Welcome to the Introductory Photoshop tutorials, where you'll learn the basic tools and techniques of Photoshop. The editor will introduce you to the Photoshop workspace and show you how to use it.
Learn about workspaces
Let's take a look at the layout of Photoshop to help you get familiar with the workspace. You can open any image. The first interface element we need to understand is the document window, which is the central area of the interface.
We're working with images here, and to the right of the document window are various panels with various image editing controls, and there are many others besides the ones we've seen here.
Some panels are hidden behind other panels, the two panels here are now, the Color panel and the Swatches panel. If you want to look at the Swatches panel, you can click on its tab, so you can go to this panel, I select a blue swatch in the "Swatches" panel, when I use the brush tool This color is applied when the class's color tool is selected.
There are some panels that don't open directly in Photoshop's interface, to open them go to the Window menu.
For example, I select the "Histogram" panel, which opens the "Histogram" panel.
I can use it to evaluate the tonality of the photo and when I'm done I can click the double arrow here to close it.
Another important interface element is the tool panel, which is located on the left side of the document window, which is the long vertical toolbar.
If you're not sure what tool an icon represents, hover over the icon to display a tooltip where you can see the name of the tool, and to select a tool, simply click on the tool.
In addition to the tools seen in the tool palette, there are many other tools, click and hold any tool with a small triangle logo in the lower right corner. For example, the "Horizontal Type Tool" (horizontal text tool) here will pop up a menu of related tools.
If I want to add vertical text instead of horizontal text, I can choose in the pop-up menu, "Vertical Type Tool" (vertical type tool), each tool has some controls, called options.
These options are located in the horizontal options bar, another important interface element at the top of the interface, the thing to note about the options bar is that it changes depending on the tool selected. Since I selected the Vertical Type Tool, all I see here are text options.
For example, the font size menu here, but if I select another tool, for example, select the "Brush" tool, you can see that the options change to include the brush "Opacity" and "Flow" (Flow) and other brush options.
Next, let's apply the options. When using the "Brush" (brush) tool, we often need to change the size of the brush. This can be done through the first option on the left side of the options bar, "Brush Picker" (brush picker) to fulfill.
Click this option to open the Brush Picker, the Size slider in the Brush Picker can be moved to the right to make the brush larger, or to the left Make the brush smaller, click on an empty area to close the Brush Picker,
Now I'm going to apply the brush to the image, and I can see that the color the brush paints is blue because I selected the blue swatch in the Swatches panel at the beginning of the video.
If I want to cancel the drawing operation just now or, any other operation in Photoshop, I can press Command + Z to cancel.
The last important interface element is the menu bar, located at the very top of the interface, containing multiple menus and a large number of controls.
For example, if I want to close this image, I can choose "Close" from the "File" menu, and we close the image without saving it, because we haven't made any permanent changes to the image.
That concludes a brief introduction to the main features of the Photoshop interface, including document windows, panels, tools, tool options, and the menu bar. You'll use these features a lot while using Photoshop.
interface
The menu bar (top of the interface) contains File, Edit, Image, and other menus, from here you can access various commands, make various adjustments, and access various panels.
The options bar (below the menu bar) displays options for the tool currently in use.
The Tools panel (on the left) contains tools for editing images and creating artwork. Similar tools are grouped together. Related additional tools can be accessed by single-clicking and holding a tool in the panel.
The panels (on the right) include Color, Layers, Properties, and other panels that contain various controls for working with the image. A complete list can be found under the Window menu.
The document window (center) shows the file you are currently working on. Multiple open documents are displayed as tabs in the document window.
Close the image: Choose File > Close.