First Photoshop Practice

Newspaper

Web

Yearbook

Notes about Photoshop

Save As: Rename your image. Make sure the image is saved as a .jpg at the highest image quality.

Save: You do not rename the image at this point. Save often and regularly.

Nestle: tools are stacked on each other. to access those tools you have to left click and hold.

Command keys:
  Command + =zoom in
  Command - =zoom out
  Command o =open
  Command c =copy
  Command v =paste
  Command z =undo
  Command,option, z =Step backward
  Command s =save
  Command p =print
  Command l =levels

To turn an image go to
>Image>Image Rotation
  CW and CCW
  CW = clockwise
  CCW = counter-clockwise

Adjusting Levels
>Image>Adjustments>Levels
  Channel blue
  Channel green
  Channel red
Moved just the black triangle
Adjusting Contrast
>Image>Adjustments>Levels
Channel RGB moved just the gray triangle to the left

Resolution Guidelines:
Yearbook = 300 (Horizontal)
Newspaper = 150 (Black&White)
Web = 72 (Vertical)

To make an image Black and white
  Use Grayscale
    >Image>Mode>Grayscale

Photoshop Introduction

4. Crop Tool
  Used to cut a part of the photo and make it smaller.
5. Lasso Tool
  Used to select a portion of the photo and if you do something, just the part selected will be affected.
6. Text Tool
  Used to add text to the image.
7. What buttons do you push to "Undo" a mistake you made?
  Command+Z (Mac).
  CTRL+Z (PC).
8. What can you open to "undo" more than one mistake? How do you open it?
  You have to pull up the History palette. You can do this by going to the window "History" menu.
9. How do you rotate an image?

   Go to the "Image" menu and select "Image Rotation".

10. If you don't like the initial cropping box you drew, how can you change it before you make your crop?

   You can click and drag on te small boxes (called "anchor points) that surround the box to reshape your crop.

11. Under the heading "Resizing while Cropping" when you enter dimensions as you crop, what are you telling Photoshop to do as you crop your image?
  width, height, and resolution.
12. What is the correct resolution for newsletters and newspapers?
  Resolutions in the range of 150 to 200 ppi. 
13. What is the correct resolution for magazines?
  High resolution images of 250 ppi or more.

My Favorite Cover

MIT Technology Review, November/December 2012: "You Promised Me Mars Colonies. Instead, I Got Facebook."

This Magazine cover is a very good example. The main image has a good exposure. Something that the magazine cover is missing could be the dateline, because it has not the day of publication. Also, another thing that is "vital" is the left third that also it is missing. This magazine cover is my favorite because it has almost all of the essential parts of a magazine.

Something that is communicated on this portrait is about old people, it communicate that also old people can do things as colonize mars(the man in the image is a moon-walker).

Magazine Essential Parts

1.- Masthead
 Logo or title

2.- Dateline
 month/day/year of publication

3.- Main image
 Single and big image

4.- Model credit
 Something about the model or the photographer of the main image

5.- Cover lines
 Some main ideas about the content of the magazine

6.- Main cover line

  Very large main idea (largest).

7.- Left third

 is where the magazine is not shown full-frontage.

8.- Bar code
 Single bar code used to sell it

9.- Selling line
 short description of the title's main marketing point

Portrait Photography Major Assignment