Adobe Photoshop 5.0 is an image editing and creation program. You can use Adobe Photoshop to scan pictures for newsletters, reports, web pages, and anything else involving images on your computer. Photoshop is a complex program and it is not meant for beginning users. You should have experience on a Macintosh or PC and web experience is helpful.

Adobe Photoshop is available on all Campus Macintoshes and the PCs in Mudd 104. In addition, copies are available on the Central Mac Server for Campus Use. If you do not know how to access the Campus Mac Server then please see document number MAC 18 An Introduction to the Macintosh Operating System 8.5.1.

Contents
Introduction
What is Adobe Photoshop?
Important Concepts

Pixels
Resolution
Color

Dealing With Mistakes

The Undo Command
Revert

The Photoshop Interface

Menu Bar
Toolbox
Palettes

Getting Images Into Photoshop

Opening an Image
Scanning an Image
Creating a New Image

The Toolbox

Choosing Colors
Foreground and Background Colors
Eyedropper Tool
Swatches Palette

Brushes
Painting Tools
Selecting

Basic Selecting
Marquee Tools
Magic Wand

Image Editing

Brightness and Contrast
Variations

Blur and Sharpen

Blur and Blur More
Unsharp Mask

Image and Canvas Size

Image Size
Resolution

Layers
Creating a New Layer
Moving and Copying Layers
Flattening an Image
Layer Transforming
Rotating an Image
Type Tools

Saving
Save a Copy as
Saving for the Web
GIFs
JPEGs

Getting Help
Built In Help
On-Line Help
User Services Help

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