Adobe Photo Shop tutorial
Getting to Know the Work Area
The first lesson
presents an introduction to the Adobe Photoshop application. Using the basic
commands, tools, and palettes, your students will learn general techniques for
understanding where they are, how to get information about the image in front
of them, and how to select the tools or enter the values needed to change the
image.
Goals for this lesson How much time you should schedule for this lesson
depends on whether or not all your students already have any knowledge of
Photoshop and on their computer skills in general
The overall objective for
Lesson 1 is to make them sufficiently familiar with the user interface that
they can locate the controls they need to do the procedures in the rest of the
lessons. In general, there are two generic types of elements they should be
able to identify.
- They should be able
to find and name the key areas of the interface, including the toolbar,
palettes (in general), image windows, and the tool options bar.
- They should also be able to open not only the main menus
and submenus across the top of the work area (File, Edit, and so forth) but
also context menus and palette menus. Subordinate to this goal is gaining a
familiarity with the different means of getting information about Photoshop. By
learning how to help themselves, they gain confidence and independence.
The lesson describes three ways to do this:
- A second method is
to take advantage of the tooltips to identify tools, buttons, and other
controls.
- A third method is to
use Photoshop CS2 Help. It is important to emphasize that Help not only
contains all the information in the printed User Guide, but it also includes
many other topics that are useful even to novice users.
Lesson: 1
Finding tools in the work area
You may want to introduce students to the Photoshop
environment by providing a general tour of the screen. This helps orient the
students and provides a review of the names of the elements on the screen. For
example, you may point out the title bar and remind the students that it
indicates which publication is currently active. Then point out the menu bar,
the rulers, the page icons, the palettes, and the toolbox.
Students may already
be used to keyboard shortcuts as a simple alternative to using the mouse.
Photoshop and other Adobe products are designed to allow keys to be used
simultaneously with the mouse. A common working technique used by many
Photoshop professionals is to keep one hand on the mouse, and the other hand
over the keyboard to switch tools and modes.
You may want to demonstrate how this method allows the mouse
pointer to remain directly over the part of the image that’s being edited,
since you’re not always having to move the pointer back and forth between the
image and the toolbox or menus.
You don’t have to
encourage students to work this way in the beginning. They probably won’t be
ready to use the shortcuts until they have a good understanding of when they’ll
want to use each tool.
Lesson:2
In coming video all working is Photo tools for Drawing shapes
Lesson 3
