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Hi thank you for joining and um...
we're going to touch on a very, very, very
interesting
subject and that is the tools of
Photoshop.
i'm using Photoshop CS5 ... i haven't upgraded
to 5.5
but anyone who has Photoshop
would be able to take from what i'm talking about and use it on their
particular version
things do change,,, things have gotten a lot better
Photoshop is an amazing tool and I think
uh... you know that and that's
why you're probably probably why you are looking at this video right now,
but I think what you want to get from
this video is
a way to understand Photoshop adobe in a
deeper
um...
more...
let's say
particular
area. That would be, for example
understanding
the tools
and
knowing that and that
the tools
have underlying things that are kind of hidden. They are not really hidden,
but they are.
unless you know
where to look and what you're going to do with the tool, then you'll better understand
where to go, to get that particular to do what you want to do.
Right now it sound very kind of nebulous
(you might not understand what I'm saying)
but as we go along you'll get the gist of what's this series going to be about.
Yes, this is going to be a series.
I'll be touching on a few things
today...
and then I'll try to do my best, and do one
every week or so for you.
Okay uh... here we are in Photoshop and we have an image
uh... that I did for a t-shirt
and uh... they wanted it to look like uh... perhaps some resemblance to Tron
and then it's a music studio
and so...
this is what
was designed for them.
I'm not showing it to you for any particular reason or even
advertise for them but in order to have something up
so that would can work with
...
One of the things that I think is most important to a new person to Photoshop
in understanding image sizes
and how they fit into
uh... print and web
um... so we'll start with the image and image sizes today
and if you go up to the top menu you'll see it's the third window from you're right
and you'll see "bold"
"adjustments"
"tone", "auto contrast", " color"
"image size"
"canvas size" and "image
rotation" ( that's so that you can actually rotate the image"
We'll get into all of them uh...
eventually.
let's talk about
what this image is about
Okay, this particular image
as you can see up here is a jpeg
there are different formats
and the different formats are
for different uses
for example
jpegs are mostly used (you might want to write this down if you don't know this) the web
It is a very low resolution
image
and it's created that way, so that it could be uh... use without
a...
harder or longer
loading time
on the web
itself. So,
most people
use the
jpeg and the gif
(I'm sorry, I was picking up a paper here)
Okay.. let's see what happens about the size.
I'll go to the size and you'll see that uh... it'll give you some
information on there. And that's what we're going to be talking about today about
about sizing
and resizing.
Okay, right here we have the width and the height and then you have numbers that are given
about what they are and then this is giving
the same
information only it's in inches and it refers to the document . What is the document? The document
is
the whole image as it is.
Now what does it mean when it refers to pixel dimensions?
It means how many pixels
there are to make up this image
Well, it you took this number and multiplied it by this number
you would get the amount of pixels
that it takes to
make up this image. Now, what is a pixel? This is where we go a little bit deeper
(that's why we say
this is about secrets)
Okay, if I
enlarge this to
that size . You can see that there are
little squares.
Those little squares are varying degrees
of shade or color. This image happens to be a black and white
so you're going to have varying degrees of shade
not particularly color.
And that's what we mean by pixel
so it takes that many pixels
to create an
uh... image.
So, let's take it back down
you'll see that
once it gets
back to its original size,
it will
get into focus and look a lot better.
Now, we'll go back to the image
and select "image size"
and we'll see something about uh...
this window here that
that we need to uh... understand
because a lot of times people don't know
how big an image
is going to print...how it's going to
are you creating an image that is big enough
to fit in that area that you want it
to fit into
so you start off with the
measurement that you need
to begin with, especially...
if you are creating something entirely new
that dimension
will be
uh... your
starting point.
Now, so let's see how that works. So, let's start
with a new image. So, we'll up to "File"
and then it'll ask you
okay, what do you want?
and...
here we have
various
situations
for
your, uh...for your image
for example
if you already know it's going to be a US paper image
international paper image , a photo
a webpage
a mobile device, a film or video
um...
then it give you, you know
the size that you have already up
which is interesting because uh...
I don't think
uh... if you did have one...I don't think that would be up..let's put it that way
but I'm gonna stay with custom, and the reason why I'm going to staying with custom is because
we're going to see
how these pre-sets
can uh...
can be of
use, but they're not
entirely
but um...
even before going to uh... custom. I'm going to go
over and I'm going to see what the default size is ,okay?
the default size is seven
inches by five inches and seventy-two and it's in RGB color.
Now , RGB
compared to bitmap, grayscale and CMYK and lab color
are..
things to remember
If you're working with a gray scale image and you don't need that much color, you don't need that
you don't need color information
at all
Then you'll want to stay away from
you want to go down to uh... grayscale
uh... bitmap uh...
that's working with uh... very very very very hard colors
not too much gradation
so uh... you might want to stay away from there
there's going to be reason for bitmaps and there is going to be reasons for gray scale
there's going to be reasons
for RGB color
and on down.
RGB is mainly for video
because it deals with the colors that are in
are set up in three color ranges and that's the red, green and blue...
red, green and blue ...
make up
the images that you see on your
television
on uh... just about anything that's video
on your
computer screen and so on
So, this would be the colors or the uh...
color mode that you want to be in if you are creating something for the web, for example
uh... CMYK is for printing and CMYK works in a four color
process
meaning that there are
four colors that make up all the colors of the rainbow
and uh... shades and what have you
for printing.
And those colors are Cyan, that's the "C"
"M" is magenta, "Y"
is yellow and "K" is black
Now, those are the colors that you're going to be using
or the printer will be using
when
he prints.
So, therefore you have to have your work
uh... if you you're going to have it printed
In CMYK format.
Lab color
is a subject that
it's just very very very very difficult to explain it
at this particular moment so
we'll come back to it.
All right we're gonna stay with
RGB, right now
and go back up here to the custom and what have you
um...
let's look at uh... US paper and see what they give you, we went to the
default size and saw what that was..that's seven
by five by seventy two
And then we go to US paper and they give you an eight and a half by eleven and its
300 resolution
We're gonna talk about resolution a little bit to, okay?...
and then we'll go to the international see what international paper size is
and we'll find that it is millimeters Now what is a millimeter?
Now if you go to inches you will see that it's 8.2...
six eight (8.268)
by eleven point six nine three (11.693)
Now, that's pretty close to eight and a half by eleven
but um...actually
uh... there are different sizes for international paper just like there are different
sizes for
US paper.
Okay, photo.. what is a photo size? They are giving you ..you know just
approximate
Photo size is three by two, but we all know that there's different sizes of photos
and they'll give you
that pull down menu so that you can choose
that also
and um...
being that these are opens
so that you can' change...you can actually make your photo
whatever
size you want to make it
and that goes for anything else that your creating here. Web?
It's six hundred and forty pixels by four hundred eighty (640 x 480)
and please notice that
when
working with
web,
hey're most often interested in
pixel dimensions they're not interested in
size
but uh... they're kind of interchanged
and they're kind of uh...
substituted for one another. But if you hear pixels don't
get
don't get scared, you can always find out
what a pixel is uh... in inches and in inches is in pixels just uh... but come back
here and put in the inches and
check and see that they did with the pixels to inches and
you'll see what it is.
You can actually write down the inch size
and then type in the inch size and then go to pixels and you'll find out what ...
you know, in if you got it right or if it's not right you can always fix it.
Anyway, so that's that. Now, we'll go to uh... mobile devices and see
what they're saying
that's pretty much
what they're giving you, and that changes quite a bit too...
and here's some variations of its so
you're given some options to work with, when working with
uh... mobile devices
Okay, film and video
you have
a whole slew of things and there's actually a lot more than this
uh... we'll talk about that right now just to ... just to fill you in on
what
Photoshop can do for you
as far as a Photoshop artist...You should be able to
understand
the different formats that you're working
with or for
so that you can create those things for your clients if
you're interested in becoming a Photoshop artist
uh...
and uh... you want to be able to have a range