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1. Photoshop 7 Lasso Tools
   This web site had very clear definitions and diagrams of how to use the lasso tools. It explains the uses and different approaches for the selection options for the lasso. It also provided an exellent tutorial on the feathering of a pear including a zoomed in diagram of how it effects each individual pixel. Departments/Topics: Photoshop Resources Report and -- Site content author: Jay Arraich. This link was submitted by: Marietta, posted on 01/27/2003
2. Adobe Photoshop 5.0 Tips and Tools
   This site is a slide show made by a women at California St. She takes us step by step explaining how to use different aspects of photoshop and why. She starts with Layers, tellin us how and why to use them and how to get rid of one. Then she moves on to selection tools, the marquee, lasso and magic wand and tells us the same about all of them. she continues on in this fashion and describes to us the editing tools and the menu bar. This site was very helpfull in indicating the tools and their use, however i dont know if i would feel comfortable with only this site to learn off of. Departments/Topics: Other: noted in description and -- Site content author: Nancy Weckwerth. This link was submitted by: Augustine, posted on 01/27/2003
3. Photoshop Feathered Edges
   blurred edges - I definitely love this look, and supposedly it is called a feathered edge in PhotoShop. Lasso tools, particularly the magnetic lasso tool, work best for this technique. The lasso tool is used to "draw a shape around the area you wish to select." In the first step of this lesson, the designer emphasized the importance of setting the feather specs before selecting an image. I'm not exactly sure what she meant by this. In addition to blurring the edges and setting the width of the edge by adjusting the number of pixels, the most important step that occurred during this process was copying the image before working with it. The designer said, "never work with your only copy of an image." I would have never thought about this step if I hadn't had read this tutorial! Departments/Topics: Photoshop Tutorial Report and -- Site content author: eclipse e-zine. This link was submitted by: Wolfe, posted on 01/27/2003
4. Photoshop: Selection Techniques
   This website would be very helpful to a first time Photoshop user. However, I feel as if we have already learned the majority of the information on the marquee and lasso tools that the website covers. It talks about selecting tools, deselecting, dragging, and finding hidden tools. These are all basic concepts that can refresh my memory. Departments/Topics: Photoshop Resources Report and -- Site content author: Dreamweaver. This link was submitted by: George, posted on 01/27/2003
5. Introduction to Photoshop Marquee
   This is a very simple site with a basic overview of what the marquee tool does, how it is used, and what key commands access its functions. It's is very simple, but gets the job done. Departments/Topics: Photoshop Resources Report and -- Site content author: eXtropia. This link was submitted by: Woodward, posted on 01/27/2003
6. Creating Shapes in Photoshop
   This website shows some shortcuts for makeing slightly complicated shapes like a moon. It says for example by using the Alt/Opt key and creating a new selection on top of the first one, it will subtract from the original selection. Departments/Topics: Photoshop Tutorial Report and -- Site content author: The Photoshop Gurus Handbook, Mark Anthony Larmand . This link was submitted by: Sadick, posted on 01/27/2003
7. Photoshop 6 Tutorials: Layers 101
   This site gives a detailed tutorial on collaging with photoshop layers. It offers a 15 step process to creating a collage. This site would be most useful for students have only a basic understanding of photoshop layers and would like to enhance or practice their skills more. Departments/Topics: Photoshop Tutorial Report and -- Site content author: Colin Smith. This link was submitted by: Girard, posted on 01/27/2003
8. Photoshop 7.0 tutorials training courses online
   The site I found is really good...search for lasso tool and found this site...it has many video tutorials about the tools and others about the basics and getting started...it is good to be able to watch as the guide talks about the techniques...a good one to save Departments/Topics: Photoshop Tutorial Report and -- Site content author: na. This link was submitted by: Newton, posted on 01/27/2003
9. Photoshop Selection Tools
   How to use the Marquee tool, in this site the author provides you with strait forward technique with using the Marquee tools. They’re a total of four tools: Rectangular, Single row, Single Column, and Elliptical. Next drag the selection tool of your choose and select and while hitting the shift key you image. This site over all can be helpful to those who are looking to gain more knowledge about the Marquee tool. Departments/Topics: Photoshop Tutorial Report and -- Site content author: Dr. Mary Nicholson. This link was submitted by: Robertson, posted on 01/27/2003
10. Photoshop tools
    I thought this site was cool, it brought up the tool bar from photoshop. I could click on which ever tool i wanted and it would bring up a list or discription of what it could do. For some of the tools like the burn and sponge, there was a before nad after picture to show what they did and the difference they could make. Departments/Topics: Photoshop Tutorial Report and -- Site content author: . This link was submitted by: Lindsey, Augustine, posted on 01/27/2003
11. PHOTOSHOP TUTORIALS
    This is a small website but it allows you to choose tutorials on each individual Photoshop tool, including the selection tools. The information is actually rather useful, and a step by step guide and explanation on how to use each tool is included in its respective lesson. Departments/Topics: Photoshop Tutorial Report and -- Site content author: . This link was submitted by: Gulley, posted on 01/27/2003
12. Quick Mask in Photoshop
    This tutorial gives step-by-step instruction on using the Quick Mask feature in Photoshop. It is very helpful and appropriate for a beginning Photoshop user because of its illustrated instruction of every phase of Quick Mask. Reading through the tutorial gave me a better understanding of what Quick Mask is and how it is to be used within the program. Departments/Topics: Photoshop Tutorial Report and -- Site content author: Karon Dey. This link was submitted by: Unger, posted on 01/27/2003
13. Restore Blemished Images Instantly
    This site was just one of the many links on adobe.com. The specific link I looked at was in reference to Photoshop 7 and more specifically, its "healing brush tool." They described how to sample an area, paint the blemish, use the "History" box, and also how to use the selection tool to protect the healing area. I found the instructions to be simple and concise, and I was not previously aware that the "healing brush tool " even existed (I am running Photoshop 6 on my ibook.) Departments/Topics: Photoshop Tutorial Report and -- Site content author: Adobe Systems, Inc.. This link was submitted by: Carissa, Hensley, posted on 01/27/2003
14. The Basics of Photo Shop Layers (Korean)
    Before opening this web site, I recommend everybody to learn Korean. Even though, this web site was done by Korean (unreadable), since the structure of the web site and the specific information of photo Shop was so remarkable, I had to report this web site. The opening page offers 2 versions of Photo Shops whichever visitors desire to learn. Followed by the selection, the same window shows up as when users log in to Photo shop. For example, when the visitor clicks on the category, which the visitor wanted to learn (for me it was "Layer"), this web site provides you every single information (each and every categories related to the Layer menu, and tips also) along with definitions. However, since this web site cannot be the common use, I will have to wait and hope till this owner of the web site makes another version of English. So, that I can report this with more dignity. Departments/Topics: Photoshop Tutorial Report and -- Site content author: Din. This link was submitted by: Lee, posted on 01/27/2003
15. The Photoshop Guru's Handbook (Selection Tools)
    Provides basic explanation of the Marquis Tool showing keyboard command equivalants (Adding to a selection, Subtracting from selections, Intersecting with a selection), the perks of the Lasso tool, path tool, and magic wand tool all supplimented with tips for each tool, special features, etc. Departments/Topics: Photoshop Resources Report and -- Site content author: Mark Anthony Larmand. This link was submitted by: williams, posted on 01/27/2003
16. Virtual Training Help Center
    This is a basic, straightforward site that describes and demonstrates various features of Photoshop. The feature I was interested in learning about was Filters. A step-by-step list of instructions was provided to show how to implement filters. The site also gives examples of what the filters from two of the filter "families"(Render and Distort) do to images. Departments/Topics: Photoshop Tutorial Report and -- Site content author: Bloomsburg University Virtual Training Help Center (c/o: Dr. Mary Nicholson). This link was submitted by: King, posted on 01/27/2003

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