Feb 1

In PhotoShop, there is a special interactive Palette Options. In the Options palette, you can adjust the settings for any instrument, with each instrument will have its own set of parameters. To set a specific tool you must first select it in the tool palette. Then gain Options palette set the options settings for the selected tool.

Options Palette at the top of the window Photoshop, immediately below the main menu. Palette can be moved around the screen, but it is better to leave it in place. In earlier versions of Adobe Photoshop deployed Options panel in the form of a floating palette, but now, this palette is nice.
Here is an example of how the palette looks like this for Brush Tool:

Options palette in Adobe Photoshop
You can enable or disable the display palette Options using the Options item in the menu Window.

Jan 29

Create a new document.

To create a new file can be used in several ways:

1) Traditionally - the main menu: File -> New.
2) The combination of keys Control N.
3) Hold the Control key, double-click on the working field of the window.
In all cases, after the above-mentioned actions have a dialog box, creating a new image.

Create new document in Adobe Photoshop

Generally the contents of the window is divided into two blocs:

1) The section describes the size and characteristics of the picture.
2) Section with info about the contents of the picture.

The first section indicates the height and width of the image created, the resolution and color model describes created picture. The size of image can be specified in different units of measurement, using the popup menu, which is located right of the size box. An interesting fact is the dependency file size from image size. By changing the numbers in the fields Width and Heght can easily see that while increasing the size of the figure is increasing, and the initial file size. There are several options to describe the colors in the picture. This topic will be addressed in next topics, but currently recommend setting mode RGB. Section Contents allows you to set the background color of the created image.
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Jan 27

Let’s get acquainted with the general principles of work with the interface of Adobe Photoshop. The following figure shows the interface elements (in the latest version of photoshop interface little changed for the better, so you havent problems with it).

Adobe Photoshop Interface

In the left part of your screen, placed a Toolbar. Tools in Photoshop quite a lot, so they are grouped. In order to activate a tool icon is visible on the screen, click on it. Near some of the pictograms is a small arrow. If you click on it, it opens pop-up palette, which contains tools that are included in the group.

Adobe Photoshop Tools palette

Main elements are located in the so-called floating palettes, which are also connected to the group. Each palette is a tab and has a label with the name. Switching between palettes, is click on the appropriate label palette. In addition to the visual elements in the palette, there is the options menu, which can cause a push of a button, located in the upper right corner of the palette. In the options menu palette, you can choose commands for the current palette and call setup palette point Palette Options. Palettes and their groups can be placed anywhere on the screen. There is also the possibility of combining the palette at their own discretion. You just need to drag the label of one palette to another palette. If you have the desire to leave the palette on the screen alone, it should be easy to drag anywhere on the screen, with the exception of other palettes.

Adobe Photoshop palettes

Example:

1) On the right side of the main window are four palettes. Access to individual palettes ensured their labels. Do click on the label Actions in the top third group palettes, and it would be on top of the palette History.
2) Move cursor to the label Palette Actions.
3) Click the left mouse button.
4) Not releasing the mouse button, move the cursor outside the window palette. The current situation Actions palette will retain a thin line of circuit.
5) When the cursor will be outside the History palette, release the mouse button. Palettes will be divided.
6) Do the reverse operation: drag the Actions palette for her label, entered the History palette. Palettes will be grouped again.
To remove a palette from the screen, simply click on the button of its closure. The first time the palette you will regularly disappear :-). This is due to the temporary lack of skills to work with the program. Especially upset is not because the palette is very easy to restore the screen.
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Jan 24
Hello! I know that you will find my blog. Therefore, I begin to write the lessons about Adobe Photoshop and computer graphics.
Today we’ll talk about the vector and raster graphics. Why is that? To understand what is - Adobe Photoshop. Adobe Photoshop - graphics editor of raster (bitmap) images, with elements of the vector and 3D graphics.
Vector images are composed of units or the curves of mathematical description, ie have only a mathematical essence, the parametric curves of the third order, called Curves Bize. Do not boggle so scary and promising title. In the graphic editors, who work with vector graphics, Bize curves are presented in a visually tangible contours managed to completely visually. Despite the fact that Photoshop editor, especially designed to work with raster graphics, vector graphics present it as an integral part.
The method for constructing raster images are absolutely different from the vector representation. Raster images are composed of a grid of points, which is called the raster. This feature not only the construction of a digital environment. If you see the screen or TV then notice that the image is made up of small dots, called pixels, from the English expression of picture element (pixels). At the core of a human Raster graphics is a simple illusion. Because the pixels are smaller, the eye does not perceive them separately, he already sees the whole picture as a whole.
This will end up about graphics and move on to the next lesson, which I will devote the interface of Adobe Photoshop