First QTR Module and Worksheets in Photoshop
First QTR Module and Worksheets in Photoshop
First QTR Module and Worksheets in Photoshop
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Introductory Message
Now that the workforce is far behind in equating the number of available
jobs, the Department of Education is revitalizing its resources to lead the young
minds and to prepare them skillfully as future graphic artist or the like, instead. It
is in honing the skills that learners can assure to have an edge of surviving the
daily needs of oneself and of others. It seeks to provide students with the
knowledge, skills, and motivation in the field of photoshop design.
Objectives:
Direction: Choose the letter of the best answer. Write the chosen letter on a
separate sheet of paper.
Objectives:
Lesson
1 Introduction to Photoshop
Info graphic - a visual image such as a chart or diagram used to represent
information or data.
What’s New?
Activity 1.1 Test Your Knowledge
Identify the Photoshop’s window element described below. Write your answer
on a separate sheet of paper.
What is It
From being a standard in print, Photoshop has evolved and expanded its
capabilities for the Internet and display-based images, video and computer
presentations by adding features that are Internet-specific.
Starting Photoshop CS6
Start Button
Understanding Photoshop
Photoshop is a powerful tool to modify the photo images from cameras or other
resources. Understanding how photos work will let you understand more of
Photoshop and its tools to make your work easier.
Workspace options
Options bar
Menu bar
Document tab
Tools panel
Document window
Panels
Panel dock
Status bar
PHOTOSHOP WINDOW
NAME FUNCTION
Menu Bar Displays menus that contain most of the Photoshop
commands
Option Bar Displays the controls that are used to customize the
selected tool in the Toolbox.
Title Tab Displays the name, color mode and magnification of the
open file or image
Tools Panel Displays the different icons or tools that are used to modify
or edit the image
Panels They are small windows that allow you to access common
commands. These panels can be moved anywhere within
the window.
Panel Dock The location where panels can be stacked together to allow
a full view of the image.
Image Window Displays the image or file that you have opened.
Status Bar Displays the magnification of the image and the image
information.
What’s More
Identify the parts of the Photoshop window. Write your answer on the other sheet
of paper.
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What I Can Do
HANDS-ON 1.1
Perform the given instruction below:
1. Open the Adobe Photoshop program.
2. Open an image file saved inside your computer.
3. Save a copy of the image in another folder in .psd format.
4. Close the program.
Assessment
Multiple Choice. Choose the letter of the best answer. Write the chosen letter on
a separate sheet of paper.
1. It has many tools that allow you to control and modify the image that
you opened in Photoshop.
A. Tools panel B. Selection C. Type D. Hidden
tools tools tools
2. It allows you to navigate through the images that you have worked on.
A. Selection B. Applications C. Tools D. Panel
tools Bar panel Viewer
5. These are the first five icons from the top of the tools panel.
A. Tools Panel B. Selection C. Type D. Hidden
tools tools tools
Additional Activities
HANDS-ON 1.2
1. Do a research on the internet for images of different fruits and vegetables.
Save them in your computer.
2. In the photoshop program, open the saved images to be used.
3. Using the different selection tools, select the fruit or vegetables or part of
it to create a face or a character.
4. Be imaginative in creating the figures. Save your work in the My
Documents folder using the filename: Face01_your complete name.psd.
See some example below.
References
Adobe Photoshop CS6 print screens
Computer Assisted Learning, Digital Arts 1, 2014, CAL Corporation.
https://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2015/05/infographic-the-history-of-
photoshop/
Objectives:
Lesson
2 Photoshop’s Workspace
What I Know?
Direction: Choose the letter of the best answer. Write the chosen letter on a
separate sheet of paper.
1. It has a vast selection of tools starting from selecting images that you want
to edit, to panel based features to create and edit Images in Photoshop.
A. Menu Bar B. Options C. Tools D. Photoshop
Bar Panel Workspace
3. It has many tools that allow you to control and modify the image that you
opened or created in Photoshop.
A. Menu Bar B. Options Bar C. Fly outs D. Tools
Panel
4. Is where you can choose a wide variety of options to design and modify
your image or text.
A. Menu Bar B. Options C. Fly outs D. Tools
Bar Panel
5. By clicking and holding the small triangle beside the tool, this hidden tool
will appear.
A. Menu Bar B. Options C. Fly outs D. Tools
Bar Panel
What’s In
Photoshop CS6 is a tool to create, modify, combine and optimize digital photos
and images in your computer. To understand this program, we need to
familiarize its arrangement so we can work easily. This is what Photoshop
Workspace all about.
What’s New?
What is It
Photoshop’s Workspace
A workspace is the arrangement of tools and panels. Photoshop’s workspace has
a vast selection of tools starting from selecting images that you want to edit, to
panel based features to create and edit Images in Photoshop.
Essentials Default
Workspace
Pre-set Workspaces
New Workspace
You won’t see a work area, because Photoshop, unlike most graphics’ programs,
doesn’t automatically open a new page for you. This actually makes sense,
because most of your work in Photoshop will be done on pictures that you have
brought in from some other source. Maybe you’ll be using digital images from
your digital devices. Possibly you’ll work on files you’ve downloaded from the
Internet or on photos from a removable device.
The Menu Bar contains all the functions available in Photoshop. By clicking a
menu in the Menu Bar, a dropdown list of tools or commands will appear. You
can access the tools directly from the Menu Bar, from the Tools panel or you can
customize your workspace to make your tools readily available as you are
working on your project.
The Option Bar is where you can choose a wide variety of options to design and modify your
image or text. The Options Bar changes depending on what tool you have selected from the Tools
panel. It will show the settings or models applicable to the tool you have selected. You can
customize the settings for almost every tool in the Tools panel.
Type Tool Options
bar
Options Bar
Type Tool
1. Drag and drop the panel to the panel dock until a blue line appears.
The Tools Panel
The tools panel is on the left side of the screen. It has many
tools that allow you to control and modify the image that you
opened or created in Photoshop. The tools in the Tools panel
are the frequently used tools and they are automatically
displayed when you launch Photoshop. You can display the
tools in two columns by clicking Collapse button and
return them to one column by clicking the Expand button.
You can also hide and display the tools panel on the Menu
Bar by clicking Window and selecting Tools.
You can move the Tools panel in any location within the
workspace by clicking and dragging dotted lines on
top of the Tools panel.
Navigator
NA
History Panel
Setting and Saving a Workspace
You can set and arrange the different panels and customize your menu to fit
your need.
Window
Workspace
New Workspace
New Workspace
dialogue box
Name
Opening a Saved Workspace
You can open the saved workspace that you have created.
Window
Own workspace
1. On the Menu Bar, click Window and click Workspace and click Delete
Workspace.
2. On the Delete Workspace dialog box, select the name of the workspace
you want to delete and click Delete.
Window
Delete workspace
Delete workspace
dialogue box
Window
Essential (Default)
What’s More
Activity 2.2: Test Your Knowledge
Identification. Identify the following tools and write their functions. Write your
answer on a separate sheet of paper.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
You can also create or customize your own workspace to display the tools that
you will frequently use for designing, editing and other tasks.
What I Can Do
HANDS-ON 2.1
1. Open a new page and try some of these tools. Click the Paintbrush and
draw some squiggles and lines. Click an Eraser and erase part of them.
Try dragging the Smudge tool across one of the lines. Select a piece of line
with one of the Selection tools and move it to another part of the page.
Explore. You’re not going to break anything.
2. If you have an Internet connection, click the Adobe logo at the top of the
toolbar. Visit the Adobe Online and see what’s there.
Assessment
Multiple Choice. Choose the letter of the best answer. Write the chosen letter on
a separate sheet of paper.
4. It allows you to hide and display the tools panel on the Menu Bar.
A. Panel B. Collapse C. Expand D. Tools
5. It has a vast selection of tools starting from selecting images that you want
to edit, to panel based features to create and edit Images in Photoshop.
A. Photoshop B. Options C. Tools D. Photoshop
Bar Panel Workspace
Additional Activities
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
References
Adobe Photoshop CS6 print screens
Computer Assisted Learning, Digital Arts 1, 2014, CAL Corporation.
Jemma Development Group, Creative Design CS6, c2013, Jemma, Inc.
SAMS Teach Yourself, Adobe Photoshop in 24 Hours, SAMS Publishing.
Objectives:
After going through this lesson, you are expected to:
1. identify the techniques of open and import multiple images.
2. create a new window image and browse and display a slide show in
bridge.
Lesson
3 Starting Photoshop
What I Know?
Direction: Choose the letter of the best answer. Write the chosen letter on a
separate sheet of paper.
2. It allows you to drag an image file from another folder going to photoshop
window.
A. Browsing B. Creating a C. Creating D. Importing
an Image New Image in New an Image
in Bridge Photoshop Window
Image
3. It allows you to create new images from scratch to make your own images
using the different tools of the program.
A. Browsing an B. Creating a C. Creating D. Importing
Image in New Image New an Image
Bridge in Window
Photoshop Image
4. It allows you to compare the original image from your edited image and
make it easier to navigate through with multiple windows to organize.
A. Browsing an B. Creating a C. Creating D. Using
Image in New Image New Rulers
Bridge in Window
Photoshop Image
5. It helps you position your images accurately. It will help you organize your
images and measure your design precisely.
A. Browsing B. Creating a C. Creating D. Using
an Image in New Image New Rulers
Bridge in Window
Photoshop Image
What’s In
What’s New?
What is It
Sources of Images
You can get images from different sources like:
Create your own image from scratch using Photoshop’s drawing and painting
tools.
Opening an Image
There are two ways to open an image in Photoshop.
Open
Location
Open
File Name
4. From the list, choose an image in the existing files and click the file
name or type the file name in the File name textbox and click Open.
5. The image will now appear in the window and ready for editing.
New
KEYBOARD
SHORTCUTS
Arrange
New Window
Importing an Image
There are a number of ways to import images to your Photoshop.
Photoshop window
Dragging your
image to the
Photoshop window
will import the
image directly
Highlighted files
Open
Arrange
Stack of opened
files
5. You can also float the opened files manually by dragging the file to the
photoshop window by its title bar.
Browse in Bridge
Click the arrow to show the menu and select the information you would like
to see. The information will be displayed at the bottom of the window.
Menu
Arrow
Information
Using Rulers
Rulers help you position your images accurately. They
will help you organize your images and measure your
design precisely.
KEYBOARD
SHORTCUTS
KEYBOARD SHORTCUT
To view ruler –
press Ctrl + R
Rulers
Rulers
Snap
Ruler Guides
Rulers
Snap
Snapping
Snapping lets you snap the image to a precise point in the ruler. The default
snapping location is (0,0). To snap your image, go to the Menu Bar and click
View and select Snap.
Window
Navigator panel
Zoom Value
Zoom slider
Navigator
Hand Tool
Navigator panel
Zoom
Zoom Tool
Zoom level
When you click the Zoom tool, a plus + sign will appear. The image will be
magnified more each time you click the mouse. To zoom out or decrease the
magnification, click the Zoom icon and hold the Alt key. A minus – sign will
appear. The view will be reduced each time you click the mouse.
You can view another area image by selecting the Hand tool and dragging to the
area you want to view in. You can use this tool when you want to edit another
part of the image and instead of zooming out, you can just move the image using
the Hand tool to see your desired area as you can see from the image above to
the image below.
Window
History panel
History
4. You can also go to the Menu bar, click Edit and click Undo.
Undo
SAVE COMMANDS
COMMAND FUNCTION
Save This save function overwrites a
previously saved file. This save
command opens a Save As dialog box
the first time a document is saved.
Save As This save command opens opens the
Save As dialog box so you can save
an existing file either using the same
name or giving it a new name. You
can also choose to save the file in a
different file location, name or file
type.
You can save your images to many kinds of files. If you are not ready to save
your image permanently to another application, you can save your image to a
Photoshop file. You can do this by just clicking on Save As on the File menu and
then a dialog box will appear that will ask you where you will save the file and
what kind of application you want it to be saved in.
Save As
Save in
Save
File name
File format
As you type your file name and the folder where you want to save, on the format
drop down menu select Photoshop. The file extension for that application is .psd
or .pdd. This will save your application to the Photoshop image and can be edited
again with the layers and the effects that you have placed in the image.
You can also save your image through any kind files like the .jpeg file or the
.bmp file in case your image is final. Just by selecting the format drop down
menu, choose the file name where you want to save to your image.
Exiting Photoshop
After you have finished using the application, you can exit Photoshop.
1. On the Menu Bar, click File and click Exit.
2. If you have not saved your work, Photoshop alerts you to save them first.
3. You can also use the Close button to close the program.
What’s More
HANDS-ON 3.1
1. Open in Photoshop a sample picture in your computer.
2. Observe the Panel dock, Panel Viewer, Tools Panel and other parts of the
Photoshop window.
3. Click each button of the Tools panel and see the changes in the Options
Bar.
4. Save the picture.
What I Can Do
HANDS-ON 3.2
1. Open a new page and try some of these tools. Click the Paintbrush and
draw some squiggles and lines. Click an Eraser and erase part of them.
Try dragging the Smudge tool across one of the lines. Select a piece of line
with one of the Selection tools and move it to another part of the page.
Explore. You’re not going to break anything.
2. If you have an Internet connection, click the Adobe logo at the top of the
toolbar. Visit Adobe Online and see what’s there.
Assessment
Multiple Choice. Choose the letter of the best answer. Write the chosen letter on
a separate sheet of paper.
Additional Activities
Exercises
1. Most pictures can be improved by careful cropping. Try this experiment.
Cut two L-shaped pieces from a sheet of white paper or cardboard, as
shown in Figure 3.1.
2. Use these pieces as a cropping frame and look at your snapshots or
pictures in a magazine to see how different cropping affects the picture.
Try finding long, narrow compositions, square ones, and rectangles.
References
Objectives:
After going through this lesson, you are expected to:
1. identify the common graphic formats use in Photoshop.
2. apply the different graphic formats to the photoshop output.
Lesson
4 Graphic File Formats
What I Know?
Direction: Choose the letter of the best answer. Write the chosen letter on a
separate sheet of paper.
1. It is mostly used for saving graphic arts, line arts, and screenshots that
may require lesser detail but more of the solid color.
A. .BMP B. .GIF C. .JPG D. .PNG
5. It is a file format for storing images such as photographs and line art.
A. BMP B. GIF C. .JPG D. .TIFF
What’s In
You can get images from different sources and create your own image form
scratch using Photoshop’s drawing and painting tools. There are two ways in
opening an image and it is important to know the options to save a file. The first
thing you need to learn about preparing Photoshop use is the type of format to
use. GIF, JPEG, PNG, BMP and TIFF are some common graphic file formats used.
What’s New?
Matching Type
Match the items in Column A with the items in Column B. Write the chosen
letter on a separate sheet of paper.
.GIF
The Graphic Interchange Format (.gif) was popularized by the CompuServe
Information Service in the 1980s. This graphic file uses an 8-bit (index color with
256 or fewer color) color palette which can be supported by most of the web
browser today. .GIF format is mostly used for saving graphic arts, line arts, and
screenshots that may require lesser detail but more of the solid color. Images are
usually saved using a transparent background. The .gif format is also used for
saving animated images. Single images are combined using a third-party
software to come up with an animated GIF file. The animation may be simple but
can already be used in some multimedia applications and pages on the internet.
.JPEG
Another file format used for multimedia and the web is the Joint Photographic
Experts Group or the .jpeg files. This uses a 24-bit (true color) image, in full
color. The .jpeg format is tremendously popular and patronized by
photographers, web designers, medical specialists, and artists because of its
image quality and fidelity in colors. The file is small in size and can easily be
stored in memory storage devices. .JPEG files uses the lossy compression that it
loses some detail of the image, but is not allowed to retrieve the losses anymore.
Captured images using digital devices like android phone and camera uses the
,jpeg format. Because of the small file size, users can save a number of images
in the memory cards of the camera, but may have a loss in the uality of the
pictures.
.JPEG files are good for photographic images as well as images for uploading on
the internet and sending through email. Its file size makes it capable of
transferring, opening, and saving image formats around the internet in a faster
way.
.PNG
Portable Network Graphic (PNG, pronounced “ping) is an image format developed
by a consortium of graphic software developers as a non-proprietary alternative
to the GIF image format. Like the .gif format, the .png file supports a full range
of colors, image transparency, and automatic corrections for display monitor
gamma. An added feature to this format is the capability of embedding text
description to the image, which search engines could locate for easy reference.
.BMP
This format is sometimes called the bitmap or the DIB file format (for device-
dependent bitmap), which stores images arranged in an array of mapped bits.
The bitmap file can either be compressed or uncompressed data.
.TIFF
Tagged Image File Format (abbreviated as .TIFF) is a file format for storing images
such as photographs files are generally large but are very important especially
when archiving or documenting images and documents.
The table below was summarized by Wayne Fulton in his article, “ A few Scanning
Tips,” in 2008 showing the different graphic file formats that can be used in
creating Photoshop output.
1. GIF = ____________________.
2. JPEG = ____________________.
3. PNG = ____________________.
4. BMP = ____________________.
5. TIFF = ____________________.
What I Can Do
HANDS-ON 4.1
1. Choose five new images according to the different graphic files format.
2. Open the five new images files in photoshop.
3. Apply and save to the different graphic files format.
Assessment
Multiple Choice. Choose the letter of the best answer. Write the chosen letter on
a separate sheet of paper.
1. It is mostly used for saving graphic arts, line arts, and screenshots that
may require lesser detail but more of the solid color.
A. BMP B. GIF C. .JPG D. .PNG
5. It is a file format for storing images such as photographs and line art.
A. BMP B. GIF C. .JPG D. .TIFF
Additional Activities
References
Adobe Photoshop CS6 print screens
Computer Assisted Learning, Digital Arts 1, 2014, CAL Corporation.
Jemma Development Group, Creative Design CS6, c2013, Jemma, Inc.
SAMS Teach Yourself, Adobe Photoshop in 24 Hours, SAMS Publishing.
Objectives:
After going through this lesson, you are expected to:
1. identify the different type of selection tools.
2. explore the editing of images using selection tools.
Lesson
5 The Selection Tools
What I Know?
Direction: Choose the letter of the best answer. Write the chosen letter on a
separate sheet of paper.
E. It is used for moving a portion of the image from one place to another.
F. Crop Tool G. Marquee H. Move I. Slice
Tool Tool Tool
What’s New?
What is It
Selection Modes
Now you’re making progress. You’ve learned how to bring images in and out of
photoshop. The next step is learning to work with images and edit them. To do
this, you have to select a part of the picture on which you want to work.
Selections are just what they seem to be--- portions of the image that you have
selected.
Crop Tool Shift + C This tool is very useful for tweaking the
composition of a photograph as it allows
removal of extraneous material quickly and
easily. The Crop Tool is limited to rectangular
shapes.
Slice Tool Shift + K It is used for saving a portion of an image to
another file. It can also be used for dividing the
image into smaller sections.
Before you can make changes to an image in Photoshop, you need to select it
first. Before you can get a particular object from an image and transfer it to
another image, you need to select the object first. To do this, you have to use the
Selection tool. It can be accessed from the Menu Bar and from the Tools Panel.
Select
With various selection tools available, you have to know the different selection
tools and know how to evaluate an image. Some objects have clearly defined
edges but others don’t. Different images require you to use different selection
tool depending on the shape and color of the object and its background.
What’s More
Activity 5.2: Test Your Knowledge
True or False: Write True if the statement is correct and write False if not.
Write the chosen answer on a separate sheet of paper.
What I Can Do
HANDS-ON 5.1
1. Open a picture in Photoshop.
2. Use any of the lasso tools to select the picture.
3. Try to rotate, move and transform the picture.
Assessment
Multiple Choice. Choose the letter of the best answer. Write the chosen letter on
a separate sheet of paper.
1. It is used for moving a portion of the image from one place to another.
A. Crop Tool B. Marquee C. Move D. Slice
Tool Tool Tool
Additional Activities
HANDS-ON 5.2
1. Most pictures can be improved by careful cropping. Try this experiment.
Cut two L-shaped pieces from a sheet of white paper or cardboard, as
shown in Figure 3.1.
2. Use these pieces as a cropping frame and look at your snapshots or
pictures in a magazine to see how different cropping affects the picture.
Try finding
References
Objectives:
Lesson
6 The Retouching Tools
What I Know?
Direction: Choose the letter of the best answer. Write the chosen letter on a
separate sheet of paper.
What’s In
Selection tools are used to select all part of a picture. These tools help you easily
select the objects in your images. The Retouching tools are the next group of
tools after the Selection tools. These tools can help you remove imperfections to
improve your images or add effects.
What’s New?
Match the items in Column A with their specific functions in Column B. Write
your answer on the separate sheet of paper.
What is It
RETOUCHING TOOLS
ICON NAME KEYBOARD FUNCTION
SHORTCUTS
It is used to correct imperfections of an
Spot Healing Shift + J image. It uses the sample image to paint to
Brush Tool another image and blends it with texture,
lighting, transparency, and shading resulting
to a healing effect on the image.
Brush Tool Shift+ B It is used for painting strokes using patterns
that are available on the options bar menu.
Stamp Tool Shift + S It paints with a sample of an image then
clones the portion to another place.
What’s More
HANDS-ON 6.1
1. In the Samples folder of Photoshop, modify the picture below () using any
of the selection tools. Add some mountains and tress in the background.
2. In My Documents folder, save your work using the following filename:
Edit01_your complete name.psd.
3. Using the Stamp tool, remove the brush from the picture below.
4. In the My Documents folder, save your work using the following filename:
Edit02_your complete name.psd.
HANDS-ON 6.2
1. Import different images to photoshop.
2. Apply gradient color.
3. Change the background color.
4. Use any of the Blur tools.
5. Use the Clone Stamp tool and Pattern Stamp tool.
Assessment
Multiple Choice. Choose the letter of the best answer. Write the chosen letter on
a separate sheet of paper.
HANDS-ON 6.3
1. Open the image that you would like to edit.
2. Select half of your image.
3. Adjust the color balance of the portion that you have selected and turn it
into green.
4. Select the next half of your image.
5. Adjust the color balance form the selection that you selected and turn it
to red.
References
Adobe Photoshop CS6 print screens
Computer Assisted Learning, Digital Arts 1, 2014, CAL Corporation.
Jemma Development Group, Creative Design CS6, c2013, Jemma, Inc.
SAMS Teach Yourself, Adobe Photoshop in 24 Hours, SAMS Publishing.
Objectives:
What I Know?
Direction: Choose the letter of the best answer. Write the chosen letter on a
separate sheet of paper.
What’s In
The Retouching Tools can help you remove imperfections to improve your images
or add effects. The Drawing and Type tools are the next group of tools following
the Retouching tools. They allow you to create images from shapes and text and
can be inserted in the images that you prefer. Annotations, Measuring and
Navigation tools. They help you navigate through the images and give you the
capability to make notes in your image for organization.
What’s New?
What is It
DRAWING AND TYPE TOOLS
ICON NAME KEYBOARD FUNCTION
SHORTCUTS
It is used to draws smooth edge paths.
Pen Tool Shift + P
Text Tool Shift+ T It is used for typing text and characters
on the image. There are also options to
change its font, font size and tracking
(space between characters).
Path Selection Shift+ A It is used to makes shapes or segment
Tool selections showing anchor points,
direction lines and points.
Shapes Tool Shift + U Draws Shapes and lines.
What’s More
HANDS-ON 7.1
1. Open the Photoshop program.
2. Open an image.
3. Apply the drawing, type and other tools that you have studied.
4. Explain to the class why you have chosen the style you have created.
HANDS-ON 7.2
1. Import four pictures.
2. Make creative designs using the tools you have studied and add text.
3. Type a text using type on a path.
4. Add any kind of filter effect to make your own creative design.
Assessment
Multiple Choice. Choose the letter of the best answer. Write the chosen letter on
a separate sheet of paper.
5. It allows you to navigate through the images that you have worked
through.
A. Panel Dock B. Panel C. Screen D. Zoom
Viewer Mode Tool
Additional Activities
HANDS-ON 7.3
1. Import three pictures. The first picture to be used as the main object and
the second picture as the background.
2. Use the pen tool to select the main object and remove its background.
3. Create a layer.
References
Objectives:
After going through this lesson, you are expected to:
1. understand the color brightness, contrast and balance;
2. identify the brightness and contrast, adjusting levels, curves, hue and
saturation color balance and shadows and highlights;
Lesson
8 Working with Colors
What I Know?
Direction: Choose the letter of the best answer. Write the chosen letter on a
separate sheet of paper.
What’s In
In previous lesson, you learned how to create and modify texts. The Type tool is
important because it gives you the capability to enter a text into an image. In
this lesson, we are going to use the different properties of color using Photoshop
CS6. Photoshop’s treatment of color makes it very intuitive. Keep the color
palette open at all times (Window Show Color) and keep an eye on the sliders.
Notice how they change from mode to mode-the differences and similarities.
What’s New?
COLOR DESCRIPTION
1. Amount of color data stores in a file format
What is It
Color affects a picture. You should understand colors and color combination to
improve your images.
COLOR DESCRIPTION
Mode Amount of color data stores in a file format
Model Pigments combination to produce a resulting color
Bitmap Geometric arrangement of different color dots
Pixel Represents a color dot or shade in a bitmap
Hue Color reflected from an object
Saturation Strength or purity of a color
Brightness Measurement of brightness or darkness of a color
RGB Red, Green, Blue
CMYK Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Black
Adjustments
Brightness and
Contrast
Brightness adjusted
The Brightness/Contrast window will appear and you can now adjust the
images’ brightness or contrast. You can adjust by using the slider or by
typing the values in Brightness or Contrast box.
Adjusting Levels
Adjusting Level command allows you to make adjustments to the highlights,
midtones or shadows of your images.
Levels
Adjusting Curves
The Curves command allows you to adjust the tones and contrast of your image.
Curves
Shadow/Highlights
dialog box
Shadow/Highlights
Creating a Duotone
You can use Duotone command to add color to a grayscale or black and white
image.
10.Click the second color swatch to open the Color Libraries dialog box and
select the second color.
11.Click OK both in the Color Libraries and in the Duotone Options dialog
box.
Duotone
Dialog box
Duotone
1st Color
2nd Color
1st Color
What’s More
Activity 8.2: Test Your Knowledge
Match the tool with its icon. Write the chosen letter on a separate sheet of
paper.
1. Gradient A.
2. Paint Bucket B.
3. Sponge Tool C.
4. Dodge Tool D.
5. Burn Tool E.
J.
What I Can Do
HANDS-ON 8.1
1. Import five image files to your computer.
2. Crop one area each from the five images that you would like to get.
3. Create a new image file in photoshop.
4. Make a collage by pasting all of the five cropped images in the new image
file and arrange them in any order.
5. Explain to the class the theme of your collage and the reason why you have
chosen the pictures.
Assessment
Multiple Choice. Choose the letter of the best answer. Write the chosen letter on
a separate sheet of paper.
Additional Activities
HANDS-ON 8.2
1. Open the image that you would like to edit.
2. Select half of your image.
3. Adjust the color balance of the portion that you have selected and turn it
into green.
4. Select the next half of your image.
5. Adjust the color balance from the selection that you selected and turn it
into red.
References
Adobe Photoshop CS6 print screens
Computer Assisted Learning, Digital Arts 1, 2014, CAL Corporation.
Jemma Development Group, Creative Design CS6, c2013, Jemma, Inc.
SAMS Teach Yourself, Adobe Photoshop in 24 Hours, SAMS Publishing.
Objectives:
Lesson
9 Color Modes
What I Know?
Direction: Choose the letter of the best answer. Write the chosen letter on a
separate sheet of paper.
3. This mode uses one of two color values (black or white) to represent the
pixels in an image.
A. Bitmap B. Duotone C. Grayscale D. HSB
Mode Mode Mode Mode
What’s In
Photoshop has capabilities to let you create your images by drawing or by
creating shapes from the options in the tools panel. You can also edit pictures to
create a more sophisticated and artistic image for your photos by understanding
the Color Modes.
What’s New?
Identify the terms being described. Write your answers on the blanks provided.
Write your answer on the separate sheet of paper.
What is It
Color Modes
HSB Mode
Based on the human perception of color, the HSB model describes three
fundamental characteristics of color:
RGB Mode
CMYK Mode
The CMYK model is based on the light- absorbing quality of ink printed on paper.
As white light strikes translucent inks, part of the spectrum is absorbed and part
is reflected back to the eyes. In theory, pure cyan (C), magenta (M), and tallow
(Y) pigments should combine to absorb all color and produce black (K).
For this reason, these colors are called subtractive colors. Because all printing
inks contain some impurities, these three inks actually produce a muddy brown
color and must be combined with black. (K) is used instead of (B) to avoid
confusion with blue. Combining these inks to reproduce color is called four-color
process printing.
LAB Mode
The LAB color model is based on the model proposed by the Commission
Internationale d’Eclairage (CIE) in 1931 as an international standard for color
measurement.
LAB color consists of a luminance or lightness component (L) and two chromatic
components:
Grayscale Modes
This mode uses up to 256 shades of gray. Every pixel of a grayscale image has a
brightness value ranging from 0 (black) to 255 (white). Grayscale values can also
be measured as percentages of black ink coverage (0% is equal to white, while
100% is equal to black). Images produced using black and white or grayscale
scanners are typically displayed in Grayscale Mode.
Duotone Mode
This mode uses256 colors at the most. When converting to indexed color.
Photoshop builds a color lookup table (CLUT), which stores and indexes the
colors in the image. If a color in the original image does not appear in the index
table, the program chooses the closest one or simulates the color using available
colors.
Multichannel Mode
This mode uses 256 levels of gray in each channel. Multichannel images are
useful for specialized printing, such as converting a duotone for printing in Scitex
CT format. The following guidelines are applied when converting images into
Multichannel mode:
A Gamut is the range of colors that a color system can display or print. The
spectrum of colors seen by the human eye is wider than gamut available in any
color model.
Among the color models used in Photoshop, LAB has the largest gamut,
encompassing all colors in the RGB and CMYK gamuts.
Typically, the RGB gamut contains the subset of these colors that can be viewed
on a computer or television monitor (which emits red, green and blue light).
Therefore, some colors such as pure cyan or pure yellow cannot be displayed
accurately on a monitor.
The CMYK gamut is smaller, consisting only of colors that can be printed using
process-color inks. When colors that cannot be printed are displayed on-screen,
they are referred to as out-of-gamut colors that are outside the CMYK gamut.
What’s More
Activity 9.2: Test Your Knowledge
Acronyms
Give the meanings of the letters in each acronym. Write you answer on the
separate sheet of paper.
1. RGB = ______________________________
2. CMYK = ____________________________
3. CIE= _______________________________
4. CLUT=______________________________
5. HSB=_______________________________
HANDS-ON 9.1
1. Using Photoshop Color Picker, select a nice bright red. See how it’s
represented in the different color models. Click at the upper-right corner
of the color square. Saturation and Brightness should be 100%, regardless
of which color you have selected. Red will be 0 in the Hue window. Enter
60 in the Hue window. The color square will change to yellow. Knowing
that Red is 0 and Yellow is 60, can you predict what number pure Blue
will be?
2. Look at some other colors and see how they affect the settings. Try to see
the relationship of the colors on a theoretical color wheel to the colors you
see in the spectrum.
Assessment
Multiple Choice. Choose the letter of the best answer. Write the chosen letter on
a separate sheet of paper.
2. This mode uses 256 colors at the most and builds a color lookup table
(CLUT).
A. Bitmap B. Duotone C. Indexed Color D. RGB
Mode Mode Mode Mode
3. This mode uses one of two color values (black or white) to represent the
pixels in an image.
A. Bitmap B. Duotone C. Grayscale D. HSB
Mode Mode Mode Mode
Additional Activities
References
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