Introduction To

Photoshop
Abode Photoshop Workspace
These are the main counterparts of the Photoshop
workspace:
 Menu Bar
 Tool options bar
 Palette Well
 Toolbox
 Floating palettes
Menu bar

 The menu bar consists of nine menus: File, Edit, Image,

Layer, Select, Filter, View, Window, and Help.
 You may notice that some menu commands are followed
by ellipses (...). This indicates a command that is
followed by a 'dialog box' where you can enter
additional settings. Anytime input is needed from the
user, it is presented in a dialog box.
 Some menu commands are followed by a right pointing
arrow. This indicates a submenu of related commands.
Option bar
Option Bar

 Below Photoshop's menu bar is the tool options bar. The

Options Bar is where you would go to adjust settings for
the currently active tool. This toolbar is context-
sensitive, meaning that it changes according to which
tool you have selected.
 The options bar can be pulled away from the top of the
window and moved around in the workspace, or docked
to the bottom of the workspace, if you prefer
Tool Box
Tool Box

 Photoshop's toolbox is the tall, narrow palette that sits

along the left edge of the workspace. The toolbox
contains many of the tools you will be working with in
Photoshop. That makes it pretty important!
 When you look at the toolbox, notice how some of the
buttons have a tiny arrow in the lower right corner. This
arrow indicates that other tools are hidden under that
tool. To access the other tools, click and hold down on a
button and the other tools will pop out.
Floating Palettes
Palettes

 When you first open Photoshop, several additional

floating palettes are stacked along the right edge of
your screen in 4 separate palette groups. The first group
contains the Navigator, Info, and Histogram palettes.
Next is the Color, Swatches, and Styles palettes. Below
that are the History and Actions Palettes. Finally, you
have the Layers, Channels, and Paths Palettes.
 Palette groups can be moved around in the workspace
by clicking on the title bar and dragging. Each palette
group has a collapse and a close button in the title bar
area
Navigation Palette

Navigator Palette
A. Palette menu button
B. Thumbnail display of
artwork
C. Preview area
D. Zoom textbox
E. Zoom out button
F. Zoom slider
G. Zoom in button
Histogram palette

A histogram palette is a
graph that shows us the
current tonal range of our
image. By "tonal range", I
mean the brightness
values of the image. A
histogram shows us how
much of the image is
currently pure black (the
darkest an image can be),
how much of it is
currently pure white (the
brightest an image can
be), and how much of it
falls somewhere between
black and white.
Color Palette

The Color palette displays

the color values for the
current foreground and
background colors. Using
the sliders in the Color
palette, you can edit the
foreground and
background colors
according to several
different color models.
You can also choose a
background or
foreground color from
the spectrum of colors
displayed in the color
bar.
Swatches Palette

The swatches are a generic

set of colors. You can
choose a foreground or
background color from
the Swatches palette.To
display the Color palette
Choose Window >Show
Swatches.To choose a
foreground color, click a
color in the Swatches
palette. To choose a
background color, Alt-
click a color in the
Swatches palette. We can
also add and delete the
color in the swatches.
Style Palette

 One can view and select

preset styles either from
style palette . It
basically set the style
for the layers,
History palette

 One can use the history

palette to jump to any
recent state of the
image created during
the current working
session.
Action palette

One can use action palette

to record , play, edit ,
and delete individual
actions . The palette
also lets you save and
load action files.
Layer Palette

 In flat image every pixel

reside on one single
plane .the layer names
background is the base
layer . As you start
creating layers they
appear in hierarchal
position above each
other inside layer
palette.