Adobe Photoshop

Photoshop is a pixel-editing program designed for artists and advertisers. However, it is an indispensable program for editing images and laying out plates for publication. The following is a short tutorial of commonly used Photoshop techniques.

Here is a link to a very good Photoshop site

These topics will be covered in class:

• Image Size
• Canvas Size
• Adjusting image contrast with the Levels tool
• Adjusting contrast with the Curves tool
• Sharpening the image with Unsharp Mask
• Arrows and Letters
• Making a plate
• File formats

Additional topics covered in previous lectures

• Normalizing colors between images
• Removing moiré and halftone screen patterns
• Increasing the quality of a video image