This section introduces the first knowledge of photoshop software and what you can do with photoshop.

Photoshop is one of the most famous image processing software of Adobe.

PS startup interface

. Most people's understanding of PHOTOSHOP is limited to "a good picture editing software", but they don't know many of its applications. In fact, Photoshop has a wide range of applications, including images, graphics, text, video, publishing and so on.

After startup, it will enter the working interface of Photoshop, which consists of the following parts:

title bar

The Photoshop logo is located at the top of the main window, on the far left, and the minimize, maximize/restore and close buttons are on the right.

Property bar (also known as tool options bar)

After selecting a tool, the property bar will become the property setting option of the corresponding tool, and the corresponding option can be changed.

menu bar

The menu bar provides menu control for all windows in the whole environment, including: file, edit, image, layer, selection, filter, view, window and help.

There are two ways to execute all commands in Photoshop, one is menu, and the other is shortcut key.

Image editing window

The middle window is the image window, which is the main workspace of Photoshop and used to display image files. The image window has its own title bar, which provides basic information of opening files, such as file name, zoom ratio, color mode, etc.

If two images are open at the same time, you can switch by clicking the image window.

You can use Ctrl+Tab to switch image windows.

status bar

At the bottom of the main window is the status bar, which consists of three parts:

The rightmost line of (1) is a text line, which explains the functions, functions and operations of the currently selected tool.

(2) On the left is the zoom bar, which shows the display ratio of the current image window. Users can also enter values in this window and press Enter to change the display scale.

(3) There is a preview box in the middle. Click the black triangle button on the right to open the pop-up menu. Select any command and the corresponding information will be displayed in the preview box.

File size: indicates the file size of the currently displayed image. The number on the left shows the size of the image without any data (such as layers and channels), and the number on the right shows the total file size of the current image.

File Profile: The color mode of the file will be displayed on the status bar.

Document Size: The size (width and height) of the document will be displayed in the status file.

Scratch disk size: used and available memory size.

Efficiency: represents the working efficiency of Photoshop. Less than 60% indicates that the computer hard disk may not meet the requirements.

Timing: the time taken to perform the last operation.

Current Tool: the currently selected tool.

Toolbox

The tools in the toolbox can be used to select, draw, edit and view images.

Drag the title bar of the toolbox to move it.

Click the selected tool, and the property bar will display the properties of the tool.

Some tools have a small triangle symbol in the lower right corner, indicating that there is a tool group at the tool location, including several related tools.

control panel

There are 14 panels, which can be displayed by "window/display".

Press the Tab key to automatically hide the command panel, property bar and toolbox, and press the key again to display the above components.

Press Shift+Tab to hide the control panel and keep the toolbox [3 1]

Functionally, the software can be divided into image editing, image synthesis, color correction and special effects production. Image editing is the basis of image processing, which can perform various transformations on images, such as enlargement, reduction, rotation, tilt, mirror image and perspective. You can also copy, remove spots, repair and modify damaged images. This is very useful in wedding photography and portrait processing. It can remove the dissatisfied parts of portraits and beautify them, and get very satisfactory results.

Image synthesis is to combine several images into a complete image with clear meaning through layer operation and tool application, which is the only way for art design; The drawing tools provided by the software make foreign images and ideas blend together well, making it possible to combine images seamlessly.

Tone and color correction is one of the powerful functions in the software, which can adjust and correct the brightness and color deviation of images conveniently and quickly, and can also switch between different colors to meet the application of images in different fields such as web design, printing and multimedia.

The production of special effects in this software is mainly accomplished through the comprehensive application of filters, channels and tools. Including the creation of image special effects and the production of special effects characters, such as oil painting, relief painting, plaster painting, sketch and other commonly used traditional artistic skills can be completed through this software. The emergence of various special characters is the reason why many artists are keen on this software research. [32] Professional evaluation of specific functions

PHOTOSHOP has a wide range of applications, including image processing, video and publishing. Photoshop's specialty lies in image processing, not graphic creation; It is necessary to distinguish these two concepts; Image processing is the editing and processing of existing bitmap images and the application of some special effects, with emphasis on image processing; Graphic creation software uses vector graphics to design graphics according to its own ideas. This kind of software mainly includes Illustrator, another famous software of Adobe Company, and the president of FreehandMacromedia Company. Photoshop Creative Suite 5.5 is now available. [33]

Art of binding and design

Graphic design is the most widely used field of PHOTOSHOP. Whether it's the cover of the book we are reading, or the posters and posters we see on the street, these rich graphic prints basically need PHOTOSHOP software to process the images.

Repair photos

PHOTOSHOP has powerful image modification function. Using these functions, you can quickly repair a broken old photo, and you can also repair defects such as spots on people's faces. With the popularity of digital electronic products, graphic image processing technology is gradually applied by more and more people, such as beautifying our photos, making personalized photo albums, repairing damaged pictures and so on.

Advertising photography

Advertising photography is a kind of work with very strict visual requirements, and its final product often needs to be modified by PHOTOSHOP to get satisfactory results. The conception of advertisement is closely related to the form of expression. If you have a good idea, you need to do it through software. Most advertisements are done through image synthesis and special effects technology. Through these technical means, the theme of the advertisement can be expressed more accurately.

packaging design

As the first image of products, packaging is first presented to customers and is called "silent salesman". Only after customers are attracted by the product packaging and consult, will they decide whether to buy or not. It can be seen that packaging design is very important.

The application of image synthesis and special effects makes the products more conspicuous on exquisite shelves and attracts customers. As you can see, there are several excellent packaging designs.

Illustration design

Photoshop lets many people use cg animation design tools to create illustrations. The software function of Cg animation makes their creative talent play a greater role. Whether it is simple or complex, whether it is traditional media effects, such as oil painting, watercolor, printmaking style or the endless new changes and new interests of digital graphics, it can be completed more conveniently and quickly.

Image creativity

Image creativity is PHOTOSHOP's specialty. Through PHOTOSHOP processing, you can combine unrelated objects, or you can use the method of "changing civet cats for princes" to make the images unrecognizable.

Artistic writing

When the text encounters PHOTOSHOP processing, it is doomed to be no longer ordinary. PHOTOSHOP can be used to make various changes to the text, and these artistically processed words can be used to increase the effect of the image. Creative design of characters with Photoshop can make them more beautiful, have strong personality and greatly enhance their appeal.

webpage making

The popularity of the Internet is an important reason why more people need to master PHOTOSHOP. Because PHOTOSHOP is an indispensable web page image processing software when making web pages.

Late modification

When making architectural renderings including many three-dimensional scenes, it is often necessary to add and adjust the colors of people and scenes in PHOTOSHOP.

draw

Because PHOTOSHOP has good painting and color matching functions, many illustrators often draw sketches with pencils, and then use PHOTOSHOP to fill in colors to draw illustrations.

In addition, the pixel paintings that are very popular in recent years are mostly used by designers.

PS renderings (5 photos)

P. The works created by animation design are very popular in recent years, and more and more fans join the ranks of animation design. The powerful function of Photoshop software makes it have an irreplaceable position in the animation field, and it is inseparable from the initial image setting to the final rendering output. As shown in figure 1-25, it is a famous animation design work.

(PS renderings photo album source: [34-38])

Processing three-dimensional sticker

In 3D software, if you can make a good model, you can't put realistic stickers on the model, and you can't get a good rendering effect. In fact, when making materials, it is very important not only to rely on the material function of the software itself, but also to use PHOTOSHOP to make suitable materials that cannot be obtained in three-dimensional software.

Wedding photo design

At present, more and more wedding photo studios begin to use digital cameras, which also makes the processing of wedding photo design become a new industry.

Visual creativity

Visual creativity and design is a branch of design art, which usually has no obvious commercial purpose, but because it provides a broad design space for design lovers, more and more design lovers begin to learn PHOTOSHOP and carry out visual creativity with personal characteristics and styles. Visual design gives viewers a strong visual impact, arouses viewers' infinite association and gives readers a high visual enjoyment. The main tool for making this kind of works is Photoshop.

Icon manufacturer

Although using PHOTOSHOP to make icons feels a bit overqualified, the icons made with this software are really beautiful.

interface design

Interface design is a new field, which is paid more and more attention by software enterprises and developers. Although it has not yet become a brand-new profession, I believe there will be a professional interface designer profession soon. There is no professional interface design software at present, so most designers use this software.

The 13 field of software application is listed above, but in fact, its application is more than that. For example, as of 20 1 1, the software is also applied to film and television post-production and two-dimensional animation production.

If you surf the Internet frequently, you will see that many interfaces are designed simply and look comfortable. Some interfaces are also very creative, which can bring visual impact to people. Interface design should not only be creative in appearance to achieve attractive purposes, but also combine the relevant principles of graphics and layout design, thus making interface design a unique art.

In order to make the interface effect meet people's requirements, designers need to use graphic synthesis and other effects in the interface design, and then use special effects to make it more beautiful. [39] Toolbox 1, Toolbox, which can be a long horizontal bar or a short parallel bar.

2. The quick mask mode and screen switching mode on the toolbox have also changed the switching mode.

3. There is a group selection mode in the tool selection options of the toolbox. You can choose a group or a single layer by yourself.

4. Quick Selection Tool Quick Selection Tool is added to the toolbox. By using the quick version of the magic wand, you can add and select areas without any shortcut keys. It's amazing that holding it down can select areas like painting. Of course, there are three modes to choose from in the Options Bar: New, Plus and Minus. It will be very intuitive and quick to quickly select pictures with large chromatic aberration. [40]