How to do Basic PhotoShop
Document Actions
Mini-Lecture 2 for Session 6
The canvas is the workspace, like the canvas on which a work of art is painted.
Changing the size of the canvas does not change the size of the image.
The first series of tasks applies to the entire document.
| Change the canvas size |
Image > Canvas Size (doesn't change image size – provides more/less room for editing) |
| Rotate or flip the canvas |
Image > Rotate Canvas > |
| Re-size an image |
Image > Image Size For Flash, set resolution to 72 Change height or width – other dimension will change |
| Convert to GIF/JPG |
1. File > Save As… OR 2. File > Save for Web |
| Import an image |
File > Place |
| Crop | Choose the Crop tool (press C) Draw a box around what you want to keep Double-click inside the box |
For the remaining tasks, first select the object or layer you want to change.
| Rotate | Edit > Transform > Rotate | |
| Scale | Edit > Transform > Scale | |
| Drop Shadow |
|
Layer > Layer Style > Drop Shadow |
| Sharpen | * |
Filter > Sharpen > Sharpen |
| Color levels |
* |
Image > Adjustments > Levels Pull the leftmost triangle to the left edge of the "mountains" Adjust the middle one to your preference |
| Feather | * |
Select > Feather Edit > Cut (blurs the edges of a selection; used with cut, copy, or fill) |
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by the Contributing Authors.
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Cite/attribute Resource.
lschilli. (2008, March 13). How to do Basic PhotoShop. Retrieved February 12, 2012, from Notre Dame OpenCourseWare Web site: http://ocw.nd.edu/computer-applications/applied-multimedia-technology/mini-lectures/how-to-do-basic-photoshop.
