*Photoshop CS5A Short Manual

Click to change to a single width

toolbar. See image at right.

Select

Slice Select, Slice, Crop

Red eye, Patch Spot &
Brush Healing

Quick Selection, Magic Wand

Brush, Pencil, Color

Replacement, Mixer Brush
History, Art History Brush
Fill, Gradient

Eraser, Background Eraser,

Magic Eraser

Dodge, Burn-in, Sponge

Text Tools

Pens

3D Tools:
Rotate, Roll,
Pan, Slide, Scale

Selection Tools

Shapes
3D Tools: Orbit
Roll View,
Pan View,
Walk View,
Zoom

Rotate View Tool, Pan

Zoom

FOREGROUND COLOR

Switch Foreground and

Background Colors

Default (Black & White) Colors

Eyedropper,
Color Selector,
Ruler, Note Tool

Clone Tools

Toning Tools
(Smudge, Sharpen, Blur)

Brushes: Available on various Tool's Option Bars and Tool

Bar

Move

Lassoes

BACKGROUND COLOR
Shifts between Quick Mask
and Normal Select Mode
Single width Toolbar

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On the brush selection palette, most brush size icons are shown at actual size,
but larger ones are shown at a smaller size.
Standard Brush: Paints much like any paintbrush would in real life, except that the opacity can be adjusted from very light to full intensity
(100%).
History Brush: Removes applied affects in the area the brush passes
over. The intensity of removal is set by the Pressure and can be or
full.
Art History Brush: Adds swiggle shapes to an image utilizing the
colors in the image the brush passes over.

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Canvas Size: Image Menu

Changes the size of the page (canvas) on which the image sits. When increasing the
size of the canvas, Photoshop fills the new area outside the image with the background color. If the canvas is made smaller than the original image, Photoshop
crops the image.

Channels: Window Menu

Channels separates an image into its component parts so that an effect or filter can
be applied to one of the colors in the image. The number and colors of the channels changes with the Mode you are using. If working in RGB, the channels
are Red, Green, and Blue. If working in CYMK, the channels are Cyan, Yellow,
Magenta, and Black.

Character Options:
Clone Tool:

Options under Window Menu (Clone Source)

The Clone tool "copies" portions of an image to a new place in the same image or a
different image. Used to creates special effects or covers unwanted areas.
To clone an area, select Clone tool and make sure (Aligned) is checked on the Options bar. Hold down the Option key and click in the area to be cloned. Move
to the area in the original file, or a different file, where the clone image is to be
placed, hold down the mouse button and drag over the area.
When using the Clone Tool, Photoshop displays a cross-hair in the area of the clone
source, the area that you are cloning from, that tracks with the stamp cursor.
If you want to clone multiple times from a single location, then choose Clone (NonAligned) from the Options bar.
Under the Window Menu, you can select Clone Source (See image to left). On this
panel, you have the option of choosing the way in which the clone tool selects
the area to clone.

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Color Icons: Toolbox (also see Color Palette)

The foreground color is applied by painting tools, such as the airbrush, paintbrush,
paint bucket, and pencil. When you use the eraser tool, you "paint" with the
background color.
To swap the foreground and background color, click on the two-way arrow

icon. (See the figure showing the bottom of the tool bar on the right.)
To display the Color Picker palette, click on the foreground or background
color block.
To restore the foreground and background to black and white, respectively,

click on the default icon.

Color Palette: Window Menu

Adds a selected color to the Color Swatches

Indicates color is out of Gamet, or cannot

be reproduced in the current color mode

In the Left corner of the Color Palette, color blocks representing the foreground and
background colors are displayed. Click on these selects which is changed. A
double outline surrounds the block showing it is selected. Drag the little slider
bar triangles under the color ranges to change the color. These vary with the

current mode (RGB, CYMK, Grayscale, etc.).

Color Picker: Tool Palette (Foreground and Background Color

Tools

Double-clicking on the Foreground or Background color square on the Tool Palette will display the Color Picker for that block (background or foreground).

Crop Tool:

Crops the image size. To crop an image, select crop tool, drag the tool around the portion of the image to retain. Drag the corner handles of the crop boundary until
correct, double-click inside the crop boundary to crop the image.

Darkening areas in a Image: See Toning Tools

Desaturating areas in an Image: See Toning Tools

Eraser Tools: Normal Eraser:

Replaces the area erased on the active layer with the current background color.

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Hexadecimal Color Number

Background Eraser:

Erases the image background on the active layer.

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Magic Eraser:

Erases (changes to transparent) the range of colors defined by the number set in the
Tolerance window at the top of the Photoshop screen. Tolerance sets the range
of colors removed. Selecting Contiguous on the options bar will limit the selection to colors touching the pixel selected by the eraser, rather than selecting
across the whole image.

Eyedropper Tool:

Clicking in a image with the Eyedropper Tool selects a color to replace the foreground or background color.

File Bridge:

Upper Right on Option Bars

The File Bridge allows examination of files on a disk, the harddrive, or other accessible locations. Objects can be rotated, opened, and assigned ranks in the preview window. Thumbnail images can also be resized to view better in a side
window by dragging the edges with the mouse. Other features of this window
is that it provides image statistics including size, date taken (if digital camera
image), date modified, file format, etc.

Filter Menu:

Contains a variety of filters that can be applied to the whole image, a layer, or a
channel (see Channels).

Gradient Tool:

To apply a gradient, use a selection tool to select the portion of the image to receive
the gradient. Select the gradient tool and then the type of gradient from the
option bar
. There are default gradients that can select or gradients can be customized (see the image to the left). Click, hold, and drag your
mouse across the area selected for the gradient. The starting point and direction of this dragged line effects the way the gradient is added.
Gradient Editor: Double-clicking on the gradient sample
, on the
option bar, opens the Gradient Editor so new gradient combinations can be
created or modifications can be made to existing ones.

History: Window Menu

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To change
colors, click on
the color flags,
below the
gradient bar.
To add colors
to the gradient,
click BELOW the
color bar with
the mouse.
To remove a
color from the
gradicatne, drag
it away from the
color bar with
the mouse.

To add colors,
click below the
gradient bar.
The proportions
of each color can
be edited by sliding the triangle
between the color
indicators.

To change the
relationship of
the color, drag
the color flag
with the mouse.

To save a
gradient for
future use, give
it a name and
use the save
button to write
a file containing
the new
gradient. This
can be loaded
again with the
load button.

Provides for reversing actions by selecting a previous action in a list.

Image: Adjustments Submenu and Window Menu

Useful commands on the Adjust Submenu, which are also available as a separate
floating Window from the Window Menu are described below:

Auto Levels: Automatically corrects the contrast in an image. Does not work
for some images, but worth trying first.

Auto Contrast: Adjust the contrast in an image. This commands does not

work for all images but is worth trying to see.

Black and White: Changes a color image to gray scale and allows adjustment
of the gray tone of each converted color. Included a Tint option (see example).
Channel Mixer: Allows the adjustment of color depth in the various colors that
make up the image (Red/Green/Blue or Cyan/Magenta/Yellow/Black).

Color Balance: Changes the intensity of colors at three separate levels of

Highlights, Midtones, and Shadows.

Curves: Used to

adjust the lightness and darkness of the range of colors in an

image by dragging points on a line to form a curve.

Desaturate: Adjust the saturation of colors from an image so that they are in
B&W Tint Example

the same range.

Equalize: Reduces the range of light and dark areas in an image.

Exposure: Emulates different exposure settings on a camera.
Gradient Map: Allows you to
add a gradient across an existing
image. A variety of gradients
are available through this command.

Hue/Saturation: Adjusts the

hues, saturation, and brightness

in an image. All of these can be
applied to a specific colors or
the entire image. Hue changes
the color of the selected color or
master, saturation intensifies or
deintensifies the selected color
or master, and brightness controls the brightness or darkness
of a selected color or the master.

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Adjustment Window

Invert: Converts dark areas to

light and light areas to dark in

an image.

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Gradient Map Example

Levels: Adjusts the range of a color, from light to dark, or the whole image. Select

Channel at the top of the Levels Panel (varies with the mode you are using). Select the specific color that you wish to affect. Use the slider bar, beneath the histogram, which provides three triangles, one each for the darkest, medium, and
lightest pixels. The sliders on this bar can be moved to adjust color/s in these
ranges. Photo

Filter: Applies the equivalent of camera filters to images.

Posterize: Reduces the number of colors in an image. The lower the setting, the
smaller the number of colors. Seven or less colors are best.

Replace Color: Replaces or adjusts a selected color. Use the medicine dropper
to select the color in the image to replace.

Shadow/Highlight: Adjusts the level of Shadows and Highlights and their

Posterization Example

color ranges.

Threshold: Converts the image to black and white by converting light areas to
white and dark areas to black. Settings control the amount of detail in the image.

Variations: Provides two types of control, Color and Saturation. Color varia-

tions allow for globally additions of specific colors to an image. The amount
of color added can be adjusted from fine to course (a great deal or a little).
Brightness also can be controlled through this dialogue box. Saturation control is similar to Color variations, with the ability to saturate or desaturate the
concentration of colors from a fine amount to a course amount. The use of this
command is fairly self explanatory and easy to use.

Threshold Example

Image Size: Image Menu

In this dialogue box, make sure Proportions Constraint is selected before making
changing to the image size. This ensures that no distortion occurs. If the File
Size constraint is selected, width, height, and resolution are linked together. If
not selected, manually enter the resolution. The higher the resolution the larger
the file size. NOTE: Sometimes it is better to use Scale (under Edit>Transform)
to rescale an image.

Layers Panel: Window Menu

Only the active layer can be edited. To activate a different layer, click on its name in
the Layers Palette. The active layer is Light Blue.
To hide a layer, click on the eyeball icon in front of the layer name. To display the
layer, click on the empty space where the eyeball used to be.
To hide all layers but one, Option-click on the eyeball in front of the name of the

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layer you want to see. Option-click again to redisplay all the layers.
To delete a layer, drag it onto the little trash can icon in the bottom right corner of the
Layers palette. Keep in mind that you are throwing away the layer along with
the image on it.
NOTE: Certain activities automatically add Layers: Pasting, certain Effects, and adding Text. The example to the Left, shows the Layer Palette and associated image
which has Text and a Drop Shadow added.

Layer Styles: Layer Menu

Applies special effects to text, and selected areas of an image.

Magic Wand:
LayersExample

Select the wand tool and click inside the image on a color or area. Photoshop selects
the area of continuous color that surrounds where you clicked. You can modify
the performance of the magic wand by using the options at the top of the screen.
There are three options- Anti-aliased, Tolerance, and Sample Merged (dont
worry about this last one). Anti-aliased softens the edges around the unselected
area, Tolerance instructs the wand to select fewer colors or more colors within the
selected color range.

Marquee and Lasso Tools:

The marquee and Lasso tools allows the user to select portions of the image
to be edited. The Lasso can be used to select complicated shapes.
On Option Bar:
Normal Select

Remove from Selection

Magic Wand Options

Marquee Options

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Add to Selection Intersection

Mode: Image Menu

The Mode menu allows you to select the color system you wish to work in. - Gray

Scale provides 256 shade of gray.

- Index provides 256 colors and is used by GIF Images.
- RGB is used by monitors and provides millions of colors.
- CYMK is standard in printing and provides thousands of colors.
- Duotone 1-4 colors blends. NOTE: Color images must be converted to
Gray Scale before selecting Duotone.

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Duotone Image Example

Navigator: Window Menu:

Allows you to zoom and pan through a panel that shows a thumbnail view of the
total image.

Duotone Panel

Paint Bucket Tool:

Lets the user fill an area of continuous color by clicking on it. In other words, it fills
one selected color with another. Like the magic wand, you set the Tolerance
value and Anti-aliased is turned on. Another option you might consider is the
Fill command under the Edit Menu.

Paint Bucket Option Bar

Paintbrush Tools:

AirbrushModeOption Bar

The pop-up menu in the upper left corner of the option bar provides access to the
brush styles. The Opacity slider controls the translucency of the foreground
color. A setting of 100 percent ensures that the paint is opaque, completely covering the colors underneath. When the Airbrush is selected the Opacity slider
bar changes to a Pressure slider bar and adjusting this bar varies the amount
of paint applied by the airbrush. Airbrush acts like a spray can. The longer you
hold the mouse button down over an area, the more paint is applied.

Pen Tools:
The Navigator Panel

The Pen tools allow you to create a path that can then be saved and changed to
a selection. Since paths can be saved, the same area can be reselected without having to define the area more than once. NOTE: Selections can also be
changed to a path by first making it a work path and then saving it through
the Path Options Dialogue box.

Pencil Tool:

Draws aliased (jagged) lines which can be set to different widths. The Auto Erase
option for the Pencil tool lets you paint the background color over areas containing the foreground color. It is very useful in making touch-ups with the
single-pixel brush.

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Red Eye Tool:

Removes red eye from the eyes in a photograph. Select the tool and then click on the
offending eye.

Saturating Colors in an Image: See Image Adjustments or Toning

Tools.
Shape Tools:

Creates vector graphic shapes.

Shape Option Bar

Sharpen Tools:

On Tool Bar with Blur and Smudge Tools

These two tools will sharpen or blur edges within a specified tolerance. The blur tool
looks like a tear drop. Press the R key to switch between the blur and sharpen
tools.

Smudge Tool:
Text Option Bar

Used to drag colors from one area into another. Can be used to cover defects or create special effects along an edge. Setting the pressure changes the length of the
smudge line that can be created. Brush sized also can be adjusted.

Text Tools:

Adds text to an image. The text tool automatically adds a new layer. Character and

Paragraph options are available through the Character and Paragraph palettes
(Window Menu) or on the Text tool options bar at the top of the screen.

Character Palette: Windows Menu

Controls the properties of the text, including height, leading, letter spacing, letter
width, super and subscripts, font color, font selection, font styles, and font
quality. Additional options available from the Options Menu (click on the
black arrow
in the upper-right corner of the panel). NOTE: Placing your
mouse icon over the palette option, indicates the icon function

Paragraph Palette: Windows Menu

Controls the properties of the paragraph. This includes alignment, forms of justification, left and right indent, first line indent, add space before paragraph,
add space below paragraph. NOTE: Placing your mouse icon over the

palette option, indicates the icon function.

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Stroke: Window Menu

The Stroke Pallute and Options bar provide the options availabe for defining the thichnesses, conditions and ending of lines, paths, and borders
of objects and letters.

Swatches: Window Menu

Displays colors as well as allows the selection of colors for the foreground or background color. Colors displayed in the foreground can be added to the swatch
panel through the Color Picker by clicking on the color swatch on the toolbar.
Options are available by clicking on the black arrow
in the upper right
corner of the panel. Options include the library of colors as well as changes to
the size, type of the swatch thumbnails.

Toning Tools: Toolbar

Dodge Tool lightens areas that are too dark to display details. Options for this
tool allows lightening to occur only to Highlights, Midtones or Shadows. A specific brush size can be selected along with the intensity of the dodge effect. Low
intensity levels is recommended to allow the results to blend with the rest of the
image as well as the selection of a brush with soft edges.
The Burn-in tool darkens faded areas in an image when too light. See the options for the Dodge tool.

Transform Menu Selections

The Sponge tool can be used to diminish or intensify colors in an image area.
Options include brush size, intensity, saturate or desaturate, and airbrush feature activation.

Transform: Edit Menu

The Transform tools scale, rotate, skew, and distort an image. The area you wish to
transform must be selected first. Double-click in the center of the area selected
and transformed to accept the changes.

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Some Color Modes for Brush, Paint

Bucket, Pencil tools, etc.

Normal: Colors the pixels to match the foreground color.

Dissolve: Colors pixels to match the foreground color in a

random dot pattern. The lower the opacity, the less area
is covered.

Behind: Only colors the transparent areas of the image.

Darken: Only effects colors that are lighter than the one
being applied.

Multiply: Darkens colors as if you painted with

watercolors.

Color Burn: Darkens the areas containing the

foreground color.

Lighten: Only effects colors that are darker than the one
being applied.

Screen: Lighten the areas containing the foreground color.

Color Dodge: Lightens the areas containing the
foreground color.

Overlay: Darkens dark colors and lightens light colors.

Soft Light: Softens the color.

Hard Light: Intensifies the color.

Difference: Creates a photo-negative effect.

Exclusion: Makes backs white, whites black and medium

colors gray.

Hue: Shifts the hues of certain colors.

Saturation: Intensify the colors.

Color: Colorizes grayscale images or changes the color of

portion of RGB images.

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Image Formats:

PSD - Photoshop's default file format. Supports all of the features Photoshop provides. NOTE: Most applications will not support PSD.
TIFF - Tag Image File Format. One of the few file formats supported both by most
Windows and Macintosh programs, but not all. Can be compressed with LZW
Compression.
EPS - Encapsulated PostScript. PostScript is a page-description language used by
LaserWriters, and others printers. An EPS image takes up about three times as
much space as the same image saved in the TIFF format - even more if the TIFF
image is compressed. EPS is used by high-end professionals.
GIF - Only supports 256 colors. Non-lossy compression format. Works best for images composed of solid colors. Available through the Save for Web command
under the File Menu. Most often used for Web Graphics.
JPEG - Supports thousands of colors. Is a lossy compression format. Compresses files
by removing data. Provides a range of compressions. Best for continuous tone
images, such as a photograph. Available through the Save for Web command
under the File Menu. Most often used for Web Graphics. NOTE: If using this
file format keep the file in the PSD format until you have finished adjusting the
image and then save as JPEG.

Quick Keys for Photoshop CS3

Shortcuts

Brush Tool....................................................................... B
Crop Too......................................................................... C
Eraser Tool...................................................................... E
Marquee Tool................................................................. M
Pen Tool........................................................................... P
Rubber Stamp Tool........................................................ S
Text Tool.......................................................................... T
Magic Wand Tool........................................................... W
Line Tool......................................................................... U
Move Tool....................................................................... V (or Command)
Medicine Dropper......................................................... Option (drawing
tools)................................................................................
Layers palette................................................................. F7
Picker palette.................................................................. F6
All palette and toolbox................................................. Tab

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Navigation Tricks
Scroll image.................................................................... spacebar-drag
Zoom in........................................................................... -spacebar-click
Zoom in and change window size.............................. -plus
Zoom out........................................................................ Option-spacebar-click
Zoom out and change window size .......................... -minus

Painting and Editing Tricks

Increase brush size.........................................................]
Select largest brush size.................................................Shift-]
Decrease brush size........................................................[
Select smallest brush size..............................................Shift-[
Change opacity of tool...................................................1, ..., 9, 0
Paint or edit in straight lines.........................................click, shift-click
Finger paint with smudge tool.....................................Option-drag

Crop Boundary Tricks

KEY OPTION NOTES:
Creating Straight lines:

If you are using a the Brush, Pencil Tool, or erasor tools, holding down the SHIFT key
after you start a line and then clicking the mouse produces a straight line connecting
the two points.

Constraining a Regular Shape:

To draw or select an area that is a perfect sqaure, circle as well as draw a line horizontally, vertically or at a 45 degree angle, hold down the SHIFT key when dragging the
mouse.

Changing to the Eye-Dropper:

If you wish to select a color from a picture, pressing the OPTION key will temporarily
change to the EYE-DROPPER tool.

Switching Between Background and Foreground Color:

Pressing the letter "X" switches the background and foreground colors.
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Rotate crop boundary...................................................Option-drag corner handle

Move crop boundary....................................................-drag corner handle