Introuction to photoplus

1 What is photoplus? Photoplus is incredible image editing software that enables to create, manipulate and enchance photographs,bitmap graphics and web animations 2 Name the features of photoplus Creative tools Layer effects Animation Powerful text Quick shapes 3 How can we launch photoplus Click on the window start button to popup the start menu And click on photoplus 4 Name the options that are display on the startup wizard Open saved work Create new picture Create new animation Import from twain View samples On line resources

5 What Is MDI? MDI stands for Multiple Document interface It means that we can have multiple documents and images open at the same time. 6 How to get an image into photoplus? Photoplus can open images saved in a wid varety of standard and acquire images from digital camera or scanner file formats,

To get a saved image into photoplus we seect open saved work from the startup wizard II fill in the blanks 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Spp means serif photoplus. BMP means bitmap JPEG means Joint Photographic Expert Group Standard tool bar provides standard file and clip board commands Color tab is used to select foreground and background colors Animation tab provides controls for editing animation files

III Draw the tools of the following Magic wand tool Zoom Fill Selection Crop

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1) It is one of the incredible image editing software(9) 2) It provides controls for editing animation files(12) 3) ctrl+p is shortcut key for this(5)

Down 4)It is used to select foreground and background colors(8) 5) Photoshop images are saved in this format(3)

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Lesson 2 Manipulating the image 1. What are the main reasons to manipulate the images? There are many reasons to manipulate the photo like, a) Cleaning up an old, damaged photo b) Removing an unwanted item or text from the background c) Preparing an image for printing, use on the webpage 2. What is cropping? Removing of unwanted area from the image is called cropping 3. How did we crop the image? i) Select a region of pixels using any of the various selection tools and then use the image>crop to selection command. Or Ii) Choose the crop tool from the tools toolbar and drag out a crop selection around the image. Start at one corner and drag to the other. Once we release the mouse button, we can adjust the selection rectangle by dragging its edges or corners. Once we have selected the correct area, double-click within the Selection rectangle to complete the cropping 4. How can we adjust the brightness and contrast? Choose adjust>brightness/contrast from the image menu to open the brightness and Contrast filter dialog box. Up click after dragging a slider, the image updates or we can type the values directly in to the fields at the right

5. How can we add the caption? a) Choose the text tool from the tools tool bar b) Once the cursor changed to an A click it on the picture in the approximate position, this opens the Add Text window C) Type the caption text and choose a font, point size and style. d) Click ok to insert the caption II fill in the blanks; 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Photo plus offers two basic ways of cropping an image Ctrl+Z is the short cut key for undo Undo option is used to go for last actions The color tab includes foreground and background colors Solid text and shape of text are the two types of text in photo plus

III DO as directed a) Draw the crop tool b) Draw the Brightness and contrast filter dialog box ***************************************************************

Lesson 3 Making selections

I Match the following 1 Ctrl+A select all 2 Ctrl+D Deselect 3 Ctrl+V Paste

4 Ctrl+s 5 Ctrl+B

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II Fill in the blanks; 1) Holding down the shift key during dragging constrains the selection shape to either a square or a circle 2) Polygon selection tool is used to draw a series of line segments 3) To remove the current selection choose Deselect from the select menu 4) Deform tool is used to move, scale, or rotate a selection or layer 5) Press Shift+Ctrl+Alt while dragging from a corner for perspective effect II Answer the following 1. Write about Standard selection tools The standard selection tools are located on the standard selection tools fly out on the tools toolbar. There we can choose from the rectangle, Ellipse, Freehand, or polygon tools. 2. Write about Adjustable selection tools The adjustable selection tool offers 16 different variable selection shapes including pie, star, arrow, heart, wave, and so on The shape appears as a blue outline with two slider track bounding it. Each of the slider tracks has a square handle, and when you move the cursor on to the handle it will change to a small +sign. As we drag the sliders, the shapes properties change. 3. What is the use o Invert command? The invert command on the select menu selects the portion of the active layer outside the current selection. Unselected pixels become selected, and vice versa. 4. How to flip and rotate the image To flip, choose either Flip horizontally or flip vertically from the image menu, then select image, layer, or selection from the submenu.

To rotate, choose Rotate from the image menu to open the rotate dialog set the rotation angle (90, 180, or 270 degrees or enter a custom angle) and the direction select image, Layer, or selection and click ok. ************************************************************ Lesson 4 Adjusting colors

I answer the following: 1. Write about Adjustment options Each of the adjustment options works in a similar way. At the top of most of the dialogs there is a preview area, Zoom in or out by clicking on the Magnifier below the preview image. Alter the values by dragging on a slider, moving it to the left to decrease the value, or the right to increase the value, or enter a value in the fields at the right of the slider. 2. What is the use of Brightness/contrast? Brightness refers to overall lightness or darkness, while contrast describes the tonal range, or spread between lightest and darkest values 3. What is meant by Hue/saturation/lightness? Hue refers to the colors tint, saturation describes the colors purity, and lightness is what we intuitively understand as relative darkness or lightness ranging from full black at one end to full white at the other 4. How to apply the simple frame to photo i) On the layer manager tab click dropdown list ii) Select Multiply multiply always produces a darker value iii) On the color tab define black as the background color, either by right clicking in the spectrum or clicking the background swatch and setting its RGB value0,0,0 iv) Choose canvas size from the image menu. Add 4o to each value

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Click the center Anchor point so the existing image will be center and click ok.

II Fill in the blanks 1. Gamma adjusts the red ,green and blue color in an image 2. Equalization evenly distributes the lightness levels between existing bottom and top 3. Threshold creates a monochromatic rendering 4. Grayscale reduces a color picture to 256 shades of gray III say true or false Threshold refers to overall lightness or darkness(false) Brightness creates a monochromatic rendering(false) Stretch establishes new bottom and top values(true) The effects gallery provides illustrations of all the image menu adjustments and effects. (true) Negative image inverts the colors in a selected area giving the effects of photographic negative(true) ******************************************************** Lesson 5 Working with paint

I answer the following 1. Write about color tab Photo plus allows working with any two colors called the foreground color and background color. These are visible as two swatches on the color tab. These colors are used i) Cutting, deleting, or erasing an area on the background layer exposes the background color. On other layers, removing an area exposes transparenency.

ii) To swap foreground and background colors, click the double arrow next to the color tab swatches 2. Name the different color modes RGB (Red,Green,Blue) HSL (Hue,Saturation,Lightness)

CMYK (Cyan,Magenta,Yellow,Black) Grayscale

3. Write about paintbrush The paint brush tool is used or free hand drawing. To paint a line using the paintbrush tool, select it from the tools toolbar. When we move the paint brush tool over the image the cursor will change into a paintbrush 3. What is clone tool? How it is used? The clone tool is one of the high-tech brush, it is used to make the copies from the original.To clone a region select the tool from the tools bar and set its properties the shift click where we want to begin copying; we will call this pickup point click and begin dragging somewhere else even in another image window where we want to begin placing the copied pixels term this putdown point It results a perfect copy 4. Write about fill tools fly out The fill tools fly out on the tools toolbar includes two tools; flood fill and Gradient fill The flood fill tool replaces an existing color region with the foreground color to apply the flood dill select the tool from the fly out. And set tolerance and layer fill options then just click with the tool where we want to start the flood The Gradient fill tool creates a spectrum effect, four types of gradient fill (linear, Radial, conical, and square) are available

5. How to apply gradient fill? To apply a gradient fill, select the tool from the fly out, and then use the tool properties tab to choose the gradient type and set an opacity range. Click with the tool where we want to start the fill, and drag a path to the point where we want it to end.

II Match the following Grayscale 96 pixels per inch Air brush tool Smudge tool Clone tool black and white standard screen resolution spray-can used for retouch the photo used for perfect copy

III Do as directed i) ii) iii) iv) v) Draw the color tab Draw the color pickup tool Draw the brush tip tab Draw Airbrush tool Draw smudge tool

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Lesson-6 I answer the following

working with text

1. Write about Text tools fly out The text tools fly out on the tools toolbar to select from two text tool One for entering solid, colorful text on a layer, and the other for creating a selection in the shape of text with which to manipulate content on an existing layer 2. How to create new solid text? To create new solid text, choose the standard text tool from the fly out. Click with the tool where you want to insert the text. The add text window opens. Type your text. 3. How to format the text? Formatting is applied to all the text in the window, to apply semi-transparent edges to the characters, check the Anti Alias box To set text color, click the adjust color button and use the dialog. We can see the effect after closing the Add text Window II Fill in the blanks 1) The gradient color means more than one color 2) Use ctrl+tab to go back to the image which we have already opened 3) Paste>paste in to selection option is used to To paste the contents from the clipboard 4) Choose Effects>drop shadow from the layers menu to open the drop shadow filter dialog

Lesson 7

Web graphics

1. Write about GIF format The GIF means Graphics interchange format. It is universally supported in web browsers for both static and animated web graphics. Use it for non photographic images with sharp edges and geometric for example buttons, bursts, decorative elements, and text graphics. Its suitable for grayscale photos as well

2. Write about JPG format The JPG or JPEG means Joint photographic experts group it is clearly the format of choice for full-color photographic images 3. What is Animation? The illusion of motion or change by displaying a series of still pictures is called Animation II Fill in the blanks 1. 2. 3. 4. GIF means Graphics interchange format JPEG means Joint Photographic Experts Group The illusion of motion is called Animation Choose wave filter from the effects list to open the wave Filter controls

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Across; 1) It is a illusion of motion (9) 2) It removes the current selection(8) 3) The short cut for this is ctrl+V (5) 4) It is a jack of all trades (10)

DOWN; 1) It acts as spraycan(8) 5) It is a mixing of colors (8) 6) This color mode shows the black and white colors