PART-II

CH-2 : Digital Design

1. Write a short note on Adobe Photoshop.

Adobe Photoshop is a popular graphics editor by Adobe.
Adobe Photoshop is known as a raster graphics editor, which is a computer program that lets
users create and edit images and then save them in one of many formats. Adobe Photoshop is
software that is extensively used for raster image editing, graphic design and digital art.
It was created by brothers Thomas and John Knoll in 1988. In 1989, John sold the program to
Adobe Systems, which marketed it as “Photoshop.” Since then, the program has become the
de facto industry standard for raster graphics editing. It is published for both macOS and
Windows, but not Linux.
2. What are the features of Adobe Photoshop?
- Document Navigation
- Cropping
- Layers and Groups
- Tool presets and the preset manager
- Layer Styles
- Creating New files
- Soft Proofing and Printing
- Resetting Photoshop’s preferences and Plugin Folder when Launching
-Alternate ways to open files
3. How Adobe Photoshop is useful in our daily life?

Uses of Adobe Photoshop in our daily life:

 Image editing: We can improve the color tone and brightness of the pictures into a fresh
style. We can also remove the unwanted dots using blur tool, photo filter, and color lookup
and backgrounds of our photographs.
 Graphic designing: It is much easier to design individual components like buttons, social
media icons, and backgrounds.
 Layout of projects: Editing of patterns and textures work becomes easier with Adobe
Photoshop.
 Photoshop uses in social media: We see many funny and animated images on social media.
Most of these images are designed and edited in it. It helps us to create promotional material
for social platforms.
 Photoshop in brand style and logo design: Logo designing for the branding of companies
can be done by using Adobe Photoshop. Almost all logo designers use Adobe Photoshop.
 To create passport/stamp size photos at home: Using this software we can easily print
passport/stamp size photographs at home using a camera of a smartphone and a printer.
 Photoshop in business, career, and jobs: We can make different design templates that can
be used to promote the business.

4. What is the file format to save documents in Adobe Photoshop?

.psd
5. What is home Screen in Adobe Photoshop? Name the tabs and buttons appear on home
screen left side.

Home Screen is the first window appears after launching Photoshop that includes the
following:

 Information about new features.

 A wide range of tutorials to help you quickly learn and understand the concept, workflow,
tips, and tricks.
 Display and access to your recent documents

The Home screen shows the following tabs and buttons on the left:
 Home: Click this tab to open the Home screen.
 Learn: Click this tab to open a list of basic and advanced tutorials on Illustrator to get started
with the application.
 LR Photos: Click this tab to access your synced Lightroom photos and import them into a
Photoshop document.
 Create New: Click this button to create a new document. You can create a document by
selecting one of the numerous templates and presets available in Photoshop.
 Open: Click this button to open an existing document in Photoshop.

6. What is workspace in Adobe Photoshop? Name the tool panels appear on Workspace.
7. Briefly explain the tool panels of workspace.
 8. What is Hide or Show panels?

· To hide or show all panels, including the Tools panel and Control panel, press Tab.

· To hide or show all panels except the Tools panel and Control panel, press Shift+Tab

9. What is Dock and Undock panels?

A dock is a collection of panels or panel groups displayed together.

10. What is move panel?

We can move panels in two ways:
 · To move a panel, drag it by its tab.

· To move a panel group, drag the title bar

11. What is Rich and Hide tooltips?

Rich tooltip displays a description and a short video of the tool in action when we hover the
pointer over certain tools in the Tools panel.

Hide tooltips hide the descriptions appear in tooltips by default.

12. What is Toolbox? What are the most widely used tools?

The toolbox contains the main tools for working on images. When we launch Photoshop, the
Tools bar automatically appears on the left side of the window.

13. Briefly explain the following tools:

a) Clone stamp tool vs. Healing Brush

The Clone Stamp tool and Healing Brush clone (copy) pixels from one part of an image to
another, to another layer or even to another image. The difference between the Healing
 Brush and the Clone Stamp tool is, the Healing Brush in Photoshop takes into account the
texture, illumination and shadows of the processed image. As a result, the fragment
processed by the Healing Brush blends more easily into the rest of the image.

b) Pattern Stamp tool: The Patch tool repairs an area with pixels copied from another area or
image.
c) Magic wand Tool: it selects areas of an image automatically with just one click.
d) Color Replacement: It replaces one color in an image with another.
14. Describe component of Blending Modes.
The Component Blending Modes use different combinations of the primary color components
(hue, saturation, and brightness) to create the blend.
15. What is blending mode? Define few blending modes.
The blending mode controls how pixels in the image are affected by a painting or editing tool.

 Clear mode: Edits or paints each pixel and makes it transparent. This mode is available for
the Shape tools (when fill region is selected), Paint Bucket tool , Brush tool , Pencil tool , Fill
command, and Stroke command. You must be in a layer with Lock Transparency deselected
to use this mode.
 Multiply : Looks at the color information in each channel and multiplies the base color by the
blend color. The result color is always a darker color. Multiplying any color with black
produces black. Multiplying any color with white leaves the color unchanged.
 Overlay : Multiplies or screens the colors, depending on the base color. The base color is not
replaced, but mixed with the blend color to reflect the lightness or darkness of the original
color
 Soft Light : Darkens or lightens the colors, depending on the blend color. Painting with pure
black or white produces a distinctly darker or lighter area, but does not result in pure black
or white.
 Hard Light : Multiplies or screens the colors, depending on the blend color. Painting with
pure black or white results in pure black or white
 Vivid Light : Burns or dodges the colors by increasing or decreasing the contrast, depending
on the blend color.