Intro to Photoshop

Welcome back! Hope you had a great break. We are going to dive into Photoshop this semester - where your wildest dreams will come true.

What is Photoshop?
What are File Extensions?
Create folders in G: Drive

On your own watch:
Workspace
Changing the Photoshop view
Zoom tool
Adobe Bridge101
Layers 101
Layer vs Background

PART 1:
Today, USING YOUR OWN PHOTOGRAPHS, you will be experimenting in Adobe Photoshop to create 4 edited images using tools and techniques you discovered while exploring the program. Feel free to experiment and discover tools in the program you have not used... this is your chance to 'get cray' in Photoshop.

Here are some sites to check out that have information on what certain tools & filters in Photoshop do and where they can be found:
Photoshop Tool Bar | Photoshop Filters | Photoshop Adjustments | Photoshop Blending Modes | Using Layer Masks | Corrections using layer masks | 

Save your work in your Desktop in a new folder called 'PSD Tech' as photo1.psd, photo2.psd, photo3.psd & photo4.psd  MAKE SURE TO SAVE THEM AS PHOTOSHOP FILES (PSD)

Ethics of Photoshop Retouching:

1. Ethics in the Age of Digital
2. OJ Simpson - TIME Magazine
3. Pelosi defends altered photo
4. Historic Altering
5. Photoshop Disasters - blog
6. 'Fotoshop by Adobe' youtube
7. Photoshop Retouching 1
8. Photoshop Retouching 2