Photoshop VIII

PHOTOSHOP
Class Interaction Session

Objective of Concept :
•Basic editing: Improve photo quality by adjusting brightness, contrast, color balance, and
removing unwanted blemishes.
•Creative edits: Apply artistic effects, filters, and textures to create unique and visually
appealing images.
•Compositing: Combine multiple images to create surreal or photorealistic scenes.
Graphic Design:
•Creating visuals: Design logos, social media graphics, posters, flyers, and other marketing
materials.
•Web design: Develop website mockups, user interfaces, and web banners.
Learning outcome
•Navigate the Photoshop interface: Understand the workspace layout with tools panels, layers
panel, and image window.
•Perform basic photo editing tasks: Improve photo quality by adjusting brightness, contrast, color
balance, and cropping unwanted areas.
•Work with selections: Use tools like the Marquee tool and Lasso tool to isolate specific areas of
your image for targeted editing.
Welcome to the Wonderful World of Photoshop!
Photoshop is a powerful image editing software used by professionals and

Students alike. It allows you to create, edit, and manipulate images in
countless ways. Whether you're a photographer looking to enhance your
photos, a graphic designer creating stunning visuals, or simply someone
who wants to have fun with pictures, Photoshop has something to offer
everyone.
Exploring the Photoshop Workspace
The Photoshop workspace consists of several key areas:

• Menu bar: Provides access to various program functions (File, Edit, Image,
etc.)
• Tools panel: Houses a collection of tools for editing and manipulating images
(Selection tools, Brush tool, Text tool, etc.)
• Layers panel: Organizes different image elements on separate layers, allowing
for non-destructive editing
• Image window: Displays the image you're currently working on
Getting to Know Your Editing Tools
•Selection tools: Define specific areas of your
image for editing (Marquee tool for rectangles,
Elliptical Marquee tool for ovals, Lasso tool for
freehand selections)
•Crop tool: Adjusts the image composition and
removes unwanted areas
•Clone stamp tool: Copies pixels from one part
of the image to another, useful for covering up
blemishes or unwanted objects
•Healing brush tool: Seamlessly removes small
imperfections by sampling textures from
surrounding areas
•Eraser tool: Deletes unwanted pixels with
precision, allowing you to refine your edits
JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group):
•Pros: Widely supported, good compression for photos resulting in smaller file sizes, ideal for
web images and sharing.
•Cons: Uses lossy compression, meaning some image quality is sacrificed for smaller file
size. Not ideal for images with sharp lines, text, or graphics that require high fidelity.
•Use for: Photographs, web graphics, social media images.
GIF (Graphics Interchange Format):

•Pros: Supports animation (multiple images displayed in sequence), allows for a limited color
palette (256 colors max), good for simple graphics and logos with flat colors.
•Cons: Large file size compared to PNG for still images, limited color range.
•Use for: Simple animations, logos with flat colors, web graphics with limited color palettes.
PNG (Portable Network Graphics):

•Pros: Supports lossless compression, meaning no quality is lost, allows for transparency (perfect
for logos with clear backgrounds), wider color range than GIF.
•Cons: Larger file size than JPEG for photos, not ideal for complex animations.
•Use for: Images with text, logos with transparency, screenshots, graphics where maintaining
TIFF (Tagged Image File Format):
•Pros: Lossless compression or uncompressed options for maximum quality, widely supported
by professional
design software, good for high-resolution images like scans or photographs for printing.
•Cons: Large file size, not optimized for web use.
•Use for: Professional printing, high-resolution image storage, archiving original images with
maximum quality.
BMP (Bitmap):
•Pros: Simple format, lossless compression, widely supported by older programs.
•Cons: Very large file size, not suitable for web use or storage efficiency.
•Use for: Basic image editing, compatibility with older software (rare use case nowadays).
PDF (Portable Document Format):

•Pros: Not strictly an image format, but can contain images along with text and formatting,
universal support for viewing and printing.
•Cons: Not intended for editing individual images within the document.
•Use for: Documents with both text and images (e.g., brochures, presentations), final document
Color Modes:
•RGB (Red, Green, Blue): This is an additive color mode. It's the most common
for displaying images on screens. Imagine shining red, green, and blue lights
together to create various colors. Black is the absence of all three lights, and white
is all three lights combined at full intensity. Used in: monitors, TVs, web
graphics, digital cameras.
•CMYK (Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Key (Black)): This is a subtractive color

mode. It's primarily used for printing. Imagine overlapping inks of cyan, magenta,
and yellow on white paper. The inks subtract light reflected from the paper,
creating colors. Black ink (Key) is often added for richer blacks and better ink
density in printing. Used in: print media (magazines, brochures, flyers).
Bitmode (sometimes called Color Depth):
•This refers to the amount of information stored for each pixel's color in an
image. It's typically measured in bits per pixel (bpp). Higher bit depth
means more colors can be represented, resulting in smoother color
gradients and less banding (visible color steps). Common bitmodes include:
• 8-bit (256 colors): Often used for web graphics or simple images due
to smaller file size.
• 16-bit (65536 colors): Offers more color depth than 8-bit, used in
some image editing applications.
• 24-bit (16.7 millions of colors): Also known as Truecolor, this is the
standard for most digital photos and offers a wide range of colors for
realistic images.
• 32-bit (24+8 alpha channel for transparency): Often used for graphic
design elements that require transparency.
HSB (Hue, Saturation, Brightness):
•This is a color model used for selecting and manipulating colors based on human perception.
• Hue: Represents the actual color itself (red, green, blue, etc.).
• Saturation: Controls the intensity or purity of the color (0% is gray, 100% is full color).
• Brightness: Adjusts the overall lightness or darkness of the color. HSBis useful for tasks
like adjusting the overall color balance of an image or selecting specific color ranges for
editing.

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PHOTOSHOP

Class Interaction Session

Photoshop is a powerful image editing software used by professionals and

The Photoshop workspace consists of several key areas:

GIF (Graphics Interchange Format):

PNG (Portable Network Graphics):

PDF (Portable Document Format):

•CMYK (Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Key (Black)): This is a subtractive color

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