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    An Introduction to

    Photoshop

    By Fred Nick
    What is Photoshop?
     The digital equivalent of a Dark Room.
     Photo editing lab.
     Creative tool chest.
     Translator of formats characteristics.
     A scanning package.
     Everything above and more all in one
    package.
    What Photoshop is not.
     A drawing package.
     A slide organizing package.
     A movie making program.
     An internet tool.
     A web page development tool.
    Major Categories of Photoshop
    Use
     Scanning and then Manipulating.
     Photo Retouching and Alterations.
     Adding Special Effects using Filters
     Preparing Images to be Printed.
    Preparatory Concepts-Color
     RGB (Screen based)
     CMYK (Printing full-color Prints)
     Lab (Cross platform standard)
     Bitmap (Black & White)
     Grayscale (256 Shades of gray)
     Duotone (Two-four color channels – posters)
     Indexed (256 colors in one channel)
     MultiChannel (24 spot channels)
    Preparatory Concepts-
    Terminology
     Layers - Overlays of separate parts of the final
    Images. Like transparencies.
     Channels - Separation of the colors of the final
    images onto distinct sheets.
     Paths - Recorded tracings from the image. Some
    tools will follow the path while performing a
    task. Vectors not part of the image.
     Canvas versus image. Canvas is AREA you can
    work in. Image is presently used area.
     Actions - Recorded series of tasks for repeating
    or automating steps.
    Preparatory Concepts-
    Terminology
     History – Complete list of tasks performed.
    Allows multiple step undoes or the deletion of a
    previous step followed by the remaining steps.
     Gamut – The range of colors that a color system
    can display or print. The Spectrum of colors seen
    by the human eye is wider that the gamut
    available in any color model.
    Preparatory Concepts - Gamut
    Lab

    RGB

    CMYK

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