Andrew Fuller In Class Assignment 01

 

1. What is Photoshop?

Photoshop is a digital program that allows users to create and edit a visual product.

2. List 10 things that you can do with photoshop.
Create Images
Edit Images

Restore Images

Scale Images

Painting and Drawing

Filtering

Animation

Identify Colors

Typography

Enter Photoshop Contests

3. Professions that would use Photoshop to complete their work.
Animators, Illustrators, Web Designers, Photo Restoration-ers.

4. Tool panel overview:

• Name a type of selection tool
• The Lasso allows you to draw out a selection. 
• What does the move tool do and what is it's hot key?
• The move tool allows you to move images and layers and the hot key is V.
• What is the hot key for the eyedropper tool and what does that tool do?
• The hot key for the eyedropper is I and it allows you to select whatever color you click on in an image and place it in your foreground.
• What does the eraser tool do?
• The eraser tool is the opposite of the brush tool allowing you to remove color instead of placing it.
• What tool creates straight, angled, or radial gradients, what is it's hot key?
• The gradient tool allows you to create straight, angled, or radial gradients, and its hot key is G. 
• When might you use the brush tool?
• The brush tool would be used when you are trying to draw or need to add stylized strokes to your image.
• What is the difference between vector and raster?
• Vector images are made up of paths and raster images are made of pixels. 
• What is the difference between aliased and anti aliased?
•  Aliased means hard edges and anti aliased means feathered edges.