Photoshop Interface

Adobe Photoshop is a powerful tool for editing photographs and graphics. The first step in learning photoshop is to familiarize our self with photoshop interface, which consists of five basic componets:

1. Menu Bar: From here, you can access
of the commands and features in

photoshop
2. Toolbox: It has various tool for editing

the image. To display or hide :

(Windows -> Tools)
3. Options Bar: It sets the options for the

currently selected tool.

4. Palettes: It has various panes to

control different aspects of the projet.

Including layers, channels, paths,

history, etc.(There are 5 palettes by

default)
5. Image Area: The area where images are opened and appeared.

Knowing Toolbox

The toolbox has various tools for editing and creating an image. The photoshop toolbox holds 20 tools and 5 section of tools as shown in the fig. below.

The toolbox contains all of the various Photoshop tools. In addition to the visible tools, the tools with a small black arrow in the lower-right corner contain fly-out menus with other related tool choices. The example to the left shows the Brush Tool is depressed, displaying the Brush Tool and the Pencil Tool in the fly-out menu.

Introduction To Photoshop

The fact of photoshop is that every picture you've seen such as posters,book covers,magazine pictures and brochers has either been created or edited by Photoshop.The powerful tools of the Photoshop are used to enhance and edit pictures are also capable to use these pictures in the digital word including the infinite possibilities in the Internet.It is an extremely powerful and easy to use application.
Now Jack asked me a question that what is photoshop??
I told him that photoshop is used for creating and modifying images for the web and for other media applications. Traditionally, photoshop is a professional image editinf software package that can be used by the experts.But not only experts,routine computer uses can handle this software.This is true that after four generations of development, Adobe Photoshop has the user-freindly interface with complete set of tools.
Harry had a question that what can we do with photoshop??
I told him that we can use photoshop to 'alter' images like photos,downloaded icons, or scanned artwork.
Altering an image includes changing the colors within an image,modifying the size and scale of an image or putting one picture 'within' another.
But, besides altering images, Photoshop has a variety of tools that help you to create images from scratch.
On the web, you often need to make custom icons, buttons, lines, balls or text art. Photoshop makes all of this quite easy.
Jack and Harry got so impressed that they would like to know more about Photoshop.Hope you also what to learn more about Photoshop.If you are interested then you are most welcomed and Thanks for reading.

Breaking Text Apart

You can break apart text to place each character in a seprate text block.After you break text apart, you can quickly distribute the text blocks to different place on the stage and change the color of each character seprately.
Step 1: Create a plain text using text tool in Flash, say a text 'ANIMATION'.
Step 2: Select the Selection tool and click a text block.

Step 3: Select Modify --> Break Apart (Ctrl + B).Each character in the selection text is placed in a separate text block.The text remains in the same poition on the Stage.
Step 4: Select the text block one by one and change their colors.

Step 5: Make the change in the positions of the alphabets.

Step 6: Click in the Second keyframe and press F6 to insert keyframe. Make a change in the color and the position of the alphabets so as to produce an animation sequence.

Step 7: Repeat the step 6as far as desired to create animation.

Step 8: Save the work and test the movie.(Ctrl + Enter).

Thanks for reading!!