Photoshop
Photoshop is a very powerful software that allows us to manipulate photos. We will use this software some time during the semester. Several other software are now available, some even free but Photoshop remains the most popular and the one to which all others this measure. If you learn how to use Photoshop, you also learn to use 99% of photo software.
Photoshop is a professional IMAGE HANDLING software. It is based on the manipulation of PIXELS like MS Paint but also has vector graphic capability.
FREE alternative programs are also available such as GIMP.
Start by finding PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS
Search for PHOTOSHOP in your program list. It should be there, at the top of your list.
If asked, SKIP the registration
Choose EDIT to begin working
CONFIGURE the PREFERENCES
"EDIT | PREFERENCES | UNITS and RULERS" - and under RULERS choose PIXELS instead of inches
"EDIT | PREFERENCES | PERFORMANCE" - and activate the drive with the most free space
Don't mess around with any other settings - they are optimized for use in our classroom
Photoshop Elements Screen Layout
Workspace
Canvas
Main Menu
Tools
Tool Options
Panels (Palettes)
Brushes
Layers
Photoshop Vocabulary
Listen carefully in class - towards the end of the first week, you should know the definitions of the following terms:
Parts of the screen
Canvas
"Toolbar" toolbar
"Dropdown Menu" drop-down menu
Pallets "Pallets"
Characteristics of the image
Pixels "Pixels"
Anti aliasing "AntiAliasing"
Layers
"Text Layers" text layers
Opacity "Opacity"
Tools
Foreground Color "Forground Colors"
The background color "Background Colors"
"Selections" selections
Gradients "Gradients"