1. an initiative to increase our capacity in
visual analysis, representation,
and communication of truthful stories
for effective planning
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2. Workshop #1:
Down & Dirty with Adobe Creative Suite
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Photoshop Illustrator InDesign
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3. Photoshop’s primary purpose is to
edit and manipulate raster-based images.
In a raster-based program, In a vector-based program,
this circle is made up of this circle is made up of a center point
thousands of pixels. and four outer points connected by edge lines.
Photoshop
Basics
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4. Photoshop’s primary purpose is to
edit and manipulate raster-based images.
For example, you can easily increase contrast
and adjust coloring to enhance photos.
Photoshop
Basics
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5. Photoshop’s primary purpose is to
edit and manipulate raster-based images.
Photoshop can also
be used to clip
parts of images
and create collages
of multiple images.
Photoshop
Basics
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6. basic properties
4 of current drawing
objects
tools that cover
1 most Photoshop
capabilities
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drawing area layers panel
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object fill color
3 & drawing background history panel
color
Photoshop Best Practice:
Interface Name each layer.
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7. Polygonal
Lasso Tool
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Photoshop 1. Use the Polygonal Lasso 2. Create 3. Add a
Masking tool to outline the bike lane. a new Layer. Vector Mask.
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Paint
Bucket
Tool
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Photoshop 1. Select the 2. Select the Paint Bucket Tool and 3. Apply the color to 4. Change the Layer
Masking Layer Thumbnail. choose a color from the Swatches palette. the masked area. Transparency to Hue.
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9. Clone
Stamp
Tool
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Photoshop 1. Select the 2. Select the 3. Set Target Area to ‘clone’ (copy) 4. Click on another part
Clone Stamp Background Layer. Clone Stamp Tool. by Alt-clicking (Windows) or of the building to create
Option-clicking (Mac OS). new window.
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Magic
Wand Tool 3
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Brush
Tool
Photoshop 1.Using Magic Wand Tool, 2. Select the Brush Tool 3. Use the Brush Tool 4. Set Layer Transparency
Magic Wand click on sky to select area. and adjust Size and to apply dark blue to to Soft Light.
Hardness attributes. the top part of the sky.
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11. Rectangular
Marquee Tool
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Photoshop 1. Use the Rectangular Marquee Tool 2. Edit > Copy to 3. To Deselect, hit CTRL+D (Windows)
Selecting to select half the building facade. your Clipboard. or CMD+D (Mac).
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Photoshop 1. Edit > Paste the 2. Select Free Transform 3. Skew the facade: hold Command and click-move each
Skewing selected facade. from the Edit menu. corner to match the perspective of the main building.
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13. 3
Eyedropper
Tool
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1. On the layers menu, right 2. Use the Eyedropper Tool 3. Select > Color 4. Decrease Fuzziness
click on Background layer 5. Delete the selected
to select the black part of Range to select until full range of black
and convert using Layer is selected. Hit OK. area and save as a PNG.
the image. the black area.
from Background...
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Photoshop 1. Edit > Place... 2. Select Maintain Aspect 3. Scale down by 4. Edit >
to find and add the Ratio so her proportions click-dragging a Transform > Flip
Placing file of the lady. remain intact. corner. Horizontal.
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Photoshop 1. Image > Mode 2. Select appropriate color mode: RGB or CMYK.
Color Mode
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16. Photoshop 1. File > Save As... 2. Select appropriate Format.
File Saving
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