Nowadays, names of Photoshop or some other graphical software is not always go with professional using anymore. Anyone can use it for millions of purpose, mostly is changing your images, your pictures, for personal using, for publication, ... futher is for animation, for filming and web designing....Photoshop has become more and more popular.
Photoshop CS2 is the next version of series photoshop, included: Photoshop 2.0 (1992), 3.0 (1994), ... 8.0 (2003), CS- creative suite(also 2003) and CS2.
Working by palettes system just like other closely Adobe's product, CS2 help you in file, layers organizing with layers palette , adjusting images with tools palette and navigator, histogram plus info. Moreover, history and actions palettes has been
upgraded, making it easier to undo, redo, and even see every steps that you have just done, therefore can adjust it as you want to.
Tools palette:include those tools: _Move tool: moving images, objects, layers, within a window or between windows and windows. _Marquee tool: with three different shape, help selecting inneed area to cut, rotate, fill color or inverse color inside and outside selected area. _Lasso tool: also to sellect working area but need to do manually for higher result. _Magic wand and quick selection tool: choosing working area based on the siimilarity of color level. _Crop:cutting out unecessary part in pictures( usually use with rotating ) _(spot) healing brush tool : use to reduce spot, wrinkles on person's face. Red eye tool to ease red eyes and patch tool for replacing ( similar) part of images. _Brush and pencil tool, work manually using lines or special shape such as triangle, square, heart, leaves, stars.. In the program, there is a library of differennt of brushes but if you want more, you can download other species on ---www.devianart.com--- or some other website. Moreover, you can make brushes by yourself, using your own image and just through some several simple step!! _Clone stamp tool: replacing the whole chosen part of image, use manually. _Eraser tool/ magic eraser/ background eraser. _Paintbucket tool: filling color in specified area. _blur, sharpen and smudge tool: very effective for fantasy art as well as hiding or highlight some part of the picture. _Dodge tool/ burn/ sponge tool: help viewing some part of picture that can't be shown due to the color balance or distance. _Pen tool :for exact drawing work with paths panel, can be used to create logos or in architecture., engineering _ Type tool : create word in line ,horizontaly or veticaly as well as some other shape( curve...) _Path selection : combine with pen , improve use of paths. _Shape tool : create simple shape such as square, elipse, polygon... _ Changing background/ foreground color. and some other helpful tools.
Moreover, with many other special effect tool like noise, render or stylize, Adode Photoshop CS2 help you much in 'feeding' your imagina tion and creativity.
It seems like there are many tools and learning how to use them might make you a bit nervous, but with Adobe help, there is nothing to worry about. Help window will immediately appear with perfect layout, easy-to-understand language and really informative with lots and lots of details about every side of the product such as : _ Instalation and sources, introduction about work space, basic knowledge about art and making use of tools ,for different purposes.
As well as this you can find some photoshop tutorials on website and try it to get used to the tools and learn some special effect. They can be found on :
www.good-tutorials.com
www.absolutecross.com
www.photoshopessentials.com... And many other website.
Photoshop CS2 also has friendly interface with button using, pop-up panel and each work place appear as a window( especially good to use large number of files( images) and layers at the same time. The hot-hey system is very useful making it easier to remember and to use. for example if you wanna open a new layers just press the combination: Shift+Ctrl+N....There are also more plug-ins : fonts for type tool, brushes, .... For better using, I would recommend Adobe Bridge to organize files and exchanging files between Photoshop and Adobe Image Ready to create animation.
However,just a little thing I don't like about this version is the loading interface and plug-in takes a bit long, makes me feel uncomfortable sometimes.Otherwise, its perfect.
In terms of graphic software, I think photoshop is the best. The fact is I has been using it for years and love it, still. I hope you will make use of it and love it like I do! Cheers!!
Thak you for reading.
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Advantages: The best photo editing/graphic software you can get! Disadvantages: The application takes time to load + it may take a little time to get used to.
Advantages: The best photo editing/graphic software you can get! Disadvantages: The application takes time to load + it may take a little time to get used to.
Advantages: simple to use, compatible with most other design software, upgradeable for free for latest updates Disadvantages: Takes a while to instal and run on a slow computer
Jul 14th, 2007
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