Exercise 3 – Photoshop Interface

	§ This is a formative assessment instrument § You must be rated ‘Competent’ in this assessment item.
Learning Outcomes	Imaging 1 – All Learning Outcomes.
Tasks	1) Create a folder on the Desktop called ‘yourname-Ex 3’. 2) Copy the files for Exercise 3 from eLearn and place them in the new folder. (Remember to delete this folder from the desktop when you have completed this exercise). 3) Identify the following items on the diagram below :- Menu Bar Tool Bar Options Bar Button Bar Palettes / Panels Image Title Bar Status Bar 4) Start Photoshop CS5. Describe three ways of starting Photoshop :– i) The icon down the bottom on the desktop ii) Right click on a file and ‘open with’ photoshop iii) In Applications 5) Open ‘Photoshop->Preferences->General …’. Turn off the option ‘Zoom Resizes Window’. Click ‘OK’ to save the change. 6) Toggle the main tool bar between a single column of icons and a double column. 7) What are the shortcut keys for the following tools :- a) Hand (or Pan) tool = (H) b) Move tool = (V) c) Crop tool = (C ) d) Text (Typing) tool = (T) e) Zoom tool = (Z) 8) Perform the following on the Palettes / Panels to the right of the screen :- a) Collapse the panels to icons with text (Click on the window bar) b) Resize to only display the icons. c) Expand to full panels d) Rearrange the blocks of panels by dragging them to a new location. e) Drag one panel onto a different group of panels by dragging its tab. f) Drag a group of panels off to make it independent of the rest. g) Drag a single panel off to make it independent of the rest. 9) Open the image file ‘Img 1 – Ex 3 - Image-1.jpg’ and do the following :- a) What is the colour mode of the image, and what is the bit depth of the image ? (Identify two locations where this information can be found). Mode: RBG colour, bit depth: 8 bit / channel IMAGE>MODE b) What is the zoom percentage that the image is displayed at ? 33.33% c) Change the zoom percentage to 28%. d) Click on the green button on the title bar. What happens ? The window crops it to actual image size e) Fit the image to the screen. What is the zoom percentage ? 34.89% f) and what is the keyboard shortcut ? ‘fit screen’ button g) Zoom to 100%. What is the keyboard shortcut for this ? /alt/0 h) What does 100% zoom mean ? actual size i) What do the ‘ + ‘ and ‘ - ‘ keys do ? zooms in and out j) Use the status bar information to answer the following (Click on the small triangle to change which information item is displayed) :- i) What is the image size in pixels and the image resolution in dpi ? 2020 x 2906 pixels 300 res ii) What is the document size in Mb ? 16.8mb iii) What do the two sizes refer to ? k) Go to the ‘Window->Arrange’ menu to open a second window containing the same image :- i) Drag one document away from the tab. ii) Zoom both windows to 100% iii) Select the Hand tool and pan one of the images around. iv) Pan both windows simultaneously by holding down the shift key while you pan. v) Close one of the document windows. 10) Open the remaining three documents. a) Use the ‘Window->Arrange’ menu items to float the windows and consolidate them to the tabs. b) Use the button bar icon to try different window arrangements. 11) Press the ‘Tab’ key. What happens ? Press the “tab’ key again. 12) Use the button bar icon to try different screen modes. 13) Close all documents. What is the keyboard shortcut to close a document window? command/W 14) Quit Photoshop. What is the keyboard shortcut ? Opt/command/W 15) Delete the ‘yourname-Ex 3’ folder from the desktop. 16) Shutdown the computer.