The Photoshop Work Area


If you’re familiar with Windows or Mac programs, you’re probably familiar with some of the elements of the Photoshop work area display, shown in Figure 2-1.

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Figure 2-1: The Photoshop work area

The Photoshop work area consists of three main elements: the menu bar, palettes, and the toolbox, as summarized in Table 2-2. Of all these elements, the one you’ll use the most is the toolbox. This element contains many of the tools you’ll need to create your magic.

Table 2-2: Elements of the Photoshop workspace

Element

Description

Menu Bar

The menu bar allows users to perform common functions such as opening and saving files, copying and pasting, accessing specific palettes, and applying effects to images. As you progress through this book, you’ll familiarize yourself with Photoshop’s menus.

Palettes

Palette is just a fancy word for dialog box. The palettes float around — atop your images. Palettes contain added controls for Photoshop, such as extra controls for color. As you work your way through this book, you’ll become familiar with palettes to create many different variations of your images.

Toolbox

The toolbox contains multiple tools for creating, selecting, and manipulating images. You’ll learn about these tools as you progress through this book. Press an icon on the toolbox to select a tool. To select an additional tool (one that’s not one of the displayed default tools), click and hold the right-facing arrowhead found at the lower-right corner of some icons. Pressing this small arrowhead brings up a column of alternate tools you can select. The toolbox is where you’ll be spending much of your time. Thus, we’ll explore this element in more detail in the following pages.




Web Designer's Guide to Adobe Photoshop
Web Designers Guide to Adobe Photoshop (Wordware Applications Library)
ISBN: 1598220012
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2006
Pages: 108
Authors: Chris Tull

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