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Welcome to Photoshop!
Welcome to Photoshop!
In this unit, we’ll talk about the basics of digital imagery and cover some background concepts that will help you to be successful in this unit. We’ll then dive into Photoshop, and begin our creative journey.
What is a Digital Image?
What is a Digital Image?
A digital image is an electronic snapshot of a document, photograph, painting, or any other piece of visual media.
Computers can only understand numbers, so they store digital images as a grid of illuminated points, known as pixels. Each pixel is assigned a numerical value by your computer, which then corresponds to a color.
So when you see a picture on your screen, your computer is actually displaying a huge grid of numbers which it has translated into colors. These colors then come together to make the image that you see.
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Photoshop
Photoshop was developed in 1987 by the American brothers Thomas and John Knoll, who sold the distribution license to Adobe Systems Incorporated in 1988.
Photoshop was originally conceived as a subset of the popular design software Adobe Illustrator, and Adobe expected to sell a modest several hundred copies per month.
Never opened Photoshop before?
Never opened Photoshop before?
Follow this simple tutorial to help you get started navigating the Photoshop workspace.
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