Crash Course in Adobe Photoshop CS

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Crash Course in Adobe Photoshop CS
Created by Kurt Phillips
Last updated January 20, 2005
. Copyright 2005 Texas A&M University - Visualization Laboratory
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Who is this document for?
This document is intended for Photoshop novices. It serves as a quick guide to the
program’s most useful features, but by no means is a complete manual. See the
Resources section for further documentation.
OUTLINE
What is Photoshop used for?
Working with PSD files
Resolution
The Toolbar
Colors
Filters
Adjustments
Transformations
Layers
Text
ResourcesWhat Is Photoshop Used For?
The primary purpose of Photoshop is to have ultimate control over digital images. This
involves the creation and manipulation of digital images on many levels. It is used in
almost any industry involving images (such as Advertising, Film Making, Web Design,
etc). The possibilities of Photoshop are almost endless and it is the quintessential tool for
anyone interested in digital images.
There are two main uses of Photoshop: content creation and content manipulation.
Content creation is the creation of material from scratch, using Photoshop’s painting tools
to make an image. Content manipulation is the modification of existing material.
Working with PSD files
PSD is the formal extension for Photoshop files. These files can be opened by
Photoshop, as well as many of Adobe’s other applications. If you are using Photoshop as
part of a suite of applications (such as After Effects, Premiere, or Acrobat), you can keep
your files in the native PSD format. If you are going to send Photoshop images to a
printer or post them on the Internet, you need to save them in a different format such as
TIFF (for print and video) or JPEG (for the…