Adobe Photoshop 6

Intermediate Level Course

Resizing

• When resizing an image for printing, a higher resolution will translate into a sharper image with a much greater clarity.

Rotating

• Rotate your image clockwise, counter-clockwise, spin around or enter a specific value to position your image after scanning.

Flipping

• Flip your image horizontally or vertically to position as required.

Selection Transformations

• The Free Transform submenu allows you to scale, flip, rotate, slant, distort and move a selection or layer in one continuous operation.

Liquify

• The Liquify command allows you to paint and erase distortions inside a separate window. The image can be dragged to warp, shift, twirl, expand, contract and even copy pixels.

Applying Masks

• A With a mask, you can create free-form selections, select areas of color and generate precise selections.

Quick Mask

• The Quick Mask mode is the fastest and most straightforward environment for creating a mask.

Layer Masks

• Layers offer special masking options in their own regard.

Manipulating Type

• Type cannot only be filled with color, but also with pictures.

Creating Paths

• Regular pen tool, a path is built by creating individual anchor points.

Editing Paths

• After creating a path, it can be selected or edited by using the Path component selection tool (black arrow) or the Direct selection tool (white arrow) .

Using Paths

• Various other options allow you to use Paths by turning them into selections, Filling and Stroking them with color and shading once they have been created.

Sharpen Filters

• Sharpen, Sharpen Edges and Sharpen More filters allow you focus blurry images to improve the image clarity.

Blur Filters

• Six different Blurring Filters allow you to apply various degrees and techniques of blurring: Blur, Blur More, Gaussian Blur, Motion Blur, Radial Blur and Smart Blur filters.

Artistic Filters

• Various Artistic Filters allow you to achieve a feeling of a natural painting, or apply a special effect to an image.

Brush Stroke Filters

• Brush Stroke Filters allow you to apply various brush and ink stroke effects to give your image a painterly or fine-arts look.

Sketch Filters

• Various Sketch Filters are used to add texture to images, often for a 3D effect.

Distort Filters

• Various Distort Filters are used to distort an image, to create 3D or

other reshaping effects.

Pixelate Filters

• Various Pixelate Filters are used to sharply define a selection by clumping pixels of similar color values in cells.

Stylize Filters

• Various Stylize filters produce a painted or impressionistic effect on a selection by displacing pixels and by finding and heightening contrast in an image.

Preparing the Image

• From the main menu, choose Edit > Color Settings to open the Color Settings dialog box.

Printing the Image

• The Pint dialog box allows you to prepare your printer to for printing.