Chapter 2: Getting to Know the Interface

Overview

In This Chapter

• Launching Photoshop

• Taking a look at the Photoshop CS interface

• Checking out the Toolbox

• Working with the program window

• Switching between Photoshop and other programs

• Choosing commands

• Using dialog boxes and palettes

• Customizing your workspace

• Creating tool presets

If you’re brand new to Photoshop — or to computers in general — this is the chapter for you. You get the basic stuff you need to know before you begin using the program to distort the faces of all your family members.

Even if you’re already familiar with the basic interface of Photoshop, give this chapter the once-over to get acquainted with a couple of great new features in Photoshop CS and to make sure that you and I are speaking the same language. Here, you and I calibrate brains, so to speak.