Photoshop Introduction

1. What are the three parts of Adobe Photoshop?

     Editing

     Manipulation

     Create

2. What types of professionals use Photoshop?

     Graphic designers

     Magazine makers

3. What are the functions of the three different components of Photoshop?

     Effects

     Filters

     Layers

NEXT, go to the following link and answer the following questions:

http://multimedia.journalism.berkeley.edu/tutorials/photoshop/gettingstarted/

Under the heading "Common Tools" describe in your own words, what the function is for the following tools.

4. Crop Tool 

    The crop tool is used to cut portion of photos.

5. Lasso Tool

    Lasso tool is used to select a specific Area of a photo.

6. Text Tool

    The text tool will that one is self explanatory it is used to add in the text in photos. with the text tool however, you can also do special effects with it.

7. What buttons do you push to "Undo" a mistake you made?

    To use the Undo option you click "Command and z" to go back 1 step.

8. What can you open to "undo" more than one mistake? How do you open it?

    If you wanna go back more them one step then you use "Command + Control + z"

NEXT, Go the following link and answer the following questions:

http://multimedia.journalism.berkeley.edu/tutorials/photoshop/croporient/

9. How do you rotate an image?

    When you are cropping it gives you the option to Rotate the image before you finalize the selected area. Same thing applies with the text tool.

10. If you don't like the initial cropping box you drew, how can you change it before you make your crop?

     By grabbing the Edge of the cropped area and adjusting it.

11. Under the heading "Resizing while Cropping" when you enter dimensions as you crop, what are you telling Photoshop to do as you crop your image? HINT: it involves ratios.

     You are telling Photoshop which dimensions the image should result in after your crop.

NEXT, go to the following Web site and answer the following questions:

http://guides.lib.unc.edu/content.php?pid=122104&sid=1049942

Under the heading "For Printing" find where it talks about resolution or "Pixels Per Inch" (ppi). 

12. What is the correct resolution for newsletters and newspapers?

      A good resolution for newsletters and newspapers is 150 to 200 ppi.

13. What is the correct resolution for magazines?

      Magazines prefer a high resolution image of 250 ppi or more.