This document provides an overview of key Photoshop concepts and tools for basic image editing. It introduces fundamental concepts like layers, file types, and the Photoshop workspace. It also describes selection tools, basic editing tools for cropping and transforming images, and how to adjust layers and colors. Common file formats are outlined as well as how to save, open, import and export images in Photoshop.

3. *Basic concepts-
* What is Photoshop?,
* other options,
* types of image files,
* The Photoshop workspace (toolbox, options bar, palettes)
*Basic photo manipulation-
* Opening,
* cropping,
* resizing,
* save.
*Image Rotation
*Image Transparency
* Image transparency
* Image background transparency
*Creating new images
* Create a gif file.
*Action

4. *The professional image-editing standard
*Creating images
*Editing existing images
*Pixel = “Picture element” - smallest unit of an image
*Size of pixel depends on resolution (dpi)
*End result can be saved in variety of ways: .bmp, .jpeg,
.gif, .tif

5. Save, Save as, Save for web
- Save
- Save as: Save as a new filename
- Save for web: Save a image as a form
of “*.jpg” or “*.gif” which is used for
web image
Import, Export
- Import: Bring another image into the
canvas you are working
- Export: Sending the image you are
working to other applications
Print

6. Undo, Step Forward/Backward
- Undo: Cancel the last work
- Step Forward: Move to the next stage
which you did
- Step Backward: Move to the previous
stage which you did
Cut, Copy, Paste
- Cut: Get rid of a part which you select
- Copy: Copy a part you select
- Paste: Attach the part you copied

7. Mode: Select a type of color
Image size, Canvas size
- Image size: Change the size of the imag
- Canvas size: change the size of the can
where you are working
(Bottom of your image)
Rotate canvas: Changing the direction of
your canvas

8. New, Delete
- New: Create a new layer
- Delete: get rid of a layer you selected
Arrange
- change the order of layers
Merge
- Make layers into one layer

9. Various Kinds of technical effects

10. Zoom in/out
- Zoom in
- Zoom out
Print size
- Help you to print only what you need
Extras
- Showing horizontal and vertical lines
by dividing into separate sectors

11. You can select what you want to make
visible on your page and what you don’t
want to make visible on your page

13. *.psd
*Native Photoshop file, usually needs to be saved as other type
*New images, layered images start as .psd
*.gif
*Good for web
*Supports transparency
*.jpeg
*Good for web, used for photos or complex coloration (e.g. –
gradients)
*Slightly longer to download (decompression time)
*Doesn’t support transparency

14. *.png
*Good for web, best of both worlds (lossless, supports complex
photographs)
*Not supported by older browsers (pre IE 4, NN 6)
*Wait for all browsers to catch up before using
*.tif
*Good for print media
*Can be imported by most apps
*Large file sizes (but compressible)
*Can supports layers
*.bmp
*Simple grid of pixels
*Uncompressed, large file sizes
*Can be imported by almost all apps

15. *Image, Modes
*RGB -Default choice
*CMYK
*Grayscale
*8-bit is usually adequate
*16-bit only for very high resolution
pictures
* Very large file size

18.  To view the name of a tool
button, hold your mouse
pointer over the tool you
want to see, and the name
will appear as a tool tip.
 Some tool buttons have
multiple tools
combined into one
button.
 The marquee tools make
rectangular, elliptical, single
row, and single column
selections.

19. Marqee: Select a part of an image you are working
with arranged form such as rectangular and elliptical.
Lasso: Draw selection paths freehand with a mouse
- If you click and hold, you can change the tool
so that you can draw polygons
Magic wand: select all the same-color or similarly
colored adjacent pixels
Crop: Crop the image
- The selected area will be surrounded with a blinking
dotted line

20. Move the image on a selected layer to other part of
canvas you are working
Brush: basic tools for drawing a line
Gradient: this help you to paint stage by stage with
more than 2 colors
Paint Bucket: fill out a cropped part with just one
click of this tool

21. Erase what you cropped or where you click with
your mouse after selecting this tool
Clone Stamp: copy a selected part and restore
it where you want
Pattern Stamp: this is nearly the same tool with
clone stamp, but you can arrange the shape you
cropped, and you can use it as a fixed shape

22. Smudge: effect as such rubbing canvas
with fingers
Dodge: Make it bright the part where you scrub
with this tool.
Sponge: Saturate or desaturate selected part of
an image.
Type in various characters

23. Foreground color
Background color

25. *Text layer
*Text effect/Drop shadow
*Photo layer
*Background layer
*Left-click and drag layers to
move them up or down

26. History: Photoshop automatically
save the process of your works. (basically
20 steps prior to the current work)
Actions : Save basic technical effects and
adjust it to more than one image
Tool Preset : Select the Brush which you
made and saved.

27. *File, Open
*Crop
*Choose cropping tool
*Left-click and drag to define crop area
* Uncropped area will be shaded
* Don’t have to be perfect
* Use sizing boxes to fine-tune crop area

28. *Make sure “Constrain
proportions” is
checked to avoid
stretching
*Link icon appears
*Change width (in
pixels), height will
automatically change.
*Use document size box
for print (set in inches,
not pixels)

34. *Select a image layer and left click go
to blending option.
*Choose opacity – change the values

35. *Left-click and hold down eraser tool
to get all options
*Choose Magic Eraser tool
*Set tolerance to 5 in options bar (a
starting point)
*Uncheck contiguous to make insides of
letters transparent

36. *Background will disappear
*Background will appear