Introduction to adobe photoshop

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Here I will tell you how to handle all the tools available in Adobe Photoshop in step by step manner. I want to make you pretty sure that you will be able to handle all the tools available in the Photoshop.

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Some Photoshop Effects

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Some Technical and Boring stuff

Adobe Photoshop is a raster graphics editor developed and published by Adobe Systems for Windows and Mac OS. Photoshop was created in 1988 by Thomas and John Knoll.

Adobe Photoshop provides users with professional-quality design tools for graphic artists. This app brings a sleeker user interface that previous iterations of the series. The app also provides additional tool sets, and greater flexibility.

      Key features:

• Vector illustration & page layout.

• Versatile drawing and tracing tools.

• Professional photo editing.

• Easy website design.

Adobe Photoshop provides a range of workspaces, ranging from lite to familiar. The app also allows for custom setups. The layouts are very similar to Photoshop and Illustrator in many ways, so Adobe users should find no issues.

Photoshop Tools

When you load Photoshop, then you will see a sidebar with a variety of tools and multiple image-editing functions will also be appearing to the left of the screen. These tools typically fall under the categories of drawing; painting; measuring and navigation; selection; typing; and retouching.

On observing this tools icon, you will see that some tools contain a small triangle in the bottom right of the toolbox icon. These means that these single tools contain category of similar tools or you can say some extra features provided in that single unique tool. 

There are new version available for Photoshop every year. Every newer versions of Photoshop are updated to include some new tools and features.But several recurring tools or you can say the basic tools that are available in the most of versions are listed below.

  
  1. Pen tool
  2. Eraser tool
  3. Magic wand tool
  4. Slicing tool
  5. Moving tool
  6. Shape tools
  7. Cropping
  8. Video editing tool
  9. Measuring and navigation
10. Marquee tool
11. Lasso tool
12. Color replacement tool

13. Quick selection tool

14. Camera Raw

Small description of Some important tools

Pen tool

Pen tool is a self explanatory from its name. Photoshop includes a few versions of the pen tool. The pen tool creates precise paths that can be manipulated using anchor points. 

There are some versions of pen tools available in photoshop like the following:
1. Free form pen tool: Free form pen tool allows the user to draw paths                                               freehand. 
2. Magnetic pen tool: Magnetic pen tool allows you to draws path attaches                                          closely to outlines of objects in an image, which is                                            useful for isolating them from a background.

Eraser

The Eraser tool erases content based on the active layer. If the user is on the text layer, then any text across which the tool is dragged will be erased. The eraser will convert the pixels to transparent, unless the background layer is selected. The size and style of the eraser can be selected in the options bar. This tool is unique in that it can take the form of the paintbrush and pencil tools. In addition to the straight eraser tool, there are two more available options – background eraser and magic eraser. The background eraser deletes any part of the image that is on the edge of an object. This tool is often used to extract objects from the background. The magic eraser tool deletes based on similar colored pixels. It is very similar to the magic wand tool. This tool is ideal for deleting areas with the same color or tone that contrasts with the rest of the image.

Magic wand

The magic wand tool selects areas based on pixels of similar values. One click will select all neighboring pixels of similar value within a tolerance level set by the user. If the eyedropper tool is selected in the options bar, then the magic wand can determine the value needed to evaluate the pixels; this is based on the sample size setting in the eyedropper tool. This tool is inferior to the quick selection tool which works much the same but with much better results and more intuitive controls. The user must decide what settings to use or if the image is right for this tool.

Slicing

The "slice" and slice select tools, like the crop tool, are used in isolating parts of images. The slice tool can be used to divide an image into different sections, and these separate parts can be used as pieces of a web page design once HTML and CSS are applied.The slice select tool allows sliced sections of an image to be adjusted and shifted

Moving

The move tool can be used to drag the entirety of a single layer or more if they are selected. Alternatively, once an area of an image is highlighted, the movetool can be used to manually relocate the selected piece to anywhere on the canvas.[

Shape tools

Photoshop provides an array of shape tools including rectangles, rounded rectangles, ellipses, polygons and lines. These shapes can be manipulated by the pen tool, direct selection tool etc. to make vector graphics.

Cropping

The crop tool can be used to select a particular area of an image and discard the portions outside the chosen section. This tool assists in creating a focus point on an image and excluding unnecessary or excess space.Cropping allows enhancement of a photo’s composition while decreasing the file size. The "crop" tool is in the tools palette, which is located on the right side of the document. By placing the cursor over the image, the user can drag the cursor to the desired area. Once the Enter key is pressed, the area outside the rectangle will be cropped. The area outside the rectangle is the discarded data, which allows for the file size to be decreased.The "crop" tool can alternatively be used to extend the canvas size by clicking and dragging outside the existing image borders.

Video editing

In Adobe CS5 Extended edition, video editing is comprehensive and efficient with a broad compatibility of video file formats such as MOV, AVI, MPEG-4, andFLV formats and easy workflow. Using simple combination of keys video layers can easily be modified, with other features such as adding text and the creation of animations using single images

Moving

The move tool can be used to drag the entirety of a single layer or more if they are selected. Alternatively, once an area of an image is highlighted, the move tool can be used to manually relocate the selected piece to anywhere on the canvas

Measuring and navigation

The eyedropper tool selects a color from an area of the image that is clicked, and samples it for future use.The hand tool navigates an image by moving it in any direction, and the zoom tool enlarges the part of an image that is clicked on, allowing for a closer view.

Marquee

The marquee tool can make selections that are single row, single column, rectangular and elliptical. An area that has been selected can be edited without affecting the rest of the image. This tool can also crop an image; it allows for better control. In contrast to the crop tool, the "marquee" tool allows for more adjustments to the selected area before cropping. The only marquee tool that does not allow cropping is the elliptical. Although the single row and columnmarquee tools allow for cropping, they are not ideal, because they only crop a line. The rectangular marquee tool is the preferred option. Once the tool has been selected, dragging the tool across the desired area will select it. The selected area will be outlined by dotted lines, referred to as "marching ants". These dotted lines are called "marching ants", because the dashes look like ants marching around the selected area. To set a specific size or ratio, the tool option bar provides these settings. Before selecting an area, the desired size or ratio must be set by adjusting the width and height. Any changes such as color, filters, location, etc. should be made before cropping. To crop the selection, the user must go to image tab and select crop

Lasso

The lasso tool is similar to the "marquee" tool, however, the user can make a custom selection by drawing it freehand.There are three options for the "lasso" tool – regular, polygonal, and magnetic. The regular "lasso" tool allows the user to have drawing capabilities. Photoshop will complete the selection once the mouse button is released. The user may also complete the selection by connecting the end point to the starting point. The "marching ants" will indicate if a selection has been made. The "polygonal lasso" tool will draw only straight lines, which makes it an ideal choice for images with many straight lines. Unlike the regular "lasso" tool, the user must continually click around the image to outline the shape. To complete the selection, the user must connect the end point to the starting point just like the regular lasso tool. "Magnetic lasso" tool is considered the smart tool. It can do the same as the other two, but it can also detect the edges of an image once the user selects a starting point. It detects by examining the color pixels as the cursor move over the desired area. A pixel is the smallest element in an image. Closing the selection is the same as the other two, which should also should display the "marching ants" once the selection has been closed.

Quick selection

The quick selection tool selects areas based on edges, similarly to the magnetic lasso tool. The difference between this tool and the lasso tool is that there is no starting and ending point. Since there isn’t a starting and ending point, the selected area can be added onto as much as possible without starting over. By dragging the cursor over the desired area, the quick selection tool detects the edges of the image. The "marching ants" allow the user to know what is currently being selected. Once the user is done, the selected area can be edited without affecting the rest of the image. One of the features that makes this tool especially user friendly is that the SHIFT key is not needed to add more to the selection; by default, extra mouse clicks will be added to the selection rather than creating a new selection.

3D extrusion

With the Extended version of Photoshop CS5, 2D elements of an artwork can easily become three-dimensional with the click of a button. Extrusions of texts, an available library of materials for three-dimensional, and even wrapping two-dimensional images around 3D geometry.

Mobile integration

Third-party plugins have also been added to the most recent version of Photoshop where technologies such as the iPad have integrated the software with different types of applications. Applications like the Adobe Eazel painting app allows the user to easily create paintings with their fingertips and use an array of different paint from dry to wet in order to create rich color blending.

Color replacement tool

The Color Replacement Tool allows you to change the color, while maintaining the highlights and shadows of the original image, of pieces of the image. By selecting Brushs and right clicking, the Color Replacement Tool is the third option down. What is important to note with this tool is the foreground color. The foreground color is what will be applied when painting along the chosen part of the image with the Color Replacement Tool

3D printing tools

Requiring Photoshop version 14.1 or later, users can create and edit designs for 3D printing. After downloading 3D photo models from numerous online services, users can add color, adjust the shape or rotate the angles. Artists can also design 3D models from scratch

Color replacement tool

The Color Replacement Tool allows you to change the color, while maintaining the highlights and shadows of the original image, of pieces of the image. By selecting Brushs and right clicking, the Color Replacement Tool is the third option down. What is important to note with this tool is the foreground color. The foreground color is what will be applied when painting along the chosen part of the image with the Color Replacement Tool

3D printing tools

Requiring Photoshop version 14.1 or later, users can create and edit designs for 3D printing. After downloading 3D photo models from numerous online services, users can add color, adjust the shape or rotate the angles. Artists can also design 3D models from scratch

Camera Raw

With the Camera Raw plug-in, raw images can be processed without the use of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, along with other image file formats such asJPEGs, TIFFs, or PNGs. The plug-in allows users to remove noise without the side-effect of over-sharpening, add grain, and even perform post-crop vignetting.

Versions History of Photoshop:

Adobe published thirteen versions (major and minor changes) before the October 2003 introduction of Creative Suite branding.

• ADOBE PHOTOSHOP CS
• ADOBE PHOTOSHOP CS2
• ADOBE PHOTOSHOP CS3
• ADOBE PHOTOSHOP CS4
• ADOBE PHOTOSHOP CS5
• ADOBE PHOTOSHOP CS6
• ADOBE PHOTOSHOP CC
• ADOBE PHOTOSHOP CC 2014
• ADOBE PHOTOSHOP CC 2015



ADOBE  PHOTOSHOP CS

The first Photoshop version CS was commercially released in October 2003 as the eighth major version of Photoshop

Major features of CS version :

1. Photoshop CS increased user control with a reworked file browser augmenting search versatility, sorting and sharing capabilities and the Histogram Palette which monitors changes in the image as they are made to the document.

2. Match Color was also introduced in CS, which reads color data to achieve a uniform expression throughout a series of pictures.

ADOBE PHOTOSHOP CS2

Photoshop CS2, released in May 2005 with some extra features and set of tools added in its predecessor version i.e CS .

Main tools and Features added in CS2

1. Upgraded Spot Healing Brush: Which is mainly used for handling common  photographic problems such as blemishes, red-eye, noise, blurring and lens  distortion.

2. Implementation of Smart Objects : One of the most significant inclusions in  CS2 , which allows users to scale and transform images and vector illustrations  without losing image quality, as well as create linked duplicates of embedded graphics so that a single edit updates across multiple iterations.

3. Vanishing Point and Image Warping tools : This two tools makes tedious  graphic and photo retouching endeavors much simpler by letting users clone,  paint and transform image objects while maintaining visual perspective. Image  Warping makes it easy to digitally distort an image into a shape by choosing  on-demand presets or by dragging control points.

4. Adobe Stock Photos, a new stock photography service provided by Adobe  Bridge that offered users one-stop shopping across five elite stock image  providers to deliver high-quality, royalty-free images for layout and design.

5. Camera Raw version 3.0: It was a new addition in CS2 that allowed settings  for multiple raw files to be modified simultaneously. In addition, processing  multiple raw files to other formats including JPEG, TIFF, DNG or PSD, could be  done in the background without executing Photoshop itself.

6. Ability to create their own custom presets: In CS2 users were also given the  ability to create their own custom presets, which was meant to save time and  increase productivity.

7. CS2 activation servers' shutdown

ADOBE PHOTOSHOP CS3

Smart Objects display filters without altering the original image (here on Mac OS X)CS3 improves on features from previous versions of Photoshop and introduces new tools. One of the most significant is the streamline interface which allows increased performance, speed, and efficiency. There is also improved support for Camera RAW files which allow users to process images with higher speed and conversion quality. CS3 supports over 150 RAW formats as well as JPEG, TIFF and PDF. Enhancements were made to the Black and White Conversion, Brightness and Contrast Adjustment and Vanishing Point Module tools. The Black and White adjustment option improves control over manual grayscale conversions with a dialog box similar to that of Channel Mixer. There is more control over print options and better management with Adobe Bridge. The Clone Source palette is introduced, adding more options to the clone stamp tool.Other features include the nondestructive Smart Filters, optimizing graphics for mobile devices,Fill Light and Dust Busting tools.Compositing is assisted with Photoshop's new Quick Selection and Refine Edge tools and improved image stitching technology.

CS3 Extended includes everything in CS3 and additional features. There are tools for 3D graphic file formats, video enhancement and animation, and comprehensive image measurement and analysis tools with DICOM file support.The 3D graphic formats allow 3D content to be incorporated into 2D compositions. As for video editing, CS3 supports layers and video formatting so users can edit video files per frame.

CS3 and CS3 Extended were released in April 2007 to the United States and Canada. They were also made available through Adobe’s online store and Adobe Authorized Resellers. Both CS3 and CS3 Extended are offered as either a stand-alone application or feature of Adobe Creative Suite. The price for CS3 is US$649 and the extended version is US$999. Both products are compatible with Intel-based Macs and PowerPCs, supporting Windows XPand Windows Vista.a CS3 is the first release of Photoshop that will run natively on Macs with Intel processors: previous versions can only run through the translation layer Rosetta, and will not run at all on Macs running OS X 10.7 or later.

ADOBE PHOTOSHOP CS4

CS4 features smoother panning and zooming, allowing faster image editing at a high magnification. The interface is more simplified with its tab-based interface making it cleaner to work with. Photoshop CS4 features a new 3D engine allowing the conversion of gradient maps to 3D objects, adding depth to layers and text, and getting print-quality output with the new ray-tracing rendering engine. It supports common 3D formats; the new Adjustment and Mask Panels; Content-aware scaling (seam carving); Fluid Canvas Rotation and File display options.The Content-aware scaling allows users to intelligently size and scale images,and the Canvas Rotation tool makes it easier to rotate and edit images from any angle.

Adobe released Photoshop CS4 Extended, which has the features of Adobe Photoshop CS4, plus capabilities for scientific imaging, 3D, motion graphics,[51]accurate image analysis[51] and high-end film and video users. The faster 3D engine allows users to paint directly on 3D models, wrap 2D images around 3D shapes and animate 3D objects. As the successor to Photoshop CS3, Photoshop CS4 is the first x64 edition of Photoshop on consumer computers for Windows. The color correction tool has also been improved significantly.

CS4 and CS4 Extended were released on 15 October 2008. They were also made available through Adobe’s online store and Adobe Authorized Resellers.Both CS4 and CS4 Extended are offered as either a stand-alone application or feature of Adobe Creative Suite. The price for CS4 is US$699 and the extended version is US$999 Both products are compatible with Intel-based Mac OS X and PowerPCs, supporting Windows XP and Windows Vista.

ADOBE PHOTOSHOP CS5

A 2D landscape designed in Adobe Photoshop CS5 Extended .Photoshop CS5 was launched on 12 April 2010.In a video posted on its official Facebook page, the development team revealed the new technologies under development, including three-dimensional brushes and warping tools.

In May 2011, Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 (CS5.5) was released, with new versions of some of the applications. Its version of Photoshop, 12.1, is identical to the concurrently released update for Photoshop CS5, version 12.0.4, except for support for the new subscription pricing that was introduced with CS5.5.

CS5 introduces new tools such as the Content-Aware Fill, Refine Edge, Mixer Brush, Bristle Tips and Puppet Warp.The community also had a hand in the additions made to CS5 as 30 new features and improvements were included by request.These include automatic image straightening, the Rule-of-Thirds cropping tool, color pickup, and saving a 16-bit image as a JPEG. Another feature includes the Adobe Mini Bridge, which allows for efficient file browsing and management.

CS5 Extended includes everything in CS5 plus features in 3D and video editing. A new materials library was added, providing more options such as Chrome, Glass, and Cork.The new Shadow Catcher tool can be used to further enhance 3D objects.For motion graphics, the tools can be applied to over more than one frame in a video sequence.

CS5 and CS5 Extended were made available through Adobe's online store, Adobe Authorized Resellers and Adobe direct sales. Both CS5 and CS5 Extended are offered as either a stand-alone application or a feature of Adobe Creative Suite 5. The price for CS5 is US$699 and the extended version is US$999.Both products are compatible with Intel-based Mac OS and Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7.

ADOBE PHOTOSHOP CS6

Photoshop CS6, released in May 2012, added new creative design tools and provided a redesigned interface with a focus on enhanced performance. New features have been added to the Content-Aware tool such as the Content-Aware Patch and Content-Aware Move.

Adobe Photoshop CS6 brought a suite of tools for video editing. Color and exposure adjustments, as well as layers, are among a few things that are featured in this new editor. Upon completion of editing, the user is presented with a handful of options of exporting into a few popular formats.

CS6 brings the "straighten" tool to Photoshop, where a user simply draws a line anywhere on an image, and the canvas will reorient itself so that the line drawn becomes horizontal, and adjusts the media accordingly. This was created with the intention that users will draw a line parallel to a plane in the image, and reorient the image to that plane to more easily achieve certain perspectives.

CS6 allows background saving, which means that while another document is compiling and archiving itself, it is possible to simultaneously edit an image.CS6 also features a customizable auto-save feature, preventing any work from being lost.

The price for CS6 is US$699 and the extended version is US$999. Students, however, even those who are homeschooled, can receive a significant discount on Photoshop.

With the newest Photoshop version 13.1.3, Adobe has dropped support for Windows XP (even on native x64 for Windows XP x64); thus, the last version that works on Windows XP is 13.0.1. Adobe also announced that it will quit selling perpetual licenses to new creative suite packages, but will continue to support Photoshop CS6 for OS compatibility and will provide bug fixes and security updates as necessary.

ADOBE PHOTOSHOP CC

Photoshop CC (14.0) was launched on 18 June 2013. As the next major version after CS6, it is only available as part of a Creative Cloud subscription, the full version of which costs $49 every month. Major features in this version include All-new Smart Sharpen, Intelligent Upsampling, and Camera Shake Reduction for reducing blur caused by camera shake. Editable Rounded Rectangles and an update to Adobe Camera Raw (8.0) were also included.

Since the initial launch, Adobe has released two additional feature-bearing updates. The first, version 14.1, was launched on 9 September 2013. The major features in this version were Adobe Generator, a Node.js-based platform for creating plug-ins for Photoshop. Photoshop 14.1 shipped with two plug-ins, one to automatically generate image assets based on an extension in the layer name, and another to automatically generate assets for Adobe Edge Reflow.

Version 14.2 was released on 15 January 2014. Major features include Perspective Warp, Linked Smart Objects, and 3D Printing support.

ADOBE PHOTOSHOP CC 2014

Photoshop CC 2014 (15.0) was released on 18 June 2014. CC 2014 features improvements to content-aware tools, two new blur tools (spin blur and path blur) and a new focus mask feature that enables the user to select parts of an image based on whether they are in focus or not. Other minor improvements have been made, including speed increases for certain tasks.

ADOBE PHOTOSHOP CC 2015

Photoshop CC 2015 was released on 15 June 2015. Adobe added several features including Adobe Stock, which is a library of custom stock images. They also added the ability to have more than one layer style, for example in the older versions of Photoshop, only one shadow could be used for a layer but in CC 2015, up to ten are available. Other minor features like Export As, which is a form of the Save For Web in CC 2014 were also added. CC 2015 also marks the 25th anniversary of Photoshop.

ADOBE PHOTOSHOP TOUCH

Photoshop Touch was an application designed specifically for tablets and touchscreen devices. It included many of the features of the personal computer version, including layers, selection tools, adjustments, and filters. Edited files could be synced with Adobe Creative Cloud. Photoshop touch was available on iOS and Android. There were two iOS versions—one designed for iPad and the other for iPhone and iPod touch; both required iOS 5.0 or later. Android versions could be installed on any Android handset (4.0 and up) and tablets (3.1 and up). It has since been discontinued