Photoshop

Photoshop is a powerful tool for photo editing, compositing, and graphics, and Mr. J's favorite graphics program.

**Overview**
Photoshop is one of our most popular programs at C4K It's fun to use, it's useful, it's dynamic, it's fairly easy to learn, and it's an industry standard in the design field.

Uses:
Photoshop can be used in a variety of ways, from the least obvious adjustments to some pretty wild and crazy effects. You can use the toolbars and adjustment menus to edit the bitmap of your photography files. You can apply filters to a layer you are working on using the filter menu.

Known Issues:
Two different versions are in use at C4K, one in the Learning Lab, and the most recent (CS4) in the Teen Tech lab. CS4 has a few capabilities that earlier iterations do not. Can take a while to save/convert files and can sometimes freeze up so save early and save often.

Strategies for use:
-Photoshop is easy to learn, which makes it good for us. But it is a hard program to master simply because there is SO much you can do with it. Play with it and have fun, and don't be to try new things or to make mistakes.

-If you want to make changes to an image, duplicate your layer by right clicking on the layer. This way you can view your changes in comparison to the original, in case you make mistakes.