Understanding Photoshop
1. What is Photoshop?
- Adobe Photoshop is a professional image editing software package that can be used by experts and novices alike. While this handout offers some very basic tips on using the tools available in Photoshop, more comprehensive guidance can be accessed on the web or in the help menu of your version of Photoshop. The version used for this tutorial is Adobe Photoshop CS.
2. About the Work Area
- The work area can be intimidating to work with because of all the complex functionality but with a quick breakdown of the available features and their uses, you will be ready to comfortably navigate the work area with ease. The work area in Photoshop has the following basic functionality and features:
• Menu Bar – this is where you can access most of the commands and features in
Photoshop
• Drawing Palette – where the image being worked on will appear
• Options bar
• content sensitive display of tool options – changes as different tools are
selected
selected
• display using Window > Options or Click a tool in the toolbox.
Lasso options bar
• Tool box - for creating an editing images (display or hide using Windows > Tools)
• Palettes - to monitor and modify images (there are 5 palettes by default)
• Palette Well - to organize palettes in work area
• Drag a palette’s tab into the palette well to store it in the palette well
• Once in the palette well click on the palette tab to use it
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