Year Book Spread

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Photoshop Practice

Resolution: 150 black & white

Resolution: 72 vertical

Resolution: 300 horizontal

Photoshop Introduction

4. Crop Tool- Used to cut off portions of your photo

5. Lasso Tool- Used to select specific part of your photo

6. Text Tool- Used to add text to your photo

7. What buttons do you push to "Undo" a mistake you made?

Command-Z (Mac) or CTRL-Z (PC) 

8. What can you open to "undo" more than one mistake? How do you open it?

You have to pull up the history palette. You find it by going to Window --> History menu.

9. How do you rotate an image?

You go to the image menu and then select "Image rotation" 

10. If you don't like the initial cropping box you drew, how can you change it before you make your crop?

You can cancel you crop by using the esc key.

11. Under the heading "Resizing while Cropping" when you enter dimensions as you crop, what are you telling Photoshop to do as you crop your image? HINT: it involves ratios.

You're telling photoshop what dimensions the image should result in after you crop it. After locking in the dimensions it forces the crop box into a certain ratio.

12. What is the correct resolution for newsletters and newspapers?

150-200 ppi

13. What is the correct resolution for magazines?

2250 or more ppi