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Something else that you may have eyeballed here inside Photoshop is the bar running across the top of the Options Bar, this guy right here. He's called the Application Bar and he's new inside Photoshop CS4 anyway, this guy right here. Now this guy gives us a couple of different options and maybe we'll just take a moment and explore through some of them. I'll kind of give you a run-through here. I'll go from left to right. First of all we have the Photoshop Icon there and then we have an icon that would allow us to launch Adobe Bridge. Now if you don't know about Adobe Bridge, essentially what it is, is a File Management Tool, or a File Management Application. We can sort our photographs with it, we can organize our work and all the rest of it, right? So you can certainly explore that on your own if you're interested. Then the next guy over we have View Extras. You can drop this guy down. We have Guides, Grids and our Rulers and as I had mentioned earlier on, these are some items that we'll talk about in just a little while so just sit tight with those guys. And then the next guy over that we have is our Zoom Drop-down. Now we'll talk about navigating and zooming again in just a little while, but I could come here and set my Zoom Percentage, which essentially would allow me to zoom in and zoom out on my photograph, which is great. And then I have a set of tools. We have the Hand Tool, the Zoom Tool and the Rotate-View Tool. Now what's interesting here is if I grab the Zoom Tool from the Application Bar, that simultaneously selects the Zoom Tool down in the bottom of the Toolbox and same with the Hand Tool and the Rotate-View Tool. So it's kind of interesting. It's just a different way to get to the same tool. So you can mess around with those guys. Then the next thing that we have is this Drop-down here, Arrange Documents. This is something else that's new inside Photoshop CS4, so I can choose Consolidate, All, or I can Tile my images if I want, or I can float them all in windows, create new windows and all the rest of it. You can mess with this stuff a little bit if you want, as well. And then the last guy that we have, at least in this group of Icons, is different Screen Modes - Standard Screen Mode, Full Screen Mode With the Menu Bar, or just the straightforward Full Screen Mode. And then way over on the right-hand side where it reads ESSENTIALS, what we have here is what are referred to Workspaces and we'll talk about Workspaces in just a little while. Now it's a little bit embarrassing here for me, look at the name of my Workspace. I forgot that I had set that there and there it is, Geoff's Snazzy Workspace. Anyway, as I say, we'll talk about Workspaces in just a bit, but there's the Application Bar here in Photoshop.

Tutorial Information

Course: Adobe Photoshop CS4 for the Web
Author: Geoff Blake
SKU: 34089
ISBN: 1-936334-01-1
Release Date: 2010-02-25
Duration: 7 hrs / 105 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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