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Rulers, Guides and Grid: Rulers help you position images or elements precisely. When visible, rulers appear along the top and left side of the active window. Markers in the ruler display the pointer’s position when you move it. Changing the ruler origin (the (0, 0) mark on the top and left rulers) lets you measure from a specific point on the image. The ruler origin also determines the grid’s point of origin. Guides and the grid help us position images or elements precisely. Guides appear as non-printing lines that float over the image. we move and remove guides. We also lock them so that they don’t move. The grid is useful for laying out elements symmetrically. The grid appears by default as non-printing lines but can also be displayed as dots. Applications of Guides and Grids:   Selections, selection borders, and tools snap to a guide or the grid when dragged within 8 screen (not image) pixels. Guides also snap to the grid when moved. We can tur...

LEVELS:                 Levels are used to set the shadows, mid tone etc.  O pen an image on Photoshop window. Select image menu on menu bar than adjustments than levels. A dialogue box will appear on screen which shows three pointers which indicates three optimum. The black triangle indicates shadows and gray triangle indicates mid tone and white triangle indicates highlights. In the channel menu different options are provided in drop down list. Make sure select on preview, which gives current adjustments on your picture. CURVES: Curves are to  similar to levels, it gives more power to control shadows highlights and mid tones. One of the simplest adjustment we can make with curves is increasing the contrast. Go to image menu and than adjustments,than curves. Dialogue box will appear on screen with straight diagonal line.      ...

ZOOMING &PANNING: Panning and Zooming are the fundamental tools of Photoshop which assist with making very  detail  Adjustment and edits image. Zooming & Panning are mainly useful for retouching image in Photoshop. Our image quickly and easily zoom in and zoo m out, and panning one area to another. Using the zoom tool : 1.Select the Zoom tool (magnifying glasses) from the left tool bar and click on the image zoom at desired level. 2. To zoom out the option bar click on (­-)minus symbol than click on image  Shortcut:    + for zoom in                   -  for zoom out  Using scrubby tool: 1.Open image in Photoshop. 2.Click and hold the mouse. 3.Move left to zoom out, move right to zoom in. Panning: The problem with zoom in is not able to see entire image on the single screen. By using panning tool we able to drag the image around inside the window....