Basic Photoshop Tutorial For Newbie

Hye everyone..

Have you choose what model do you want to buy?
I already post 3 brands that is 'GIANT' in Digital Slr world.Maybe after this i will post review for Olympus camera.

Now i will like to give a Adobe Photoshop tutorial.Adobe Photoshop is a software that we can use to edit our picture.If you master in this software,you can produce a good quality picture even the pictures that you capture is not very good.

Here is the tutorial.



This is the workspace in Adobe Photoshop.















And this is the menu bar.By using this menu bar,you can open new file,change the file size,add filter,edit colour and many more.


FILE :

• open new file
• load image from pc
• save image
• print image

EDIT :

• for copy and paste
• fill colour to image
• rotate image

IMAGE

• change image size
• change canvas size
• change image mode (rgb,cmyk,grayscale)
• add space to image

LAYER :

• add style to layer/image
• add layer
• delete layer

SELECT

• select specific position from image

FILTER

• apply filter to image
• to add special effect

VIEW

• to change image screen

This is the Tool Option Bar

It will change refer to the tools that you select.You must remember that different tool show different option bar.


This is the Toolbox
We use this tool to edit image.
And this is the Shortcut Key Tool Box
We use this as a shortcut.So,you dont have to click to the Tool Box.

Sometimes we a small cursor at certain tools.It means that that tool have more than 1 tool inside there.If you want to see the tools that hiding inside that,just right click to that tool and you can see all the tools that hiding inside.

This is the funtion for every tools :

Marquee Tool:

Rectengular Marquee Tool

• to make a square selected field

Elliptical Marquee Tool

• to make a round selected field

LASSO TOOL

Lasso tool

• to select a field which is not straight line
  

Polygonal lasso tool

• to select a field which is a straight line

Magnetic lasso tool

• to select a field refer to the shape

Magic Wand Tool
to build a field which have same colour range

Crop Tool
to cut certain part in image

Slice Tool
to seperate large image into parts

BRUSH TOOL

Brush tool

• to draw or colour image

Pencil Tool

• to write and make a sketch

HEALING BRUSH TOOL

Healing Brush Tool

• to recover certain field at image using pixel from other image

Patch Tool

• to recover certain field at image using pixel from other image

CLONE STAMP TOOL

Clone Stamp Tool

• to paste or copy certain field from image to other place

Pattern Stamp Tool

• to paste some pattern to image

ERASER TOOL

Eraser Tool

• to erase certain part in image

Background Eraser Tool

• to erase image background

BLUR TOOL

Blur Tool

• to blur certain part in image

Sharpen Tool

• to sharp certain part in image

Hope this tutorial will guide you to use Adobe Photoshop

sony a700

PRODUCT : SONY A700

PRICE : RM 5500

SPECS :

Camera Type :

Digital SLR camera with built-in flash and interchangeable lenses

Sensor :

APS Exmor™ Sensor, 23.5 x 15.6 mm (APS-C size) with RGB primary color filter

No. of Pixels :

Total: 13.05 megapixels; Effective: 12.24 megapixels

Dust Reduction :

Charge protection coating on low pass filter and image-sensor shift mechanism

File Format :

JPEG, RAW, RAW+JPEG (DCF 2.0 compliant, DPOF 1.1 print functions supported, Exif 2.21 supported)

Settings :

Automatic, Preset (Daylight, Shade, Cloudy, Tungsten light, Fluorescent light, Flash), Colour Temperature (2500 - 9900k with 19-step Magenta / Green compensation) / Colour Filter, custom

LCD Monitor :

3.0-inch (100% field of view), 921,600-dot TFT, hybrid type (Xtra Fine LCD)

Focus Modes :

Auto-focus / manual focus selectable (auto-focus modes: AF automatic selection, one-shot AF, continuous AF, direct manual focus)

Exposure Modes :

Program AE (Auto mode / P-Mode, with program shift), aperture-priority AE (A-Mode), shutter-priority AE (S-Mode), manual (M-Mode)

Scene Selector :

Portrait, Landscape, Macro, Sports, Sunset, Night view / Night portrait

Metering Type :

Direct TTL metering (40-segment honeycomb-pattern metering, center-weighted metering, spot metering)

Flash Metering and Control :

ADI / Pre- flash TTL flash metering, manually activated

Shutter Speed Range :

1/8000 sec. - 30 sec., bulb

Viewfinder Type :

Fixed eye-level system with optical glass type pentaprism

PC Interface :

USB2.0 Hi-Speed (mass storage mode / PTP mode)

Dimensions (W x H x D) :

Approx. 141.7 x 104.8 x 79.7mm (excl. protrusions)

Weight :

Approx. 690g (not including battery, memory card or accessories)

Operating Temperature Range :

0° - 40° C

REVIEW :

Sony is a famous name in the field of electronics customer.It is generally highly praises for its digital cameras and other electronic items.

Along with this wonderful merchandise,Sony is also coming up with latest updates of Image Data Lightbox bundled software applications ang Image Data Converter.The updated firmware would surely raise the perfomance capability of the camera. This update,on the other hand,would raise the entensity of images and decrease the amount of sound in certain circumstances. An interesting feature of the update is that it can manage flashes with non-ADI controls even at short distances.

Sony is quite posite about the recent updates of the firmware for its DSLR-A700 camera.As said by official source,"improved image sharpness and noise" is what is predictable from the newly revealed firmware updates.It is also revealedthat the update release include patches to Sony's RAW file converter.In most of the countries,Sony has already started giving online help to their customers for downloading the firmware updates.Anyway the results are yet to come,wether the new updates will actually help to get better photography or not is still uncertain.