What is Photoshop?
Photoshop is the industry standard in photo editing for graphics professionals.
What is Photoshop Elements?
A “reduced” version of Photoshop priced at a significantly reduced price. (Photoshop $599.00, Photoshop Elements $79.99 at Costco for the retail version, not the educational version, which is easier to use and includes most of the features of Photoshop.)
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Mastering selections is undoubtedly one of the most essential and powerful aspects of Photoshop. Below are some extremely useful (and not very well-known) selection techniques: once you learn them, you will wonder how you ever got by without them!
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Five years ago we sold our darkroom equipment and moved our image editing to the computer. The image editing software we chose was Adobe Photoshop. It took us about a year to be able to make images from the computer that were as good as ones we had made in our wet darkroom. Today we are making images that we could not even have dreamed of making before. Since then our expertise in Photoshop has increased many times over, but our basic workfl ow has remained the same. These tutorials are based on Photoshop version 6 for Windows.
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1. Tooty Frooty Text
2. Animated Walk Cycle of a Stick Man
3. Drawing Fred Flintstone
4. Blood Dripping Text Effect
5. Animated Water Drop
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OBJECTIVE - This tutorial is designed to introduce you to some of the frequently used tools and actions in Photoshop. All samples used will be found in either the Samples Folder or the Stock Art Folder. Both are located in the Photoshop CS2 Folder. The tutorial will cover the following topics.
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Removing an object from it’s background to place it within another image, or to give it a new background can be done various ways in Photoshop . The method that gives the best (cleanest) results is to use the pen tool to create a ‘work path’ around the object and then copy it to a new file. (This will be tutorial #3 in this series-this is also the method I’ve come to use most.) Another method uses the “extract filter” - this works pretty well for simple objects, but leaves you with a little more roughness around the edges. Those can easily be smoothed out using the eraser tool once it’s copied to a new background. (This will be tutorial #2 in this series)
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This tutorial will show you how to add a coloured and/or graduated background to your bead photo. You can use Steps 3 and 4 together, or individually depending on the effect you are after. There are many ways of tackling this in Photoshop, but this is my preferred method.
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There are several ways to open an image to edit in photoshop { like through photoshop, through a folder or through an image viewer. Note: When opening images, sometimes a message pops up about the embedded profile being a mismatch. ALl this means is that the colour settings of the image are a bit different from the default photoshop settings { as is often the case with digital photos.
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1. What is the Patch Tool
1.) The Patch tool lets you repair a selected area with pixels from another area or a pattern.
2.) Like the Healing Brush tool, the Patch tool matches the texture, luminosity, and color of the sampled pixels to the source pixels.
3.) When repairing with pixels from the image, select a small area to produce the best result.
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“One sees differently with color photography than black and white…in short, visualization must be modified by the specific nature of the equipment and materials being used.” –Ansel Adams
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