Getting Started with Photoshop tutorial (i): Text New and conceptual analysis

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The "Getting Started with Photoshop" series of tutorials may not be easy for anyone who has never touched Photoshop, because this tutorial is not detailed enough to teach you how to use a series of very basic things like the Paintbrush tool, and some of the explanations may be a little cross. So it is recommended to learn the basics of beginner learning by learning about this tutorial, truly stepping into Photoshop's wonderful world and really getting started.

About Photoshop

Photoshop is a famous image processing software developed by Adobe, primarily dealing with digital images made of pixels.

Photoshop version

As a beginner, the first thing to face is the choice of software version. Photoshop has been released from February 1990 Photoshop 1.0.7 to today's Photoshop CC, with a version of more than dozens of. So when choosing a version, many beginners may struggle with what version to choose. Hope that through the following explanation, can help beginners to solve this confusion.

Let's take a look at the different versions of the Photoshop software interface.

Photoshop 7.0 Software Interface

Photoshop CS Software Interface

Photoshop CS6 Software Interface

Three different versions, the interface does not look very different, the left side is the toolbar, the right is the work panel, the top is the menu bar. Even the order of the tools, the default order of the face plate is the same. At this point, Adobe's user experience is doing just fine, no matter whether it's a new user or an old user. And some tools that are now almost impossible to use are also retained in the latest version of Photoshop, allowing older users to adapt to the new version quickly. So beginners in the choice of version without worrying about different versions of the corresponding features, basic skills can be enough for beginners to explore.

Note: This tutorial uses the CS6 version as a demo.

Download and installation of the software

Software download and installation choose their own version of Baidu, installation methods are very detailed, in order to save space in this is not the statement.

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Basic concepts of each setting:

pixel: is the most basic unit that makes up the image, it is a small square color block.

Resolution: The number of pixels within the unit area. The higher the resolution, the more pixels, and the greater the amount of information in the image. The unit is PPI (Pixels per inch), such as 300PPI indicates that the image contains 300x300 pixels per square inch.

Image resolution and image size values determine the size and output quality of the file, the higher the resolution, the clearer the image, the resulting file is larger. Image resolution becomes synonymous between image quality and file size;

If the image is for printing, its resolution must be greater than or equal to: 120 pixels/cm, the conversion is about: 300 pixels per inch.

Color mode: a color model for displaying and printing images. Commonly used are RGB, CMYK, LAB, grayscale and so on.

RGB mode: composed of red, green and blue 3 kinds of primary colors, the 3 kinds of primary colors mixed produce thousands of colors.

CMYK mode is a printing mode. It is made up of 4 colors of color separations, which are essentially no different from the RGB model. In the process of image processing, we generally do not use CMYK mode, because this mode file size, will occupy more disk space and memory. In addition, many filters are not available in this mode, so there is a lot of inconvenience when editing an image, so it is usually converted to this mode during printing.

This section of the content for the time being here, the next section will explain some of the basic Photoshop software settings and information acquisition.

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