Inside Photoshop

6th Lesson – Undo

Atul Thakur — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 05:21:39 +0000

Hello,

Let us begin with the 6th lesson.

Undo is a universal command found in almost all the softwares. It is a facility to go back to your previous work if you made some mistake or you need to go back to previous step. There are packages like Corel DRAW comes up with several steps of Undo. Photoshop provides only one step undo if you work with keyboard. Press Ctrl + Z for Undo, you will go back one step.

Open Photoshop.
File > New
5 x 5 inches, RGB mode, white background
Choose any painting tool from toolbox. Choose the color from swatches.
Start Painting.
Press Ctrl + Z for Undo.
You will notice that the last stroke is vanished as you press Ctrl + Z.

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

5th Lesson – Photoshop – More Painting & Drawing

Atul Thakur — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 04:42:13 +0000

Hello,

Let us begin with the 5th lesson. We will see drawing and painting in more depth today.

Open Photoshop.
File > New
5 x 5 inches, RGB mode, white background
Choose Air Brush Tool from toolbox. Choose the color from swatches.
Start Painting.
Check out the option bar. Its gives options regarding Air Brush Tool.
Change the pressure and paint. See the difference.
Try different brush sizes.
Please DO NOT change the modes.
There is a Pencil Tool within Paint Brush Tool. Select it.
If you don’t get it, just keep the Paint Brush Tool pressed with mouse. Fly out menu will come out showing the tools within.
Start drawing with Pencil Tool.
Change the Opacity.
Do not change the Modes.
Try different types of Brushes.
Feel the difference between Paint Brush, Air Brush and Pencil Tool.

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

4th Lesson – Photoshop – Painting & Drawing

Atul Thakur — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 07:00:00 +0000

Hello

Let us begin with the forth lesson.

We will see more options about painting and drawing in Photoshop.

Open Photoshop.
File > New 5 x 5 inches RGB mode and white background
Choose Paint Brush from the Tool box. Open Swatches from Windows.
Choose any color from the swatches.
Start painting
You will observe that as you select paint brush the option bar (below Menu bar) displays the option regarding paint brush.
If option bar is not On, go to Windows > Show Options
Choose different brush sizes from the brush fly out and start painting.
Change the opacity. Chech out the difference.
Check the Wet Edges on. See the differences.
Try different brush sizes, Opacity and paint.

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

3rd Lesson – Photoshop – Paint Brush

Atul Thakur — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 05:51:49 +0000

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.

Open Photoshop.
File > New
Make sure that RGB mode is selected.
Take 5 x 5 inches of width and hight
White as background (contents).
Press OK.
Windows > Swatches if Swatches are not opened.
Select any color from the swatches.
Go to Tool Box and find out Paint Brush Tool. Keep the cursor on the tool, it will display its information.
Start painting with paint brush.
Go to Tool Box and find out Air Brush Tool. Keep the cursor on the tool, it will display its information.
Start painting with Air brush.
Keep on opening new files and close old ones.
Get the feel of painting with photoshop tools.
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

Atul Thakur — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 05:09:38 +0000

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:

Open Photoshop.
Window > Hide Tools (Toolbox disappeared).
Window > Show Tools (To get the Toolbox back).
Similarly, hide and bring back components on the desktop.
Press and drag the top blue bar with mouse and move Toolbox around the desktop.
Window > Hide Options (Option Bar disappeared).
Window > Show Options (To get the Option Bar back).
Go to Layer Palette. Click and drag the History palette. It comes out.
Again drag it back to Layer palette. It sticks back like magnetic action.
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

1st Lesson – Photoshop Desktop

Atul Thakur — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 08:06:10 +0000

Hello,

Let us begin with the 1st 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.

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.

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.

We are going to start with the Photoshop Painting & Drawing in the next lesson.

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

Welcome to Photoshop

Atul Thakur — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 06:46:54 +0000

Photoshop is mainly used for image processing that includes photo retouching, editing, applying special effects etc. Digital image is made up of pixels and these pixels can be selected, colored and edited separately in Photoshop. Photoshop is a raster program where all the operations are based on the pixels hence it is the most suitable program for image processing. You do not really require artistic background to learn Photoshop. It comes up with its own tools and commands making it easy to draw, edit and retouch the images. If you have artistic background it will be definitely useful but it’s not at all essential. Photoshop can be used for photo retouching as well as creating the artwork from the scratch. It is also used as a useful tool for making backgrounds and materials for animation softwares. Web graphics is another wide area where it is exclusively used.

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