Adope Photoshop (Part-III)

LAYERS AND HISTORY:

These features make editing easier and prevent common mistakes.

1. Open Test psd

2. Open Menu >Window > History

3. Open Menu >Window > Layers

4. Click on top layer in Layer Palette

5. Click on Paint tool in tool bar

6. Paint 6 lines on document.

7. Stretch History Palette to show all states

8. Click on state 2 or the second line we drew…Notice that everything under it has faded.

9. Click on state 4 or the fourth line we drew…Notice the changes

10. Now click on state 2 and draw a line…Notice that all states under 2 have disappeared.

• On the layer pallette, there are several useful features.
• One is the locking features. 
• At the top of the layer palette, notice several boxes with icons. 
• Checking the boxes will lock features of layers on the active document.

TEXT AND FONTS:

It is now postscript and is equivalent to Illustrator or Quark in printed appearance. It is also used differently than older versions, it behaves more like a word processor.

We just added some text in Photoshop. Notice that the text appeared on a new layer. Also notice that the text appeared in the last used font and color.

SAVING FOR THE WEB:

• When creating anything for the web, file size is of great importance, almost equal to quality.
• The save for web option allows you to optimize the files for size while seeing the results to quality.
  

Steps:

1. Open some xyz.psd file.

2. Menu > File > Save for Web. This opens a new window

3. In upper left, click on 4-up…it creates 4 images. The upper left image is your original,the others are examples of options.

4. Select the second image by clicking on it, notice black line surrounds it.In upper right of window are options for saving.Output settings are for creating HTML or background etc. What you really need is the format setting.

5. Choose jpeg for image or GIF for text, then set quality and ok. The options should be practiced as the effects are many. Basically you must balance file size with quality and format type. Quality is a combination of # of colors and quality setting.