Introduction to Photoshop

• What is Photoshop?

Adobe Photoshop is a professional image editing software

• About the work area

Menu Bar- this is where you can access most of the features and commands on Photoshop. It is located at the very top of Photoshop

Options Bar-displays your tool options. it changes as different tools are selected

Tool Bar-contain all of your tools. They are used for creating and editing images

Palettes-to monitor and modify images. There are 5 palettes by default

Stage/Canvas-where the image being worked on will appear

• Layers-

The layers window shows the various layers that your image is made up of

• Selection-

There are several ways to select images or portions of images in Photoshop

Here is one basic method to do so:

1. Use the rectangular selections tool to select the area to be worked on

2. To add to a selection, hold shift before dragging 

3. To make the selection exactly square, start dragging, then hold shift 

4. You can press ctrl+ D to de select and remove the selection at any time