Here is a link to a Youtube site, which offers tutorials on how to use Photoshop .

Here is a slideshow with links to some of the basic skills.

The Filters Menu

You should manipulate your photo in photoshop before exporting and placing into InDesign.

• The tool bar at the top has a category called FILTER. In here you will find all kinds of pre-sets to change how your photo looks – adding pre-sets to make it look like a pen and ink drawing, mosaic etc.  You can also use the Liquify tool to alter the image – real photoshop territory and make eyes bigger and legs shorter etc.
• The other tab on the tool bar called IMAGE options to change the colour to black and white, add gradient shadow to the background and change the exposure etc.

Selection Tools

A key skill to learn in Adobe Photoshop is how to select an area of a photo.

You will do this to extract an element of the photo to be taken somewhere else or to apply an effect to that area of the image alone.

Visit our Faculty of Arts website, where you can find a simple ‘how to guide’ on how to extract an image from Photoshop.

This is an alternative technique and this is a link to the step by step written instructions.

Airbrushing a Model

This is controversial, but you may want to ‘change’ the way your model looks.  Think about the impact this has and how it can relate to Media Ecology – can we really trust what we see today?

Cutting out tricky hair (works really well)

Apply an effect to a specific area in Photoshop

A student’s guide to selecting and deleting.