Lesson 2
The Photo Shop
What is Photoshop?
an image manipulation tool
What do you mean,
Manipulate?
C.R.U.D.
C.R.U.D.
Create
- Make from nothing
- Add
- Paint over, in place of
C.R.U.D.
Read
- Judge an image
- Art direction
- Creativity
- Pull out the best parts
C.R.U.D.
Update
- Change
- Edit
- Add or subtract
- Modify
C.R.U.D.
Delete
- Erase
- Crop
- Mask
- Transparency
- Opacity
The in's & out's
Getting files into and out of Photoshop
importing
& exporting
Put good in, get good out
Supported file types
The main ones
- PSD - Photoshop
- RAW - Camera Raw
- EPS - Encapsulated PostScript
-
JPEG - Joint Photographic Experts Group
- GIF - Generated Image Format
- PDF - Portable Document Format
- PNG - Portable Network Graphics
- BMP - Bitmap
- TIFF - Tagged Image File Format
.jpg
- Lossy Image format
- Compresses image
- Smallest file size
- Flat image
- Image artifacts possible
- No going back
.GIF
-
Allows for animation via frames
- Supports up to 255 colors
- Great for images with large
fields of flat colors - Flat image, may contain transparency
- No going back
.png
- The best of both JPG and GIF
- Smaller file sizes with no loss in quality
- Flat image, may contain transparency
- Meant to replace GIFs
.tiff
- No loss in image quality
- Typically creates larger files
- Preserves certain native attributes,
like layers, transparency - Used mostly in print, never web
.PSD
- Native Photoshop file
- Preserves every special attribute
- Openly opens in Photoshop
- Extremely large file sizes,
since all layers, channels, effects,
etc. are preserved
- Best for sending proofs
- Ability to determine how
image is compressed, if at all
- Most portable file: opens on
nearly all operating systems - Mostly used in print
.raw & .dng
- Most raw version of an image
- Straight from the hi-def camera
- Allows more precise editing
before even being opened
in Photoshop - These are the holy grail of images
- Nothing compressed about 'em
now what?
Teach me how to edit this stuff already!
select and do
select
and do
