Photoshop Introduction

Only do this if you have EVERYTHING ELSE POSTED TO YOUR BLOG. That means the following:
Year in Review: 2013
Fixed Portrait Shoot
Single Portrait for Magazine Cover
Magazine Covers Preview

Overview: We will soon begin using Photoshop to color manage and crop your photos for your magazine cover. Before we begin using this software, we need to review some of its basic layout, functions and tools.

Photoshop and InDesign are the primary photo manipulation and layout and design programs we use to create both the newspaper and yearbook. I know some of you have experience with Photoshop, but I bet most of you don't know much about InDesign. I will spend time with the entire class teaching you how to do things in both programs. But, I am not a Photoshop expert, so I want you to learn how to teach yourself how to find tutorials and tips on the internet.

Assignment: Today I want you to get started by watching the video linked below:

What is Photoshop?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsnWY-Wtxeg&edufilter=605GUT66LbdJf6fbZXpM1Q

Answer the following questions:

1. What are the three parts of Adobe Photoshop?

2. What types of professionals use Photoshop?

3. What are the functions of the three different components of Photoshop?

NEXT, go to the following link and answer the following questions:

http://multimedia.journalism.berkeley.edu/tutorials/photoshop/gettingstarted/

Under the heading "Common Tools" describe in your own words, what the function is for the following tools.

4. Crop Tool 

5. Lasso Tool

6. Text Tool

7. What buttons do you push to "Undo" a mistake you made?

8. What can you open to "undo" more than one mistake? How do you open it?

NEXT, Go the following link and answer the following questions:

http://multimedia.journalism.berkeley.edu/tutorials/photoshop/croporient/

9. How do you rotate an image?

10. If you don't like the initial cropping box you drew, how can you change it before you make your crop?

11. Under the heading "Resizing while Cropping" when you enter dimensions as you crop, what are you telling Photoshop to do as you crop your image? HINT: it involves ratios.

NEXT, go to the following Web site and answer the following questions:

http://guides.lib.unc.edu/content.php?pid=122104&sid=1049942

Under the heading "For Printing" find where it talks about resolution or "Pixels Per Inch" (ppi). 

12. What is the correct resolution for newsletters and newspapers?

13. What is the correct resolution for magazines?

Preview for next assignment: 

During our next lesson, together as a class we will open up in Photoshop any THREE IMAGES (besides your PORTRAIT or SELF PORTRAIT that you have taken this year.

IMPORTANT: The next step will be to Save and Rename the file so that you do not lose your original image. If you don't do this you will never be able to recover your original if you make changes to it in Photoshop.

To open Photoshop — look on your dock for the program that is colored blue and has the letters "Ps" in it. Click that and Photoshop will open up.

NOTES:

You will be taking notes while we work on this project today. I expect everyone to open up a new blog post titled "Photoshop Notes" to record specific Photoshop skills we will practice today.

You will be toggling back and forth so be prepared. Some of you may prefer to have them both open next to each other, the screens are certainly big enough to have both open if you want.

Once that is done, just wait for me. Please be aware that we will be working together for most of the period. And then I will ask you to practice what you learned in the time left before class is over.