Today’s Plan:
- Photoshop Crash Course
- Homework
Let’s Download and Unzip this Folder
I mean, this folder right here.
Photoshop Crash Course
There’s a number of topics that I would like to cover today. First, some nuts and bolts stuff, including image/canvas size, image resolution, and file types. Second, I want to show you how to display a grid. Third, some basic alterations: cropping and lighting/color adjustments. Fourth, some image editing tricks (magic eraser). Fifth, we want to work with text. Finally, I want to work a bit with layers. We’ll see how far we get through this today–we might carry working with Photoshop over until Friday.
Photoshop isn’t necessarily the best tool for making a flyer–particularly because it isn’t set up for direct printing (though I have a tutorial below that walks us through–sort of–making a flyer). BUT Photoshop is great for making mock-ups–imagining the layout for a print document before you assemble it in InDesign (because it is easier to play around in Photoshop).
I have created a drive folder with the images we will be using for today.
Nuts and Bolts: Image Size, Resolution, Display a Grid
For this part of the tutorial, we will use these images:
- guinness-sleeping.jpg [image size, canvas size, units of measurement]
- Turn on a grid
Cropping, Adjusting Light and Color
For this part of the tutorial, we will use these images:
- Let’s try cropping a few images
- 02Start.tif; pp. 38-41
Some Basic Image Editing / “Healing”
For this part of the tutorial, we will use these images:
- Keep working in 02Start, pp. 44-45
- Image
Working with Text / Layers
For this part of the tutorial, we will use these images:
- Lesson 4 files
- Image
Two Quick Tutorials
For this part of the tutorial, we will use these images:
Homework
- Read the WSIYNE chapter “Mini Art School.”
