Photoshop Essence

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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.

• Creating a New Document

• Opening a Document

• General Tour of the Photoshop CS5 Interface

• The Brush Tool

• Shapes and Lines

• Adding and Editing Text

• Images from the Internet

• The History Palette

• Zooming in Photoshop

• Basic Cropping

• Re-sizing

• Basic Rotating

• Basic Selections

• Moving and Snapping

• Rulers and Guides

• Layers 101

• Layers 201

• Cropping Revisited

• The Free Transform Tool

• Resolution

• Combining Separate Documents into One Document

• Color Correction

• Finishing Your Image: File Formats, Print, Online Readiness

• 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