Handouts for Photoshop

at the bottom of the page are the links for the PDF course outline:

• • Complete Photoshop Course Outline

  • Desktop Publishing using Photoshop Course Outline

What is Photoshop?

Adobe Photoshop is the indusrtry standard for image enhancement and/or manipulation and compositing for print, multimedia and the Web. It's the best out there, bar none.

Official website: http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/

Setting up Photoshop

Setting up Preferences

General

• 1. Set history to 99

  2. Uncheck - export clipboard to history

  3. Check – Zoom resizes windows

File Handling:

• 1. Maximize PSD compatibility – Never if you are not using lower versions of Photoshop.

Plug-in & Scratch Disk

• 1. First – Start-up

  2. Second C: or other hard drives

Memory

• 1. Increase when using Photoshop Alone

  2. Decrease when using with other applications simultaneously

  3. Windows has dynamic memory allocation capability.

Re-start Photoshop for settings to take effect.

Color Settings

Working Spaces

• 1. Set to Adobe RGB 1998

Color Management

• 1. RGB - Convert to working RGB

  2. CMY – off

  3. Profile mismatches – uncheck

Name your settings to personalize it