UNIT 9 PHOTOSHOP

Adobe Photoshop is a software used to edit photographs, compose digital art, animate, and design.
graphics. In fact, one of the main advantages of using this program is the ability to create multiple layers.
that can be modified independently of each other. Also, new ones are always added.
tools and functions.

Adobe Photoshop Menu Bar

The menu bar is used to open and save files, adjust the canvas size. Also, access to
some of the editing tools, opening and closing several windows, among others. In that sense, the bar
The menu consists of 11 items: File, Edit, Image, Layer, Text, Select, Filter, Analysis,
3D, View, Window and Help.
File: First menu option
The File menu in Photoshop is the main method for creating new files, opening existing ones,
save files and print. For example, you can use this to import a file. You just need to
Select Open to search for the image you want to use. Advanced operations are also supported.
How to search in Adobe Stock, open smart objects, save photos for web use, and export to a format
of the video.

The Open Recent option in the File menu contains a list of the last 10 opened files.
If you haven't moved the original file elsewhere, you can use that option to quickly open a file.
Without having to go through the normal procedure of opening, selecting, and then navigating.
Editing: Fundamental option of the Adobe Photoshop Menu Bar
With the Edit menu, you can modify objects on the canvas, menu items, shortcuts, and more.
You also have the option to undo or redo a recent action. Just like cut, copy and
attach. In addition, you will find options to fill selections or add a stroke along a path
selected.
If you have an image that you want to warp, rotate, scale, distort, or flip, use the submenu Edit >
Transform to find those options. Likewise, the Free Transformation tool also
find here what allows you to adjust the height, width, and orientation of an element in the program.

The Edit menu in Adobe Photoshop is the way to open the Preset Manager to view
brushes, gradients, samples, custom shapes and load your own brushes. Likewise, you can open
the color settings to adjust RGB, CMYK, and other color profiles. This menu is used to locate
the existing keyboard shortcuts and define new ones. And to change the preferences
General information about how Photoshop works.
Image: Extremely important option of the program
The first submenu allows you to change the mode of the entire canvas, such as RGB color, grayscale, color.
CMYK, multichannel, duotone and more. Settings allow access to various tools to change the brightness, the
contrast, levels, exposure, vibrance, tone / saturation and color balance of an image.
In addition, here are the Photo Filter, Channel Mixer, and Color Search tools, among others.

Automatic tone, automatic contrast, and automatic color are options that will make changes to the
appearance of an image without menus or sliders. Important tools such as Size of
Image and Canvas Size used to change the width and height of the entire workspace.
Crop and cut are two other notable tools in this menu. The former changes the size of the
canvas manually selecting which areas should be removed. The second is to automate the change
of size removing transparent pixels or pixels of a specific color from any edge of the canvas.
Cover: Adobe Photoshop menu option
The Layer menu is where you can create new layers, duplicate existing ones, delete, and rename them.
the layers, and much more. Since, in this menu there are options to create layer masks, adjustment layers
and fill layers. For example, a fill layer is a new layer filled previously with a
color, pattern or specific gradient, that can be chosen by clicking on it.
In addition, you can use the Layer menu to create and edit smart objects. As well as to export your
content to a file or replace its content with that of another smart object. Other options in the
the menu allows you to group and hide layers, lock layers, organize layers behind or in front of others.
link and combine layers, and flatten the image to automatically merge all layers.

Essential option
This Adobe Photoshop menu provides all the text configuration options of the program.
Here, you will find tools to modify the text. Therefore, you can find and replace words.
and sentences throughout an entire document. In fact, the text tool is quite intuitive. Since it is enough to
select it to add text.
Selection: Option of Adobe Photoshop with great importance
With this menu option, you can select everything on the canvas, select all layers, and deselect.
selection. For example, the refine edge tool is found in the Selection menu. And it is used
to change the border of a selection. You can adjust the smoothing, feathering, contrast, and
edge displacement to define specific selection details.
Extender automatically enlarges a selection to nearby pixels to effectively increase the area.
for general selection. To do this, you must click on it for a broader selection. And save
select and load selection to re-select something later. You can save a new one.
selection and then load it when I need to reapply it.

Filter: Creative option of the program

This is where you can open the Filter Gallery to get a preview of the artistic filters,
brushstroke. Also, distort, sketch, texture, and other built-in filters. This menu contains filters for
blur, make noise, pixelate, render and focus. To save or load a custom filter of
Photoshop, go to Filter > Other > Custom and use the Load button to locate the file or the button
Save to create a new file. The Filter menu is also how pixels are diverted.
horizontal and vertical, like creating the effect of an image folded over itself.
3D: Excellent menu option of Adobe Photoshop
Photoshop allows you to create and edit 3D objects for both modeling and printing purposes. This is why it
reason, that the 3D menu houses the tools you need to modify 3D files and make it
See as best as possible. If you don't have one to start with, you can create 3D objects from layers you already have.
created.

View: Good element of Adobe Photoshop

The View menu in Adobe Photoshop includes tools related to how you view things in
Photoshop. You can enable a ruler, create guides that you can follow for precise positioning and
switch to full screen mode. You can zoom in and out with Increase and Decrease.
These adjustments include zooming in and out, automatically resizing the canvas to match the screen size,
show the actual pixel size and show the print size. Other things you can show or hide
from the View menu includes selection borders, destination paths, notes, layer borders, editing pins,
guides, sectors, mesh, pixel grid, and brush preview.
Window: Essential option of the Adobe Photoshop menu
Purposes: to hide and show windows and organize the workspace as desired.
I need. Use the Window menu to toggle all types of windows as visible or hidden.
Actions, adjustments, brush, channels, color, history, layers, notes, paths, timeline, and tools
here are some examples. You may not always need them during your projects. So, it's a good idea
hide them to prevent your view from becoming cluttered. Use the submenus Organize and Workspace to
adjust the position of the windows.

Help: To understand the program

The Help menu marks the end of the Photoshop menu bar. You can see the version of Photoshop that
is running. Also, get online help, access the Photoshop Support Center, get more
information about installed plugins, register Photoshop with Adobe and much more.
How to hide menu elements in Adobe Photoshop
You can hide any option in the Photoshop menus, which means you can even remove
some frequently used options like New and Open.
First, you need to open Adobe Photoshop on your computer.
2. Then, click on the Edit menu at the top and select 'Menus'. Subsequently, the menu
it will expand so you can now see all your options.

3. To hide an option, click on the eye icon next to the option name. This removes the
eye icon of the white box, which means that the element is now hidden.
4. Finally, select "OK" in the top right corner to save the changes. The menu option
now it will be hidden.
How to display a menu item in Adobe Photoshop
If you need a menu option again, you can restore it and it will reappear in your menus as if
he/she would have never left.

The first step is to open Photoshop and click on Edit > Menus, just as you did when hiding the element.
of menu.

2. By doing so, you will see a list of menus: select the menu for which you want to display an option.
3. Click on the white box next to the option you want to display. This will add an eye icon.
to the box.
4. Then click on 'OK' and you will be able to view the menu.
 Toolbar

The elongated panel is the Tools Panel, there you can see all the icons.
available tools in Photoshop.
This panel has two different ways of presenting itself, one is the one you can see on your right.
The other one (predefined by Photoshop CS3) is exactly the same but with all the tools.
arranged vertically. To change the view, you only have to click the button
what appears in the upper left corner .
Observe carefully that some of them have a small triangle in their lower corner.
right. This is the tool group indicator. If you position the cursor over
Any of these icons and if you right-click, the list will be displayed
tools belonging to the group.
If we expand the brush icon menu, the list of drawing tools will be displayed.

As you can see, within the drawing tools group we can find the Brush, the Pencil, and
the Color Replacement Tool. The letter that appears to the right of the name of the
the tool informs us of the keyboard shortcut to access the active tool
In this group, the active tool is always marked by a black square.
 In the tool panel, we can also find the color selectors.
In Photoshop, we will always work with two active colors, which can be completely
configured by the user. The color situated at the front will be the Front color, the majority of the
tools will take it as a working color.
The one behind is the background color, we can set this color as the color
from the background of the document, this way we can use tools that paint with the color
in the background and thus mimic in some way the erasure of pixels.

The box at the front shows the color we are using, in any

right now we can click on the double arrow icon and we will exchange the
colors of the boxes with each other, making the color that was in the box of the
background moved to the front and therefore, our tools will use that color as
default.

Note that at any time you can click on the icon for
reset the active colors to black and white (the defaults of Photoshop).

To select a color, click on one of the boxes and the Color Picker dialog will open.
color. Once here, you will be able to choose a color from the entire palette that Photoshop offers you.

Once the color is selected, you may see icons like these:

The icon it warns the user that the selected color is outside the palette
of printing, and it is possible that when you want to print the image, this color does not
correspond exactly with the one you chose and be shown in a different tone.

The same happens with the web incompatibility icon. , if you create an image that
contains a color that is not compatible with web standards, it is very likely that it
show different forms according to the browser and operating system used.
 This toolkit is used for
create sectors.
Sectors are used to divide an image into
functional areas (sectors) that can have
different properties. These images will go
intended for web publication.

This group of tools is used for

create plots.
The outlines are used to create shapes
vectorial (lines and curves defined
mathematically). These forms are
independent of the resolution and can
resize without problems.

The first option, the Eyedropper tool,

take color samples from anywhere on the canvas
and makes it active in the color selectors.
The Color Sample tool takes up to as
maximum 4 canvas color samples to show
its properties in the Information palette (next to
to the browser).
The Ruler tool measures the distance between two
points given showing the result, also, in
the palette Information.
Finally, the Counting tool allows
place marks on the canvas that will help you to
count elements in the workspace. This
tool will add literals with a number that is
will be increasing automatically.

The icon at the bottom of the panel allows us to switch between

different views of the workspace, some more
clearer than others.

The Tools Options Bar

At the top of the window and under the menu bar, we find the Options bar
Tools, the content of this bar will change depending on the tool we have selected. A
As we progress and learn new tools, we will see how to use this bar and its
options.

For now, we will say that from here we can change aspects of the tool such as its size, its
opacity, etc. Every time you make a change in the tool, it will be saved so that when
you select it again, its state will be the same as it was when you last used it. If at any
moment you want to restore the tool to its original state, you must right-click on
mouse over the tool icon in the toolbar and select Restore
Tool.
 The Restore All option would return all tools to their original state.
Status Bar
The bar located at the bottom of the workspace is called the Status Bar.
As you can see, to the far left we will find a percentage, this number is
the zoom applied to the opened image.

By default, Photoshop tries to fit the image to the size of the workspace, if it is too small or the
The image is too large, Photoshop will reduce the zoom to display the entire image.
screen.
Remember that zoom does not affect the size of the image, but the view. Even if we reduce or enlarge.
the zoom to see the image more clearly, its dimensions remain the same.
So, since the percentage shown in the status bar indicates the zoom level we are at
applying, we can click on this percentage and modify it by entering a different number and

pressing the Enter key You will see how the zoom of the image changes.

The information shown below refers to the document we are working on.
By clicking on the black arrow we can select which information to display:

Select one of these options to view them while you work on the document.

About the Layers panel

In the Layers panel (Window > Layers), all the layers of an image appear, starting from the top layer.
to the bottom layer. In Expert mode, if you work in the Workspace
customized, you can drag the Layers panel to extract it and attach it to other panels.
The active layer, or the layer you are working on, is highlighted for easy identification. When working on
an image, check which layer is active to ensure that you are making adjustments and changes
in the correct layer. For example, if you select a command and it seems that nothing happens, check that
is looking at the active layer.
The use of the panel icons allows for many tasks to be carried out, such as creating, hiding, linking,
block and delete layers. With some exceptions, the changes only affect the selected layer or
active, which appears highlighted.
 Panel Caps
A. Fusion Mode Menu
B. Show or hide layer
C. The layer is linked to another layer
D. Layer preview
E. The highlighted layer is the active layer

F. Blocked lens
A style has been applied to the layer

In the layer list, the panel displays a thumbnail, a title, and one or more icons that provide information.
about each layer:

The layer is visible. Click on the eye to show or hide the layer. When the layer is hidden, the
icon is The hidden layers do not print.

The layer is linked to the active layer.

The layer is blocked.

The image contains groups of layers and was imported from Adobe Photoshop. Photoshop Elements does not support
Layer groups are shown collapsed. You need to simplify them to create an image that can be edited.
The buttons on the panel are used to perform different actions:

Create a new layer.

Create a new group.

Create a new fill or adjustment layer.

Remove a layer.

Block transparent pixels.

Similarly, at the top of the panel, there is the Blend Mode menu (Normal, Dissolve,
Darken, etc.), a text box Opacity and a More button that shows a layer command menu
and panel options.
Addition of layers
The newly added layers appear above the selected layer in the Layers panel. You can use
one of the following methods to add layers to an image:
Create new blank layers or convert selections to layers.
Convert a background into a normal layer or vice versa.

Take the selections in the image.

Use the Text or Shape tools.
Duplicate an existing layer: You can create up to 8,000 layers in an image, each with its own mode.
of fusion and its opacity. However, memory constraints may cause that limit to be reduced.
Create and assign a name to a new blank layer: To create a layer with the name and settings
By default, click the New Layer button in the Layers panel. The resulting layer uses the Normal mode.
with 100% opacity and the name it receives is associated with its order of creation. To change the
new layer name, double-click on it and type another name.
To create a new layer and specify a name and options, select Layer > New > Layer or
Choose New Layer from the Layers panel menu. Specify a name and other options, and then
click OK.
The new layer is automatically selected and appears in the panel above the last selected layer.
Create a new layer from a part of another
You can move part of an image from one layer to another newly created, leaving the original intact.
Select an existing layer and make a selection.
Select one of the following actions:
Layer > New > Layer via Copy to copy the selection to a new layer.
Layer > New > Layer via Cut to cut the selection and paste it onto a new layer.
The selected area appears in a new layer in the same position relative to the boundaries of the
image.

Convert the background layer into a normal layer

The Background layer is the bottom layer in an image. The other layers are stacked on top of the Background layer.
normally, although not always, it contains the actual image data of a photograph. To protect the
Image, the Background layer is always locked. If you want to change its stacking order, its mode of
fusion or its opacity, it must first be converted into a normal layer.
Perform one of the following actions: Double-click on the Background layer in the Layers panel.

Select Layer > New > Layer from Background.

Select the Background layer and choose Duplicate Layer from the dropdown menu in the Layers panel to avoid modifying it.
the Background layer and create a copy of it as a new layer.
Note:
You can create a duplicate layer of the converted Background layer, regardless of how it
convert; you just need to select the converted Background layer and choose Duplicate Layer from the Layer menu.

Assign a name to the new layer.