3rd Lesson – Photoshop – Paint Brush

Hello

Let us begin with the third Lesson.

We are going to see the basic painting in Photshop. Just have a feel of painting in photoshop.

1. Open Photoshop.
2. File > New
3. Make sure that RGB mode is selected.
4. Take 5 x 5 inches of width and hight
5. White as background (contents).
6. Press OK.
7. Windows > Swatches if Swatches are not opened.
8. Select any color from the swatches.
9. Go to Tool Box and find out Paint Brush Tool. Keep the cursor on the tool, it will display its information.
10. Start painting with paint brush.
11. Go to Tool Box and find out Air Brush Tool. Keep the cursor on the tool, it will display its information.
12. Start painting with Air brush.
13. Keep on opening new files and close old ones.
14. Get the feel of painting with photoshop tools.
15. Press Alt + Del to fill entire page with the selected color.

With regards
Atul Thakur
Editor
http://www.insidegraphics.com
Simplicity is the shortest distance between two points – Zen

2nd Lesson – Photoshop Desktop – Tools

Dear Members,

Let us begin with the 2nd lesson.

Before going into the deep of any software it is essential to get familiar with the desktop of the software. Photoshop comes up with fairly simple desktop with menus, option bar, toolbox and palettes.
Every thing can be placed and adjusted according to our own convenience and requirement.

When you start with the Photoshop, palettes are situated towards right side by default. From the top you will see, Navigator, Color and Layer palette. There are more within these palettes. These can be removed and brought back again.

Left side is occupied by Toolbox. Top portion is covered with Title bar, Menus and Option bar.

Today in the practical session we are going to play around the desktop of Photoshop and get familiar with Photoshop environment.

Practical:

1. Open Photoshop.
2. Window > Hide Tools (Toolbox disappeared).
3. Window > Show Tools (To get the Toolbox back).
4. Similarly, hide and bring back components on the desktop.
5. Press and drag the top blue bar with mouse and move Toolbox around the desktop.
6. Window > Hide Options (Option Bar disappeared).
7. Window > Show Options (To get the Option Bar back).
8. Go to Layer Palette. Click and drag the History palette. It comes out.
9. Again drag it back to Layer palette. It sticks back like magnetic action.
10. Click on the blue bars of the palettes. Drag and move them around the desktop.

With regards
Atul Thakur
Editor
http://www.insidegraphics.com
Simplicity is the shortest distance between two points – Zen