An Idiot’s Guide to Photoshop Part 1

A lot of people are intimidated by Adobe's Photoshop. At first glance it is confusing, but with a little help you can quickly be on your way to becoming a Photoshop guru. This is our introductory guide on how to do basic functions in Photoshop.

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An Idiot’s Guide to Photoshop Part 1 By Karl Gechlik

Edited by Justin Pot

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Table of Contents

Introduction

Creating a new document Using the paint brush tool Using the text tool to add text

Using the move tool

Adding layer effects like drop shadow and bevel an emboss

Flattening your image and some background on layers

Resizing vour image

Rotating the Free Transform

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Introduction

A lot of people are intimidated by Adobe's

Photoshop At first glance it is confusing, but with a little help you can quickly be on your way to becoming a Photoshop guru This is our

introductory guide on how to do basic functions in Photoshop

Photoshop is a layered graphic editing program; it is a great tool for creating, editing and

manipulating images Let me give you a little bit of knowledge to begin with I wish someone would have explained what layers were in relation to graphic design before I started teaching Photoshop to myself

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A new layer 1s created for each new action you take If you use the text tool to add some text to the image it will create a new layer for it However, if you edit that layer and change the font color it 1s still in the same layer You can always bring up your layers by pressing F7 The layer portion of the screen is below This is the heart and soul of Photoshop so make sure you really do keep in mind as we discuss other Photoshop areas We will go into more detail as we discuss each feature I really recommend you read following

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Let’s fire up whatever version of Photoshop you will be using, and get started I will be using Photoshop CS3 so there might be some slight differences between our versions Nothing major but if you can’t find a specific option where I tell you it is look around a little more

Every feature I will show you can be found in all versions of Photoshop as far back as 6 (The first version I really got into)

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Creating a new document

Your default toolbars will be on your right To create a blank document you can either hit (Control +N) or click File > New

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Here is where you define your image's dimensions and resolution

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background but if you rather use inches or another unit of measure, then use the drop down and switch it up

Now you see a blank box in your workspace along with your toolbar all the way on the right and the layer bar in between them Your toolbar contains all of your tools that you can use to manipulate your image The layer box shows you what layer you are working in and any relationship between

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Using the paint brush tool

Let’s use the paintbrush tool to draw a smiley face Select the tool by clicking on the item in your

toolbar, as shown below

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Next we pick our brush's size, called the diameter at the top of the screen

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Now use your mouse and paint a smiley face or

something more creative As soon as you start

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Using the text tool to add text

Let's add some text to our image by clicking on our Text toolbar item here „4 ORR HOM OMRON AE C : >

Notice that Photoshop creates a new layer for your text as I said before Type something in and

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Using the move tool

After you finish typing in your text, click on the

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Adding layer effects like drop

shadow and bevel and emboss

Let’s click on the text layer and click the effects button below it 3 Layers “Channels “paths \_ “ứ) Normal Y | Opacity: 100% ? | Lock: L] » + @ Fill: 10035 > | ®

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Pretty cool huh?

You can go back and mess around with the other effects, don't worry I'll wait

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Flattening your image and some background on layers

Now if you go to above menu, press Layer > Flatten image All of your layers become merged No matter how many layers you had, they all become one layer, one image

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whole image moves That's because what was two layers before now became only one You can see that the layers column on the right now has only one layer listed This is what happens when we flatten our image When there is one layer it normally says Background on it with a little lock icon To unlock the layer simply double click on the lock icon

Even after the layer is unlocked the image is still in this flattened state and you can’t edit the text or modify the image

Now let’s undo our flattening so we can edit the text again To do this (Well to Un-Do this — sorry for the pun) we can use a normal Undo or (Control +2

Note: If you wanted to do multiple un-do’s like in Microsoft Word you can’t just keep hitting

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wrong line, type the wrong text just step backwards

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I step Backward Alt+Ctrl+Z

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Resizing your image

Now say you want to resize your image all you have to do is go to Image > Size and change it Let’s take a look at this:

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Resizing the canvas

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Rotating and Free Transform

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Note: This can also be used to straighten scanned photos

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Combining images Put your test image on a real

background

Let’s put our smiley face image and text ona different background Do you have a digital picture on your computer?

Great! Let’s use that

First make sure your image is flattened by going to Image > Flatten image Then we want to select a box around our image and cut it out

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Then go to Edit > Paste (or Control V) and your smiley face image and text is now on top of your digital picture You can move it around,

manipulate it and even give it those same effects we saw before on text You can apply them to any layer

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Save For Web

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open a new document (note: that the size is already perfect for your cropped image) and then Control + V to paste it to the new blank document

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select what’s left of the smiley face and hit delete

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Using the fill tool

And we will use the fill tool to fill it a sinular color for now

In a later guide we will show you how to replicate the background to make a new piece of it But now let’s fill it Click on the eyedropper tool like you see selected below

Using the Eye dropper tool to select an exact color for the fill tool

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color to be that shade of pink À.T ộ C 4 a (Oo)

Now we will select the fill bucket and simply fill in this space like so You can see the fill bucket selected in the tool bar below It looks like a paint bucket being tipped over:

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Now say we wanted to make this same image black and white — do you know how simple that is?

All I do is Control + A to select all, Control + C to

copy my image and Control + N to open a new document that will have the black and white version of the image

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Adding a border

It looks like you are catching on fast! Maybe we can try something a little harder How about adding a border to the image? First we will select our entire image by pressing Control + A then we will hit Select > Modify > Border

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Creating a watermark

Sometimes people want you to know where a specific image came from Maybe because it is someone’s original work or maybe it is

confidential information and you want to label it as such This is a very simple trick and can be done with either an image or text

We will use a text watermark in the bottom right hand corner of our image

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Not to shabby? Impressed by your own work yet?

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Blur tool

As our final lesson we will Blur an image,

Sharpen an image and then smudge an image Let’s look at the Blur tool

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Sharpen Image

Let’s step back to undo our blurring Next by clicking the alt key and hitting the blur tool it will turn into a triangle aka the sharpen tool

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