Photoshop Basics

Photoshop Discussion

each pixels is 1/72 of an inch. Pictures are made out of pixels, that are not visable as individuals unless you zoom in to 200-300 magnification. You can add more pixels, but it may or may not come out to be better. Mega Pixel-a 1000/1000 pixel image. A million pixels. HUGE FILE SIZES

Image Formats

Raw, TIFF, JPG, GIF, PNG, etc.

PNG has best resolution with resonable file size

Image Resolution

lower res. = lower quality. JPG is bad for compression. Looses way to much quality.

Use highest res you have, until the finish.

Selections

Selection skills are important in Photoshop.

Layers

Layer Skills are also very important

Contrast and Brightness

Quick and important editing

Colors

Saturation, removing certain colors