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Photoshop system requirements

Processor (CPU) Intel® or AMD processor with 64-bit support*; 2 GHz or
faster processor

Operating system Microsoft Windows 7 with Service Pack 1 (64-bit),

Microsoft Windows 10 (64-bit)
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RAM 2 GB or more of RAM

(8 GB recommended)

Graphics card nVidia GeForce GTX 1050 or equivalent; nVidia GeForce GTX 1660

Hard disk space 3.1 GB or more of available hard-disk space for 64-bit
installation

Monitor resolution 1280 x 800 display

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▪ Photoshop Preferences:
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▪ The Preferences Dialog Box:

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➢ The General Preferences

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➢ Interface Preferences

 Color Theme
The first option we'll look at is Color Theme. This option controls the
overall color of Photoshop's interface

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➢ Highlight Color

By default, the highlight color is a shade of gray.

The other highlight color we can choose is blue

➢ UI Font Size

If you have trouble reading small print, you can increase the size.
To make the text bigger, choose either Medium or Large.

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➢ UI Font Size

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➢ Tools Preferences
Show Tool Tips
A "Tool Tip" is a helpful message that pops up when you hover your mouse
cursor over a tool or option in Photoshop.

Tool Tips are enabled by default.

But once you know your way around Photoshop,
simply uncheck "Show Tool Tips" in the Preferences.

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▪ Use Shift Key for Tool Switch

Photoshop's tools are all found in the Toolbar along the left of the
interface. Adobe groups related tools together to save space. If I
click and hold on the Lasso Tool, showing me 3 different lasso.
Notice that all three tools share the same keyboard shortcut (the
letter "L"):

To cycle through these three tools

press and hold your Shift key
and press "L"

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➢ File Handling Preferences

Auto Save
By default, Auto Save is set every 10 minutes. you may want to
shorten the interval from 10 minutes to 5 minutes instead. You can
also choose a longer interval.

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➢ Recent File List Contains

Another important option in the File Handling preferences is
Recent File List Contains.
By default, Photoshop will keep track the last 20 files you
worked on. You can increase the value all the way to 100,
Or set the value to 0 to disable this option.

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▪ Performance Preferences
Choose the Performance category on the left:

Memory Usage
The Memory Usage option in the Performance category controls how much of your
computer's memory is reserved for Photoshop

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➢ History States
"History States" refers to the number of steps that
Photoshop keeps track of as we work.

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➢ Reset Photoshop Preferences In

Photoshop CC
• Open The Preferences Dialog Box.
Edit >> Preferences >> General
• Choose "Reset Preferences On Quit
• Choose "Yes" To Delete The Preferences
• Close And Relaunch Photoshop

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▪ Create New Documents in Photoshop

Launch Photoshop CC without opening an image
➢ From the Home Screen, click the Create New.

➢ Creating a new document from the Menu Bar

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▪ Create New Documents in Photoshop

Launch Photoshop CC without opening an image
➢ From the Home Screen, click the Create New.

➢ Creating a new document from the Menu Bar

(Ctrl+N)

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▪ Photoshop's New Document dialog

box
This preset will create a document with a Width of 2600 Pixels and a
Height of 3000 pixels. It also sets the Resolution to 300 pixels/inch

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▪ New document in Photoshop

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▪ How to verify the document size

you can verify that the document is the size you wanted
using Photoshop's Image Size dialog box.
Image >> image size

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▪ Creating new documents from

custom settings
➢ Task1:

✓ Height = 19 inch
✓ Width = 13 inch
✓ Resolution = 300 pixel/inch
✓ Background color: blue
✓ Color Mode: RGB 8-bit

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▪ save your settings as a new preset

➢ If you know you'll need the same document size again in
the future

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▪ Open Images in Photoshop

➢ Opening a recent file
➢ Opening a new image from the Home Screen

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▪ How to switch between multiple open

images
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▪ The Photoshop Interface

➢ .

Canvas

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▪ The Photoshop Interface

➢ Document's tab. The tab displays the name and file type
of the document (“cute-cat-and-dog-wallpaper-high-
quality.jpg") and its current zoom level (66.7%).

➢ Status Bar displays the color profile of the image

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▪ Photoshop Interface - The Toolbar

The Toolbar (also known as Tools panel) is where
Photoshop holds all of its tools. You'll find it along the
left of Photoshop's interface. There's tools for making
selections, for editing and retouching images, for
painting, adding type or shapes to your document, and
more

The Toolbar's Hidden Tools

Click and hold on a tool's icon
to view a menu of the other tools

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▪ Photoshop Interface-Options Bar

➢ The Options Bar displays options for whichever tool we've
selected in the Toolbar. You'll find the Options Bar along
the top of the interface

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▪ Photoshop Interface-Menu Bar

➢ Along the very top of Photoshop's interface is the Menu
Bar. The Menu Bar is where we find various options and
commands, all grouped into categories

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▪ Photoshop Interface-The Panels

➢ Along the right of Photoshop's interface
is where we find the panels. Panels give
us access to all sorts of commands and
options, and there are different panels
for different tasks. The most important
panel is the Layers panel. It's where we
add, delete and work with layers in our
document.

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▪ Photoshop Interface-The Panels

➢ Panel Groups
➢ Adobe groups related panels together.
Layers
Channels
Paths

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▪ Photoshop Interface-The Search Bar

➢ The Search bar lets us quickly find tools or
commands in Photoshop, as well as tutorials on
different topics, or images from Adobe Stock.
➢ Click on the Search icon (the magnifying glass) in
the upper right of Photoshop.

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▪ Photoshop Interface-The Search Bar

➢ You can search about anything, for example
“crop”

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