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Adobe Photoshop CS4 Tutorials

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One thing about Adobe Photoshop that's a truth is that Photoshop is a massive application. There are a ton of buttons, a ton of tools, a ton of options, so even though you're watching this tutorial, there may be something that I simply could not cover because it would take hundreds of hours to cover everything in Photoshop. So, what you can do is go up here to the Help menu, just go to Help and then you'll see there's all kinds of options available to help you learn more about functions inside of Photoshop, such as Photoshop Help. Now what I'm going to show you is very direct questions that are already put into the application that can help you to get the things like creating rollovers for the web, so I'll choose this, as you can see my Firefox web browser opens up and it has what I'm looking for. I can also choose to search for something in this Search field. I also have some categories here that I can click on the little plus sign to open up to learn more options and more features. It's really, really great and very, very in depth. They have illustrations in here so you can learn about things such as color modules, and when there's related information you'll find it down here and there's other little buttons up here as well so you can go between different things as well such as choosing colors, converting between colors, choose and see a CMYK equivalent, there's just a lot of stuff here so that's in depth and I highly recommend you spend some time in that help feature. You also have the ability to view your system info. This is very helpful when you need to talk to somebody about tech support issues. So you can find out how much RAM you have and how fast your computer is and all that kinds of stuff. Registration and deactivate options, very important as well. Now from what I understand, when you buy the Creative Suite you're able to install it on two machines, so if you have a machine that you're not going to use anymore you have to deactivate it on one of those machines so that you can free up that ability to install it on another machine. So that's pretty important so a lot of people don't know exactly what that means, it simply means you turn you turn off Photoshop and your registration information on that machine so you can then apply it to a different machine. You can check for updates, you can go to Photoshop online and of course you can register your software online as well. Chances are good though that the registration dialogue box will appear on its own either when you first install or during that week, so it's going to pop up from time to time. So that is how you can use the Help system that's embedded inside of Photoshop to learn more about this great piece of software.

Tutorial Information

Course: Adobe Photoshop CS4
Author: Dwayne Ferguson
SKU: 33956
ISBN: 1-935320-22-X
Release Date: 2009-01-16
Duration: 9 hrs / 141 lessons
Work Files: Yes
Captions: Available on CD and Online University
Compatibility: Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux
QuickTime 7, Flash 8

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