North Texas PC User’s Group Photoshop SIG Hillary Morgan Ferrer Day 1 - June 16, 2007.

North Texas PC User’s Group

Photoshop SIG

Hillary Morgan Ferrer

Day 1 - June 16, 2007

Who this is for

Those with a full version of Photoshop Those with Photoshop Elements Those who know nothing Those who know a little Some elements for those who know a

lot

What we will cover

The tools of Photoshop and what they do

Basic Workflow Basic Editing Basic Retouching Intermediate/Advanced Retouching Working with Color

What we will cover (cont.)

Digital Asset Management Working with images in bulk Automating tasks Printing Lots more that we can’t anticipate yet!

What we are talking about today

Who I am and why I can talk to you Examples of what you can do in

photoshop Overview of photoshop including:

– Tools– Palettes – Prfinciples of Photoshop

What we are talking about today

File types Overview of basic workflow Basic things to consider before shooting

– Jpg vs RAW (reasons for each)– Color Temperature

Who Am I??!?!

What can you do in Photoshop?

What Photoshop is…

The best way to have control over your images

A way to personalize your images

A way of creating as opposed to just capturing

What Photoshop is not

An all fix it tool A way to turn bad

photography into good photography

A substitue for actually knowing what you are doing

A reason to be lazy

Principles of Photoshop…

LAYERS, LAYERS LAYERS!!!– (Which we will talk about next week)

There is more than one way to skin a cat– There are multiple ways to do almost everything

Photoshop is VERY deep If you don’t got it, you don’t got it

The Tool’s Palette Marquee

– Makes selections– Selects a part of the canvas so that

you can apply changes to just that part

Move Tool– If have separate layers, can place them

where you want them on the canvas

Lasso– Another way of making selections– Regular, polygonal, magnetic

The Tool’s Palette (cont)

Magic wand– A.K.A. “tragic” wand– Make selections via separating out colors– Can choose how specific (wide, narrow

gamma) Crop

– Can specify parameters, dimensions, resolution

Slice– Don’t need to know about this - for

creating web pages

The Tools’s Palette (cont)

Band Aid - Healing tool– Spot healing, healing brush, Patch– Patch is one of your most important

tools for retouching

Brush– Brush, Pencil, Color Replacement

Stamp/Clone– Clone stamp, pattern stamp

The Tool’s Palette (cont)

History/Art History Brush Eraser

– NEVER USE!! Always use layer masks

Paint Bucket/Gradiant– Fills in space with either a solid color, or a

gradiant (gradual gradation from one color to the next)

Blur– Don’t really use much*– (blur, sharpen, smudge)

The Tool’s Palette (cont)

Dodge/Burn Path selection tool (don’t need to

know) Text (horizontal or vertical) Pen

– Very very specific selections (probably won’t use)

Shape – Most useful is the “custom shape”

function

The Tool’s Palette (cont)

Note pad– Only need if someone else will be

working with the file

Eye dropper– Figure out a specific color (color

sampler)– MEASURING TOOL!! Your friend!

• Allows you to level your photo

Hand Magnifying lens

File Types RAW

– Only available in some cameras– Not a way that a file can be saved

JPG– Algorithm to condense information

TIFF– Best way to save layered files

PSD– Not real practical considering dif. versions

DNG – MUST save one copy as - for future

The RAW vs. JPG debate

Why use RAW

Wide range of exposure

Want to batch process/bulk

Changing exposures Want to play with

color Saving multiple

versions

When to use RAW

Have unlimited storage

Need to work quickly with a large number of images

You actually understand the RAW dialogue box

V.I.S. Very Important Shot

Why/when to use JPG

Shooting snapshots Have limited storage Exposure is DEAD

on accurate That’s all your

camera will shoot!

Summary of Differences

RAW– Need to process

large groups of pictures

– Have unlimited storage

– Need latitude of exposure

JPG– Have limited storage– Just shooting

snapshots– Exposure is dead on

Basic Workflow

Save/burn one set of the original files Edit shoot into what you want and what

you don’t Choose the picture(s) you want to work

on Open (duh) Crop (depending on your treatment)

Basic Workflow (cont)

Create new layer Dust and scratches Basic retouching

– Blemishes, wrinkles, distracting objects Basic Color Specialty Color Save as Tiff Save as jpg