Introduction / Image Window
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When you are working on a(n) image and Adobe Photoshop, you might be using the first viewing mode right here, showing your image on the desktop or the background. I want to talk a little bit of about some of features of the actual window, and how you can use some of these features to navigate around. I am looking at my picture of the apple here and this one is called Apple1. And at the top of the window is the gray title bar. And I can move my picture anywhere on the screen, by clicking and dragging on the gray title bar to reposition it where I want on my screen. I can also resize this window by going down to the corner here and clicking and dragging to make it a little bit smaller. And you can see that, if my window is smaller than the actual image, I am going to get these scroll bars. If I want to move the image relative to the window up or down, I can click and drag on the scroll bars to move that. Similarly I can choose to go to some these arrows and do the same thing. And you can see what it's doing is just moving the image inside this window. I am going to use the zoom tool here, and it's this magnifying glass. And bring it over to my image and click once to zoom in. And you can see at the top of the picture now, it say's apple 1 @ 200%. So what that means is that I am actually looking at the picture 200% of its normal resolution. I go to View>Zoom out, and now it says apple @ 100%. So what that means is that for every image pixel, I'm now looking at 1 screen pixel. 200% say's that it's showing me 2 screen pixels for every image pixel. So this is a good indicator of letting me know what resolution or what I should say magnification I'm at. Also notice that it says RGB in parentheses, and this tells me what color model this particular image is in. It could be gray scale or CMYK or some other color model, but RGB is probably what you'll see more often than not. If your picture has been saved already, you will see a small image right here, showing you what that picture looks like. And that can be very helpful if you have several images on your screen. Notice this picture right here, which is just a square of color, has not been saved - so I get a generic icon up here. You can collapse this just to the title bar by clicking on the collapse button right here, and clicking again opens it up. Clicking on this will resize it to its maximum window size appropriate for this image. And you can see that actually 200% would be going off the screen, so it leaves me with some scroll bars here. At the bottom of the image window, there are a couple other items I want to talk about. This item right here shows me what percent magnification I am currently at. I can drag over that with my cursor and type in a new number. So if I type in 150% and hit the return key, and now I have zoomed in to 150% of my image. If your window is open wide enough, you'll also get an informational area down here, which you can get different pieces of information about your image. So I'm going to click on this little corner pull down menu and you can see these are the different options that we have. Document size shows me my current file size of a flattened image and an image with all its layers. So if I had more layers on this document, I'll create more data here, you can see that this image is now much larger with layers than it is flat. Document Profile shows me what this image's current color management profile. Currently this one has no color profile associated with it. Scratch Size shows me how much available hard disk I have for Adobe Photoshop, and I have a whole lot of hard disk available. If you are using very large files, this will become smaller and smaller and eventually you will want to take some different approaches managing your file sizes. Efficiency shows you how much time is spent writing and reading from a scratch disk versus doing the operation. So if you are running out of RAM, your efficiency will begin to drop. Timing shows me how much time it took to do the last operation. And Current Tool will show you what tool you currently have selected. Notice that there is a small copyright symbol next to each of these items, and that copyright symbol is also in the title. And the reason, that is there is because I've actually added some copyright information under File menu, File Info. And all this information is a standard feature for the newspaper industry, so that they can attach file information - such as caption, and who the photographer, the author was, and various other pieces of information. I'm going to go down to copyright & URL and you can see I've enabled 'mark as copyrighted' and I've typed in my name here. If I disable that, click OK, you can see that the small copyright symbol has disappeared. So that's very helpful to know if you are interested in who the author was. If they've actually added that information, you can go and see it. Right here under File menu>File Info.
Tutorial Information
| Course: | Adobe Photoshop 6 |
| Author: | Andrew J. Hathaway |
| SKU: | 33189 |
| ISBN: | 1930519206 |
| Release Date: | 2001-01-01 |
| Duration: | 13 hrs / 129 lessons |
| Captions: | For Online University members only |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |
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