part of screen.
- Go to workspace.
- Click on New Workspace.
- Name new workspace and save it.
How to delete workspace?
If you want to delete current workspace, then it is not possible because you are currently active on that particular workspace. So, you have to go to another workspace and then delete that previously active workspace
II. Features of Adobe Photoshop:
- Preparing image for the web:
Photoshop offers number of features that generally enhance your ability to process images for the web. By using Photoshop in conjunction with the image ready you can reduce sophisticated graphics quickly and effectively.
- Erasing areas of layers to transparency:
It has an eraser for you to erase section for layer to transparency. This can be helpful to you, for example: when you want to delete the background area around a hard-aged object. For this we will use a magic eraser and background eraser tools.
- Objects from their background:
The extract command provides a sophisticated way to isolate a foreground object from its background. Even objects with wispy, intricate or undefined edges may know be clipped from their backgrounds with minimum of manual work you must be working in a layer to use the extract command.
- Creating multiple image layouts:
Photoshop offers new and enhance features of expressing multiple images automatically as contact sheets, picture packages and navigable HTML pages.
- Using the art history brush tools:
It can use the source data from a specified history or snapshot, for putting the
no limit variety of visual effect, you can also experiment with custom, non-circular brushes pallet using the art history brush tool.
- File menu commands:
In this, we have an option revert which is used to restore the most recently saved version of your file, deleting all changes made since the last time you saved it. There option import and export help us to import and export commands to and from other applications.
- Edit menu commands:
We have steps forward and step backward options, which are used to move a step forward and to trace back the step in motion. Other options free transform and transform commands are used to apply transformations on the objects.
Advantages :
- It is a wonderful program.
- It can make artwork beautifully.
- It is greatly used in making presentations and making creative projects.
Disadvantages :
- It is hard for beginners to use.
- It is not free.
- It has slower processing speed due to large size.
- It is less efficient in memory usage.