Helpful Links
Good design vs. bad design
Using Basic Tools
http://www.tutorial9.net/tutorials/photoshop-tutorials/photoshops-basic-tools/
Understanding Layers
http://wegraphics.net/blog/tutorials/photoshop/photoshop-for-beginners-the-power-of-layers/
Selection Tools
http://psd.fanextra.com/tutorials/master-photoshops-selection-tools-in-under-30-minutes/
Removing Background
http://www.clippingpathspecialist.com/blog/2013/11/28/how-to-remove-the-background-of-an-image-with-photoshop/
Ghosting and Image
http://www.photoshopessentials.com/photo-effects/ghosting-image-photoshop-cs6/
College Poster Assignment
Things to consider before beginning:
Photoshop is a good tool for creating research posters. It is easy to drag, resize and rotate images onto your canvas, layer and line up objects like images, color fields and text to compose a complex presentation.
Create a new poster file:
- Open Photoshop.
- Go to File --> New
- Set Width to 24 and Height to 36 in
- Set the Resolution to 300dpi
- Click OK.
- Concentrate on your main points. Too much text will force you to make your font too small and therefore hard to read.
- Use large or high-resolution images for your poster
- if you're getting images from Google Search, make sure to enable the Search Tools and set the Size of the image you're looking for to "Large"
- Follow the rules of C.R.A.P. to make your poster more visually effective and easier to read.
R - repetition (positive - use a well chosen palette of a few of colors (3-4 max), fonts (2-3, including bolding and italicizing) and font sizes (2-3 max) throughout your document; negative - avoid redundancy)
A - alignment (choose a strong alignment - create a visual cohesiveness, order out of chaos!)
P - proximity and placement (consider spacing and how elements are arranged - the arrangement and spacing of elements reveals their relationship to one another)
After you create your poster in Photoshop:It is highly recommended that you save a PDF copy and print the file from Adobe Reader.
If you are using a special font, or your project contains complex formatting with lots of layered images, moving the original file from one computer to another or one Operating System to another may result in the shifting of the media you've included. Fonts may also be substituted if the original font used in the project is unavailable on the computer from which you are printing. Saving as PDF preserves fonts and formatting.