This week we will begin to explore how to use Photoshop. It is the standard tool for creating works of graphic design using images and text.
Today, we'll look at the workspace and learn how to open a file and how to import a file into the program. We'll also look at a couple of tools from the tools panel.
I. Start by identifying Photoshop on your desktop. It is the blue square icon with the light blue Ps at the bottom of your screen. Go ahead and open the program. You should get a workspace that looks like the image below.
Today, we'll look at the workspace and learn how to open a file and how to import a file into the program. We'll also look at a couple of tools from the tools panel.
I. Start by identifying Photoshop on your desktop. It is the blue square icon with the light blue Ps at the bottom of your screen. Go ahead and open the program. You should get a workspace that looks like the image below.
Note the location of the following items:
1. The menu bar. This is where you find drop-down menus with the larger commands for the program.
2. The options bar. This is where you can adjust the controls of the TOOL you select.
3. The tool bar. This gives you options that let you manipulate the image you are working on in Photoshop.
4. Palettes -- these let you make adjustments to the photographic qualities of your image. The brightness, darkness, contrast, and color controls are here.
Step One
Take the flash drive that is being passed around and load the "Photoshop Lesson One" program onto your desktop.
Step Two
How to start a new program in Photoshop. (Write these steps down in a Word document that you save, so you can refer to them in the future if you forget how to do something.)
-- Go to your menu bar and In find File. Click on it and in the drop down menu, select "Open." Then, look in the Photoshop lesson one file and choose the last photo. Double click it. What happens?
This is one way to get a photo into your program.
Tools
Let's start with the zoom tool. At the bottom of your tool bar, you'll see an icon that looks like a magnifying glass. Click on it. Notice what happens in your option bar. You'll see the zoom icon on the far left side of the options bar, and other ways of working with the zoom took in that bar.
Now, place your cursor over the photo of the touchdown being scored. You see the magnifying glass with a plus sign in it. Now, click once inside the photo. What happens? Click again.
Now, go into the options bar and find the magnifying glass with the negative sign in it. Click to activate that. Now, click in the photo again. What happens?
Option Two
Go back to your option bar and click on the positive magnifying glass. Now, put your cursor in the middle of the image and hold the option key down. What happens to the plus in the middle of the glass?
Option Three
Go back to your option bar and click the "scrubby zoom" box so there is a check mark in it. Now, click inside the photo and while holding the mouse clicker down, slide the mouse to the right. What happens?
Now, hold the control key down to change the magnifying glass to a negative. (Hold the control key down.)
Now, while holding it down, click your mouse inside the photo and while holding the mouse down, slide the mouse to the left.
What happens?
There are three ways to manipulate a tool.
Importing Photos from Google.
This is an important skill, since you will be importing photos from photoshop.
1. Open a browser. I prefer Chrome, but Firefox and Safari also work.
2. Open google.com
3. Click on the images item.
4. Type in "Santa Claus"
5. Move your cursor over the images. Look for the largest sized photo. (Find a photo that is at least
1000 x 1000 pixels.)
6. Click on it to open it in your browser. It will appear in a black box.
7. To the right of it, click the box that says "view image." The image will be displayed at its full size.
8. If your Menu Bar, you should see Chrome. Click "Edit" and select "copy" from your drop-down menu.
9. Go to Photoshop and in your menu bar, click "File" and select "New" from the drop-down menu.
10. You should see a white box appear that is the exact same size as the photo you just copied from google images.
11. Select "Edit" from the Menu Bar and choose "Paste"
What happens?
To finish. Answer these five questions in a Word document
1. In your Word file, you should have instructions for yourself on the two ways to import images into Photoshop. Write out the steps for importing a photo into photoshop from your computer. We did this the other day with the photos on the file folder.
2. Lay out the steps for importing a photo from google images into Photoshop, using your computer's clipboard.
3. Tell me the three ways to make an image bigger or smaller with the zoom tool.
4. How does the zoom tool look?
5. Know the areas of the Photoshop work space. Where is the Menu Bar? Where is the options bar? What does it do? Where is the tool bar?
1. The menu bar. This is where you find drop-down menus with the larger commands for the program.
2. The options bar. This is where you can adjust the controls of the TOOL you select.
3. The tool bar. This gives you options that let you manipulate the image you are working on in Photoshop.
4. Palettes -- these let you make adjustments to the photographic qualities of your image. The brightness, darkness, contrast, and color controls are here.
Step One
Take the flash drive that is being passed around and load the "Photoshop Lesson One" program onto your desktop.
Step Two
How to start a new program in Photoshop. (Write these steps down in a Word document that you save, so you can refer to them in the future if you forget how to do something.)
-- Go to your menu bar and In find File. Click on it and in the drop down menu, select "Open." Then, look in the Photoshop lesson one file and choose the last photo. Double click it. What happens?
This is one way to get a photo into your program.
Tools
Let's start with the zoom tool. At the bottom of your tool bar, you'll see an icon that looks like a magnifying glass. Click on it. Notice what happens in your option bar. You'll see the zoom icon on the far left side of the options bar, and other ways of working with the zoom took in that bar.
Now, place your cursor over the photo of the touchdown being scored. You see the magnifying glass with a plus sign in it. Now, click once inside the photo. What happens? Click again.
Now, go into the options bar and find the magnifying glass with the negative sign in it. Click to activate that. Now, click in the photo again. What happens?
Option Two
Go back to your option bar and click on the positive magnifying glass. Now, put your cursor in the middle of the image and hold the option key down. What happens to the plus in the middle of the glass?
Option Three
Go back to your option bar and click the "scrubby zoom" box so there is a check mark in it. Now, click inside the photo and while holding the mouse clicker down, slide the mouse to the right. What happens?
Now, hold the control key down to change the magnifying glass to a negative. (Hold the control key down.)
Now, while holding it down, click your mouse inside the photo and while holding the mouse down, slide the mouse to the left.
What happens?
There are three ways to manipulate a tool.
Importing Photos from Google.
This is an important skill, since you will be importing photos from photoshop.
1. Open a browser. I prefer Chrome, but Firefox and Safari also work.
2. Open google.com
3. Click on the images item.
4. Type in "Santa Claus"
5. Move your cursor over the images. Look for the largest sized photo. (Find a photo that is at least
1000 x 1000 pixels.)
6. Click on it to open it in your browser. It will appear in a black box.
7. To the right of it, click the box that says "view image." The image will be displayed at its full size.
8. If your Menu Bar, you should see Chrome. Click "Edit" and select "copy" from your drop-down menu.
9. Go to Photoshop and in your menu bar, click "File" and select "New" from the drop-down menu.
10. You should see a white box appear that is the exact same size as the photo you just copied from google images.
11. Select "Edit" from the Menu Bar and choose "Paste"
What happens?
To finish. Answer these five questions in a Word document
1. In your Word file, you should have instructions for yourself on the two ways to import images into Photoshop. Write out the steps for importing a photo into photoshop from your computer. We did this the other day with the photos on the file folder.
2. Lay out the steps for importing a photo from google images into Photoshop, using your computer's clipboard.
3. Tell me the three ways to make an image bigger or smaller with the zoom tool.
4. How does the zoom tool look?
5. Know the areas of the Photoshop work space. Where is the Menu Bar? Where is the options bar? What does it do? Where is the tool bar?