Photoshop Essence
Photoshop Essence is a guide to using Photoshop CS5, designed to get you started on your Photoshop project as quickly as possible, and produced entirely by the student consultants of WCTS' Multimedia Development Lab (MDL).
The guide is structured to take you step-by-step through each of the fundamental aspects of Photoshop CS5, starting with basics like opening and creating documents, continuing on to editing and manipulating images, and finally showing you how to save and/or prepare images for print. Follow the video tutorials on the Photoshop Essence Vimeo channel, or search for a specific topic in the index.
Get Started
Your First Content
Getting Around and Basic Manipulation of Content
Selecting Content and Moving It
Layers ... and the Doors They Open for You
- Layers 101
- Layers 201
- Cropping Revisited
- The Free Transform Tool
- Resolution
- Combining Separate Documents into One Document
- Color Correction
Finishing Up
Index
- Brush Tool
- Character Palette
- Color Correction
- Combining Separate Documents into One Document
- Creating a New Document
- Cropping
- Cropping Revisited
- File Formats
- Photoshop Free Transform
- General Tour of the Photoshop CS5 Interface
- Guides
- History Brush
- History Palette
- Images from the Internet
- Image Quality
- Preparing Images for the Internet
- Layers 101
- Layers 201
- Lasso Tool
- Lines
- Marquee Tool
- Move Tool
- Opening a Document
- Paragraph Palette
- Preparing Images for Print
- Re-sizing
- Resolution
- Rotating
- Rulers
- Selecting Content
- Snapping
- Text
- Zooming in Photoshop
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