Starting to work in Adobe PhotoshopThe Adobe Photoshop work area includes the command menus at the top of your screen and a variety of tools and palettes for editing and adding elements to your image. You can also add commands and filters to the menus by installing third-party software known as plug-in modules.Photoshop works with bitmapped, digitized images (that is, continuous-tone images that have been converted into a series of small squares, or picture elements, called pixels). You can also work with vector graphics, which are drawings made of smooth lines that retain their crispness when scaled. You can create original artwork in Photoshop, or you can import images into the program 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.  For information on the kinds of files you can use with Adobe Photoshop CS2, see "About file formats" in Photoshop Help.Starting Photoshop and opening a fileTo begin, you'll start Adobe Photoshop and reset the default preferences.Restoring default preferences" on page 6.
Opening a file with Adobe BridgeIn 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 CD again if you want a fresh start. There are three start files for this lesson, each of which is in its own Project folder.In the previous exercise, you used the classic method of opening a file. Now you'll open another file using the Adobe Bridge visual file browser, which helps take the guesswork out of finding the image file that you need.
NoteLeave Bridge open for the moment, as you may use it to locate and open files later in this lesson. |
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The default work area in Photoshop consists of a menu bar at the top of the screen, a tool options bar below the menu bar, a floating toolbox on the left, floating palettes, and one or more image windows, which are opened separately.
The 01End1.psd file opens in its own window, called the image window. The end files in this book show you what you are creating in the different projects. In this end file, an old school photograph has been enhanced so that one student in the class appears spotlighted while the rest of the picture appears to be in shadow.
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