photoshop skills
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BASIC PHOTOSHOP
SKILLSRebecca Phillips
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GETTING STARTED To add a new
document on Photoshop, you must go to File, then New. You then select International Paper and A4.
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To add an image on your document, select File and then Place. Select your image from the file and press ok.
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PHOTOSHOP TOOLS Move Tool – click on the tool and then then
layer you wish to move to reposition a layer.
Lasso Tool – Used to select areas freehand or using the magnetic tool that selects around a colour, making the lines neater.
Quick Selection tool - Selects areas so you can add colour quickly. Magic Wand Tool – selects all of the same colour in the surrounding area. Crop Tool – used to remove unwanted
items on the layer Eye dropper tool – takes samples of colours
Healing tools – remove blemishes and red eyeBrush/pencil tool – adds colour or shading to an
image Clone Stamp Tool – duplicates an section of the image to cover up or hide. History Brush Tool – replicates old tools
used. Eraser tool – removes mistakes caused by the brush/text/fill tool.Paint bucket/gradient tool – fills in large
selected spaces with colour/ creates a gradients. Blur/Sharpen/Smudge tool – softens hard
lines/ clears lines upDodge/Burn/Smudge tool – removes colour/darkens colour/fades colour
Pen tools – adds lines or free, fine linesType tools- adds a text layer.
Marquee tool – used to select different shapes and areas.
Selection tool – used to select other iconsShape tools – creates different sized shape to add to layers
Hand tool – used to move around the image quicklyZoom tool – zooms in and out on the image.
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CLONE STAMP TOOL
Here I have a placed my image of a woman. I want to remove her earrings. I clicked on Clone Stamp Tool, pressed Alt to select the part I would like to copy and coloured over the earrings.
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SMUDGE TOOL
You can see a line where I have used the Clone Stamp tool so I will use the Smudge Tool to blend the skin tones and shading.
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MAGNET LASSO TOOL
I want to change the background of my image but first I need to select around the woman to put her in the foreground. So I select the Magnet Lasso Tool traced all around the woman.
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FILL TOOL
Now I have selected all of my background, I can now use the Fill Tool and Colour Selector to pick the colour blue and fill the background.
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BLUR TOOLI can see a faint line around the woman so I have used the Blur Tool to make the line not so harsh.
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CONTRAST AND BRIGHTNESS
I have now altered the contrast and brightness of the image to make the model fit better to the background and to make her stand out.