PHOTOSHOP FOR BEGINNERS Learn Adobe Photoshop cs5 Basics with Tutorials NISHA RAMAVAT Copyright © 2015 Nisha Ramavat All rights reserved. CONTENTS Why you need this book? What you will learn from this book Introduction The Photoshop Workspace The Toolbox: Comprehensive introduction to all Tools Menu: Defining Menu Bar Palettes The Drawing Canvas Getting started - Some Basic Tutorials Remove background of an image Remove an object from image Blending different images in one Custom shapes as text frames in Photoshop Sharpen an Image Changing color of a part in your Image Learn more What you will learn from this book Basics of photoshop, no prior knowledge is needed How to improve your photoshop skills Different photoshop techniques Go beyond an intermediate photoshop user Work in a quicker way on photoshop How to retouch images How to install, work and understand photoshop And much, much more Why you need this book? You want to learn and improve your photoshop skills You want to easily and instantly retouch your images without spending a single penny You want to be a professional in photoshop and earn money from it This book will be with you for your whole lifetime. Introduction Adobe Photoshop is one of the powerful software used for graphic designing and image editing. It is the most commonly used software by people because of its easy to learn tools and technique. Adobe Photoshop offers a 30 day trial offer, so that you get plenty of time to learn the basics of photoshop. When you get confident that you can master this software then you can buy it and this book will guide you to become a master in Photoshop. This book will teach you how to get into photoshop, you don’t have to worry about any prior exposure to photoshop or other software like this. Just follow this book and you will be good at it. You can easily accomplish your photoshop tasks by applying the skills and techniques discussed in this book. You will be easily able to follow the instructions because it is very simple to understand it.You will learn everything from start to finish. You will learn step by step what to do and how to do. The goal of this book is to teach you photoshop, so you don’t have to stress about not having worked on photoshop before. After going through this book, you will be able to apply new skills to photoshop any image you want and also you can make cash along the way. Photoshop Workspace After installing Photoshop in your system, the first thing that you see when you open the Photoshop is Photoshop Workspace. It basically consists of four elements, which are as follows: The Toolbox The Menu Bar The Palettes The Canvas These four elements create the whole magic in Photoshop. So, you need to know them to edit any of your image, which is very simple to understand. It doesn’t require any prior exposures to Photoshop. You just need to be little experimental, you just need to open your Photoshop and try these elements while you are reading in the book and you will find how easy it is to use photoshop for any of your image editing work. It’s a perfect tool to edit your images in the way you want. The Toolbox: Comprehensive introduction to tools The toolbox of photoshop consists of various types of tools which have different functions like painting, drawing, retouching, selection, texting, measuring and much more. Here is a picture showing different types of tools. Marquee tool (M) This tool let’s you select particular part of the image in a specific shape. By default, it shows a rectangular shape, but you can select a square, an ellipse or even a circle by holding down a shift button while selecting.