What is Photoshop?
Unless you just happened to accidentally stumble in here, you probably already know what Photoshop is and you're here to increase your knowledge or look for a solution to a nagging problem. However, for those of you who do not yet know the full range of what Photoshop is and what it is capable of doing, here's a quick breakdown:
Photoshop — as its name implies — is a software package that takes all the powers of a professional photography studio and brings it into your own hands and onto your own personal computer. Debuting way back in the dark ages of computers (1987), Photoshop has grown into the end-all be-all of image editing/manipulation/creation programs.
Photoshop has become so powerful, and its legions of loving users have become so skilled at using it, that photography — a medium that has long garnered a reputation of preserving facts — is now under question. Images can be crafted and manipulated so skillfully with Photoshop that — in many cases — you can't tell an altered image from an unaltered one.
A fellow Art Center College of Design alumni, (well...he was a near alumni anyway) Matt Mahurin, became an unwilling epitome of this movement when he digitally darkened OJ Simpson's face for the cover of the magazine in 1994. As you can imagine — or may remember — both he and Time Magazine received a lot of flack for a move which underscored the beginning of a new era.
So as you're probably beginning to understand, Photoshop isn't just another
software program that you're learning; it's a culture, it's a movement, and it's
changing the way society is perceiving reality.
With that deep stuff out of the way, here's a short — and highly truncated — list of some of the things Photoshop CS is capable of:
*Fix images with poor color or lighting conditions. Improve detail and clarity in washed-out images or reveal parts of an image hidden in shadow.
*Remove the dreaded "red eye."
*Repair old photographs. Fix up grandma and grandpa's wedding photos!
*Creating photo composites. Remember, in elementary school art classes, when you would cut photos out of magazines and paste them together to create a new composition? Imagine being able to do that again but having the power to make it look real.
*Combine multiple photos together to create a panoramic photograph.
*Easily print a contact sheet to fit as many photos as possible of your daughter's first day at school onto a single sheet of paper.
*Create business cards, letterheads, logos, flyers, newsletters, and posters using images and text.
*Use built-in filters and styles to easily apply various effects to your images and text.
*Anything else you can imagine, Photoshop CS can probably do.
This Photoshop consists of the following areas :
1.Basics and Setup
2.Color Management
3.Layers
4.Selections
5.Masks
6.Channels
7.Paths and Shapes
8.Painting and Brushes
9.Type
10.Color and Value
11.Filters
12.Restoring, Manipulating, and Compositing
13.Saving and Exporting
14.Actions and Automation
15.Building Web Graphics with ImageReady
16.Working with Adobe Version Cue
More detail about Photoshop go main page of the Photoshop Guide and the weblogs weekly with all the latest news, cool tricks, tips, and commentary. I look forward to being your guide.
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