Adobe Photoshop is a powerful graphic design tool. It can be used to enhance your cartographic productions beyond the level of normal Geographic Information Systems. This is a beginner tutorial and should give you an idea of how Photoshop works.
A few things to keep in mind:
A few things to keep in mind:
- Photoshop is a graphic editing/design software
- Photoshop is raster-based
- Photoshop works with 'layers' - much like a GIS
- The Photoshop file extension is .psd but it can be saved to other image formats like .jpg and .bmp
- Photoshop does not work with georeferenced images - meaning if you are working with geographic data you must manually overlay the images
If you don't have the Adobe Photoshop or have not ordered the evaluation version, you are behind and need to contact me. See this post from last month (last paragraph in the post) on ordering the student version of the software.
Beginner's Guide to Adobe Photoshop - step one probably won't work with your version - don't sweat it.
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