{"id":554,"date":"2022-03-18T07:22:19","date_gmt":"2022-03-18T06:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kurser.pixelengine.se\/photoshop\/?p=554"},"modified":"2022-04-07T13:25:33","modified_gmt":"2022-04-07T11:25:33","slug":"photoshop-basics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kurser.pixelengine.se\/photoshop\/photoshop-basics\/","title":{"rendered":"Photoshop basics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As part of the three-lesson INGKA course with InDesign and Photoshop. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Contents: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Coming from <strong>InDesign via contextual menu<\/strong> Edit in Photoshop<\/li><li><strong>Intro to Photoshop<\/strong><ul><li>InDesign can crop, scale, rotate, change transparency. But not change contrast, sharpness, change contents in general.<\/li><li>Photoshop can handle both vector and pixel\/raster graphics but excels at the latter.<\/li><li>Extremely (overly) powerful in most cases. Generates large, complex files. Only use Photoshop when you have to.<\/li><li>Comes with <strong>Camera raw<\/strong> mini-program for most commonly used photo enhancements. <\/li><li>Quick demo of the <strong>Filter gallery<\/strong><\/li><li>An alternative is Lightroom which also gives you the cataloging functionality, you can use Bridge also<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>Layout of the program<\/strong><ul><li>Same as Indesign in principle (the control field is technically called the options field..)<\/li><li>Suggest to use the Photography workspace. <\/li><li>You will work a lot in the Layers panel<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>Commonly used tools<\/strong><ul><li>Move tool (black cursor) <\/li><li>Selection tools i e marching ants tools<\/li><li><\/li><\/ul><ul><li>(Pen tool)<\/li><li>Clone stamp\/healing brush tool<\/li><li>Brush tool (for layer masks)<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>Intro to non-destructive editing<\/strong><ul><li>Duplicating your background<\/li><li>Working with (many) layers<\/li><li>Smart objects<\/li><li>Smart filters<\/li><li>Adjustment layers<\/li><li>Layer masks<\/li><li>Saving as PSD file format<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>Wishes from participants<\/strong>:<ul><li>Remove a background \/ do a cutout: <a href=\"https:\/\/kurser.pixelengine.se\/photoshop\/en\/cake-frilaggning\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"550\">Exercise 1 (selection tool on a cake)<\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/kurser.pixelengine.se\/photoshop\/photoshop-montage-of-two-images\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"557\">Do a montage (person + a building)<\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Basic image enhancements: Contrast, sharpness\/clarity, saturation<\/li><li>Use a cutout image in InDesign.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>If there is time:<\/strong><ul><li><strong>Highlighting <\/strong>in Photoshop: Vignetting, masking, sharpening\/blurring<\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">More advanced level (not included in the basic course)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Different file formats<\/li><li>Graphic design tips for &#8221;graphic&#8221; cutouts<\/li><li>Exercise 2: Make a cutout using the <a href=\"https:\/\/kurser.pixelengine.se\/photoshop\/en\/photoshop-cutout-with-the-pen-tool\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"560\">Pen tool on some sheets<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Conclusion of the course. Evaluation<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of the three-lesson INGKA course with InDesign and Photoshop. Contents: Coming from InDesign via contextual menu Edit in Photoshop Intro to Photoshop InDesign can crop, scale, rotate, change transparency. But not change contrast, sharpness, change contents in general. Photoshop can handle both vector and pixel\/raster graphics but excels at the latter. Extremely (overly) powerful in most cases. Generates &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/kurser.pixelengine.se\/photoshop\/photoshop-basics\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-okategoriserade","no-post-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kurser.pixelengine.se\/photoshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kurser.pixelengine.se\/photoshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kurser.pixelengine.se\/photoshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kurser.pixelengine.se\/photoshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kurser.pixelengine.se\/photoshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=554"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/kurser.pixelengine.se\/photoshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":574,"href":"https:\/\/kurser.pixelengine.se\/photoshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554\/revisions\/574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kurser.pixelengine.se\/photoshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kurser.pixelengine.se\/photoshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kurser.pixelengine.se\/photoshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}