PHOTOSHOP

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What is Photoshop?

• Adobe Photoshop is a raster graphics editor developed and published by Adobe Systems for Windows and OS X.
• Photoshop was created in 1988 by Thomas and John Knoll.
Who uses Photoshop?
- Photographer Photographers just don’t take stunning pictures; they create them using the help of Photoshop. - Web Designer As a web designer, you will be creating logos, navigational bars, backgrounds, headers and additional images to help create a webpage. - Graphic Designer Graphic designers are the people who design fancy intricate images, graphics, and even your favorite comic book character - Advertiser As an advertiser you will be using Photoshop to create logos and branding icons, product packaging, company advertisements and more.
Burn Tool- It darkens areas and can be used to work on highlight, midtone or shadowed areas.
History - Complete list of tasks performed on an image. Allows to perform, undo or the deletion of a previous step.
Gamut – The range of colors that a color system can display or print. 
Crop Tool -The Crop tool is used to shave off unwanted areas at the edge of a digital image.
Sharpen - The Sharpen tool increases the sharpness (focus) of an image, by increasing the contrast of neighboring pixels.
Smudge - The Smudge tool spreads color in an image, displacing pixels of corresponding colors.
Blur - The Blur tool reduces the sharpness (focus) of an image. It does this by reducing the color contrast of neighboring pixels.
Dodge- This tool lightens a part of an image, if the cursor is dragged across it.
Sponge- The Sponge tool affects the saturation and contrast of an image.
Popular Tools of Photoshop?
Popular File Formats to Save images in Photoshop
In Photoshop there are 3 popular File formats to save your images:
• JPEG –Joint Photographic Experts Group • GIF –Graphics Interchange Format • PNG –Portable Network Graphics
• Best for photos of continuous tone, full-color images • Uses 16 million colors • Browsers use reasonable approximations • Work in RGB mode • Uses lossy compression • Saving (Standard, Optimized, Progressive) JPEG
• Best for solid color images (buttons, logos) • Uses 256 colors • Browsers use 216 colors • Work in Indexed mode • Good compression • Interlaced GIF
PNG (8-bit) • Best for line art (logos) • Compresses solid areas of color well and maintains sharp detail • Generally, has better compression than GIF (10-30% smaller) • If considering saving as GIF, also consider saving as PNG (8-bit) • Not supported by older browsers PNG (24-bit) • Best for continuous-tone images • Compresses well, but can be larger than JPEGs • If considering saving as JPEG, could also consider PNG (24-bit) • Not supported by older browsers
Advance Photoshop Techniques for Designers -Course by Eduonix
Topics Covered SECTION 1 : Introduction SECTION 2 : Beauty Techniques SECTION 3 : Working with Adobe Lightroom SECTION 4 : Working with Bridge
What Will You Learn From this Course • How to use and manipulate advance Photoshop techniques to produce more interesting photos • How to retouch beauty photos including retouching hair, face, skin, lips and even teeth • How to work with Adobe extensions such as Lightroom, Bridge and Camera Raw • Quick retouching techniques for men and women • How to retouch photos to accentuate lighting • Understanding the difference between lighting photos