Getting Started

Delete your preferences file before beginning this Hands On exercise. The Modifying Photoshop s Settings section in Chapter 5, Setting Up the Program, details how to reset your preferences to Photoshop s defaults. After you have launched Photoshop with default preferences, here s how to begin the Hands On project:

1. Insert the Photoshop CS Savvy CD in your CD-ROM drive.

2. Choose File ’ Open; select and open Fred_Photato_Head_Start.psd in the HO1 folder on the CD (see Figure H1.1).

   
   Figure H1.1: The open Fred Photato Head file

3. Save the file to your hard disk.

   Figure H1.2 shows one possible outcome.

   
   Figure H1.2: This is what I made out of the virtual elements, but yours might look quite different.

Note  

See the color versions of Fred_Photato_Head_Start and Fred_Photato_Head_End ”Figures C40 and C41 ”in the color section of this book.