Adobe Photoshop

Adobe Photoshop

 Basic Information

Photoshop started the digital image manipulation revolution, and Adobe’s groundbreaking application continues to fortify its position as the best photo editing software on the planet.

Primary Use:

• [General] Layered image editing, including typography, 3D modeling, and Drawing
• [Faculty] Presentation, Projects, Infographics
• [Students] Projects, Graphic designs, Presentation

Key Features:

• Layers palette, you can draw or design various elements of your document independently in layers and stack them up as per the order of display.
• Selection tools make life easy for photographers, Graphic designers and every professional that is associated with multimedia.
• Pen tool by nature works for drawing paths along with the anchor points, the creative scope it provides is limitless.
• In Adobe CS5 Extended edition, video editing is comprehensive and efficient with a broad compatibility of video file formats such as MOV, AVI and MPEG-4 formats and easy workflow.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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 as JPEG, TIFF, or PNG. The plug-in allows users to remove noise without the side-effect of over-sharpening, add grain, and even perform post-crop vignetting.
• Users can create and edit designs for 3D printing. Artists can add color, adjust the shape or rotate the angles of imported models, or design original 3D models from scratch.
• The Color Replacement Tool allows the user to change the color, while maintaining the highlights and shadows of the original image, of pieces of the image.

Adobe Photoshop CC Beginner Tutorial Introduction

Category: Infographic Tool

Keywords: Graphic design, Infographic, Photo Editing

 Detailed Information

Full Description:

Adobe Photoshop Express is an app for photo editing and collage making with many features tuned to social media sharing. It’s loaded with features, including standards like Instagram-like filters and effects, blemish and red-eye removers, color/brightness/exposure adjustments, borders, text overlays, and collage templates. Tools are arranged along the top and bottom of the screen; each has a handy slider to adjust the desired effect. Students won’t get locked into edits; they can undo every action in order until they return to the original image. They can also quickly glance at the original image anytime to compare. Sharing features abound, with opt-in sharing across popular social media networks. Students and teachers can email creations directly from the app or save to the device’s camera roll. No cutesy stickers, GIFs, or emoji options, however, so it’s more for collage making purists. Standout features include Text Styles (great for social media images), Perspective Correction, and My Looks (the ability to save custom adjustments for future use). As with any Adobe Creative Cloud product, PS Express projects are fully compatible with any other Adobe product.

Tool Access

To access the tool online or for a related download link (if available) please see sources below:

• 7 Day Free Trial
• Subscribe with Plans
• Download with your PC, Phone, and Tablet

Advantage/ Disadvantage:

There are many situations where Photoshop is well suited— even when it isn’t one of the core purposes of the software. Adobe Photoshop is intended for raster (pixel-based) image editing, such as photos. PS provides users with an extremely wide variety of tools, effects, filters, and utilities to manipulate these photos as desired— especially with the content-aware features which allows Photoshop to automatically generate pixel data from the existing image and naturally blend it with the original photo. In addition to photo manipulation, Photoshop also provides vector-based graphics and tools for creating logos and other graphic designs (which are a sampling of features pulled from Adobe’s vector editing software, Illustrator).

Good for Teaching:

Adobe Photoshop is the ideal tool to teach the fineries of photo editing. It’s intuitive enough for beginners and has plenty of headroom for savvy users, too. The collage maker is a great way to showcase photos and is loaded with lots of layout, styling, and formatting options. Consider using PS Express to document class projects, field trips, professional development and PBL projects; use it to design school yearbooks, or to make photo collage posters for a Science Fair, a school play, or other special event. Students can create visual journals of engaging projects over the course of their term, even through the years, complete with text overlay. For a modern spin, students can custom-create images for their school’s social media sites using a wide variety of in-app templates, complete with instant preview. Imagine empowered students designing YouTube video thumbnails and channel artwork, or promotional pictures for school fundraisers or events. Full-feature sharing defaults to off, so opt in to share with social media networks.

Good for Learning:

Adobe Photoshop Express is a powerhouse photo editing app that brings many favorite Photoshop features to your mobile device for quick and easy photo modification and image/collage creation. Granted, it’s gonna take a lot of experimentation to figure out everything on offer, but that’s a good problem to have. It’s a huge bonus that students can correct and modify their images and then take their creations and arrange them into numerous collage templates, including ones designed specifically for social media. Many competitors don’t offer all of this in one package. While it is free, students will have to create a free Adobe account to unlock all of the features. Designed by the industry leader in photo editing, this can be the only photo editing and collage making app you and your students will need, with robust features, great support, solid performance, and tons of sharing options for those on-the-go.

  Reviews [For Future Use]

Public and Internal reviews on the quality of the tool and ease of use to learn/ implement.

 Learning Expectation [For Future Use]

General guidelines of how long it typically takes to learn and be comfortable (basic, advanced, expert levels) with the tool as well as what capabilities users have at each level.

• Level of difficulty to learn/ use for each level:
  • Basic  Use/ substitution: 2-4 hours of use
    • General familiarity with the tool
    • Ability to import documents in from MS Word or Powerpoint
    • Ability to create a simple document and share
  • Advanced Use/ augmentation: 20- 30 hours of use
    • General comfort with the tool
    • Ability to make a presentation from scratch including text, graphics, video, and with basic thoughts on style.
  • Expert use/ transformative (modification / redefinition): 40+ hours of use
    • Complete comfort with the tool
    • Ability to offer advice and guidance to others on the tool
    • Ability to use the tool for various design purposes: presentation, booklet, ePortofolio…
    • Understanding of layout, style (font, colors, themes) to meet end users needs

 Examples

 Tutorial Guides

If you are interested in starting with a template, which often have background, color theme, and fonts, it may save time and highlight new design elements.

• Envato Elements
• Template Monster
• Staff Generated Templates

 Lesson

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 Reference

• The key resources used to make this resource page. Most all information is public except for specific TCS generated resources. For more examples and resources (e.g. guides, templates, etc) see below:
  • Common Sense Media
  • Educba
  • PC Mag
  • Trust Radius