Getting to Know the work area Adobe Photoshop

Starting to work in Adobe Photoshop

     The Adobe Photoshop work area includes menus, toolbars, and panels that give you quick access to a veriety of tools and options for editing and adding elements to your image. You can also add commands adn filters to menus by installing third-party software known as plug-ins.

        

        Photoshop worsks with bitmapped, digitized images ( that is, continuous-tone images that have been converted into a series of small squares, or picture elements, called pixels). Ypu can also work with vector graphic, which are drawings made of smooth lines that ratain heir cripness when called. You can create original artwork in Photoshop, or you can import images from many sources, such as :

•  Photographs from a digital camera 
•  Commercial CDs of digital images 
•  Scans of photographs, transparencies, negatives, graphics, or other documents 
•  Captured video images 
•  Artwork created in drawing programs

Starting Adobe Photoshop and Opening a file

To begin, you’ll start Adobe Photoshop and reset the default preferences. 

1.  On the desktop, double-click the Adobe Photoshop icon to start Adobe Photoshop, and then immediately hold down Ctrl+Alt+Shift (Windows) or Command+Option+Shift (Mac OS) to reset the default settings.

If you don’t see the Photoshop icon on your desktop, choose Start > All Programs > Adobe Photoshop CC 2015 (Windows) or look in either the Applications folder or the Dock(Mac OS). 

      2.  When prompted, click Yes to confirm that you want to delete the Adobe Photoshop Settings file.

The Photoshop work area appears as shown in the following illustration. 

The default workspace in Photoshop consists of the Application bar, menu bar, and options bar at the top of the screen, the Tools panel on the left, and several open panels in the panel dock on the right. When you have documents open, one or more image windows also appear, and you can display them at the same time using the tabbed interface. The Photoshop user interface is very similar to the one in Adobe Illustrator®, Adobe InDesign®, and Adobe Flash®—so learning how to use the tools and panels in one application means that you’ll know how to use them in the others. 

There are a few differences between the Photoshop work area on Windows and that on Mac OS: 

• On Windows, the menu bar is combined with the Application bar, if your screen resolution makes it possible to fit them on the same line. 
• On Mac OS, you can work with an application frame, which contains the Photoshop application’s windows and panels within a frame that is distinct from other applications you may have open; only the menu bar is outside the application frame. The application frame is disabled by default; to enable the application frame, choose Window > Application Frame. Additionally, you can enable and disable the Application bar. This book assumes you are using the Application bar, which is enabled by default.

   3. Choose File > Open, and navigate to the Lessons/Lesson01 folder that you copied to your hard drive from the Adobe Photoshop CS5 Classroom in a Book DVD.

   4.  Select the file, and click Open. Click OK if you see the Embedded Profile Mismatch dialog box. 

   5. Choose File > Close, or click the close button on the title bar of the image window. (Do not close Photoshop.)

Opening a file with Adobe Bridge
In this book, you’ll work with different start files in each lesson. You may make copies of these files and save them under different names or locations, or you may work from the original start files and then copy them from the DVD again if you want a fresh start. This lesson includes three start files.

In the previous exercise, you used the Open command to open a file. Now you’ll open another file using Adobe Bridge, a visual file browser that helps take the guesswork out of finding the image file that you need.

1. Click the Launch Bridge button ( ) in the Application bar. If you’re prompted to enable the Photoshop extension in Bridge, click OK. 

           

Adobe Bridge opens, displaying a collection of panels, menus, and buttons.

      2.  From the Folders panel in the upper-left corner, browse to the Lessons folder you copied from the DVD onto your hard disk. The Lessons folder appears in the Content panel.

     3. Select the Lessons folder, and choose File > Add To Favorites. Adding files, folders, application icons, and other assets that you use often to the Favorites panel lets you access them quickly.

     4. Select the Favorites tab to open the panel, and click the Lessons folder to open it. Then, in the Content panel, double-click the Lesson01 folder.

     5. Double-click the 01A_Start.psd thumbnail in the Content panel to open the file, or select the thumbnail and choose File > Open.
The 01A_Start.psd image opens in Photoshop. Leave Bridge open; you’ll use it to locate and open files later in this lesson.


For a more clear tutorial you can :
https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/0B1GcLTogwhteenBUMUV3T09wMkU