Produce Photos - Intro to Adobe Photoshop

What is Photoshop and what can it do?

http://psd.tutsplus.com/articles/web/60-spectacular-examples-of-photoshop-design-and-art/
http://www.noupe.com/photoshop/45-brilliant-examples-of-photo-manipulation-art.html


Photoshop Interface and Tools


Create a new document

• Dimensions
• Resolution
• RGB Vs CMYK
• Background options
• Color Profiles
• Pixel Aspect Ratio

Painting Tools

• Brush Tool
• Eraser
• Paint Bucket Tool

Exercise #1: Experiment with these new tools


Open an Existing Photo


Place another photo in the same document

Move Tool

• Auto-select
• Transform Controls
• Layers

Marquee Tool

• Feathering
• Fixed Ratio and Size

Magic Wand

• Tolerance
• Anti-alias
• Contiguous
• Sample all Layers

Crop Tool

• Rule of Thirds

Eyedropper

• Sampling Ring
• Point Sample vs Average

Exercise #2: Correct exposure and colour of some sample photos





Panoramas - What is a panorama?
Examples of a 360 panorama (Quicktime VR). Example #1 Example #2 Example #3
Demonstrate how to PhotoMerge (manual and automatic stitching).  PhotoMerge is a really useful and efficient tool for some images, but you may need to manually stitch images if PhotoMerge output is not desirable.
Photo-stitching Tutorial (video)

Exercise #3: Create a panorama using Photo-stitching techniques