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In this lesson we're going to review the interface of Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo XI. At the top of the screen you see the title bar which has the name of the product. I open up an image, you can see the image name there as well. In this case img underscore 5329 jepeg. Below this are all my menus organized by functional category. File menus generally are associated with file operations such as printing, saving, opening and closing. Can also import and export from here, run scripts, perform batch processing. This is also where you change your program preferences, which is an important place to know how to get to. You can also reset your preferences. That's handy. Let's open up general program preferences here just for review. This is where you change the undo levels, your zooming characteristics and so forth. Units is one thing you should know quickly how to get to at any time because sometimes you'll want to display in pixels, and other times in inches or centimeters. You'll also possibly want to change the default resolution. If you're working on web graphics quite a bit and you're not concerned with higher resolutions you can bump this 200 down something like 72 or 100 or 150. And the rest of your settings. Can also change your workspace, load, save or delete workspaces which are where you have your palettes and toolbars located. So you can customize them to suit each user that might be using this program on the computer. And there are color management tools here as well. Edit is where you'll do your undoing, cut, copy, pasting. Paint Shop Pro has a lot of different pasting options. You can paste as a new image, a new layer, a new selection, transparent selection, into selection and as a new vector selection depending on whether your working with a raster or vector object. You'll notice that the grade out menu options are not available, only those in black. You'll also see anything with an underscore under a letter is a keyboard shortcut. To access edit you would press alt E and then T to choose gut. You can also go directly there by pressing shift delete or control X. View changes all your views zooming, rules, grids, guides as well as turning on toolbars or palettes. Can also change the organizer mode here to. Image rotation, resizing, some minor operation here. Mirror flipping, changing the palette and colors. Now you'll notice these separator bars separate the new items within a menu, overall menu selection into functional or logical areas. So these are all your palettes and color choices. And then you've got channel choices, watermarking down at the bottom. Adjust is where you'll make a lot of your image editing from a color, brightness, contrast, sharpness perspective. The one step fixing is also here. Effects are where you will apply your effects like distortions, drop shadows. Layers, here's the layers palette. Now often you'll find menu functionality duplicated in several different places. For example new raster layer, if I open up my layers palette, which is open it's just down here at the bottom. I can also create a new raster layer from here. Often there are multiple ways of achieving the same result. Objects are where you'll work with objects alignment, distribution, arranging. You can group objects, work with text and paths. Selections are where you'll work with your selections. For example if I choose a rectangular selection tool, make a selection, I can choose to shrink it by contract. Save it, let's save to alpha channel or to the disk, or perform other operations. Window is more of a management tool where you'll arrange the windows that are open. And help. Let's open up another picture. Below the menu are a series of toolbar options. This is the standard toolbar. You can tell, the toolbars have names by seeing them in the toolbars menus, which ones are on, those are checked, and if they're not on they're not checked. And those are basically buttons which duplicate much of what you want in your menu system. Palettes is an important button where you'll turn on or off the palettes, which contain certain functionalities like the layers palette, the mixer palette for painting, materials palette which allows you to select your colors and materials. Now you can also drag the toolbars around, dock them on certain side of the windows, put them back where they belong. Now down the left hand side of the screen you'll see the main toolbar where all your tools are located. The right hand side of the screen are where many of the palettes are initially docked. And in the large area here in the middle is where you workspace is. And if you use the organizer a lot, most often that is located down at the bottom of the screen which takes away a lot of your editing space, but you can close that that quickly. Alright I think we can wrap this lesson up. This was a pretty quick review of the Paint Shop Pro Photo XI interface.