Introduction To Photoshop

Abode Photoshop Workspace

These are the main counterparts of the Photoshop workspace: Menu Bar Tool options bar Palette Well Toolbox Floating palettes

Menu bar The menu bar consists of nine menus: File, Edit, Image, Layer, Select, Filter, View, Window, and Help. You may notice that some menu commands are followed by ellipses (...). This indicates a command that is followed by a 'dialog box' where you can enter additional settings. Anytime input is needed from the user, it is presented in a dialog box. Some menu commands are followed by a right pointing arrow. This indicates a submenu of related commands.

Option bar

Option Bar Below Photoshop's menu bar is the tool options bar. The Options Bar is where you would go to adjust settings for the currently active tool. This toolbar is context-sensitive, meaning that it changes according to which tool you have selected. The options bar can be pulled away from the top of the window and moved around in the workspace, or docked to the bottom of the workspace, if you prefer

Tool Box

Tool Box Photoshop's toolbox is the tall, narrow palette that sits along the left edge of the workspace. The toolbox contains many of the tools you will be working with in Photoshop. That makes it pretty important! When you look at the toolbox, notice how some of the buttons have a tiny arrow in the lower right corner. This arrow indicates that other tools are hidden under that tool. To access the other tools, click and hold down on a button and the other tools will pop out.

Floating Palettes

Palettes When you first open Photoshop, several additional floating palettes are stacked along the right edge of your screen in 4 separate palette groups. The first group contains the Navigator, Info, and Histogram palettes. Next is the Color, Swatches, and Styles palettes. Below that are the History and Actions Palettes. Finally, you have the Layers, Channels, and Paths Palettes. Palette groups can be moved around in the workspace by clicking on the title bar and dragging. Each palette group has a collapse and a close button in the title bar area

Navigation Palette Navigator Palette Palette menu button Thumbnail display of artwork Preview area Zoom textbox Zoom out button Zoom slider Zoom in button

Histogram palette A histogram palette is a graph that shows us the current tonal range of our image. By "tonal range", I mean the brightness values of the image. A histogram shows us how much of the image is currently pure black (the darkest an image can be), how much of it is currently pure white (the brightest an image can be), and how much of it falls somewhere between black and white.

Color Palette The Color palette displays the color values for the current foreground and background colors. Using the sliders in the Color palette, you can edit the foreground and background colors according to several different color models. You can also choose a background or foreground color from the spectrum of colors displayed in the color bar.

Swatches Palette The swatches are a generic set of colors. You can choose a foreground or background color from the Swatches palette.To display the Color palette Choose Window >Show Swatches.To choose a foreground color, click a color in the Swatches palette. To choose a background color, Alt-click a color in the Swatches palette. We can also add and delete the color in the swatches.

Style Palette One can view and select preset styles either from style palette . It basically set the style for the layers,

History palette One can use the history palette to jump to any recent state of the image created during the current working session.

Action palette One can use action palette to record , play, edit , and delete individual actions . The palette also lets you save and load action files.

Layer Palette In flat image every pixel reside on one single plane .the layer names background is the base layer . As you start creating layers they appear in hierarchal position above each other inside layer palette.