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Автор: Peter Bauer
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for Beginners.

      An Overview of Photoshop

      IN THIS CHAPTER

      

What Photoshop does very well, kind of well, and just sort of, well …

      

What you need to know to work with Photoshop

      

What you need to know about installing Photoshop

      Adobe Photoshop is, without question, the leading image-editing program in the world. Photoshop has even become somewhat of a cultural icon. It’s not uncommon to hear Photoshop used as a verb (“That picture is obviously Photoshopped!”), and you’ll even see references to Photoshop in the daily comics and cartoon strips. And now you’re part of this whole gigantic phenomenon called Photoshop.

      Before I take you on this journey through the intricacies of Photoshop, I want to introduce you to Photoshop in a more general way. In this chapter, I tell you what Photoshop is designed to do, what it can do (although not as capably as job-specific software), and what you can get it to do if you try really, really hard. I also review some basic computer operation concepts and point out a couple of places where Photoshop is a little different than most other programs. At the end of the chapter, I have a few tips for you on installing Photoshop to ensure that it runs properly.

      What Photoshop is designed to do

      FIGURE 1-1: Basic Photoshop: Take photo, edit photo, print photo. Drink coffee (optional).

Photos depict some common Photoshop tasks.

      Astronaut image courtesy of NASA

      FIGURE 1-2: Some common Photoshop tasks.

Photo depicts using photoshop with raster images, vector shapes, and even to paint.

      FIGURE 1-3: You can use Photoshop with raster images, vector shapes, and even to paint.

      Photoshop also includes some basic features for creating web graphics, including slicing and animations (see Chapter 16 for info on video and animation). (Web work is best done in a true web development program, such as Dreamweaver. If you want to learn about creating websites, pick up a copy of Dreamweaver CC For Dummies [Wiley].)

      Other things you can do with Photoshop

      However, there are a number of things for which Photoshop isn’t designed that you can do in a pinch. If you don’t have InDesign, you can still lay out the pages of a newsletter, magazine, or even a book, one page at a time. If you don’t have Dreamweaver, you can use Photoshop to create a website, one page at a time, sliced and optimized and even with animated GIFs. You can create multipage PDFs and PDF presentations (see Chapter 15). And although you’re probably not going to create the next blockbuster on your laptop with Photoshop, the video editing capabilities can certainly get you through the family reunion or that school project (see Chapter 16).

      In many respects, Photoshop is just another computer program — you launch the program, open files, save files, and quit the program quite normally. Many common functions have common keyboard shortcuts. You enlarge, shrink, minimize, and close windows as you do in other programs.

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