Rachel Worthy Assignment 1

What is Photoshop?

A computer program used to digitally alter and create images.

2. List 10 things that you can do with Photoshop

·      Duplicate images

·      Retouch photos

·      Create images from scratch

·      Create visual effects

·      Mix colors

·      Paint images

·      Alter photos

·      Change shapes

·      Create layers for different images on one layout

·      Fixing photo errors

3. Professions that would use Photoshop to complete their work. Photographer, web developer, illustrator, multimedia designer

4. Tool panel overview:

•   Name a type of selection tool. Lasso tool

•   What does the move tool do and what is it's hot key? Moves a selected layer. The hot key is “V”.

•   What is the hot key for the eyedropper tool and what does that tool do? The hot key is “I”. Used for reusing colors that are on the layout without using the color picker.

•   What does the eraser tool do?

Erases

•   What tool creates straight, angled, or radial gradients, what is it's hot key? The gradient tool. The hot key is “G”.

•   When might you use the brush tool? Shaping and coloring images

•   What is the difference between vector and raster? Vector is composed of defined, geometric shapes. Raster is composed of a collection of dots and pixels.   

•                What is the difference between aliased and anti aliased? Aliased is when an image has stair-stepping edges when a resolution is too low. Anti-aliasing is the smoothing of the jagged edges.