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Photoshop CS4 - Photoshopping List: Basic Steps For Enhancing Most Images

The document provides basic steps for enhancing most images in Photoshop CS4, including cropping, rotating, auto color, levels, shadows/highlights, and cleanup tools. It recommends starting with the hand, rotate, and crop tools, then using auto color, levels, and shadows/highlights adjustments. Finally, the clone stamp and spot healing brush tools can be used for clean-up.

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Photoshop CS4 - Photoshopping List: Basic Steps For Enhancing Most Images

The document provides basic steps for enhancing most images in Photoshop CS4, including cropping, rotating, auto color, levels, shadows/highlights, and cleanup tools. It recommends starting with the hand, rotate, and crop tools, then using auto color, levels, and shadows/highlights adjustments. Finally, the clone stamp and spot healing brush tools can be used for clean-up.

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Photoshop CS4 – Photoshopping List

Basic steps for enhancing most images


! on MAC = CONTROL on PC
Photoshop CS4 enables “non-destructive” editing with adjustment layers created by default through use of the
Adjustments palette (WINDOW menu " Adjustments). But for beginners, that window is too small to view and too
cumbersome to navigate, and adjustment layers can be confusing, so here we will use traditional “destructive” editing.

Photoshop provides many online tutorials, accessed via the HELP menu " How to …
or at: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Photoshop/11.0/index.html

1- HAND Tool (H)


- double-click (on toolbar) to resize to Fit-to-Screen (! + zero)

2- ROTATE CANVAS, if needs


-IMAGE Menu " IMAGE ROTATION (90 CW , or 90 CCW)

3- CROP Tool (C) - and straighten image, if needs


- CROP

4- HAND Tool (H)


- double-click (on toolbar) to resize AGAIN to Fit-to-Screen (! + zero)

5- AUTO COLOR
- IMAGE menu " AUTO COLOR
- EDIT menu " UNDO Auto Color, if needs (! + Z)
- OR: EDIT menu " Fade Auto Color " set slider as needed

6- If B+W image, change to GRAYSCALE (fast but not best way)


- IMAGE menu " MODE " GRAYSCALE

7- LEVELS
- IMAGE menu " ADJUSTMENTS " LEVELS (! + L)
- click AUTO button for AutoLevels
- RESET (option/alt to activate button) or UNDO (! + Z), if needs
- OR: EDIT menu " Fade Levels " set slider as needed
- Manually adjust, if AUTOLEVELS not right, then if needs, RESET or UNDO
- White Eyedropper, if needs (long explanation required here, sorry)

8- SHADOWS/HIGHLIGHTS, if needs & view at least at 50%, 100% preferred


- IMAGE menu " ADJUSTMENTS " SHADOWS/HIGHLIGHTS
- SHADOWS customized default (A 33%, W 22%, R 22pix), never apply more
- HIGHLIGHTS works poorly, move only AMOUNT (top) slider to 5% max, if at all
- RESET (option/alt to activate button) or UNDO (! + Z), if needs

9- CLEAN-UP – view at least at 50%, 100% preferred


- CLONE STAMP (Rubberstamp icon) Tool (S)
- &/or SPOT HEALING BRUSH (Band-Aid icon) Tool (J)

10- SAVE AS
- FILE menu " SAVE AS (shift + ! + S) - rename the file
- FILE menu " CLOSE (! + W) (Mac: or click red dot at top left of image window)

11- DELETE original, if you feel confident (otherwise if you are wise, save the original as is)
- highlight thumbnail icon, then press DELETE key (Mac: ! + delete)
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for PDF of this document, see: http://www.vraweb.org/resources/diag/photoshopresources.html
Copyfright? [© Not] – Permission granted for reproduction w/attribution:
Mark M. Braunstein – Visual Resources – Connecticut College – [email protected]

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