Week 2- Getting Started: Photoshop 2
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Getting Started With Photoshop
Image Size & Resolution Creating a new file (File > New...)
VectorAn image created with software that uses geometrical formulas to represent lines and shapes, such as Adobe Illustrator
Photoshop has mainly bitmap/raster features but some vector features as well (such as text, shapes, and paths)
Color Modes (Image > Mode)RGB
- Name
- Preset
- Width and Height
- Resolution
- Color Mode
- Background Contents
- Save Preset...
- Pixel Dimensions
- Document Size
- Resolution
- Scale Styles
- Constrain Proportions
- Resample Image
- Width and Height
- Relative checkbox
- Anchor
- Canvas Extension Color
VectorAn image created with software that uses geometrical formulas to represent lines and shapes, such as Adobe Illustrator
Photoshop has mainly bitmap/raster features but some vector features as well (such as text, shapes, and paths)
Color Modes (Image > Mode)RGB
- computer monitors and televisions
- primary colors: red, green and blue
- additive color model
- printing press
- primary colors: cyan, magenta, yellow
- K stands for "key color" which is black
- subtractive color model
- L stands for "luminance" or brightness (0 is black and 100 is white)
- a indicates the color's position between magenta and green
- b indicates the color's position between yellow and blue
- designed to approximate human vision
- Used for .gif and .bmp images
- Color variety is reduced to a palette of 256 or fewer colors
- Each pixel does not contain the full specification of its color, but only its index in the palette
- If an image is set to indexed color, you cannot applying most of the editing features within Photoshop
- An image composed exclusively of shades of gray, or pure white or black
- Typically, 256 possible values are available
- Color channels are seen in grayscale to indicate the intensity of the given color (more intense shows as color to white)
- If an image is set to the grayscale color mode, you cannot add color to it