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Moshe's Adobe Photoshop CS2 Help for Beginners

Adobe Photoshop CS2 is a powerful graphic image edit work program. You can repair or change the appearance of a photo image beyond recognition. It is full of options that will help you edit your photo. A cracked damaged photo taken some 50 years ago can be made to look almost like new. You can revitalize colors lost in the original photo. Photos that were badly taken can be improved, out of focus sections can be sharpened, and that unsightly telegraph pole or hanging electricity wire or pylon in the background can be removed by pasting an adjacent area over the top of the offending poles or wires.

This is only a condensed Help file but it will help you especially if you are just starting out to edit photos. I have not covered all the various options available but those that I thought would get you started along the way. Once you get started, you will discover what you can do:
All you need is your imagination!

Contents

 The following topics are available in this help file:

 Overview

 About this Help File

 The Main Window Work Area

 The Toolbox

 Opening Adobe Photoshop CS2

 Using the Adobe Bridge Program to import your photo image

 Selecting

 Adjust the brightness and or color contrast

 Sharpen or Blur

 Repair Red eye caused by a flashgun

 Copy and Paste

 Pasting to hide an existing area

 Rotate an image

 Rotate freely the photo image

 Rotate a selected area of the photo image [image], [image] Clockwise or [image] Counter Clockwise

 Rotate manually a selected area of the photo image

 Mirror a photo image or a selected area

 Add Text

 Alter the size

 Paint areas

 Import from a scanner and or digital camera

 Print and Print Preview

 Page Setup - Setting up how it should print

 Previewing then printing out

 Print

 Saving

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Overview

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Important! Please view About this help file to read the conditions concerning the use of my help file, and how to contact me.

Note this Condensed Help file is meant for the person starting out, it does not cover all the options that the program offers the user: I have written about the ones that I thought were absolutely necessary for a beginner to know, and or would be regularly used. For the beginner this will get him/her started, and give a base for eventually learning the Advanced options that are available in Adobe Photoshop CS2.

http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/

The above link will take you to their website; there you will find a very useful movie to view. In around two and a half minutes they show you some of the things that you can do with Adobe Photoshop CS2; the movie is designed for beginners.

Description

Adobe Photoshop CS2 is a program designed for editing and repairing photos besides creating pictures.

It is a stand alone program multi platform program; this means that it can be installed on either on PC's with Microsoft Windows, or Apple Macintosh OX. Likewise the help files accompanying the program are in the format of Adobe Acrobat, which is a cross platform format that is viewable on various types of computer applications, Microsoft Windows, Linux, or Apple Macintosh computers. The Middle Eastern Version lets you use right to left languages for text insertion.

On opening the program a Welcome screen appears. This screen lets you opt to see how to use the options in Adobe Photoshop. You can see what is new in this version, and play movies or learn the basics or advanced options in the program.

http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop//newfeatures.html#globalnav

I would recommend that you look at this page and view the movies several times. The movies explain quite clearly new processes that have been added to Photoshop in this version.

At the top of the Main Window you can see the main option menus. These menus offer the options that you can use to edit your photo image on the desktop work area. The layout of the main option menus conforms to well known standards, which make it easy for the user to find his way around them.

The Toolbox Description
On the left of the Main Window work area desktop is a comprehensive Toolbox, which you work with to edit and make selections. Tools are grouped together according to use. Tools that have small black triangles in their lower right hand corner are group tools. Left click on the tool and hold down the mouse button to reveal those tools. There is an excellent Toolbox Overview  picture in the program help, which lists all the tools in the Toolbox.

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These are some of the things you can do with Adobe Photoshop CS2:

Add Text to the photo
Alter the size
Resize it
Rotate or flip
Sharpen or Blur
Adjust the color and or brightness and contrast
Paint areas
Mirror
Repair Red eye caused by a flashgun
Copy and Paste new Layers
Import from a scanner and or digital camera

Use the easy to use comprehensive Adobe Photoshop CS2 program help, and or the very helpful tutorials: Movies are also available for you to view. In the Help, type in the search what you want to know. The excellent Tool Gallery shows the tool uses.

Adobe Photoshop CS2 shows each photo image in separate work area windows on the desktop. When you have edited your photo, you can save your work in a variety of formats and then print it.

Getting your photo into a new work area window:

You can open a saved photo, or import it from either a (universal twain standard protocol) desktop scanner, or digital camera, or paste it in from the clipboard, using the new Adobe Bridge program, which you can open within Adobe Photoshop CS2 or from the Start - All Programs menu. Adobe Bridge is File search and find program that lets you copy your photo image to the desktop. Doing it via Adobe Bridge lets you use the new Smart Paste option.

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About this Help File

About this Help File
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This is a condensed help version designed for beginners who want to get started using it. My Beginners Help doesn't cover all of the many features in Adobe Photoshop CS2, view the program help file to see these. I have included those that I thought to be some of the major ones in the program that a beginner would use.

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The Main Window

The Main Window Work Area
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At the top of the Main Window Work Area are the Main Menu Options.
File, Edit, Image, Layer, Select, Filter, View, Window, Help.

 The Navigator

At the top right of the Main Window is the Navigator, it has a preview window: Below this window there is a slider button that lets you zoom in or out with ease. The preview window contents change to whatever window is selected on your desktop work area.

The Tool Box

On the left hand side of The Main Window Work Area (see the above picture) below the File Menu is the vertical Toolbox. The program remembers the last tool that you used and places its button below the File menu, this button and its various options for use are replaced when a new tool is selected.

Tools in the Toolbox are grouped according to their use, to see or reveal them, do the following:

 On buttons that have a triangle at the bottom right corner, position your mouse on that tool.

 Hold down the left mouse button to reveal the grouped tools. When you choose a tool to work with, below the File menu at the top of the Main Window appears tool option buttons that you can work with.

You are highly recommended to see the excellent Tool Gallery in the Adobe Photoshop Program Help file. In the Gallery you can see clearly what these tools do.

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The Toolbox


Opening Adobe Photoshop CS2

Opening Adobe Photoshop CS2
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To open Adobe Photoshop CS2 do the following:

  Left click the Start Button All programs menu, drag your mouse and click on the Adobe Photoshop CS2 shortcut; a Welcome screen appears in the Main Window Area. This screen lets you opt to see how to use the options in Adobe Photoshop. You can see what is new in this version, and play movies or learn the basics or advanced options in the program.

Getting your photos into the Main Window Work Area

There are several ways of getting a photo image into the Main Window work area, so that you can work on them:

  Open a saved photo from the File menu.

  Copy and paste an image from a document.

  Dragging your photo or copying and pasting from the new Adobe Bridge program.

  Import your photos to the Main Window work area directly from either your desktop scanner, or via a digital camera.

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Selecting

Selecting

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Before you can edit your photo, you have to select it, or select an area that you want to edit.

The selection tools are in the Toolbox on the left of the Main Window work area, and are in groups. To reveal these groups place your mouse on the Tools in the Toolbox that have a black triangle in the lower right corner, and hold down the left mouse button.

The Selection tools groups are:

   Left click here and on the above picture to see an example of the rectangular selection tool in use.

For rectangular area selections

   Left click here and on the above picture to see an example of the circular selection tool in use.

For circular area selections

The Lasso for freehand area selections

   Left click here and on the above picture to see an example of the Lasso in use.

The Magic Wand for instant area selections

 Left click here and on the above picture to see an example of the Magic Wand in use.

To select the entire photo, either click on its window, or do one of the following:

 Left click anywhere in the photo, then left click the Selections menu and Left click on Select All, or

 Press Ctrl + A; your photo will appear selected.

Using the Rectangular or Elliptical selection tools

To select an area of a photo with either the rectangular or circular selection tool, do the following:

 Reveal the tool you want to use, either the Rectangular Marquee Tool for rectangular selections, or the Elliptical Marquee Tool for circular selections.

1. To reveal the tool options: left click once and hold down the mouse button on either the Rectangular Marquee selection tool if shown in the toolbox, or the Elliptical Marquee selection tool  if it is showing.

2. In the now open Rectangular or Elliptical options, left click on either the showing Rectangular Marquee or Elliptical circular selector tool.

3. Drag the mouse over to the perimeter of the area you want to select.

4. Left click again and holding down the mouse button drag your mouse over the area you want to select, then releasing the button; the area is selected for editing, or copying.

 With the circular Elliptical Marquee tool selector, you can shape the circle when dragging the mouse as you hold down the left button before releasing it.

To cancel your selection, left click on the Selections menu at the top of the Main Window and then left click on Deselect.

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Using The Lasso Tool

To select an area of a photo with the Lasso Tool, do the following:

 Left click on the Lasso Tool selection button in the Toolbox (as shown here above selected), and drag the mouse over to the perimeter of area of the photo you want to select.

 Left click again, and hold down the left mouse button while you drag the mouse around the area you want to select, then release the left mouse button; the area is selected for editing, or copying. Left click here to see an example of a selected area.

This is a tricky operation and needs patience! You may have to repeat the procedure several times over:

To cancel your selection, left click on the Selections menu at the top of the Main Window and then left click on Deselect.

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Using The Magic Wand

See the note below about the use of this tool.

To select an area of a photo with the Magic Wand Tool, do the following:

1. Left click once on the Magic Wand Tool selection button in the Toolbox (as shown here selected).

2. Drag the mouse over to the area of the photo you want to select, then left click again; the area is selected for editing, or copying.

Note that the Magic Wand Tool makes a selection according to differences in either brightness, coloring or contrast of the area. There are times when this tool is ineffective, and manual selection is necessary.

This is tricky to do! You may have to repeat the procedure several times over:

To cancel your selection, left click on the Selections menu at the top of the Main Window and then left click on Deselect.

To return to the Rotating a previously selected image, left click here.

To return to the Rotate a selected area of the photo image [image], [image] Clockwise or [image] Counter Clockwise, left click here.

To return to the Rotate freely manually a selected area of the photo image, left click here.

To return to the Mirroring a selected Image procedure, left click here.

To return to the Adjust Brightness / Contrast procedures, left click here.

To return to the Sharpening procedures, left click here.

To return to Unsharp Mask, left click here.

To return to the Blurring procedures, left click here.

To return to Picking a matching color, left click here.

To return to Picking a color to paint in the Color Picker box, left click here.

To return to Paint Areas procedure, left click here.

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The Welcome Splash Screen


The Rectangular Selector in Use

Left click to see another example of a rectangular area selection.


A rectangular area selection


Circular Selection Tool in Ise

Left click to see another example of a circular area selection.


A circular area selection


The Lasso Tool in use

Left click to see another example of a Lasso area selection


A Lasso area selection


Magic Wand in use

Left click to see another example of a Magic Wand area selection


Magic Wand area selection


Adjust the brightness and or color contrast

Adjust the brightness and or color contrast

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Often photos are too dark, or too bright sometimes due to not backlighting when shooting the picture. The color contrast may need correcting. Adobe Photoshop CS2 lets you adjust the Brightness and Contrast. You can select how much to either lighten or darken your photo. Adjusting the brightness and or the contrast is a matter of personal choice, you may have to repeat the process several times till you are finally satisfied. There are several ways of doing this you can select the entire photo or a certain area of it, and then either adjust the brightness and contrast manually; it can also be done automatically. Below are two of the many options available.

To adjust the Brightness and Contrast do one of the following:

Words of warning here, never edit your original photo, but a copy of it. Better still make several copies and work with them. The reasons are obvious! An e-mail attached photo not saved may be gone forever, and not retrievable.

 Before you can edit your photo, you have to select it, or select an area that you want to edit.

 After selecting your image or an area of it.

Left click here to go to Selecting.

Automatic Level Adjustment

To Adjust the image automatically do the following:

 Left click on the Image Menu as shown above, and drag the mouse down the menu to Adjustments and then diagonally right to the Auto Levels option and left click on it; your picture image is automatically brightened and contrasted.

The complete picture has been adjusted.

This is an area of the picture that has been adjusted.

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Manual Adjustment

To manually adjust the Brightness/Contrast do the following:

1. Left click on the Image Menu, and drag the mouse down the menu to Adjustments and then right to the Brightness/Contrast option and Left click on it; the Brightness and Contrast settings box appears.

2. In the Brightness and Contrast box, place your mouse cursor on the sliders and move the sliders as required.

 Tick the preview box to see the picture change according to slider movement.

3. Left click on the [image] button to apply the new settings.

Cancelling

You can at any stage Step Backward = cancel your editing, left click on the Edit menu and then on Step Backward. Each click on the mouse returns your photo to a previous stage.

To cancel or undo, left click on the Edit menu option and Undo……. The wording will change according to what you want to undo, or simply close without saving.

4. Save your edited photo copy.

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Sharpen or Blur

Sharpen or Bur

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Sometimes you need to sharpen or blur the image or areas of the image, Adobe Photoshop CS2 lets you do this.
Do remember that sharpening an image is a matter of taste, you may have to repeat the processes several times.

Note you cannot always sharpen a compressed saved (CompuServe) Gif image file, if you try to do so you will see the image turn red. If this happens, the easiest way out of the problem is to use a screen capture to copy and paste a copy of the image into the Adobe CS2 Photoshop desktop work area as a new image, then copy and paste the area again editing the image afterwards.

To sharpen or blur your image, do the following:

First make a copy of your original photo that you want to correct! Do not use the original!

 Before you can sharpen or blur your photo, you have to select it, or select an area that you want to either sharpen or blur.

Left click here to go to Selecting.

 After selecting your image or an area of it.

To sharpen, do one of the following procedure options:

Working with the Sharpen Tool / Blur Tool: Both tools are used similarly.

1. Left click on the Sharpen Tool or the Blur Tool button in the Toolbox (as shown here), and drag the mouse over to the previously selected area of the photo.

2. Hold down the left mouse button and drag the mouse around the area you want to sharpen or blur; the area is either sharpened or blurred.

To Blur using the menus.

 Left clicking during the procedure increases the sharpening/blurring.

Working with menu options

1. Left click on the Filter Menu.

2. Drag the mouse down to Sharpen - then drag the mouse sideways and down to Sharpen and left click on it; the area or the image is automatically sharpened.

To Sharpen More, do the following:

1. Left click on the Filter Menu.

2. Drag the mouse down to Sharpen - then drag the mouse sideways and down to Sharpen More and left click on it; the picture will be automatically sharpened more.

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The Unsharp Mask Procedure

Do not let this term name Unsharp Mask fool you; it is a photographic darkroom term that is used to describe using a sharpening process in the darkroom.

To use the Unsharp Mask procedure, do the following:

 First select the copy of your photo, or select an area that copy of the original you want to edit.

Left click here to go to Selecting.

1. Left click on the Filter Menu.

2. Drag the mouse down to Sharpen - then drag the mouse sideways and down to Unsharp Mask and click on it; the Unsharp Mask preview settings box appears. See below. In this box you can adjust the sharpness settings by moving the sliders.

The preview area in the picture shows a previously selected area for sharpening.

3. When you are satisfied with the results, left mouse click on the [image] button.

Cancelling

You can at any stage Step Backward = cancel your editing, left click on the Edit menu and then on Step Backward. Each click on the mouse returns your photo to a previous stage.

To cancel or undo, left click on the Edit menu option and Undo……. The wording will change according to what you want to undo.

Remember to save your edited photo copy!

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The Smart Sharpen Procedure

To use the Smart Sharpen Procedure, do the following:

1. Left click on the Filter Menu.

2. Drag the mouse down to Sharpen - then drag the mouse sideways and down to Smart Sharpen and left click on it.

For a full explanation see the Adobe Photoshop CS2 Help file. The program help file explains thoroughly the sharpening settings for Auto sharpen. Note: no two photos will need the same amount of sharpening before you use this procedure.

If you plan to use this procedure, remember to use it on a copy of the original photo! Likewise this warning applies to all photos you edit, however you edit them: Never edit your originals but copies!

2. In the Smart Sharpen settings box set the settings accordingly for auto use.

Using the Menu to Blur

 Before you can blur your photo, you have to select it, or select an area that you want to blur.

Left click here to go to Selecting.

To Blur the image or a selected area of the image, do the following:

 Left click on the Filter Menu.

 Drag the mouse down the Filter menu and sideways to the Blur options. Left clicking Blur and Blur more will automatically blur your image accordingly.

You can at any stage Step Backward = cancel your editing, left click on the Edit menu and then on Step Backward. Each click on the mouse returns your photo to a previous stage.

To cancel or undo, left click on the Edit menu option and Undo……. The wording will change according to what you want to undo.

Remember to save your edited photo copy!

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Red Eye Correction

Red Eye Correction

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Red eyes are caused by the angle of a camera flashgun hitting the retina and pupil of the eye. You can repair this problem, automatically.

To correct red eye, do the following:

First make a copy of your original photo that you want to correct! Do not use the original!
Next, make sure that no area of the photocopy you wish to correct is selected.

Selecting the Red Eye Tool:

To select the Red Eye Tool, do the following:

1. Drag your mouse over to the fourth tool down from the top of the Toolbox in the second block of tools, (directly under the Crop Tool) then hold down the left mouse button to reveal all the tool group.

2. Left click on the Red Eye Tool in the Toolbox now revealed (as shown above) to select it.

3. Center the gunsight mouse cursor on the eye (as shown here) and left click once again.

 Repeat this action for each eye; the eye color is corrected.

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Adobe Bridge Program

Using the Adobe Bridge Program to import your photo image

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Another way to import or paste into your desktop is to use the new Adobe Bridge CS2 program, which is installed at the same time as Adobe Photoshop CS2.

Adobe Bridge CS2 is a powerful useful mini Explorer browser, it lets you find and manage that photo image file; you can perform some of the editing operations of Adobe Photoshop CS2, for example to rotate the image, and or copying and pasting. An easy way to get your image straight onto your work area desktop is to drag the image file from its folder; this imports a copy of the file.

Dragging your photo onto the Photoshop CS2 desktop work area from Adobe Bridge

To drag your photo onto the desktop work area, do one of the following:

 Left click the Start Button and in the All Programs menu, drag your mouse to the Adobe Bridge shortcut and left click again, or

 In Adobe Photoshop CS2, left click on the File Menu and drag your mouse down to Browse, and left click on it; Adobe Bridge CS2 will appear on your desktop work area.

 Open your picture folder and Left click on the photo image of your choice and holding down the mouse button drag your photo image out of Adobe Bridge and into Adobe Photoshop CS2, then release the mouse button; a copy of your photo image will appear on the desktop work area of Adobe Photoshop CS2.

At first, you may find that this is a tricky operation, but with patience it can be done, or you can copy and paste from Adobe Bridge.

Copying from Adobe Bridge CS2

To Copy from Adobe Bridge CS2, do the following:

1. Left click on the photo image file of your choice.

2. Left click on the Edit menu in Adobe Bridge, and down to Copy and left click on it, or press Ctrl + C on the keyboard.

Returning to Adobe Photoshop CS2 from Adobe Bridge

3. Left click on the File menu in Adobe Bridge, and go down the menu to Return to Photoshop CS2 and left click on it as shown here; Adobe Photoshop CS2 will open.

4. Paste your image file into Adobe Photoshop CS2 using the Paste Procedure.

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Copy and Paste

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Adobe Photoshop CS2 offers you various copy and paste options. You can copy to either a new window or paste directly onto an existing photo on your desktop work area. You can use the Adobe Bridge program to find your photo and drag it onto the desktop work area. Pasting an area copied onto an existing area within a photo lets you hide unsightly pylons and posts. This way you can hide these unsightly, and unwanted background items; and you can also repair tears within photos.

Before you can copy your photo, you have to select it, or select an area that you want to copy.

Left click here to go to Selecting.

To copy and paste an image, or part of an image do one of the following:

 If you have selected either the image or part of an image, do the following:

1. Left click on the Edit Menu.

2. Drag the mouse down to Copy, and left click on it, or press either Ctrl + C, or Ctrl + Insert; your selection is copied to the clipboard.

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The Pasting Procedures

You can paste by doing the following:

  As a new image, using the procedure below.

  Open The Adobe Bridge Browser to drag a photo image onto the desktop area.

  Paste as a new insertion layer on top of an area. When you paste on top of an area within an image that area is hidden.

To paste as a new image, do one of the following:

1. Left click on the File menu at the top of the Main Window, and then left click on New, or press Ctrl + N; the New dialogue box appears.

2. Left mouse click on the [image] button; an Untitled new window is displayed.

This new window is automatically sized ready to receive the pasting from the clipboard.

3. Left click on the Edit menu at the top of the Main Window, and drag your mouse down to Paste and left click on it.

 Using the keyboard press Ctrl + V or Shift + Insert; your pasting will appear in the new window on the desktop work area.

To cancel, simply close the new window without saving, see purging option below.

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Pasting to hide an existing area

To Layer Paste onto an existing area, do the following:

First make a copy of your original photo that you want to edit. Do not use the original photo.

1. Select the window that contains the image you want to paste into.

2. Left click on the Edit menu at the top of the Main Window, and drag your mouse down to Paste and left click on it.

 Using the keyboard press Ctrl + V or Shift + Insert; your pasting will appear in the existing picture area, it will hide the area you cover.

Moving the newly pasted area on top of the existing area

To move the newly pasted image onto the location required, do the following:

 Left click on the mover tool in the Tool Box and drag it onto the new area, now hold down the left mouse button and relocate the newly pasted area.

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Cancelling

You can cancel at any time several options are available:

 Deleting

 From the Edit menu left click on Step Backward

 Simply close the window without saving.

Purging the Clipboard

 Purge the clipboard if necessary, this option is in the Edit menu. There are times when this is compulsory because of the program pasting again what you don't want.

To Purge the Clipboard, do the following:

 Left click on the Edit menu as shown below, drag your mouse to the Purge option and sideways to Clipboard as shown above and left click again.

 Left click on the Edit menu as shown below, drag your mouse to the Purge option and sideways to Undo and left click again. Repeating this option will step you backward if you have performed several procedures, use it carefully!!!

Using the Keyboard

 Press Ctrl + Z to undo. Repeating this option will step you backward. Use this carefully if you have performed several procedures!

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Main Window

At the top of the Main Window Work Area are the Main Menu Options.
File, Edit, Image, Layer, Select, Filter, View, Window, Help.


Rotate an image

Rotate an image

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Adobe Photoshop CS2 lets you rotate either the whole image known as rotating the canvas, or select an area of an image and rotate it; this is known as transforming an image, see Rotate a Selected Area. You can rotate in either direction. You can flip the image also, if you left click flip horizontal the image is mirrored, see Mirror a photo image or a selected area.

 After selecting the image window.

To rotate the Canvas (the whole window image), do one of the following options:

First make a copy of your original photo that you want to edit see Copy and Paste. Do not use the original photo.

To rotate the canvas 180 degrees or 90 degrees right or left:

1. Left click on the Image menu at the top of the Main Window work area as shown above.

2. Drag the mouse down the menu to Rotate Canvas and sideways right to the various choices.

To rotate 180 degrees, left click on [image].

To rotate 90 degrees right clockwise, left click on [image].

To rotate 90 degrees left counter clockwise, left click on [image].

 Repeating the above will continue rotation.

To Rotate the image Freely, left click here.

To Rotate a Selected area, left click here.

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Rotate freely the photo image

Rotate freely the photo image

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To go to Rotate a complete image, left click here.

Adobe Photoshop CS2 lets you rotate freely the photo image; this is known as Rotate Canvas - Arbitrary. Note that you may find that the background area of the picture; this is the former space occupied before rotation will have a different color. If so, you can select the area and repaint this background accordingly.

To rotate freely the Canvas (the entire window photograph image), do the following:

First make a copy of your original photo that you want to edit. Do not use the original photo.

1.Select the window of the image.

2. Left click on the Image menu at the top of the Main Window work area as seen here.

3. Drag the mouse down the Image menu to Rotate Canvas and sideways right to Arbitrary and left click on it; the Rotate Canvas settings box is displayed.

4. In the Rotate Canvas settings box, type in the angle (the amount to rotate as shown in the picture).

5. Tick [image] circle box to rotate right, or [image] circle box to rotate left.

6. Left click on [image] button; the canvas will be rotated.

 Repeating the above will continue rotation.

To cancel, left click on the [image] button, or in the Edit menu at the top of the Main Window left click on Step Backward, or simply close the window without saving it.

 Save your copy/copies of the original photo.

To go to Rotate an entire image, left click here.

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Rotate a selected area of the photo image [image], [image] Clockwise or [image] Counter Clockwise

Adobe Photoshop CS2 lets you rotate freely a pre-selected area of the image.

Adobe Photoshop CS2 lets you select an area of the image and Rotate it. You can rotate that area automatically [image], [image] Clockwise or [image] Counter Clockwise; this is known as to Transform the selected area of your picture image. You can also rotate freely a selected area of your image, see the section below.

Rotating a selected area [image], [image] Clockwise, or [image] Counter Clockwise

To rotate a previously selected area of the photo image, do the following:

First make a copy of your original photo that you want to edit. Do not use the original photo.

1. Select the area of the photo image you want to rotate, see Selecting.

 If you have selected the area do the following:

2. Left click on the Edit menu at the top of the Main Window work area.

3. Drag the mouse down the menu to Transform, and sideways down:

To rotate 180 degrees, left click on [image].

To rotate 90 degrees  right clockwise, left click on [image].

To rotate 90 degrees left counter clockwise, left click on [image].

 Repeating the above will continue rotation.

To cancel, the Edit menu at the top of the Main Window left click on Step Backward, or simply close the window without saving it.

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Rotating manually an area of your photo image.

You can manually rotate (freely) an area of your photo. The process demands that you select the area and then after selecting the rotate option you drag the mouse in the direction of your choice.

To freely rotate a pre-selected area of the image, do the following:

First make a copy of your original photo that you want to edit. Do not use the original photo.

1. Select the area of the image you want to rotate, see Selecting.

2. Left click on the Edit menu at the top of the Main Window work area.

3. Drag the mouse down the menu to Transform, and sideways down and left click on Rotate.

4. Drag your mouse onto the image; a curved double-headed arrow is displayed.

5. Hold down the left button, and drag the mouse in the direction you want to rotate the selected section. When you are satisfied, release the mouse button.

6. To automatically free the selected area, select another selection tool from the Tool Box, and then in the Selections menu at the top of the Main Window, left click on Deselect.

7. Save your edited copy of your photo.

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Mirror a photo image or a selected area

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1. Select your window image.

2. Left click on the Image menu at the top of the Main Window work area.

3. Drag the mouse down the Image menu to Rotate Canvas and sideways right to Flip Canvas Horizontal, and left click on it; the entire image is mirrored.

Repeating the above procedure will return your image to as it originally was.

You can at any stage Step Backward = cancel your editing, left click on the Edit menu and then on Step Backward. Each click on the mouse returns your photo to a previous stage.

To cancel or undo, left click on the Edit menu option and Undo……. The wording will change according to what you want to undo.

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Mirroring a previously selected area

To Mirror a previously selected area, do the following:

First make a copy of your original photo that you want to edit. Do not use the original photo.

1. Select the area of the image you want to mirror, see Selecting.

 If you have selected the area, do the following:

2. Left click on the Edit menu at the top of the Main Window work area.

3. Drag the mouse down the menu to Transform, and sideways down to Flip Horizontal and left click on it; the selected area appears in the picture image mirrored.

You can at any stage Step Backward = cancel your editing, left click on the Edit menu and then on Step Backward. Each click on the mouse returns your photo to a previous stage.

To cancel or undo, left click on the Edit menu option and Undo……. The wording will change according to what you want to undo.

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Add Text

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Text can be added to your picture either horizontally or vertically. Left click here to see another Add Text example.

Note you cannot add text to a compressed saved (CompuServe) .Gif image file, if you try to do so you may see the image turn red. If this happens, the easiest way out of the problem is to use a screen capture, press the Print Screen key. Copy and paste a copy of the capture into the Adobe CS2 Photoshop desktop work area as a new image. Next copy and paste again the image in the area and edit the image afterwards.

 When you left mouse click on the letter T in the Toolbox below the File menu, the text formatting options will be displayed. You can select the formatting options you want before you type, or by selecting the text and choosing the formatting you want, the font letter size, and style, color and justification of text. Down arrows are provided to view font sizes and styles.

If your Adobe Photoshop CS2 program is the Middle Eastern Version, then Right to Left typing option buttons for Hebrew/Arabic appear above the desktop work area as shown here; Left click the appropriate button.

To add text to your picture, do the following:

First make a copy of your original photo that you want to add text to. Do not use the original photo.

1. Left click on the T of the Type tools group and holding down the left mouse button select the text direction, either the Horizontal Type Tool or the Vertical Type Tool.

2. Drag you mouse to the position that you want to insert your text and left click again; the cursor appears as an I, this is the insert text cursor.

3. Type in your text; as you type your text will appear on the photo.

Middle East Versions of Adobe Photoshop CS2 may start showing the typing going in the direction of Right to Left. If this happens you should delete the text and left click the Left to Right typing direction button at the top of the screen.

Formatting your Text

To format your text, do the following:

 Left click once again on the T of the Text group tools, drag the mouse to the text, and holding down the left mouse button drag it over the text to select the text.

 Left click on the various options as shown in the formatting bar that automatically appears at the top of the Main Window. You can choose the font to type, the font style, its size and justification.

Changing the text color

To change the color of the Text, do the following:

1. Left click once again on the T of the Text group tools, drag the mouse to the text, and holding down the left mouse button drag it over the text to select the text.

2. Place the mouse on the small color square in the text formatting tool buttons above the work area; a pointing finger is displayed.

3. Left click on the small color square as seen here; the color picker box will appear.

4. In the Color Picker box, drag your mouse over to the required color and left click on it; the text will change to that color.

5. Click on [image] to confirm and close the Color Picker box.

To Cancel, either close the color picker box or left click the [image] button.

Repositioning The Text

The text that you have just added, may not be in the right position on your image, you can correct this to your liking.

To reposition the text, do the following:

 Left click once again on the T of the Text group tools, drag the mouse to the text, and holding down the left mouse button drag it over the text to select the text.

 Left click on the Move Tool in the Toolbox, and drag your mouse over to the text.

 Hold down the left mouse button on the text, and drag your text to where you want to move it to, and then release the button.

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Text Group Tools

You can type either horizontally or vertically.


Alter the size

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Adobe Photoshop CS2 lets you resize a photo.

To resize a photo, do the following:

First make a copy of your original photo that you want to edit. Do not use the original photo.

1. Left click on the Image Menu.

2. Drag the mouse down the menu to Image Size and Left click on it; the Image Size settings box appears.

In the Document Size, alter the width/height size as required; as you set either measurement the corresponding measurement is adjusted.

3. Click on [image] to confirm and close the settings box; the image is resized.

To Cancel, either close the Image Size box or left click the [image] button. You can also close the window with your copy without saving.

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Paint areas

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One of the ways to repair an image is to paint the area. By using the Eye Dropper Tool, you can select the color to use for painting a selected area of the image, or select an adjacent color to the area you wish to paint in order to match.

Note you cannot always paint a compressed saved (CompuServe) .Gif image file, if you try to do so you may see the image turn red. If this happens, the easiest way out of the problem is to use a screen capture, press the Print Screen key. Copy and paste a copy of the capture into the Adobe CS2 Photoshop desktop work area as a new image. Next copy and paste again the image in the area and edit the image afterwards.

To paint an area of the image, do the following:

First make a copy of your original photo that you want to paint. Do not use the original photo.

1. Select the area of the image you want to paint, see Selecting.

 If you have selected the area, do the following:

Picking a matching color

To pick a matching color, do the following:

1. Left click on the Eye Dropper Tool (Color Picker) in the Toolbox (as shown here), and drag the mouse over to the previously selected area of the photo.

2. On the area that you want to pick the color to match, left click once again; the new foreground color is chosen for painting a selected area.

Picking a color to paint in the Color Picker box

To select a color using the color picker, do the following:

1. Left click on the Eye Dropper Tool (Color Picker) in the Toolbox (as shown above).

2. Drag the mouse over to the set foreground box and rapid left click on it; the Color Picker box is displayed.

3. Left click on the color you want to paint with; the default paint color is changed.

4. Left click on [image] to confirm and close the Color Picker box.

To Cancel, either close the color picker box or left click the [image] button.

 Unsure of the color you want, do the following:

 If you are not sure of the color you want: After selecting the Eye Dropper Tool, hold down the left mouse button and drag it around the image; the foreground color box changes color as you pass over different colors.

 Release the button when you have decided which color to use to paint the selected area.

 The Eyedropper tool will let you paint a background of a moved or rotated freely area.

To select a background color, do the following:

 Hold down the Alt keyboard key and the left mouse button Eyedropper tool at the same time. Release the key and the mouse button after selecting the color you want.

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Painting the selected area

Several tools are available for your use, two of these are the Paint Bucket and the Brush Tool depending on the areas for painting.

To paint the selected area, do one of the following:

First make a copy of your original photo that you want to paint. Do not use the original photo.

1. Select the area of the image you want to paint, see Selecting.

 If you have selected the area, do the following:

The Brush Tool

1. Left click on the Brush Tool in the Toolbox, and drag the mouse over to the previously selected area of the photo.

2. Hold down the left mouse button and drag the mouse cursor now a circle around the selected area; as you drag the circle around the area, the selected area will change color. Release the button when you have painted the selected area.

The Bucket Tool

1. Left click on the Bucket Tool in the Toolbox (as shown above), and drag the mouse over to the previously selected area of the photo.

2. Drag it over to the selected area and left click again; the color is applied.

 If the color is not applied use the Brush Tool and repeat the above.

To Cancel:

Left click on the Edit menu at the top of the Main Window, and then left click again on Step Backward.

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Foreground and Background Color

Left clicking on the Foreground Color with the
Eyedropper tool selects the color for painting.


The Eyedropper Tool

Use this tool for selecting the color to paint.


Import from a scanner and or digital camera

Import from a scanner and or digital camera

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One of the ways to get your photo into the Adobe Photoshop CS2 work area desk top is to import via a scanner or digital camera.

A brief explanation about Scanners/digital cameras is necessary:

Scanners use the universal twain protocol, they are generally supplied with these twain protocol programs. The twain protocol allows programs like Adobe Photoshop CS2 and others use these programs and scan documents and images. Twain allows OCR programs to perform OCR = Optical Character Recognition for text editing purposes.

Note: If you plan to use the image later for OCR purposes, you must scan at a resolution not less than 300 dpi and save a copy of the scanned text imported into Adobe Photoshop CS2 as a Tiff (Tagged Information) file.

To import the required image, do one of the following:

1. Left mouse click the File menu.

2. Drag the mouse down to Import, and then sideways down the open secondary menu left clicking on your scanner or camera name; the scanner/camera program will open.

 Follow the scanning procedures for the scanner/camera.

 All options in Adobe Photoshop CS2 are disabled while the scanner program is open. Your scanned images are automatically shown on the desktop work area.

 To continue working with Adobe Photoshop CS2, exit your scanner software program after scanning.

Adobe Photoshop CS2 has a web camera window, in this window display options are displayed according to the camera/web camera program.

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Print and Print Preview

Print and Print Preview

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Printing out your image. You can position your image on the page area to be printed, and resize the image on the page area.

Page Setup

Adobe Photoshop CS2 lets you Page Setup. This is option lets you decide the size of the paper that you are going to print on, and the orientation of the image how it will appear on the paper. Whether you want it to appear printed either sideways or upright on the page.

To Page Setup, do the following:

1. Left click on the File menu at the top of the Main Window work area.

2. Drag the mouse down the File menu to Page Setup and left click on it; the Page Setup settings box is displayed.

3. In the Page Setup box select the paper size that you are printing on, and the image orientation.

4. Left click on [image] to confirm your selections and close the box.

 To Cancel, either close the box or left click the [image] button.

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Printing with Preview

Previewing your work lets you have the final say before you print out. You can resize the image on the paper page, and choose where on the paper you wish to print.

To Preview then Print, do the following:

1. Left click on the File menu at the top of the Main Window work area.

2. Drag the mouse down the File menu to Print Preview and left click on it; the Print Preview settings box is displayed.

To position the image on the page, do the following:

 In the Print with Preview settings box, remove the tick in the center image on page box, and enter the measurements wanted; the image will be repositioned in the preview pane.

Resizing the image in the preview stage

To resize the image in the preview stage, do the following:

 Place the mouse on one of the four corner boxes as in the picture shown here, and hold down the left mouse button dragging the mouse in or out. In to reduce the image size, and outwards to increase its size.

When you are satisfied with your settings, to print do the following:

 Left click on the [image] button; Microsoft Windows opens your printer settings box.

 Continue as you would normally do for printing: Decide on the print quality in your printer settings box.

If you are not printing at this particular time, left click on the [image] button; the Print with Preview box is closed.

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Print

1. Left click on the File menu at the top of the Main Window work area.

2. Drag the mouse down the File menu to Print and left click on it; the Print box is displayed.

3. Continue as you would normally do for printing: Decide on the print quality in your printer settings box.

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Saving

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Adobe Photoshop CS lets you save in a variety of formats. The most common files in use are saved as JPEG .jpg. This is a condensed format that saves space on the hard disk and is excellent for attaching in e-mail. It is smaller in size than .bmp. There are several opinions as to whether the .jpg .jpeg format degrades the image. I strongly recommend that you save your images as .jpg. See the picture below. Another space saving format is the compressed (Compuserve) .gif  which is often used on the Internet.

The (CompuServe Gif) .gif format file is a flat reduced condensed format file consisting of only 256 colors; and this is the price paid for using it. The gif format allows the webmaster is used for building web pages where low resolution graphics are required.

Saving in other than the Photoshop format; Adobe Photoshop CS2 will inform you that it can only be saved as a copy. This copy is saved to a folder of your choice, and on closing the image window you are asked if you want to save the edited photo image. Note that there is no need to do so; as you have already saved that image in the non-Photoshop file format.

If you plan to use the photo image for OCR = Optical Character Recognition purposes, save a copy as a .Tif (.tif Tagged Information File). This should allow some of these programs to convert pictures of letters for editing in a word processor program.

To save, do the following:

1. Left click on the File Menu at the top of the Main Window.

2. Drag the mouse down the menu to Save As and Left click on it; the Save As box is displayed.

3. In the Save As box, type in the new file name, select the file format, and the folder that you wish to save your image (and your copies) to then left click on the [image] button. If you save your image as a JPEG .jpg format file the JPEG Options box appears.

4. Left click on the [image] button, to confirm your save.

 You can adjust the quality of the image in order to reduce the file size, but note that this degrades the image. To reduce the image resolution, slide the slider button from high to low in the direction of small file before you left click on the [image] button to confirm your save.

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The program used for making this help file

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Add Text example


Alter the Canvas Size

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Alter the Canvas Size

There are times that you may need to alter the canvas size to accommodate the image within, or you may want more than one photo on a canvas.

Beginners to Photoshop should avoid doing this option.

To resize the Canvas, do the following:

First make a copy of your original photo that you want to edit. Do not use the original photo.

1. Left click on the Image Menu.

2. Drag the mouse down the Image menu to Canvas Size and Left click on it; the Canvas Size settings box appears.

3. In the New Size, alter the width/height size as required; to maintain the image proportions, as you set either measurement the corresponding measurement tick the Relative box.

4. Click on [image] to confirm and close the settings box; the image is resized.

To Cancel, either close the Canvas Size box or left click the [image] button. You can also close the window with your copy without saving.

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