Photoshop CS Palettes

Options / Brushes (across the top of the screen)

  • Select a new brush size/type for the tool in current use
  • Make a new brush using options
  • Used in conjunction with tools, provides modifiers for tool operation

Navigator

  • Magnify or de-magnify using big and small hill icons (uses fast, pre-calculated magnifications)
  • Move viewing area by dragging navigator rectangle
  • Precisely adjust magnification using slider, or type in using zoom value field

Info

  • Width and height of selections
  • RGB and CMYK values
  • Measurements when measuring tool selected
  • X and Y positions of cursor

Colours

  • Use sliders to modify foreground or background colours (select the appropriate square in the palette)
  • Pick a colour from the blended picker below the sliders (cursor becomes an eyedropper)

Swatches

  • Get a new colour for foreground (click swatch) or background (ALT-click swatch)
  • Store a new, sampled, foreground colour in an empty area (cursor becomes paint bucket)
  • Delete a colour using CNTRL-click
     

History

  • Move backward and forward through the changes made in the document
  • Create a snapshot/s of a current satisfactory state as a place to come back to

Actions

  • Record a series of modifications that can be played back on many different images (effects, scan corrections etc)
  • Assign a particular command or set of commands to a function key as a personalised shortcut

Layers

Consider layers as sheets of acetate layered one upon another

  • Each layer can have its own opacity setting
  • Each layer can show only the selected part of its image by using layer masking
  • The way in which layers combine with each other can be altered
  • Layers may be locked to each other so that they can be moved in perfect registration

Channels

  • Channels are the areas in which photoshop stores image information
  • The information relates, in the first place, to the RGB  or CMYK channels that comprise the image
  • Other images may be stored in the channels, most often these are the masks used

Paths

  • The pen tool produces paths which are stored in the paths palette
  • Paths may be created from selections and vice versa
  • Path options provides ways in which the path may be incorporated into an image

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