VISUAL COMMUNICATION AND

ADOBE PHOTOSHOP
Lesson 1
ICT 9 (Photo Editing)

VISUAL COMMUNICATION

Transmitting information, Thoughts or

Emotions through visual aids that they are
received or understood clearly.
Can be powerful that affect peoples
behavior.
Used to manipulate information to lure
people into bad habits or a degree of
responsibility on your part.
It can be used to accomplish positive social
ends.
Usually created using a computer.

RESPONSIBILITY WHEN ENGAGING

IN VISUAL COMMUNICATION

To tell people about new ideas or service.

To accomplish positive social ends to help
people stop the negative things.
To manipulate information to lure people
into bad habits.

ACTIVITY

Divide the class in groups of 10-15

students.
Each group will be discuss the most
striking advertisements, pictures, posters,
etc. that have seen and how those
affecting yourselves either positively or
negatively.
then write your sketch ideas on paper.

ASSIGNMENT:

Bring the following materials for a poster

making activity on the next meeting. You
will create your own campaign posters.
Oslo

paper or any other appropriate paper

Pencil
Oil pastel or any other painting/drawing
materials
Old magazines, newspapers, etc. (for text
and/or picture cutouts)
Scissors and glue

RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN
VISUAL COMMUNICATION
AND ADOBE PHOTOSHOP

Visual Communication can have a

positive and negative effect on
people in our society while
Photoshop is an image-editing
software used by many professionals
to enhance or manipulate images.

PHOTOSHOP

Is
an
image-editing
software
developed and published by Adobe
Systems, Incorporated.
It can enhance and manipulated
images to achieve your desired
output.

PHOTOSHOP DEVELOPMENT

Thomas Knoll graduated in Ann Arbor

Michigan, USA
John Knoll working in Industrial Light and
Magic Special Effects for movies.

They initiate the development of Photoshop.

1987

Thomas able to write computer programs and he called

this program Display
They worked together on the program and the result was
an image-editing software application and they called
this ImagePro.

 Barney

Scan allowed the program to renamed

Photoshop, because that time most companies
were not interested in the program or were
developing their own except for BarneyScan.

September 1988
adobe

systems purchased the license

distribute Photoshop to major improvement.

to

February 1990
Official

released of Photoshop 1.0 until program

continued to adopt version of Photoshop.
Version of Photoshop:

Photoshop 7, version 8
Photoshop Creative Suite (CS)
Photoshop CS6 13th major release of Photoshop

CAPABILITIES OF PHOTOSHOP
Can adjust the brightness and
contrast of an image.
Can create a collage, alter a
photograph or add special
effects.
Can crop or resize an image.

LAUNCHING THE PHOTOSHOP

APPLICATION

Click the start button on the Windows

taskbar. Point to All Programs on the start
menu. Point to Adobe and then click Adobe
Photoshop.
Once you have opened the application (after
a few moments of loading time), the
Photoshop interface will appear.

Microsoft Windows 8
Press

Win + Q (windows logo key and letter Q) on

your keyboard, and then click Adobe Photoshop
CS6.
You may also type Photoshop in the Search box
and then click Photoshop in the results.

For previous version of Microsoft Windows

Open by clicking on the start button. When the start

menu appears, move your pointer over to All Programs,
and then click Adobe Photoshop on the sliding menu.

If the Photoshop shortcut icon is available on your

desktop, just double-click the icons to launch the
application.
to reset to the default settings, Press and hold down Ctrl
+ Alt + Shift while Photoshop is opening.

PHOTOSHOP CS6 INTERFACE

ELEMENT OF THE INTERFACE

Tool
It

Bar

contains a bunch of icons that

represent the different tools Photoshop
offers to alter and create images. These
include tools for selecting specific areas
of images, changing the colors of the
image, stretching, transforming, and
erasing parts of an image, and many
more.

 Panes
are

also important features of the

Photoshop interface. All sorts of
information are displayed in these
panes.
They display location information, tool
options, and history, among other
things. If you ever lose track of a
specific pane (they tend to stack up), go
to the windows menu and select that
pane to view it.

 Menu

Bar

are probably the most familiar

interface elements to a new Photoshop
user. They contain all sorts of options,
but since these are not as visible as
panes or the toolbar, they are often only
partially explored. Below are the
features on the menu bar.

File Menu
contains

all of the stuff you expect. It lets you

open and close documents with a few extras
including import, which deals with scanning, and
save for web, which allows you to export a webready image from your Photoshop file.

Edit Menu
is

another familiar menu. In Photoshop, edit

houses all of the expected options as well as fill
and stroke, and other image-altering functions.

Items on the image menu affect a whole

image for the most part. Here you will find
color adjustments, size adjustments, and any
other changes you need to make globally when
working with a Photoshop file.

Layer menu

is similar to the image menu. It allows you to make

changes to an image without altering your original
image data. It contains options that affect only
current or selected layers. Just understand that an
image in Photoshop consists of stacked transparent
layers. Options in the Layer menu affect these pieces
of the image rather than the complete image.

Select menu

deals with selections you make. Selecting the

specific parts of an image you would like to change is
a difficult part when working with Photoshop. This
menu gives you some options regarding selections,
including the ability to save selections, reverse
them, or add to them. Learning the options on the
selection menu can really save you some time.

Filter menu
is

probably what most people think when they

work with Photoshop. The filter menu allows you
to apply filters to any part of your image. These
filters include ways to change the texture of the
image, with some potentially radical results.

View menu
is

where you change the view settings. You can use

this to show and display guidelines on the image
and to zoom in and out, among other things.

Window menu
allows

you to toggle back and forth between hide

and show for each interface element. This is the
first place you should go if you lose track of a
particular window while you are working.

Help menu
The

help documentation is not so helpful, but for

some reasons, this menu contains two nice
features: resize image and export transparent
image.

 Options

bar

which

is located directly underneath the

menus is a useful tool when working
with the different Photoshop tools.

Parts

of the Options Bar

Zoom In/Zoom Out tools

Zoom percentage
Zoom slider
Resize Windows to Fit
Zoom All Windows
Fit Screen and Fill Screen
Print Size

PHOTOSHOP TOOLS PANEL

Move Tool
used to move Selected
Layers around, Used to
set and move Guide Lines

Rectangular Marquee
to select rectangular shaped
areas within an Image. The areas
can be copied or cut and paste
into new layers.

Lasso Tool
used to select parts of a layer
for editing. Types: Magnetic
Lasso and Polygonal Lasso.

Healing Tool
Used

to remove dust marks

and scratches from photographs

Eraser

Used to remove portions of a layer.

Its size can be adjusted so that it
can be used very delicately or quite
grossy.

Clone Tool

Used to copy portions of

a layer from one area to
another.

Blur Tool

Used to selectively blur

areas of a layer. It is
especially handy when
blending colors and objects.

Crop Tool
an important tool for
making adjustments to
the overall size of an
Image.

Eye Dropper
used to select color.
It is picked up and
appears as the new
foreground color.

Text Tool
used to add to an image and to edit
existing text size, color and other
attributes of the text can be
specified and adjusted.

Zoom Tool
Is a very handy tool used
to quickly zoom in or out
of an image.

Magic wand

Used to select portions of

an image based on color.