Subtitles of the Movie

When you first launch Adobe Photoshop, your computer screen will look something like this. I've actually opened up an image, along with the rest of the basic Photoshop interface. Currently I am recording these tutorials on a Macintosh computer, so Adobe Photoshop looks a little bit different. If you are running on a windows machine, however the interface will look essentially the same. And also act essentially the same. So with that in mind, I want to talk about some of the basics of the Photoshop interface. Photoshop of course is a collection of menu options located at the top of your computer screen - these words right here. If you click on any of these words they pull down a collection of menu options. And you can see that some of our menu options have submenu options denoted by this little arrow next to the menu item. And if you click on this, we can scroll over and choose some of these submenu items as well. Some of the menu options are grayed out indicating that currently in whatever state or mode I am working on, these menu items are not available. So if I choose a selection tool and go to edit, now some of these items are available if they are black and not gray. Sometimes on the menu items you will see dot, dot, dot and that means that it will bring up some sort of dialogue box asking me to make further choices before I do that action. I'll just cancel that. And finally several menu items have keyboard short cut equivalents indicated by this little piece of text right here. So cut and copy would be command + 'X' and command + 'C' on the Macintosh, or control + 'X' or control + 'C' on the windows platform. So if you begin to use several of these commands over and over again, it will behoove you to remember the keyboard shortcut. Photoshop has a collection of palettes associated with many different aspects of the application. The main palette you will be going to most often is the tool palette, and that's this vertical palette right here. All of these palettes can be moved around by clicking on this little area at the top of the palette, and dragging to a new position on your computer screen. This top most strip appears actually a very long horizontal pallet. And you can see that we can click and drag it off if we wish. This is the options palette, and this gives us further controls for any particular tool. Notice if I click on a tool the features and options for that particular tool show up. This palette is a very long horizontal palette, so generally I leave it magnetically attached to the top or the bottom of my screen. So if you just drag it up to the top and to the edge, it will snap into position. And you can see to the right here I have several other palettes available to me and I will be talking about each one of these in greater detail in a later tutorial. And the last thing I want to point out is this thing called the palette well. This little area right here allows me to contain or hold various palettes, and I know that because I can see their palette tab name. If I click right on any of these tabs, it will popup up the palette, and it sort of keeps it right in the palette well. So this is a nice way of storing your palettes off to the side. And you can just double click to close that palette. And we can drag any one of these palettes into the well simply by clicking and dragging on its tab up into the well area. I'm recording this movie at a little bit higher resolution in order to show you the palette well. So for the rest of these movies I'll simply be invoking a palette by choosing its name from the window menu. And the last thing that I want to point out is that here is my image. And I'll be talking about how we can navigate around an image using some of the various features in Photoshop.