GRAPHICS AND IMAGE MANIPULATION SOFTWARE

Basic Concepts: An Introduction, creating, Opening and saving files, Menus, Toolbox – working, option bar, Palettes and their types, Selection, Selection Tools, Selection Menu. Color control icons, Mode control icons, Window controls icons; creating new images, Image capture (TWAIN) from scanner other files. Image Handling: Cropping an image, adjusting image size, and increasing the size of the work canvas, saving an image.

Opacity, pressure, or exposure, paint fade-out rate, making selections, using selection tools, adjusting selections, softening the edges of a selection, hiding a selection border, moving and copying selections, extending and reducing selections, pasting and deleting selections. Painting and Editing: Brushes palette, brush shape, creating and deleting brushes, creating custom brushes, setting brush options, saving, loading and appending brushes, Options palette.

Layers: Adding layers, dragging and pasting selections on to layers, dragging layers between files, viewing and hiding layers, Editing layers, rotating selections, scaling an object, preserving layers transparency, moving and copying layers, duplicating layers, deleting layers, merging layers, using adjustment layers.

Channels and Masks: Channel palette, showing and hiding channels, splitting channels in to separate image, merging channels, creating a quick mask, editing masks using quick mask mode.

Concept of Multimedia: Picture/Graphics, Audio and Video format. Optimizing images for Web Publications: Choosing right graphic Format, Controlling Dither, Image Slicing (Creating, Editing and Saving Slices)