LEARNING ACTIVITY SHEET
DIGITAL MEDIA 8
First Quarter, Week 1
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Meeting the Application Frame
BACKGROUND INFORMATION FOR LEARNERS
If you are making a drawing or illustration, what tool do you usually use? Have you tried
to use Adobe Photoshop?
Adobe Photoshop is an image editing software created by Adobe Systems Inc. It is a
software which allows you to make changes in photos such as the following: crop, resize,
change, or remove background, correct colors, and even create a cartoon version of a person.
In enhancing a photo, you can use Photoshop CS6. It will help you edit and create
your very own digital masterpiece because of its wonderful features.
In this lesson, you will explore the application frame of Adobe Photoshop. Make sure
that you have installed Adobe Photoshop CS6 on your computer. Once you open the Photoshop
on your desktop, you will see the following display on your screen.
OPTION BAR
This bar automatically changes to include settings related to the tool you are currently
using. It lets you customize the behavior of nearly every item in the Tools panel. You can point
your cursor at any setting, and you will see a little yellow pop-up description called a tooltip (you
don’t need to click—just don’t move your mouse for a couple seconds). The Options bar is
located at the top of the screen, but it does not always stay there. You can move it around by
grabbing its left end and dragging it wherever you want it to be placed, as shown in Figure 1-2,
middle. If you decide to put it back later (also called docking), just drag it to the top of the screen
(see Figure 1 - 2, bottom).
TOOLS PANEL
Selection, Cropping, and Measuring Tools
Icon Tool Name and
Use
Keyboard Shortcut
Move (V) Moves selections or layers
Marquee (M) Makes rectangular, elliptical, single row, and single
column selections
Makes freehand, polygonal (straight edged), and
Lasso (L)
magnetic selections
Quick Selection (W) Make selections by painting
Crop (C) Crops an image
Eyedropper (I) Samples pixels
Retouching and Painting Tools
Icon Tool Name and
Use
Keyboard Shortcut
Spot Healing (J) Removes imperfections
Brush (B) Paints the foreground color
Clone Stamp (S) Paints with a sample of the image
History Brush (Y) Paints with the selected state or snapshot
Eraser (E) Erases pixels—or reverts to a saved history state
Gradient (G) Creates a gradient
Blur (no shortcut) Blurs pixels
Dodge (O) Lightens pixels in an image
Drawing and Type Tools
Icon Tool Name and
Use
Keyboard Shortcut
Pen (P) Draws a vector path
Horizontal Type (T) Creates a type layer
Path Selection (A) Allows you to manipulate a path
Rectangle (U) Draws vector shapes
Navigation Tools
Icon Tool Name and
Use
Keyboard Shortcut
Hand (H) Navigates the page
Zoom (Z) Increases and decreases the relative size of the view
DOCUMENT TABS
When we open an image in Photoshop, we call it as tabbed document. In the displayed
screen above, only one of three photos is on the screen. To switch between the tabbed documents
(Untitled 1, Untitled 2, Untitled 3) simply click which tab you want to preview.
PANELS
Adobe Photoshop has three main
panels namely: Color, Adjustments, and
Layers Panel. As you can see, opposite each
panel has another tab, except for the Layers
Panel which has two other tabs. Those were
grouped or nested to prevent cluttering up
the entire screen.
ZOOM LEVEL
Zoom tool is used to zoom in or out an image. To do this,
click the Zoom Tool in the Tools panel or simply press Z on the
keyboard then click anywhere on the image to magnify it.
DOCUMENT WINDOW
As highlighted by the pink rectangle in the picture above, document window is the area
where the image is displayed. It is also known as “canvas”.
RESIZING FRAME
You cannot resize a photo by
means of dragging its corners. You
must use Image>Image Size to
encode the size of an image that you
prefer.
SWAPPING SCREEN MODES
The fastest way to switch screen modes is through keyboard. Simply press letter F on your
keyboard and you will be directed to different modes.
Adobe Photoshop has three different screen modes for your document-viewing pleasure.
1. STANDARD SCREEN MODE -
This is the default view when you
launch Photoshop for the first time. It
displays the entire interface.
2. FULL SCREEN MODE WITH
MENU BAR – This option hides some,
but not all, of the elements of Adobe
Photoshop interface.
3. FULL SCREEN MODE – This mode
completely hides the interface, making
use of full access to the entire screen.
