Adobe

Adobe Elements - This is a good package to begin using Adobe products. Check their web site. ~$79 for a license

Adobe Classroom in a Book Series - Books that help teach how to use Adobe products

Adobe Digital School Collections - Resources for educators also adobe.com/education - Education - educational resources

Adobe Bridges

Adobe Bridges - Ties all Adobe products together. Adobe is a memory hog. Duel processor or quad processor for video editing.

Reset default workspace if someone changes your palettes. (windows / folders)

Zoom in / out slider at the bottom of the screen

magnifying glass over an image

Batch rename option - select multiple pictures - give a name - select a folder - Picasa does the same (free thru Google)

Group as stack - select several images - select group as stack

Rating pictures - zoom in until you see the dots under the images - rate by clicking on a dot (editor) - sort by rating

Photoshop Open photoshop Tool bar - single column or double column Sensitive ribbon - changes based on the tool you open Palettes and tool bars can disappear - use the tab key disappearing tool bar - use shift / tab key (use the above if you need more room on your screen for your image) double click the hand on the tool bar to fit the image to your current window double click the magnifying glass to return to the 100% view use the hand tool to drag your view to different parts of your image use the navigation palette to identify what part of your image you are viewing use the slider in the navigation palette to zoom your image controlR - toggles the ruler With the ruler open - click and drag ruler across the screen to add guide lines - control; - will hide the guide lines Guide lines will not print - only guides Cropping: Bridge folder - cropfolder - fire escape select crop tool - click and drag over the image you wish to keep - use sizing handles if needed - select enter to crop undo keyboard shortcut - ctrlZ or ctrlaltZ for multiple steps backwards crop and rotate - select area to crop - move cursor outside of selection - cursor changes to arrow to rotate - resize if necessary - select enter select crop tool - from the crop ribbon check perspective - align with image edges - select enter to correct for odd image angles toolbar - image - image size - change width by ~5%

Real world application for these tools - presentations
Turn and crop - (to correct for poorimage angles) - use the ruler (hiding behind the droper) to find the angle of the horizon - select image - rotate canvas - arbitrary - and enter to rotate your image. Then crop for the part of the image you want to keep. (use the image from crop/family)


 * Tools with a little black dot in lower right corner - left click and hold to view all tools**

Gimp - photo editing like Adobe - free download

Zazzle or Babble fish .com - for a fee will create posters of the images that you create

eliptical folder - earth and mouth - select ecliptical selection tool - outline the Earth - image / transform sleection - resize - select marque tool (arrow) - move EArth to the mouth.

Lynda.com and atomic learning for tutorials on Adobe

ctrlD - select/deselect

using selection tools - once an area has been selected you can reselect and area by using alt (subtract) or control (add to ) the selected area

Select the teeth and move them infront of the Earth

Magic wand tool - selection tool - 32 pickels above and below the selected area - add to selection

eliptical tool - left mouse/drag + space bar to move the selection

Arcrobat Combine multiple files into one pdf document including web pages

Zamzar.com capture video from utube and they convert from flash at their server. You later download the converted video.

Fit Screen, Page viewer, Bookmarks - highlight and area / insert bookmark (also stores the current view)

Import entire web sites including secondary and tertiary etc links

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