PhotoshopComputer Information Technology
Section 7-1
Objectives
• The student will1. Understand the tools panel
2. Know the tools available in the panel
3. Know how to uncover hidden tools
4. Know how to zoom in and out and move the screen around
Photoshop• We will be
learning Photoshop CS4
• My goal is to cover enough where you can make a composition.
The Tools Panel• Video…• The tools panel is on the left hand side
and has 4 sections:
Select, Crop and Measure
Retouch and Painting
Drawing and Type
3D and Navigation
The Tools Panel
• Once a tool is selected the menu across the top of the screen changes to show options for that tool:
Select Crop and Measure ToolsICON TOOL NAME USE
Move Move Selections or Layers
Marquee Makes rectangular, elliptical, single row and single column selections
Lasso Makes freehand, polygonal (straight edged) and magnetic selections
Quick Selection Paints selections
Crop Crops an image
Eyedropper Samples pixels
Retouch and Paint Tools
ICON TOOL NAME USE
Spot Healing Removes Imperfections
Brush Paints the foreground color
Clone Stamp Paints with a sample of the image
History Brush Paints with a duplicate of the selected state or snapshot
Retouch and Paint Tools
ICON TOOL NAME USE
Eraser Erases pixels or reverts to a saved history state
Gradient Creates a gradient
Blur Blurs pixels
Dodge Lightens pixels in an image
Drawing and Type Tools
ICON TOOL NAME USE
Pen Draws a vector path
Horizontal Type Creates a type layer
Path Selection Allows you to manipulate a path
Rectangle Draws vector shapes
3 and Navigation Tools
ICON TOOL NAME USE
3D Rotate Rotates 3D objects
3D Orbit Changes the view of 3D objects
Hand Navigates the page
Zoom Increases and decreases the relative size of the view
Hidden Tools• A small triangle at the bottom right
corner of a tool button means that are additional tools hidden under the tool button.
• Click and Hold on the tool to access the other tools:
Moving around the screen
• Zoom– There are multiple ways to zoom in and out
on a picture:1. Use zoom on the View menu
2. Use the zoom tool button (Can sweep an area to zoom in on)
3. Hit CNTL+/CNTL-/CNTL0
Moving Around the Screen
• Hand tool– Use the hand tool to grab and drag the
screen around
Summary
• Photoshop calls parts of the screen “panels” not tool bars, etc.
• Toolbar has hidden tools which maybe selected by clicking and holding a tool button.
• Use zoom and the hand tool to navigate to the part of the image you wish to work with
Rest of Today1. Get the image ps0201.zip from the home
work section of the Hancock website. Extract it to your “My Documents” folder.
2. Change the “blur” tool to the smudge tool.
3. Set the “Brush:” to
4. Use this brush to smudge the dandelion seeds in the wind.
5. Show me the results to get credit. Do not print.
Rest of Today
• The original picture looks like this:
Rest of Today
• The final picture should look something like this: