Adobe Photoshop CS4 for Photographers Tutorials
Photoshop Foundations / Application Bar
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In this movie we'll take a look at the new Application Bar in Photoshop CS4. This is the Application Bar right here. It's slightly different in a Mac versus on a PC. On a Mac, as you can see, the Menu Bar remains separate at the top but on a PC, the Application Bar contains all the main menu items as well as the new icons on the application bar here. Clicking the Application Icon in Windows will display the standard system menu and follow other expected Windows behaviors including that a double click will close the application. On a Mac, double clicking it does nothing. Oh well, Windows items previously found in the Menu Bar are next but on a Mac, they remain at the top of the monitor as I just mentioned. These are the icons that are new to CS4. First there is the icon to access Bridge. Next is the View Extras Icon from which you can opt to see Guides, Grids, or Rulers. Right now I don't have any guides set up to use but when I click on Show Grids, my Rule of Thirds tic-tac-toe grid appears because I set it up that way in Preferences. Clicking Show Rulers brings up a ruler along the sides. And of course, you can toggle these back off. Next is an icon to change the magnification or zoom level of your image. It's an easy way to get to a hundred percent, which is what you need in order to check for critical sharpness and also when removing dust from your image. Control plus zero on a PC or Command plus zero on a Mac will return to fit the screen magnification. Note that in CS4, you get accurate previews even at odd magnifications, unlike what happened in earlier versions of Photoshop. The Hand Icon is a shortcut to the Hand Tool, which allows you to navigate around your image if you're zoomed into a magnification where the entire image is not visible all at once. So let me zoom in again to a hundred percent. I'll click on the Hand Tool and you'll see that I can scroll around on my image. Of course I could also use the scrollbars in this view. In some screen modes, you'll use it to change the position of the image on the screen. For example, if I come over here to this icon, which is also new, the Screen Mode Icon, and I choose Full Screen Mode with Menu Bar, you can see that part of the image is now hiding behind my panels but clicking the Hand Tool, I can click and drag and see different parts of the image. I can zoom out that way or with my shortcut, which is what I prefer. In terms of screen modes, I tend to prefer the standard screen mode because otherwise part of the image can be hidden under the panels, which I find annoying, as you just saw. The Magnifying Glass is a shortcut to the Zoom Tool. You can click the image and keep clicking to increase the magnification or press the Alt or Option Keys and click to zoom outwards. Again, I like the shortcut of Control or Command zero to fit to screen and similarly to zoom in is Control Plus or Command Plus on a Mac and to zoom out is Control or Command Minus. The next tool here is the Rotate Tool and this is of more use to graphic artists than to photographer. The Arrange Documents Icon enable you to combine images onto a tab or float them all in windows, as well as see more than one image at a time and to match zooms, et cetera. This is one of the more obvious changes in CS4 and takes some time to get used to. You can open your images as tab documents, which will keep them neat and that way it makes them easy to see them one at a time. If you decide that you want to see more than one at a time, you can come up here and choose how you'd like to see two of them. For example, I have two images so I'll select Two Up and now they're next to each other. I could have opted to see them on top of each other if I had preferred. Of course, in this view you can scroll each one independently. When you have tabbed documents, you can click the tab and drag it out to have it float in its own image. If you set up your preferences to allow you to dock a floating file and you can click on the top bar of the image and set it in the tab bar and turn it back into a tab. Occasionally it might seem as though you've lost an image because it's being blocked by the current view. If that happens, come up here to Window and click on the missing image here because all of your images that are open will always be listed in the bottom of the Window Menu. On the far right of the Application Bar is another drop-down that you can use to access the various workspaces that we'll look at in another movie.
Tutorial Information
| Course: | Adobe Photoshop CS4 for Photographers |
| Author: | Ellen Anon |
| SKU: | 34036 |
| ISBN: | 1-935320-74-2 |
| Release Date: | 2009-09-23 |
| Duration: | 8.5 hrs / 112 lessons |
| Work Files: |
Yes |
| Captions: | No |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |
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