introduce phothoshop for dummy lesson 1

Starting Adobe Photoshop and opening ?les

The Adobe Photoshop and Adobe ImageReady work areas include the command menus
at the top of your screen and a variety of tools and palettes for editing and adding
elements to your image. You can also add commands and ?lters to the menus by installing
third-party software known as plug-in modules.
In this part of the lesson, you’ll familiarize yourself with the Adobe Photoshop work area
and open a ?le in Adobe Photoshop.
Both Photoshop and ImageReady work with bitmapped, digitized images (that is,
continuous-tone images that have been converted into a series of small squares, or picture
elements, called pixels). In Photoshop, you can also work with vector graphics, which are
shapes made up of smooth lines that retain their crispness when scaled. In ImageReady,
you can create moving elements, such as animations and rollovers, for on-screen viewing.


You can create original artwork in both Photoshop and ImageReady, or you can bring
images into the program by scanning a photograph, a transparency, a negative, or a
graphic; by capturing a video image; or by importing artwork created in drawing
programs. You can also import previously digitized images—such as those produced by a
digital camera or by the Kodak® Photo CD process.
In this lesson, you’ll learn how to do the following:
• Open an Adobe Photoshop ?le.
• Select tools from the toolbox.
• Use viewing options to enlarge and reduce the display of an image.
• Work with palettes.
• Use online Help.
This lesson will take about 60 minutes to complete. The lesson is designed to be done in
Adobe Photoshop, but information on using similar functionality in Adobe ImageReady
is included where appropriate.

In this lesson, you’ll learn how to do the following:

• Open an Adobe Photoshop ?le.

• Select tools from the toolbox.

• Use viewing options to enlarge and reduce the display of an image.

• Work with palettes.

• Use online Help.This lesson will take about 60 minutes to complete. The lesson is designed to be done in Adobe Photoshop, but information on using similar functionality in Adobe ImageReady is included where appropriate.

introduce phothoshop for dummy lesson 1