Digital Imaging Basics – Getting Familiar with Photoshop.pdfVIP

Hands-on Activities for InTech Workshop Digital Imaging Basics – Getting Familiar with Photoshop Prepared by Jill Lenz Presented Spring 2009 Goal: Become familiar with common menu commands and the tools most frequently used by beginners. Create Photoshop images incorporating layers, shapes, colors, text, and layer effects. Create a Contact Sheet of images with file information attached to the images. Upon completion of this workshop, users should become familiar with:  Where to get Photoshop  Toolbox and Options Bar  Menu Basics  Layers and the Layer Palette  Zoom Techniques  Text, Spell Check and Warped Text  Adding Arrows with the Line Tool  Creating Dotted and Dashed Lines  Drop Shadows and other Layer Effects  Crop Tool  Creating Images from Scratch  Shape Tools  Color Picker and “Unprintable” Colors  Pixel Dimensions vs. Print Size  Reducing and Enlarging Images  Contact Sheets and File Info  Customizable Workspace Prepared and presented by Jill Lenz Jill.Lenz@, 970-491-6585 /intech/lab/ Copyright © 1999-2009. Colorado State University. All Rights Reserved. Hands-on Activities for InTech Lab Workshop Digital Imaging Basics – Getting Familiar with Photoshop Presented by Jill Lenz – Spring 2009 Toolbox The Toolbox contains all the tools for creating and editing images. You select a tool by clicking its icon in the toolbox. A small triangle at the lower right of