Introduction to photoshop

what is photo?

adobe photoshop is a professional image editing sofware.

about the work area.

Menu Bar: this is where you can acces most of the features and commands in photoshop.it is located at the very to of phototshop.

Options Bar: displays your tool options.It changes as different tools are selected.

Tools Bar: contain all of your tools. They are used for creating and editing images.

palettes: to monitor and modify images.There are 5 palettes by default.

satage/canvas: where the imge geing worked on will appear.

layers

The layers window shgows the various layers that your image is made up of.

selection

there are several ways to select imges or poortions of images in phototshop. here is on basic method to do so: Adding to selection and making a square.

! Use the rectangular selection tool to select the area to be worked on.

2 To add to a selcetion,Hold/shift before dragging

3 T o make the selection exactly squre, start dragging then hold shift.

4. you can press ctrl+d to deselect and remove the seltion at anytime.