Technical Skills
File Types:
Jpegs
Acronym for the 'Joint Photographic Experts Group'
Jpeg typically achieves 10:1 compression with little perceptible loss in image quality
Tiff:
Tagged image file format,
a computer file format for storing images, including photographs and line art
PNG:
Portable network graphics; a bitmap image file format
GIF:
Graphic interchanged format; a popular format for image files, with built-in data compression
RAW:
Raw image format; a variety of image files listed by digital cameras continuing unprocessed data from the sensor.
BMP:
The file name extension for the Bitmap image format
PSD:
Photoshop document; the default file extension of the proprietary file format of Adobe System's Photoshop program
Resolution for Screen and Blogs:
72dpi is a general rule (but can differ)
68 dpi
96 dpi
Resolution for prints:
Resolution of zoom of 72dpi = will not print well
Resolution of 300dpi = print well
Zoom of 300dpi = will print well
Resolution of 42dpi = will not print well
Resolution of 400dpi = crisp
Resolution of 72dpi = fuzzy
Colour modes in Photoshop:
RGB:
Addictive colour model
Red, Green, Blue are added together in various ways.
CMGK:
Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black
LAB:
Lightness
A+B = colour opponent dimensions
Greyscale:
Also known as Black and White are composed exclusively of shades of grey, varying from black to white
Bitmap:
Uses of two colour values (black and white) to represent the pixels in an image
Duo-tune:
Half-tone reproduction of an image using the superimposition of one contrasting colour half-tone
Mulitchannel:
This mode uses 256 levels of grey in each channel, specialized or printing.
Photoshop Tool Box:
Jpegs
Acronym for the 'Joint Photographic Experts Group'
Jpeg typically achieves 10:1 compression with little perceptible loss in image quality
Tiff:
Tagged image file format,
a computer file format for storing images, including photographs and line art
PNG:
Portable network graphics; a bitmap image file format
GIF:
Graphic interchanged format; a popular format for image files, with built-in data compression
RAW:
Raw image format; a variety of image files listed by digital cameras continuing unprocessed data from the sensor.
BMP:
The file name extension for the Bitmap image format
PSD:
Photoshop document; the default file extension of the proprietary file format of Adobe System's Photoshop program
Resolution for Screen and Blogs:
72dpi is a general rule (but can differ)
68 dpi
96 dpi
Resolution for prints:
Resolution of zoom of 72dpi = will not print well
Resolution of 300dpi = print well
Zoom of 300dpi = will print well
Resolution of 42dpi = will not print well
Resolution of 400dpi = crisp
Resolution of 72dpi = fuzzy
Colour modes in Photoshop:
RGB:
Addictive colour model
Red, Green, Blue are added together in various ways.
CMGK:
Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black
LAB:
Lightness
A+B = colour opponent dimensions
Greyscale:
Also known as Black and White are composed exclusively of shades of grey, varying from black to white
Bitmap:
Uses of two colour values (black and white) to represent the pixels in an image
Duo-tune:
Half-tone reproduction of an image using the superimposition of one contrasting colour half-tone
Mulitchannel:
This mode uses 256 levels of grey in each channel, specialized or printing.
Photoshop Tool Box:
How to create contact sheets and PDFs:
Open up applications in Bridge
Go to computer
Then choose your desired folder
Click on output
PDF
Custom 2,2 Cells or 4,5 Cells, 5,8 Cells
Select all (command and A, or CMD + A)
Refresh preview
Save your folder on USB 'Contact Sheets - Abstract.
Colour Range:
Select
Colour Range
Choose fuzziness then go to full and choose any colour.
To Create a new adjustment layer:
Comes up at side and you can adjust the levels/curves/exposures,
vibrance etc and the hue/saturation.
Architectural
Sample 1:
Upload image to Photoshop (high resolution)
get a high quality image of textured paper
Make image of architecture in black and white (desaturate)
Use white paper over the top (over-lay/ sepia)
Use the colour adjustment layer - gradient map
Then tune down if need be.
Also you can change the colours with curves and levels.
Sample 2:
Open same image again
add more paper and add masking
To add Noise:
Filter
Noise
Add noise
then choose amount of how much noise you would like.
Create a Mask:
get textured paper
use pen tool and the make last and first points meet together
get the paint brush set to normal but use the black paint tool.
Creating a brush:
Edit
Define Brush Preset
Then choose which you photo you would like to use as your desired brush
Guides and Grids:
To view guides and grids on Photoshop;
View, Show extras -> Grids can use CMD and ')
View, new guides.
Colourize:
Makes the whole image a colour which you can choose
(blue, red, yellow, etc and also the hue and saturation)
Exposure:
Changes the brightness and darkness of the picture.
Composition; Rule of thirds:
The rule of thirds is a guideline which applies to the process of composing visual images such a photographs.
The guideline proposes that an image should be imagined as divided into nine equal parts by two equally-spaced horizontal lines and two equally-spaced vertical lines.
Composition; The Golden Triangle Rule:
he golden triangle is pretty simple and works the best with lines but almost every photo will benefit from applying it.
All you have to do it to imagine lines going through your photo.
Open up applications in Bridge
Go to computer
Then choose your desired folder
Click on output
Custom 2,2 Cells or 4,5 Cells, 5,8 Cells
Select all (command and A, or CMD + A)
Refresh preview
Save your folder on USB 'Contact Sheets - Abstract.
Colour Range:
Select
Colour Range
Choose fuzziness then go to full and choose any colour.
To Create a new adjustment layer:
Comes up at side and you can adjust the levels/curves/exposures,
vibrance etc and the hue/saturation.
Architectural
Sample 1:
Upload image to Photoshop (high resolution)
get a high quality image of textured paper
Make image of architecture in black and white (desaturate)
Use white paper over the top (over-lay/ sepia)
Use the colour adjustment layer - gradient map
Then tune down if need be.
Also you can change the colours with curves and levels.
Sample 2:
Open same image again
add more paper and add masking
To add Noise:
Filter
Noise
Add noise
then choose amount of how much noise you would like.
Create a Mask:
get textured paper
use pen tool and the make last and first points meet together
get the paint brush set to normal but use the black paint tool.
Creating a brush:
Edit
Define Brush Preset
Then choose which you photo you would like to use as your desired brush
Guides and Grids:
To view guides and grids on Photoshop;
View, Show extras -> Grids can use CMD and ')
View, new guides.
Colourize:
Makes the whole image a colour which you can choose
(blue, red, yellow, etc and also the hue and saturation)
Exposure:
Changes the brightness and darkness of the picture.
Composition; Rule of thirds:
The rule of thirds is a guideline which applies to the process of composing visual images such a photographs.
The guideline proposes that an image should be imagined as divided into nine equal parts by two equally-spaced horizontal lines and two equally-spaced vertical lines.
Composition; The Golden Triangle Rule:
he golden triangle is pretty simple and works the best with lines but almost every photo will benefit from applying it.
All you have to do it to imagine lines going through your photo.