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Before you begin working extensively in Photoshop, you might want to set up some preferences. So go to the edit menu and choose preferences. And I'll just start with preferences general. And it brings up this large dialogue box, and at the very top we have a pull down menu of various other types of preferences that we can choose from. Or we can also navigate to these other panes by clicking the next or previous button. You have an option to choose what kind of color picker you want, and I'll just stick with the Adobe color picker. Interpolation - I'll stick with the bi-cubic: it creates the best effect when you resize something. And you can also choose the redo key, command + 'Z' is the standard, and I recommend sticking with that. And you can also state how many history states are saved. So if you make more than 20 edits, the first edits before that will be thrown away. So this really depends on how much memory you have. So you might want to increase that if you use the history palette a lot. We have some various other options, and I'm going to choose to disable export clipboard because very often that might slow down getting out of Photoshop and moving to other application if you have something on the clipboard. You can disable tool tips right here if you want. I often leave them, because it doesn't actually slow down the application, and sometimes I learn new things that I hadn't remembered. We have the option to keyboard zoom resizes the window, so if you are using command-plus or command-minus it will resize the window as well. Dynamic color sliders I always leave on. And we can choose to save the palette location so the next time you launch Photoshop the palettes show up exactly where you left them. And we can use the shift key to shift to different tools for the same tool. For instance the lasso tool has two other hidden tools, you might want to use the shift key with 'L' to cycle through these various tools. I'm going to click next and talk about some of these other options. File handling, I always enable the icon option, and I always have Photoshop save the preview. One of your options is to choose 'ask when saving'. Now saving an icon and a Mac thumbnail or a Window thumbnail will make your image just a little bit larger. So generally for working in the world of print, this becomes quite helpful. However, if you are very concerned about file size, for instance if you are working on websites, you might want to disable these options and I always have Photoshop append my document name with the file extension. If you are working in a workgroup, you might want to enable this option right here - enable workgroup functionality. And when this is enabled, I'm going to hit cancel for a moment and go back to my, this type of a viewing mode. When this is enabled, this icon becomes a pull down menu allowing you access to various Web DAV workgroups features and functions. If we disable that, notice that this pull down menu becomes disabled as well. So I'm going to go back and talk about these few more options that we have for displays and cursors. I always use the precise option for other cursors and brush size, as opposed to seeing the type of icon for the tool. That is your option of course. You also can choose precise so it will give you a cross hair, but I prefer brush size, which shows me a circle indicating the size of the selected brush that I am using. Transparency units, I stick with medium or large. And I often choose the medium value. So that when I start to work with a transparency, it's quite obvious when I see these dark checkered boards in the background what area is transparent. You can also choose a particular color for gamut warnings. And we'll talk about that at a later time. And a value, opacity value for the gamut warning but I'm going to leave those as it were. What's your pleasure in terms of ruler increments - you can choose what you want right here. And I'm going to leave my type size be measured in points. A new feature in Photoshop7 is the addition of column size option. You can choose to use a column size as one of your ruler measurement units, and this is a nice feature if you work with page layout programs and always want images to fit a certain type of column width. You have some defaults for new document resolutions, print resolutions 300 pixels per inch, screen 72 pixels per inch and that makes a lot of sense - so I'm going to leave them unchanged. Photoshop allows you to turn on helpful guides to line things up, as well as a background grid, and we can change some of these options for the colors of the guides right here and what type of guide line you want - dashed or solid. We could also click on this color swatch to bring up a color picker and choose a different color for our guides. If you have additional plug-in filters somewhere else other than the Adobe Photoshop 7 plug-in folder, you can choose that right here. Click additional plug-in folder, and it will bring up a dialogue box asking you to go find that folder. And I'll hit cancel for now. And if you have multiple hard disks, you could choose whichever hard disk you want, which generally is the fastest or has the least amount of data on it as your scratch disk. I only have one hard disk on this computer, so I'm just going to stick with the default which is start up disk. And for our image cache settings, I'm going to leave this at a level-4, and I'm going to make sure that use cache for histogram is disabled - because when I do something like levels, I want Photoshop to look at all the pixel data, not just a cached smaller version. And now if we've made any changes, we could have them take effect the next time we re-launch Photoshop.