Introduction To Photoshop

*What is Photoshop?

Adobe Photoshop is a professional image editing software.
* About the work area
Menu Bar: this is where you can access most the features and commands of Photoshop. It is located at the very top of Photoshop.
*Options Bar: display your tool option. It changes as different tools are slected. Also, it is located under the Menu Bar.
* Tool Bar: contains all of your tools. They are all used for creating and editing images.
Paletts: to monitor and modify images. There are 5 Paletts by default.

Stage/Canvas: where the image worked on will appear

*Layers: the layers wondow shows the various layers the your images is made of.
*Selection: there are several ways to selct images or partious of images in Photoshop. Here is one basic method to do so.Adding to a selection and makeing a square.

1. use the rectangular selection tool to select the area to be worked
2. To add to a selection, hold shift before dragging.
3. To make the selection exactly square dtart dragging them, hold shift
4. You can press apple+d to deselect and remove the selection at any time.