Nov 4, 2011

Photoshop's Concept 3rd Part

Instructions: Choose the correct word from the box, and answer correctly the following concepts. Highlight the answer with a different color, and make sure to add an example of each concept.

Example:   These are approximations. What you see onscreen depends on the quality and settings of your monitor. Softproofs




Hand Tool
Tools Palette
Magic Wand Tool
Navigator Palette
Clone Stamp Tool
Burn Tool
RGB
Spot Healing Brush Tool
CMYK
Marquee Tools
JPEG
Adjustment Layers
Layers
Panning
Document Window
Zooming
Tolerance
Main Menu
Polygonal Lasso Tool
Dodge Tool
Resolution
Save for Web & Devices
Layer Styles
It compresses well
TIFF, PDF
Palettes
History Palette
Selection Tools
Dodge & Burn
72 ppi & 300 ppi
1.    It’s located across the bottom of the application bar and organizes commands in individual menus.
2.    It contains tools for creating and editing images, artwork, page elements, and soon. Related tools are groups together.

3.    It displays the file you’re working on.
4.    These help you monitor and modify your work.

5.    This tool moves an image within its window. This is useful if you want to see a part of the image that is currently out of view.
6.    In Ps this refers to the horizontal movement or rotation of an image.

7.    In Ps this refers to change from a distant view to a more close-up view or vice versa.
8.    This palette is another quick way to make large changes in zoom level.

9.    You can use this layer to make changes in hue, levels, etc. while preserving the original image.
10. You can use these tools to change the lightness and darkness of particular areas of an image.

11. This tool allows more light to show through the negative, making the area lighter.
12. This tool allows less light to show, making the area darker.

13. This palette is used to undo steps and it keeps track of the last 20 commands you’ve applied to an image, allowing you to revert any one of these.
14. This tool is used to remove minor blemishes from a photo. It is most effective with small distinctive features.

15. This tool automatically samples pixels from the surrounding area and applies these to the selected area.
16. Mention the file format to save photos for the web.

17. Mention why the JPEG format is popular.
18. You can use this command to preview JPEGs with different compression settings before you save them.

19. Mention the recommended resolution to save images for on-screen display and images for print.
20. Mention the color combination that computers use to display photos.

21. Mention the name of the color combination used by the offset printing presses.  
22. Mention two examples of formats with no compression, known them as lossless format.

23. This is the level of detail in a bitmap image and is measured in pixels per inch (ppi).
24. The better you are at using these tools, the more flexibility you have with changing parts of images.

25. This tool selects parts of an image that have similar colors.
26. This tool selects a geometrically shaped area, such as a rectangle or circle.

27. This tool defines a selection area by hand.
28. This blurs a selection’s edges by adding a transition boundary between the selection and its surrounding pixels.

29. These are like sheets of stacked paper.
30. You can apply this to add special effects such as drop shadow or a glow. 

Nov 3, 2011

Photoshop's Concepts 2nd part

Photoshop's most commonly used shortcuts & quick keys

Instructions: Search in Photoshop the shortcuts or quick keys of the following commands & tools and post them in your blog.


1)         New file
2)         Open file
3)         Close file
4)         Undo
5)         Copy
6)         Paste
7)         Fill
8)         Free transform
9)         Hue and saturation
10)       Image size
11)       Canvas size
12)       New layer
13)       Liquify Filter
14)       Layers
15)       Marquee tools
16)       Lasso tools
17)       Magic wand tool
18)       Crop tool
19)       Healing brush / red eye tools
20)       Brush /pencil  tools
21)       Clone & pattern stamp tools
22)       Eraser tool
23)       Gradient / paint bucket tools
24)       Pen tool
25)       Type tool
26)       Path & direct selection tools
27)       Shapes tools
28)       Hand tool
29)       Zoom tool