How to Make Basic Image Adjustments using Photoshop CS2

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oit UMass Offi ce of Information Technologies
OIT Academic Computing
Lederle Graduate Research Center
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Phone: (413) 577-0072
Email: instruct@oit.umass.edu
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July 2007
Getting Around in Photoshop
Color Management 2
Opening & Saving Files 3
Photoshop’s Workspace 4
Tools, Zooming and Panning 5
Basic Photoshop Operations
Crop or Enlarge Page 6
Resizing Images…
For a Web page 7
For PowerPoint 8
For Printing 8
Color Correction 9
Retouching Flaws 9
Layers 10
Painting & Drawing 11
Picking Colors 12
Selections 12
Exercise: Fix-up an Image 13
Appendices
Tips & Troubleshooting 14
Creating Web page Mastheads & Buttons
using Photoshop’s Text Tool 15
Photoshop Resources 17
How to Make Basic Image Adjustments
using Photoshop CS2Photoshop Basics page 2
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Getting Around in Photoshop
Color Management
Color management standards let you move image fi les between
computers and applications, or from camera, to monitor, to printer, with
relative color consistency.
The system works by embedding a “color profi le” into to an image
fi le that specifi es what color space is in use. When the fi le is opened
in Photoshop, if the working space for Photoshop is set for a different
colorspace than specifi ed in a fi le’s color profi le, Photoshop may be set
to give an alert, or to “preserve” the embedded profi le to maintain the
appearance of the colors in the image.
Which color settings should you use?
That depends on how you will publish your images. You may need to
change this setting depending on whether you are working for print
or for the Web.
The fi rst time Photoshop is launched, you are asked to setup
color management; you’ll automatically be taken to the
Color Settings window. In subsequent work sessions you can
access color settings by going to Edit > Color Settings. (…