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GETTING STARTED
Adobe Photoshop CS6 is a popular image editing software that provides a work environment consistent with Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Photoshop and other products in the Adobe Creative Suite. This tutorial is an introduction to using Adobe Photoshop. Here you will learn how to get started, how to use the interface, and how to modify images with basic editing skills.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
10: Basic Image Editing
11: Cropping
12: Resizing
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10. Basic Image Editing
Now that you know how to ind your way around in the Adobe Photoshop CS6 interface and are familiar with the most common commands, palettes, and tools, you can start doing some basic image editing. In the next few chapters of this tutorial you will learn how to crop, resize, correct, and sharpen/blur your images.
11. Cropping
Cropping is one of the most basic editing techniques that can improve your images. Cropping helps to bring out the most important features in your image and focus the viewers’ attention on these features. Cropping also allows you to make your image a standard photo size.
There are several ways to crop images in Adobe Photoshop:
1. Cropping with the Crop Tool
2. Cropping to a speciic size
3. Cropping with the Marquee Tool
Cropping with the Crop Tool
The Crop Tool allows you to make a precise selection of an image you wish to edit. To crop with the Crop
Tool, follow these steps:
1. Open the image you wish to crop (see Getting Started for detailed instructions).
2. Select the Crop Tool from the Toolbox (see Selection Tools for location and description).
3. It will automatically select your entire image. Drag the edges to it the dimensions you desire.
(See Figure 11).
4. Resize the border by dragging the squares at the sides and corners untill you are satisied with the way your image looks.
5. Once you are completely satisied with your cropped image, press Enter.
Note: You can also rotate your cropping border. Move the cursor outside the border, you will see how it turns into a double-headed arrow (Figure 12). Drag the arrows in the directions you wish to rotate your selection.
Cropping to a speciic size
If you wish to print your digital photos or other images on standard size photo paper, you will have to crop your images to a speciic size, such as 8x10. To crop an image to a speciic size, do the following:
1. Open the image you wish to crop.
2. Select the Crop Tool from the Toolbox.
3. In the Options bar, specify the values for Width and Height (Figure 13).
4. Click in your image and drag the cropping border. Notice that the border is constrained. You can make it wider or longer than the speciied values (Figure 14). For example, if you entered 8 for Width and 10 for Height, whatever size you make the border, the area within it will it on an 8x10 photo.
5. Once you are completely satisied with your cropped image, press Enter.
Cropping with the Marquee Tool
If you are in a hurry and need just a simple crop, you can use the Marquee Tool and a menu command. To crop with the Marquee Tool, follow the steps below:
1. Open the image you wish to crop.
2. Select the Rectangular Marquee Tool from the Toolbox (see Selection Tools).
3. Click and drag the mouse to draw a marquee around the area you wish to crop (Figure 15).
4. In the main menu, go to Image > Crop (Figure 16). The image will be immediately cropped.
12. Resizing
Resizing in Photoshop can help you print your images in standard photo sizes, resize and preserve the high quality of digital photos, and enlarge small images to a poster size.
Resizing to a speciic size
To resize your image to a preset size, follow the steps below:
1. In the main menu, go. to File > New.
2. In the New dialog box, click on the Preset dropdown menu. You will see several preset sizes, such as 2x3, 4x6 and 5x7. Remember that 72 ppi is ine for online images, but a ppi of 150-300 is better for printed images. (Figure 17).
3. Choose the size that you wish and click OK.
Note: All the preset sizes are in portrait orientation. If you wish to resize an image with the landscape orientation, you need to create your own preset. To create your own size, do the following:
1. Type in the values for Width and Height, for example 7x5.
2. Type in your desired resolution (150 ppi for high quality prints, and 72 ppi is good for web images).
3. Click the Save Preset button
Resizing digital photos
Digital photos usually have large dimensions but low resolution, 72 ppi, which affects their quality when their size is decreased or increased. When printed, the photos with the changed size will look pixilated. To resize the digital photos without loosing the quality, follow these steps:
1. Open the digital photo you wish to resize.
2. In the main menu, go to View > Rulers. You will see the dimension of your photo (Figure 18).
3. In the main menu, go to Image > Image Size.
4. In the Image Size dialog box, check the Resample Image box off (Figure 19). Type in your desired
resolution (anything between 150 and 300 ppi). The photo is now 3.208 x 3.083 inches.
Enlarging
If you want to make your digital photo into a poster size image, you can do it in the Image Size dialog box. However, just increasing the dimensions will make the image appear blurry and pixilated. To enlarge the image without losing the quality, follow these steps:
1. Open the digital image you wish to enlarge.
2. In the main menu, go to Image > Image Size.
3. In the Image Size dialog box, make sure the Resample Image box is checked off and choose Bicubic
Smoother from the dropdown box (Figure 20).
4. Change the Document Size measurements to Percent. Type in 110. This will increase the size of the image by 10 percent (Figure 20).
5. Continue enlarging by 10 percent untill you are satisied with the size.
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