1 00:00:00,959 --> 00:00:05,909 [Auto-generated transcript. Edits may have been applied for clarity.] Hello! This presentation is on Adobe Creative Cloud for researchers. 2 00:00:06,119 --> 00:00:13,108 It focuses specifically on creating Photoshop files at 300 dpi for research publications, 3 00:00:13,109 --> 00:00:19,289 grant applications, and so on, and has some basic information about getting started with Photoshop. 4 00:00:19,829 --> 00:00:23,729 The presentation is at the short URL link listed here. 5 00:00:24,489 --> 00:00:34,469 You are welcome to access this link and it has additional, more detailed information, links to, um, additional resources that we have. 6 00:00:34,949 --> 00:00:39,508 Um, and so, uh, just to introduce myself real quick, my name is Dr. Chelsy Hooper. 7 00:00:39,509 --> 00:00:43,259 I'm an instructional technology coordinator in the Auburn Libraries. 8 00:00:43,529 --> 00:00:48,359 My main area of work is on the first floor of the library in the Adobe Creative Space. 9 00:00:48,929 --> 00:00:58,019 We are an Adobe Creative campus, so all Auburn students, faculty, and staff have access to the entire Adobe Creative Cloud. 10 00:00:58,649 --> 00:01:02,099 Employees all have access to Adobe Creative Cloud automatically. 11 00:01:02,579 --> 00:01:09,829 If you need more information, the links are here. Also, our Adobe Creative space offers many resources for continued learning. 12 00:01:09,839 --> 00:01:15,479 We have free workshops, workshop video recordings that go more into depth with Photoshop. 13 00:01:15,749 --> 00:01:21,718 In addition to illustrator and InDesign, Adobe offers free learning resources as well. 14 00:01:21,719 --> 00:01:23,369 You can see these here. 15 00:01:24,149 --> 00:01:30,959 Also, all employees have access to LinkedIn learning through elevated and new access, and there are a lot of fantastic Adobe courses there. 16 00:01:31,589 --> 00:01:39,148 We also have an Adobe helpdesk. Their mission is to help people use, uh, learn how to use the applications, um, 17 00:01:39,149 --> 00:01:43,229 so they can assist you if you have questions with your project as you get into it. 18 00:01:43,709 --> 00:01:49,889 And there's also a fantastic resource here that's always updated by Adobe about the different AI features that are embedded here. 19 00:01:51,139 --> 00:01:56,639 And also this resource page has a lot of highlighted resources for research that are available here. 20 00:01:56,659 --> 00:02:01,999 If you need something quick like you have an image, you just need to resize it to 300 dpi. 21 00:02:02,249 --> 00:02:03,409 Um, that is an option. 22 00:02:03,439 --> 00:02:10,839 We also already have an hour long video on Photoshop for beginners that goes a little bit more into depth in this particular video, 23 00:02:10,849 --> 00:02:15,179 well that you're welcome to access information about Adobe Firefly. 24 00:02:15,199 --> 00:02:24,228 That's something to explore. Also illustrator, if you, uh, would like to explore vector images or creating better graphs in illustrator. 25 00:02:24,229 --> 00:02:27,269 There's information there. All kinds of other features. 26 00:02:27,289 --> 00:02:32,479 Maybe you want to create a podcast as part of your research. Um, that is an option as well. 27 00:02:32,509 --> 00:02:36,439 Adobe offers free, uh, software for that also. 28 00:02:36,619 --> 00:02:44,388 And um, there are also some external resources that I've curated here on the scientific applications of Photoshop. 29 00:02:44,389 --> 00:02:51,139 If you want to go further with using Photoshop to do measurements of images for you, there's some information here on that. 30 00:02:51,919 --> 00:02:59,779 Today, though, we are going to be focusing on some very basic get started in Photoshop information and going 31 00:02:59,779 --> 00:03:04,819 to go through the steps to set up a Photoshop file for research publications at 300 dpi. 32 00:03:04,849 --> 00:03:11,359 This is a common requirement, um, because that is what is required for print quality. 33 00:03:11,959 --> 00:03:15,989 And um, this shows the new document window and how you would set it up. 34 00:03:16,009 --> 00:03:21,979 There are also step by step instructions here, but I go through some of these basics, uh, to get you started. 35 00:03:22,549 --> 00:03:25,698 But here are the step by step instructions that we're going to be going through. 36 00:03:25,699 --> 00:03:31,069 So if you prefer to refer back to this, this can be a help, uh, resource to you. 37 00:03:31,369 --> 00:03:36,109 And this video is also going to will be posted on this page for future reference. 38 00:03:36,529 --> 00:03:40,339 Um, so these are the the steps that we're going to go through today. 39 00:03:40,909 --> 00:03:48,978 There's also a very quick video here. That's an external video, um, that I found that is just simply how to resize an image. 40 00:03:48,979 --> 00:03:52,309 And that's all like not annotating it but just simply resizing. 41 00:03:52,549 --> 00:03:57,739 So that's an option as well. Other things we should consider are accessibility. 42 00:03:58,399 --> 00:04:03,499 So you want to make sure that your image is going to be highly accessible and easy to read. 43 00:04:03,829 --> 00:04:12,859 Um, there's also um, you might want to make sure that it can be, um, uh, visible if it is printed in grayscale. 44 00:04:12,979 --> 00:04:16,969 Um, so you don't want to use just color. Um, these are some good tips. 45 00:04:17,209 --> 00:04:21,919 So pay attention to these tips, uh, before you are creating and go through them. 46 00:04:22,189 --> 00:04:25,399 You can use icons and symbols instead of only color. 47 00:04:25,729 --> 00:04:33,289 Um, you know, right. Putting the text on the labels, um, of the areas of the image or graph that you've created, 48 00:04:33,679 --> 00:04:37,939 as opposed to putting a legend that makes it all easier for everyone to access. 49 00:04:38,329 --> 00:04:44,269 And there is more information on accessibility at Auburn's accessibility resources page as well. 50 00:04:45,319 --> 00:04:50,119 So let's get started. Uh, by, uh, beginning to work in, uh, Photoshop. 51 00:04:50,599 --> 00:04:58,069 So a couple of things that you may want to do before you get started is acquire a couple of images so that you can follow along with this video. 52 00:04:58,459 --> 00:05:03,859 Um, I wanted to make sure that you knew that you also have access to Adobe Stock images. 53 00:05:04,099 --> 00:05:09,109 These are great to start with, with, uh, for a, uh, professional, uh, 54 00:05:09,139 --> 00:05:15,379 image or graphic that you're going to be creating because these are contained in our license, 55 00:05:15,379 --> 00:05:19,098 so you won't be violating copyright by downloading them and using them. 56 00:05:19,099 --> 00:05:20,269 We have the full license. 57 00:05:20,269 --> 00:05:29,989 You are able to republish, uh, repost them as long as it has to do with your work here at Auburn and, and, uh, as an academic. 58 00:05:30,439 --> 00:05:36,749 So, um, if you would like to grab a stock image, um, I'm going to search one for Tiger. 59 00:05:36,769 --> 00:05:45,379 We can be much more specific and use these filtering options over here to do some better searching if you want photos or illustrations. 60 00:05:45,379 --> 00:05:47,299 And notice there are also vectors. 61 00:05:47,599 --> 00:05:55,399 So if you wanted to work only in illustrator and you wanted only vector images, there are stock vectors that you can access right here. 62 00:05:55,819 --> 00:06:02,779 For today we're going to combine a photographic image with some simple labels, since this might be something you want to get started with. 63 00:06:03,289 --> 00:06:09,588 Once you find a a photo that you want to use, um, this one has already been licensed. 64 00:06:09,589 --> 00:06:13,769 That just means someone at Auburn has already downloaded it and is using it. 65 00:06:13,789 --> 00:06:17,148 It doesn't mean you can't. It just means somebody is already using it. 66 00:06:17,149 --> 00:06:22,669 So you can read download for free. So go through and find a stock image that might be helpful to you. 67 00:06:22,699 --> 00:06:28,139 You can also bring in your own images. So if you got your own image to work with um that is great too. 68 00:06:28,159 --> 00:06:33,349 I'm going to do both show you using a stock image, and then show you using an image that I took myself. 69 00:06:34,249 --> 00:06:40,909 Um, once you have downloaded that, make sure it's downloaded to your computer at a location that you know you can access again in the future. 70 00:06:41,779 --> 00:06:44,959 And, um, I've already done that, uh, particular piece. 71 00:06:46,249 --> 00:06:50,659 And so, uh, what I'm going to do next is we're going to go ahead and open up Photoshop and. 72 00:06:50,739 --> 00:06:56,049 Set up our file. So to do that we're going to access the Adobe Creative Cloud desktop app. 73 00:06:56,709 --> 00:07:01,899 And we're going to go ahead and go to apps. And then we're going to open up Photoshop. 74 00:07:02,079 --> 00:07:05,499 The desktop app is handy so that you can access any of the apps, 75 00:07:05,499 --> 00:07:10,869 or install any of the apps that you want to your computer, and you can also, uh, update them. 76 00:07:11,499 --> 00:07:18,818 So we're going to open up Photoshop and a couple of things we need to do when we are working with, um, 77 00:07:18,819 --> 00:07:28,029 either stock images or our own images is to ensure that those images, before we put them in a document, are at 300 dpi. 78 00:07:28,359 --> 00:07:37,149 Um, and if they're not, then we need to resize them to that. So the first thing we're going to do is we're going to open a couple of these images. 79 00:07:37,509 --> 00:07:42,099 So I've already got these downloaded to a simple images folder on my desktop. 80 00:07:42,429 --> 00:07:47,649 Um, and this is the easy way to kind of have your workflow, make sure you've got your files organized. 81 00:07:48,009 --> 00:07:52,959 And here is the stock image of the tiger. So we're going to open this particular image. 82 00:07:53,709 --> 00:07:57,789 This is also a great way to just check what the resolution size of the images. 83 00:07:57,999 --> 00:08:05,709 You can also right click on that image and check it. But if you think you need to resize it, you can, um, you know, open it up in Photoshop and see. 84 00:08:06,249 --> 00:08:12,488 So we can, uh, see a fast way to see what the image sizes is down here on the bottom left. 85 00:08:12,489 --> 00:08:18,189 It's going to tell us now, this particular image is already at 300 pixels per inch. 86 00:08:18,189 --> 00:08:22,029 So that's already at 300 dpi. So this one is print ready. 87 00:08:22,269 --> 00:08:27,369 So we don't have to do anything to this image to use it. We're just going to like save it for later. 88 00:08:27,369 --> 00:08:30,999 And we're going to place it into a document uh later so we can label it. 89 00:08:31,359 --> 00:08:34,479 So we're done with that particular image. We're just going to close out of it. 90 00:08:35,169 --> 00:08:40,119 Now let's go ahead and open an image that is probably not at 300 dpi. 91 00:08:40,149 --> 00:08:41,619 This is one that I took myself. 92 00:08:41,619 --> 00:08:48,309 This is a cute little drawing that someone left on my whiteboard of what I think is probably a version of a cat or a tiger. 93 00:08:48,579 --> 00:08:54,909 So we'll go ahead and open that. This is simply for our purposes to see resolution sizes and how to change them. 94 00:08:56,359 --> 00:08:59,209 And so here we have our picture of our kitty cat. 95 00:08:59,599 --> 00:09:07,019 Now if we go down here to the image information in Photoshop, we can see that the resolution is at 72 pixels per inch. 96 00:09:07,039 --> 00:09:11,059 This is a common resolution size for digital artifacts. 97 00:09:11,329 --> 00:09:16,369 Now we are preparing something for print. So we will need to resize this image first. 98 00:09:16,369 --> 00:09:19,549 If we wish to put it in our graphic that we're going to be creating. 99 00:09:19,849 --> 00:09:25,789 So in order to do that we're going to go up to the image menu and we're going to go to Image Size. 100 00:09:26,509 --> 00:09:31,999 Once we have the image size menu here are some things we need to pay attention to. 101 00:09:32,479 --> 00:09:39,169 Um now first of all, we do want, um, the, uh, resolution size to change. 102 00:09:39,379 --> 00:09:44,789 So what we're going to do is we're going to leave the sizing alone because we want to change the resolution size. 103 00:09:44,809 --> 00:09:47,929 This is going to affect the general size of the image. 104 00:09:48,379 --> 00:09:53,839 Um, and so at this point, what we're going to want to do is go ahead and change 72 to 300. 105 00:09:55,009 --> 00:09:59,759 And then in this case we do not want to check the resample box. 106 00:09:59,779 --> 00:10:03,469 So let's take a minute and explain when we would want to check that and when we wouldn't. 107 00:10:03,889 --> 00:10:10,039 So what resampling does um, is that it essentially reduces the file size. 108 00:10:10,039 --> 00:10:13,069 It removes, um, some of the digital information. 109 00:10:13,489 --> 00:10:23,959 If we leave it unchecked so we don't resample, then that means keep all of the pixels present in this image, but resize it to this resolution. 110 00:10:23,959 --> 00:10:32,139 So that's what we want to do. Because if we check marked resample and resized it um, it might become blurry. 111 00:10:32,149 --> 00:10:39,859 It might be um, out of kilter. Um, this particular image is not photographic, but it would be pretty obvious in a photographic one. 112 00:10:39,859 --> 00:10:43,039 So we're going to not choose resample and we're going to hit okay. 113 00:10:44,999 --> 00:10:48,259 Now notice we have our image and it's resized. 114 00:10:48,269 --> 00:10:54,219 And if we go back down here to the resize option now we can see that it's 300 pixels per inch. 115 00:10:54,239 --> 00:10:58,469 That is great. So now we can use this particular image in our graphic. 116 00:10:58,949 --> 00:11:02,039 So what we're going to want to do first is save our changes to that. 117 00:11:03,119 --> 00:11:09,149 And so what we're going to do is we can either do a save if we're okay with saving to the original file, 118 00:11:09,479 --> 00:11:14,439 or we can also do a save a copy, which is what I would recommend. 119 00:11:14,459 --> 00:11:19,649 That way you've got the original file and this revised image resized file. 120 00:11:20,039 --> 00:11:26,369 So we're going to save a copy that simply just puts the word copy automatically for you at the end of the whatever file name you have. 121 00:11:26,819 --> 00:11:31,079 And in the sample images folder where I had the other one saved as fine. 122 00:11:31,589 --> 00:11:35,669 And um, all these settings are fine. So we're going to go ahead and hit save. 123 00:11:36,869 --> 00:11:42,779 Now at this point it might default to sort of a medium quality or a high quality. 124 00:11:43,229 --> 00:11:48,839 When you are using the image resize to essentially upscale this image. 125 00:11:48,839 --> 00:11:55,408 We do want the quality to be very high, and that is a great feature for us to use. 126 00:11:55,409 --> 00:11:59,189 So we will move it all the way to the right until it the maximum quality. 127 00:11:59,639 --> 00:12:03,929 And then we're going to hit okay. So now we have this saved. 128 00:12:04,139 --> 00:12:08,639 Um, and we can also minimize this and go into our file. 129 00:12:08,879 --> 00:12:12,899 We'll go into our folder here and we will see that now we have two images. 130 00:12:13,139 --> 00:12:15,689 And we can right click on them and go to get info. 131 00:12:16,109 --> 00:12:26,729 And we can see um that this particular image is the 72 bit one and is not the, um, you know, full size that we need and everything. 132 00:12:28,424 --> 00:12:34,544 And we can see that this one is the bigger one because it has more information in the file. 133 00:12:34,994 --> 00:12:42,314 So what we're going to do next is now that we have our stock image or our resized, um, image that we took ourselves. 134 00:12:42,584 --> 00:12:45,974 Now we are ready to go back into Photoshop. 135 00:12:46,454 --> 00:12:53,863 And we're actually just going to close this image out. We're not going to save changes to this particular version because that's our original one. 136 00:12:53,864 --> 00:12:58,694 So now we have the original in the copy. So from this point, here's what we're going to do next. 137 00:12:59,084 --> 00:13:04,994 What we need to do is uh to set up a new document at 300 dpi. 138 00:13:05,534 --> 00:13:09,464 So in this case we are going to choose just the default Photoshop size. 139 00:13:09,464 --> 00:13:13,693 But you could determine that depending on what your publication is. 140 00:13:13,694 --> 00:13:23,414 But a five by 7 or 7 by five, uh, would be a sort of a standard size that would fit inside of an eight and a half by 11 page on part of the page. 141 00:13:23,624 --> 00:13:29,504 But depending on what you needed, you could figure that out. First, figure out what's a sort of print size do you need? 142 00:13:29,954 --> 00:13:38,773 Then make sure that you've got 300 resolution pixels per inch selected RGB color eight bit is a good um, 143 00:13:38,774 --> 00:13:45,253 is fine for the settings for what we need today. Having a white background is pretty standard, 144 00:13:45,254 --> 00:13:50,744 especially if you want to have an image on there and then put some labels next to the image, that would be a good option. 145 00:13:51,344 --> 00:13:56,654 Um, the RGB color profile is totally fine, and all these other settings are also fine. 146 00:13:56,834 --> 00:13:59,144 You can also change the orientation if you wanted, 147 00:13:59,144 --> 00:14:04,274 but this is going to let us use like the maximum sort of width on a standard eight and a half by 11 paper. 148 00:14:04,844 --> 00:14:08,874 At this point, you also want to make sure that you go ahead and rename your file. 149 00:14:08,894 --> 00:14:12,464 This is the file of your this is the name of your Photoshop file. 150 00:14:12,914 --> 00:14:16,184 So I'm going to call this one sample Tiger. 151 00:14:17,564 --> 00:14:30,134 And then we will go ahead and hit create. Now we have a blank white document that we can place our images into, and we can begin adding some labels. 152 00:14:30,314 --> 00:14:36,064 So remember we resize them. So we're confident that those other images are at 300 dpi already. 153 00:14:36,074 --> 00:14:41,324 So now we can add those particular images. In the first case let's go ahead and add the tiger. 154 00:14:41,594 --> 00:14:45,804 So we're going to go to file and then place embedded. 155 00:14:45,824 --> 00:14:49,934 This will put the image inside of the Photoshop file. 156 00:14:50,354 --> 00:14:57,764 If we chose place linked then we could go and make edits to that particular tiger in Photoshop and it would update it. 157 00:14:58,004 --> 00:14:59,094 We don't really need that. 158 00:14:59,114 --> 00:15:05,294 We want everything to be embedded, especially since we're going to be exporting this later and submitting it for publication. 159 00:15:05,304 --> 00:15:08,954 So you want all the information in the document itself rather than linked. 160 00:15:09,344 --> 00:15:14,654 So we're going to choose Place Embedded. And then it's going to ask us okay what image do you want to place. 161 00:15:14,954 --> 00:15:18,853 So in this case we're going to choose the Adobe Stock Images image. 162 00:15:18,854 --> 00:15:23,654 We'll go ahead and place the tiger. And at this point we can resize. 163 00:15:23,654 --> 00:15:28,754 The tiger is sort of ready for us to resize. So we can click and drag and resize it. 164 00:15:29,294 --> 00:15:35,494 Um and then what we can do is maybe we want it to be sort of somewhat somewhere on the page. 165 00:15:35,504 --> 00:15:37,784 And so that way we can add some text and labels. 166 00:15:38,234 --> 00:15:45,404 Once you have the image placed where you want, you can either hit enter or the little checkmark up here that says confirm. 167 00:15:45,404 --> 00:15:48,584 I'm finished with placing it. We'll go ahead and do that. 168 00:15:49,154 --> 00:15:54,194 And now you notice down here we have a background layer. And now we have one image layer. 169 00:15:54,224 --> 00:15:58,724 If we wanted to make any changes to the way this tiger looks like some effects, um, 170 00:15:58,724 --> 00:16:02,624 some different kind of filters, we could definitely apply those to this particular layer. 171 00:16:02,924 --> 00:16:09,524 That's not needed for this research publication. So we will go ahead and start with adding some additional content. 172 00:16:10,304 --> 00:16:17,443 Now another piece of content we could do is we're ready to maybe label this tiger some other tools that you can get started with. 173 00:16:17,444 --> 00:16:21,103 And there's a lot of tools in Photoshop, but you do not have to use all of them. 174 00:16:21,104 --> 00:16:28,364 Just get started with a few at first. We are actually going to go to the shape tool on the left hand side. 175 00:16:28,634 --> 00:16:34,123 When you have a tool in Photoshop that has a little white flag on the bottom left or the bottom right, 176 00:16:34,124 --> 00:16:37,394 then that indicates that there are additional tools behind that. 177 00:16:37,394 --> 00:16:41,534 So press and hold the tool and you will access all of the different tools. 178 00:16:41,774 --> 00:16:45,734 As you can see here, we can access different shapes. We can embed those shapes. 179 00:16:45,734 --> 00:16:48,944 We can change the color in the end the lines of those shapes. 180 00:16:49,454 --> 00:16:52,454 In this particular case we probably want a line tool. 181 00:16:52,904 --> 00:17:01,424 And so we're going to choose the line tool. Once we choose a line tool notice that up at the top we have the context menu. 182 00:17:01,844 --> 00:17:04,904 This line has no fill. It does have a stroke of black. 183 00:17:04,904 --> 00:17:08,623 That is fine. We can leave that. Um the pixels. 184 00:17:08,624 --> 00:17:17,173 I changed it to five, but we could, uh, type in something different if we wanted that to be a little bit, um, you know, more thicker. 185 00:17:17,174 --> 00:17:20,984 We could do that. Here's where you can choose the style of line. 186 00:17:21,014 --> 00:17:24,014 This is another great way to make sure your images are accessible. 187 00:17:24,014 --> 00:17:27,794 Instead of using colors, you could use different types of lines. 188 00:17:28,094 --> 00:17:37,424 Um, that is really a helpful thing. Um, and then um, also you can choose um, to go ahead and click and drag and to create your line. 189 00:17:37,724 --> 00:17:43,774 So in uh, Photoshop these particular shapes are what we call uh, live shapes. 190 00:17:43,784 --> 00:17:46,844 So we can continue to click on them and make changes to them. 191 00:17:47,144 --> 00:17:51,974 Notice down here in the layers menu it has created a new layer called line one. 192 00:17:52,454 --> 00:17:56,594 So absolutely we can always come back to this layer, make changes to it. 193 00:17:57,224 --> 00:18:04,484 And then we also get another properties feature. Uh menu over here when we have this uh particular line selected. 194 00:18:04,664 --> 00:18:12,934 So what we might want to do um, is go down here and we can choose, um, the different types of options of lines. 195 00:18:12,944 --> 00:18:16,034 We could, of course, continue to make, uh, changes to that. 196 00:18:16,544 --> 00:18:22,394 And if we scroll down a little further notice, you can choose what is happening at the end of the line and which. 197 00:18:22,394 --> 00:18:25,544 And so this is a great place to put an arrow. 198 00:18:26,114 --> 00:18:33,674 So um, in this case we since I drew it this direction, then we probably want the arrow to be at the end. 199 00:18:34,624 --> 00:18:38,224 And we can also choose like how thick should the arrow be? 200 00:18:38,224 --> 00:18:46,564 In this case, we might want this to be ten pixels, and then maybe the length needs to be a little bit more than ten, maybe something like 15. 201 00:18:47,884 --> 00:18:55,064 And then we can you can also use the move tool to kind of just get back out of a tool and then click off of your document. 202 00:18:55,084 --> 00:18:56,794 That way you can kind of see what's going on. 203 00:18:57,154 --> 00:19:04,654 Some other tips are you can use the Command plus or Control Plus on your keyboard to zoom in, and also minus to zoom back out. 204 00:19:05,314 --> 00:19:13,994 Um, and then there's also when you zoom in, um, if you press the spacebar, you get the hand tool, which helps you pan around your image. 205 00:19:14,024 --> 00:19:17,854 This might be really helpful as you're designing your image so you can zoom in and out. 206 00:19:18,244 --> 00:19:23,464 Another option is to go up to view. And then you can go uh, back to fit on screen. 207 00:19:24,404 --> 00:19:29,594 And then that way you can get back to your main image. So from here we've we've added an arrow. 208 00:19:29,604 --> 00:19:35,104 We're pointing towards the tiger's head. So in that case we may want to do a simple label and say what it is. 209 00:19:35,114 --> 00:19:42,084 We might need some text for that. So if we go over to the text tool, um, there are multiple tools that you can choose. 210 00:19:42,104 --> 00:19:49,664 Also notice when you mouseover these, um, they give you that rich text menu so that you can watch a little video, see how it works. 211 00:19:49,674 --> 00:19:55,124 So that's a great way to learn additional tools. In this case we do just want a horizontal type tool. 212 00:19:55,364 --> 00:20:01,333 And now you can see the cursor has changed into sort of a bracket where it's ready for me with a cursor. 213 00:20:01,334 --> 00:20:06,914 So it's ready for me to click wherever I want the text frame to go, and then I can begin typing. 214 00:20:07,364 --> 00:20:10,664 Um, I can also go up here and go ahead and change the fonts. 215 00:20:11,174 --> 00:20:16,454 Um, when you're doing fonts for graphics, you do not want to use something like Times New Roman. 216 00:20:16,454 --> 00:20:18,914 You typically want to use a sans serif font. 217 00:20:19,244 --> 00:20:25,574 Um, unless that is some requirement of your publication, you should check and see what it says about your figures. 218 00:20:25,864 --> 00:20:29,354 Uh, but anything that's labeled see what it's supposed to be. 219 00:20:29,774 --> 00:20:36,764 And that goes for your font size as well. If if there's a requirement that your font size can't be smaller than a certain amount. 220 00:20:36,974 --> 00:20:41,174 Make sure you adhere to whatever the requirements of the publication, uh, state. 221 00:20:41,684 --> 00:20:47,954 Um, in this case, though, Acumen Pro um, you know, maybe regular, um, this is a sans serif font. 222 00:20:47,964 --> 00:20:53,444 You can also click sans serif and just get those. This means it doesn't have the little tails on the end of your text. 223 00:20:53,684 --> 00:21:00,104 This is much easier for people to read, particularly for printed materials or digital materials. 224 00:21:00,434 --> 00:21:05,684 Um, but adhere to whatever your publication is saying. We're going to just use Acumen Pro. 225 00:21:05,954 --> 00:21:09,974 Um, I will probably choose the regular so that it has, um, you know, stands out. 226 00:21:09,974 --> 00:21:14,354 Well, you want to choose good contrast. So again, we're just putting black on white. 227 00:21:14,954 --> 00:21:19,034 But whatever you choose make sure it's good contrast and make sure it is accessible. 228 00:21:19,514 --> 00:21:25,074 Um 12 might be okay. We might want to bump it up to 14 in this particular case just for our purposes. 229 00:21:25,074 --> 00:21:30,854 So we can see and then notice you have some standard other settings you can do what colors the text and so on. 230 00:21:31,124 --> 00:21:36,194 And then you can just click wherever you want that particular, uh, piece of text to go. 231 00:21:36,374 --> 00:21:39,524 And it's ready for you to retype the label. 232 00:21:40,154 --> 00:21:47,504 And notice in this case, it has added a new layer of text so we can easily go back and forth. 233 00:21:47,864 --> 00:21:53,894 And if we want to make changes to the line, we can do that. We just click the the line layer and make those changes. 234 00:21:54,254 --> 00:21:58,094 If we want to go back and make changes to the text, we absolutely can do that. 235 00:21:58,394 --> 00:22:03,674 And if we want to make changes to what it says, we can just retype here and make those changes. 236 00:22:04,274 --> 00:22:09,524 You can also use the move tool to move these, uh, items around as needed. 237 00:22:10,364 --> 00:22:14,914 Um, and uh, you can continue to make changes to the font. 238 00:22:14,924 --> 00:22:18,374 So if you need to change the font style and so on, then you can absolutely do that. 239 00:22:19,004 --> 00:22:25,514 Now let's talk about, uh, going back and getting our other image of that we had resized. 240 00:22:25,784 --> 00:22:31,364 So in this case, we want to, uh, go back to uh, placing another image. 241 00:22:31,374 --> 00:22:35,174 So let's go to place embedded and let's go get that other image that we resized. 242 00:22:35,654 --> 00:22:37,783 So in this case I'm going to go and I'm going to choose. 243 00:22:37,784 --> 00:22:44,504 Remember the copy is the one that we want because this is the one that we specifically resized to 300 dpi. 244 00:22:44,804 --> 00:22:50,234 We're going to place this particular image in. And now of course we can also resize it. 245 00:22:51,104 --> 00:22:56,984 So as we resize it, we can move it around. We could also remove the background, you know, from this image. 246 00:22:57,314 --> 00:23:06,794 Um, this is just to give you an idea of how you could place continue to place additional images, um, inside of your document, continue to add to it. 247 00:23:07,274 --> 00:23:12,944 Um, and then another tip is, um, if you set some things exactly the way that you want. 248 00:23:12,944 --> 00:23:23,384 So we could go and get that line, um, that we like, um, and then notice we can, um, also just duplicate and then we can move these arrows around. 249 00:23:23,384 --> 00:23:30,494 So if we wanted to duplicate this and have another line, um, then we can move that around. 250 00:23:31,834 --> 00:23:35,854 And then we could, uh, you know, rotate this if we wanted to. 251 00:23:35,974 --> 00:23:41,433 So if we want to keep all of the same parameters, um, and that is a fast way to do it. 252 00:23:41,434 --> 00:23:46,474 You can also use alt or option and drag to create duplicates. 253 00:23:46,954 --> 00:23:54,093 Um, same thing with the text. We could go and choose the text layer and we could, um, 254 00:23:54,094 --> 00:24:00,034 use that maybe that option key that we were talking about or alt key, uh, click and drag and it repeats it. 255 00:24:00,034 --> 00:24:06,274 All the settings are here. We can just rename this. Um, maybe we say he has whiskers. 256 00:24:06,634 --> 00:24:11,464 And then of course we can use the move tool to move it where we need to, and so on. 257 00:24:13,014 --> 00:24:16,814 Um, okay. So now you, uh, you get the idea of some of these things. 258 00:24:16,864 --> 00:24:20,664 Of course, there's additional features you can do in Photoshop to continue to add. 259 00:24:20,664 --> 00:24:23,724 You could add shapes, you could change the colors, that sort of thing. 260 00:24:24,084 --> 00:24:32,334 If you'd like more information on digging into Photoshop, um, as well, then you can, uh, view our Photoshop for beginners video. 261 00:24:32,334 --> 00:24:39,444 We also have an intermediate Photoshop. Um, and then Adobe offers plenty more solutions as well for those types of things. 262 00:24:40,454 --> 00:24:46,333 Now, what we're going to be doing is, um, we are needing to do a couple of things. 263 00:24:46,334 --> 00:24:51,554 So first of all, over here on the right hand side, you can also name these particular layers. 264 00:24:52,094 --> 00:24:59,444 So you can click on them. And then if you click uh if you double click on the name uh then you can rename it. 265 00:24:59,444 --> 00:25:03,094 So we could call this uh drawing. Right. 266 00:25:03,104 --> 00:25:08,594 So this is the drawing. This is whiskers that if that's text it'll just rename itself, which is great. 267 00:25:09,044 --> 00:25:13,724 Maybe this is line one. Uh, and this is line two. 268 00:25:13,754 --> 00:25:21,944 We could rename that and so on. Um, if you wanted to, you could group these layers together if you, if you felt the need to do that. 269 00:25:21,944 --> 00:25:26,204 But renaming them is helpful and keeping it in editable format is really good. 270 00:25:26,744 --> 00:25:30,014 So the next thing we should do is we should save our file. 271 00:25:30,944 --> 00:25:34,093 We do want to save it as a PDF files. 272 00:25:34,094 --> 00:25:42,164 And that's what we named it. And we can put it in our folder that we've been working in and save it in the format of Photoshop and hit save. 273 00:25:42,884 --> 00:25:47,414 Um, of course that's fine. If we want to maximize compatibility, that's okay. 274 00:25:47,414 --> 00:25:55,363 We can also say don't show this again. Hit okay. Now we have saved our Photoshop file with these particular layers. 275 00:25:55,364 --> 00:26:00,524 We can come back to this Photoshop file. And it will be very very editable which is really great. 276 00:26:01,814 --> 00:26:05,773 Now let's say we're finished with our design and we're ready to export it. 277 00:26:05,774 --> 00:26:14,774 A couple of things we can do. We can go ahead and uh, save as, um, a Tiff, a Jpeg, PNG, or PDF and just go ahead and export it. 278 00:26:15,104 --> 00:26:23,714 But if you have a very complicated file with lots and lots of layers, something you might want to do is to flatten the image. 279 00:26:24,014 --> 00:26:32,864 But what we would want to do before we flatten the image is we would want to, um, save a copy of it and then flatten the image, 280 00:26:32,864 --> 00:26:39,944 because once we flatten it, it's going to basically squish all of these layers together and it's going to condense all of the information. 281 00:26:40,184 --> 00:26:47,954 Um, this is really helpful if you have a huge file with lots of, um, different layers in it, uh, with lots of information, 282 00:26:47,954 --> 00:26:54,914 maybe there's lots of photographic images in here that are put together, or it's a very high resolution image, something like that. 283 00:26:55,274 --> 00:27:04,603 Um, then you would want to do that if you needed to do the flattening, make a copy first of copy of the Photoshop file and then, 284 00:27:04,604 --> 00:27:10,184 uh, what you would do next is, uh, you would go to the layer menu up here at the top. 285 00:27:10,724 --> 00:27:15,284 And then you should have an option to flatten the image, which is right down here. 286 00:27:15,584 --> 00:27:19,274 I won't do it right now because I don't necessarily want to do it to this particular image. 287 00:27:19,274 --> 00:27:26,514 That is an option if you export it and the file size is still still too big for the publication, but they still want 300 dpi, 288 00:27:27,074 --> 00:27:35,204 you may need to flatten the image first, but again, make a copy of the Photoshop file so that you have sample tiger copy paste. 289 00:27:35,714 --> 00:27:43,454 That way you maintain the original editable file. That's the power of Photoshop is so that you can always come back and continue editing. 290 00:27:43,664 --> 00:27:49,664 Or if you made a really great image and you wanted to use it sort of as a template, you could absolutely do that. 291 00:27:50,874 --> 00:27:54,594 Okay, so let's say we are ready to now export it. 292 00:27:54,954 --> 00:27:58,344 Um, what we will want to do is we have a couple of options. 293 00:27:58,884 --> 00:28:03,864 Um, when we're ready to export, we can choose File Save as. 294 00:28:04,584 --> 00:28:08,214 And then what you can also do is change the format right here. 295 00:28:08,214 --> 00:28:12,884 So this will get you to the tiff, uh, version if you need Tiff. 296 00:28:13,134 --> 00:28:17,154 If that is a requirement, you would say save it as a tiff. 297 00:28:17,394 --> 00:28:23,604 Go ahead and hit save. And then that's Tiff. File would then be in the folder that you told it to go to. 298 00:28:24,294 --> 00:28:27,564 Another option is to go to File Export. 299 00:28:27,984 --> 00:28:30,954 And then you can do a very quick export as a PNG. 300 00:28:31,524 --> 00:28:39,564 Um, that would be handy if you need something super fast, but most of the time you might want to have more control over the export features. 301 00:28:39,564 --> 00:28:46,154 So you probably want to use the export as. And then you have lots of options over here that you can choose. 302 00:28:46,164 --> 00:28:49,583 So you could choose the PNG, or you could choose the GIF. 303 00:28:49,584 --> 00:28:54,354 And also on the save as you notice we could we could choose the PDF version as well. 304 00:28:54,354 --> 00:28:57,474 So it depends on what your publication is asking for. 305 00:28:57,924 --> 00:29:01,614 Um, check to see what file type that it is that they need. 306 00:29:02,034 --> 00:29:08,284 Um, and then what you do want to make sure is that you can increase the quality to very high. 307 00:29:08,304 --> 00:29:16,014 That might be a good thing to do. Um, especially if you've got a combination of some photographic images along with these vectors and text. 308 00:29:16,434 --> 00:29:20,124 It helps the text to be not blurry when it comes out and everything. 309 00:29:20,664 --> 00:29:26,453 Um, and then the sizes should all be what you set the set the document to originally. 310 00:29:26,454 --> 00:29:31,224 So that should be all fine as well. Oh, let's talk about metadata for just a minute. 311 00:29:31,854 --> 00:29:36,354 If you would like to include the metadata information, you can absolutely do that. 312 00:29:36,354 --> 00:29:44,214 If you have copyrighted this image that you have created, even if you have it and you just want the authorship to be in there, 313 00:29:44,214 --> 00:29:48,504 you can choose to include that information and let me show you where you would do that. 314 00:29:49,284 --> 00:29:53,154 So in order to put the, uh, metadata information in there, 315 00:29:53,154 --> 00:30:00,714 what you could do is go to when you're ready to act right before you ready to export, go to file, and then you could go to file info. 316 00:30:01,344 --> 00:30:05,423 Once you go to file info you will get the metadata menu. 317 00:30:05,424 --> 00:30:09,804 And here's where you can give your Photoshop file an official title. 318 00:30:10,014 --> 00:30:17,574 You can list yourself as the author if there are additional authors, or if you had somebody else working with you on this particular image, 319 00:30:17,574 --> 00:30:21,623 or they gave you a piece of it and you added it to your file, you could add that here. 320 00:30:21,624 --> 00:30:23,514 You could also give it a brief description. 321 00:30:24,084 --> 00:30:31,374 Um, and then if you did copyright an image that you created in Photoshop because it was something that's new novel, 322 00:30:31,584 --> 00:30:39,654 um, something you're submitting for a grant application, then if you have done that particular copyright, you can and gone through that process, 323 00:30:39,654 --> 00:30:44,484 you can say, hey, this is copyrighted until it's actually copyrighted, you can hit unknown. 324 00:30:44,844 --> 00:30:49,824 Um, and then you can say, you can put a note in here saying applied for copyright. 325 00:30:49,824 --> 00:30:54,114 Or if you've got the copyright already, you can paste the link in here. 326 00:30:54,504 --> 00:30:57,954 And then you can hit okay, um, to that information. 327 00:30:58,614 --> 00:31:06,534 And then that will add the metadata to this file. Um, also, if you used any of the generative AI features of Adobe Photoshop. 328 00:31:06,534 --> 00:31:18,354 So if you use um, uh, the remove background feature, um, or if you used, um, the generative fill feature to add something using the Adobe Firefly, 329 00:31:18,714 --> 00:31:22,344 it will automatically contain that information to the metadata for you, 330 00:31:22,614 --> 00:31:28,014 and that information would be contained in it, and you would not be able to copyright those pieces. 331 00:31:28,284 --> 00:31:34,014 So if you are attempting to copyright something in full, it is best not to use the AI features. 332 00:31:34,314 --> 00:31:38,303 Um, except for, you know, maybe the very basic ones, like removing a background. 333 00:31:38,304 --> 00:31:45,534 That wouldn't be a big deal, right? Um, but adding anything new or creating any sort of art with the with the AI tools, 334 00:31:45,954 --> 00:31:49,404 those are not able to be copyrighted because I cannot own the copyright. 335 00:31:49,404 --> 00:31:54,054 You would be able to copyright the pieces you added, such as the labels or the idea behind, 336 00:31:54,084 --> 00:31:59,154 you know, the derivative idea that you had, but not the particular art. 337 00:31:59,154 --> 00:32:05,633 So a lot of people will use Firefly to do mockups and ideas, and then what they will do is create the tools, 338 00:32:05,634 --> 00:32:09,624 you know, create the image using basic tools in Photoshop Illustrator. 339 00:32:10,104 --> 00:32:18,404 So in this case we are going to go ahead and export it, um, export as and then you would make sure all of the settings are correct. 340 00:32:18,414 --> 00:32:21,414 Choose the Jpeg. Make sure the quality is high. 341 00:32:21,414 --> 00:32:25,103 If you wanted the copyright info. Um, this is fine. 342 00:32:25,104 --> 00:32:30,624 You want to embed the color profile and go ahead and hit export and then you can give it a name. 343 00:32:30,744 --> 00:32:33,774 Uh, this is fine for it to be a sample Tiger. 344 00:32:33,784 --> 00:32:38,994 You could also give it a name. If this is like version one, you could do that and then hit uh. 345 00:32:38,994 --> 00:32:42,233 You can choose where to save it. As you can put it in that same folder. 346 00:32:42,234 --> 00:32:50,214 Or your desktop will go ahead and hit save. And then what I typically also recommend is once you have it saved to your desktop. 347 00:32:50,604 --> 00:32:53,944 Um, double click it and open it. Make sure it looks good. 348 00:32:53,964 --> 00:32:58,054 You can also zoom in. Uh, make sure nothing is blurry about it. 349 00:32:58,074 --> 00:33:05,544 Make sure everything is looking good. Um, and you can also check the file, um, information too. 350 00:33:05,964 --> 00:33:11,824 Um, and then, uh, make sure that it is at the correct resolution, size and everything. 351 00:33:11,844 --> 00:33:19,654 So you could, you know, go to, uh, get info, make sure the resolution size and everything, it's got that, uh, higher, uh, file size. 352 00:33:19,654 --> 00:33:28,854 So that looks good. Um, and this would be the final version that you would want to then, um, submit four parts to your publication. 353 00:33:29,094 --> 00:33:33,114 Make sure the file name is named properly or that then you would then place 354 00:33:33,114 --> 00:33:37,554 this inside of your word document or whatever it is that you're putting it in, 355 00:33:37,794 --> 00:33:43,344 and then save that as a PDF, um, or whatever you need to do for your particular submission. 356 00:33:44,154 --> 00:33:48,354 Okay. So we will go back into the, uh, presentation real quickly. 357 00:33:48,624 --> 00:33:54,794 Um, so all of these tips that we just went through are on this particular presentation page. 358 00:33:54,804 --> 00:33:59,234 Also, um, these steps generally apply to illustrator as well. 359 00:33:59,244 --> 00:34:08,844 So if you have an image that is just shapes or that is very just, uh, is all vectors, um, than illustrator would be a better option. 360 00:34:09,144 --> 00:34:12,984 Um, you can of course have vectors only in Photoshop, 361 00:34:12,984 --> 00:34:20,034 but Photoshop is best if you have any photographic images, especially combined, um, with labels and so on. 362 00:34:20,724 --> 00:34:28,044 Also, make sure you have rights to any of the images that you do place in your Photoshop file as well if you are uploading your own images. 363 00:34:28,404 --> 00:34:36,504 Um, other tips? Uh, also, if you are creating your own, uh, images, say you're taking photographs of your lab and that sort of thing. 364 00:34:36,864 --> 00:34:44,844 Um, you can also, uh, take your own images using, say, a dSLR camera and then, uh, make sure, 365 00:34:45,144 --> 00:34:52,074 um, you know, that, um, you have that you are setting the settings to taking camera raw photos, 366 00:34:52,404 --> 00:34:59,754 um, because that has the highest, uh, it's capturing the highest number of pixels so that you have high quality, 367 00:34:59,754 --> 00:35:07,304 high resolution images that you're starting with. So that is the presentation on getting started in, uh, Photoshop. 368 00:35:07,314 --> 00:35:13,973 Uh, for researchers. We have, of course, a lot more information on this particular document that is curated, 369 00:35:13,974 --> 00:35:19,464 you know, from, um, our Adobe Creative Space page, as well as other resources from Adobe. 370 00:35:19,764 --> 00:35:23,304 Um, and, uh, I encourage you to get started with it. 371 00:35:23,544 --> 00:35:30,654 Um, it is a lifelong skill. You will be able to apply, um, as a researcher, um, or a grant writer or both. 372 00:35:31,044 --> 00:35:35,124 Um, and here is the presentation page for additional information. 373 00:35:35,514 --> 00:35:38,754 And, uh, thank you for, um, watching the video. 374 00:35:38,784 --> 00:35:40,404 Best wishes with your projects.