Photoshop for Web Production
Lou Fuiano | Instructor
Temple University Center City
Fall 2013
Overview
- Photoshop image is a BITMAP – A geometric arrangement (mapping) of dots on a rectangular grid
- Raster/Vector
- Modify pixels – pixel craft
Interface
- OS & Windows
- Menus
- Tool Box
- Palettes/Windows
Color Basics
- RGB
- CMYK
- Grayscale
- HSB
- Pantone
- Additive vs subtractive color
- Channels
- bitmap, grayscale, duotone, indexed color, RGB, CMYK, Lab Color, or Multichannel
- RGB is luminous
- Getting images in 8bit, 16bit
Reading Assignment
- Read CHAPTER 8; Layer Basics
- Read CHAPTER 9; Selections and Masks
Resouces
Image Editing
- Aquire, Create and Save
- File resolution
- Place command
- New documents
- Cameras and Sacnners
- Color to Grayscale
- File resolution
- Brightness channel
- Image adjustment Layer
- Color mixer
- Quick Mask
- Covert to mask mode
- Select a brush
- Paint around selection
- Erase by flipping foreground/background swatch
- Convert back to full color mode
- Masking Exercise
- Create a path > Pen Tool, Lasso.
- Make Selection > Feather
- Create a New Layer
- Atmospheric Perspective; Soften Background Layer
- Adjust Color; HSB, Levels
Reading Assignment
- Read CHAPTER 12; Adjustment Layer Basics
- Read CHAPTER 13; Adjustment in Depth
- Read CHAPTER 14; Combining Images
- Read CHAPTER 12; More Layers
Portrait Modifications
- Create a mask
- Image adjustment
- Filters
- Download portrait
Combining Images
- Rubber Stamp Tool
- Techniques and methods
BUILD A PANORAMA
- Open all photos in photoshop
- Adjust size and resolution to 72dpi, 500px wide
- Create new document by expanding the CANVAS SIZE
- Drag and drop all images into new doc
- Adjust color and size to create a full panorama
- Save as PSD
- Flatten and Save as JPEG