Adobe Photoshop Tutorial Sheet

As required for this project, we have to familiarize ourselves with the Adobe Photoshop
editing suite. Specic to the requirements of the poster and time constraints, we have to
use the Move Tool, Rectangular Marquee Tool, Layers, Font, Colour Fill, Rotate/Mirror,
Levels and the Eraser Tool.
But before we get to far ahead of ourselves, we have to know how to set up the document
and know how to import objects to experiment with in Adobe Photoshop.
How to create a blank Photoshop document
Example 1:
1. Firstly Open Adobe Photoshop. Be aware that your version may vary from what is
shown.
2. Select New to open a blank document.
3. An input box will prompt you to set the document. Here you can name it and set the
size. For now, you could name it as what ever youve called your lm and set the Preset
to International Paper and the size at A4. Click OK.
4. Now you will have a blank Adobe Photoshop document.
Taaa daaah! Magical!
How to import an image into a Photoshop
document
1. Search an image you want to use or import it by way of the scanner.
If you have an image on your desktop and use your cursor to click, hold and drag upon
your blank canvas, you can import an image into your Adobe Photoshop document.
2. Photoshop will then display the image in a way that
it will prompt you to resize the image if needed. You
can resize it here if you need to, but you dont have
to. You could also select the image from near the
center and move the image.
3. Press enter and your image shall be within your
previously blank document.
Now Mr.Sushi Cat is ours to control! *insert evil laugh*
Adobe Photoshop Tutorials
Import the image into Adobe Photoshop using the previously explored methods.
Now, using your found image, experiment with Move Tool, Rectangular Marquee Tool,
Layers, Font, Colour Fill, Rotate/Mirror, Levels and the Eraser Tool.
Note that you can Undo any action by going to Edit and selecting Undo. If you
have done too much that Undo doesnt work then you can go back as many steps
as you would like by going to the panel along the top and click Window ---> History.
This will then display a History panel which shows all of the thing you have done to
the document. Click the list of actions from the bottom up to see how far you want
to go back in terms of undoing your actions.
1. The Move Tool.
Make sure that you have the Move Tool selected and that the Auto-Select box is checked.
Have a look at your Layers Panel and make sure the layer upon which your imported
image sit upon is highlighted in blue. If you need to save a copy then right-click and
Duplicate Layer. This will copy that layer entirely. Now click the Eye Icon so that the
original you want to keep is hidden from view. Now make sure one of these layers in that
Layers Panel is selected. You can now use your mouse to click, hold and drag the entire
layer. For now, drag it so that it is top to bottom.
2. Rectangular Marquee Tool.
Make sure you have a layer selected with your Layer Panel as explored before. Now nd
your Rectangular Marquee Tool from the Tool Panel on the left.
This tool is used to select areas of your images that you would like to get rid of. You will
now notice that is an animated box around the area
you have selected. This animation is called
Marching Ants. Now you can delete a portion of
this image if you need to (make sure the right layer
is selected!). Now press delete and you will have
deleted an area of your image.
While having an area selected, you will nd that you
cannot do anything beyond the area selected by the
Marching Ants. Now clear this selection by right-
clicking and selecting Deselect or Ctrl D.
You can also cut out uninteresting portions of your image. Select the area you wish to
keep. With this area selected, go to Select and Inverse. This will then inverse the
selection and from here just press delete and the area you want to keep will remain. Now
get rid of the Marching Ants by deselecting as explored before.
NOTE: This tool may not work if it is the wrong le type. When you try to delete by
pressing back space, it will come up with a warning saying something like this object is
not directly editable. In this case, you will need to Rasterize the image. To to this, select
your Eraser Tool and try to erase within the section you want to delete. This will prompt
Photoshop to Rasterize the image. Click OK. Now try clicking back space or delete to
continue on with the Rectangular Marquee Tool. It should now delete the section you want
to delete. Deselect by right-clicking and Deselecting or Ctrl D.
3. Layers.
Using your Layer Panel, select the other untouched layer and duplicate it. Now hide one
copy from view by clicking the Eye Icon.
This will hide that layer so that you can keep it
away from your grasp while you work on the
other layer. Click the Eye Icon again so that
you can see it. You will notice that the Eye
Icon will ll the box again and this means we
can see it in view.
You can change the order of layers by highlight
one of your layers and use the Move Tool to
drag it so we can see it from under the other
layers.
This cat looks mighty impressed!
Moving on...
Try selecting the newly created layers from the Layers Panel and changing their order.
This will then change how they sit within the document.
Try playing with the effects of the layer panel
with each of your layers. Is there anything
interesting that you would like to use in your
posters?
4. Font.
To put the written information you need on your posters select the Font Tool from the
Tools Panel on the left. I would like you to include as much written information to suit your
poster. Change the colour to pink by using your cursor to drag and select the text OR by
clicking in and using Ctrl A to Select All. Then click on the colour indicator in the Font
panel. You can also change the size to 18 pt using the same panel, as per the picture to
indicate important written information in the poster. Select fonts for the written information
within your poster that will suit the genre. Now move the text so that it looks organized.
5. Colour Fill.
Select an area by using either the Rectangular Marquee Tool or the Magic Wand (Im
sure you can nd this without any instruction, by default it is hard to miss). In this example,
the Magic Wand has been used to select the background of the central image. Again, you
will see Marching Ants.
And heres our favourite cat surrounded by ants. Hes enjoying the ants. Yes.
Find the Paint Bucket Tool in the Tool Panel. It is the 12th tool down. Try holding your
mouse down on the Paint Bucket Tool icon and you will see other tools hidden beneath it.
We dont need these for now, but its handy to know that tools may be hidden beneath
other tools that have a small black triangle on the bottom right corner.
Select a colour from the Foreground Colour section of the Tool Panel by double-clicking
it (its down near the bottom and it looks like two small squares diagonally spaced. It will
prompt you to pick a colour, so pick one. Now with this newly picked colour, use the Paint
Bucket Tool over the area you have selected. The colour has now changed! Right-click or
Ctrl D and Deselect to remove the Marching Ants.
6. Rotate/Mirror.
Make sure you have selected the move tool so that the images can be selected. Now this
tool can be used to rotate or visually mirror the image in question if you need to in your
poster. By toggling the Eye Icon you can check to see if you have the correct layer
highlighted to be worked on. Now go to Edit along the top and go to Transform. You will
see many options in which to edit the size of your image with Scale, rotate it with Rotate
and many others. Use what ever you need for your poster to be complete.
7. Levels.
Select one of your images by the Layer Panel to make it active. Now go to Image and
Adjustments. Experiment with Levels, Hue/Saturation and Photo Filter. By playing with
these, we could get some interesting effects with the image we are using for our poster.
8. Eraser Tool.
The Eraser Tool is pretty self-explanatory. You can
either select a layer, then select the Eraser Tool and
then hover it and then clicking and dragging the area
you want to erase. Or you could use the Magic
Wand to select a particular area and then with the
Marching Ants active, you can just erase the area
you have selected while using the Marching Ants as
a barrier so that if the Eraser Tool touches the area
beyond the Marching Ants, even if you use the
Eraser Tool, it will not erase the area beyond it.
NOTE: Keep this document as a reference, as it is handy to have a reference tool for
Photoshop.