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Adobe Photoshop 7.0

Click the menu, then ,and scroll to Adobe Photoshop 7.0

Inserting Pictures Into Photoshop

Through Photoshop

  • File>Open

Drag and Drop Method

  • Go to My Pictures or other folder

Click and drag the picture file to Adobe Photoshop on the taskbar and once Photoshop is open release the mouse

Copy and Paste (from internet)

  • Right click the desired picture and click "copy"
  • In Photoshop menu-bar click File>New (Photoshop will automatically create an image the exact height and width of your copied picture)
  • In your new document image click the menu-bar Edit>Paste

Cropping Images

  • On the left side of the screen, click the "Crop Tool" on the menu
  • Click the Crop Tool handle at one corner of the desired area and drag it to the opposite corner and release.
  • Once the area is highlighted, again click the crop tool.  A box will appear, and you will be asked to choose:
  • Click Crop.

Saving Images

There are two routes of saving images on Adobe Photoshop 7.0.  You can save images as a Photoshop File (.psd / .pdd).  The advantages to this would be that you can keep the exact settings, layers, and effects of that image document.  The downfall of saving as a Photoshop file is that the file could only be opened and used in Adobe Programs.  The other route would be saving the file as .bmp / .jpg / or .tiff.  These files are more versatile in conjunction with other programs, but are compressed into a single layer and are no longer able to edit multiple layers.

  • On the menu-bar click the "File" drop down menu and scroll to "Save As"

 

  • A "Save As" box will appear, scroll to the "Format" and click the delta point ()


  • Scroll to "Photoshop (*.PSD, *.PDD)" and slick the "Save" button.
  • (If you would like to choose any other format, scroll to the desired format and click save.
  • Click "OK"

Adobe Photoshop Layering

Adobe Photoshop deals with visual layering.  On the bottom right corner of your Photoshop screen you should see the "Layers" tab. There is always a default Background layer, this will be the bottom layer.  Whatever layer is nearest to the top will be visible over all other layers. You can switch layers by clicking and dragging between them. You can also change the Opacity, or how much the layer will show through.  A 100% Opacity is thick and fully visible, but yet a 0% Opacity would be invisible.

Magic Eraser Tool

Oftentimes you will find yourself manually erasing backgrounds when the Magic Eraser Tool could be doing it for you.  This tool will detect which area you want to delete, and magically delete any color relative to it.

  • This picture for example would take much effort and time to manually delete the background of the tower, but with the Magic Eraser tool it would take one click.
  • First to activate the Magic Eraser tool, click and hold on the Eraser Tool until a menu pops up to the right and click on the Magic Eraser Tool
  • Once the Magic Eraser Tool appears, click on the area in which you want deleted, and with one click it will be erased.

 

Saving as Adobe PDF

Saving as an Adobe PDF file is much like printing a document, it will be untouchable and you and unable to edit it much like a piece of paper, only by printing to PDF the image is still within your computer as a document.

  • Click the "File" menu and scroll down to "Print".
  • A Print Box will appear, click on the "Name" Delta Point and then click "Adobe PDF"
  • Click "OK"
  • Now choose your save destination and you are finished.

 

Adobe Photoshop is a very complicated program, and for this tutorial we only touched on the basics.  If you would like to schedule an appointment with the NSU Technology Center Help Desk call 626-2283, e-mail us at help@northern.edu , or stop by and see us at Tech Center 148.