Exploring The Interface
Lesson 3 from: FAST CLASS: Photoshop for Beginners: Essential TrainingMark Wallace
Exploring The Interface
Lesson 3 from: FAST CLASS: Photoshop for Beginners: Essential TrainingMark Wallace
Lesson Info
3. Exploring The Interface
Lessons
How To Open Files
01:10 2Using The Home Screen
01:49 3Exploring The Interface
02:36 4Understanding Workspaces
03:04 5Tools and The Options Bar
01:56 6Finding Hidden Tools
02:31 7How to See What You’re Working On
06:19 8Selecting Things
07:06More Selection Tools
10:34 10Testing the Magic Wand and Quick Selection Tools
03:55 11The History Palette – Undoing Things
02:47 12Menu and Item Shortcut Keys
02:28 13Non-Destructive Editing
02:14 14Working with Layers
09:11 15Groovy 3 Exercise
10:38 16Layer Effects and Styles
04:25 17Layer Masks – Karen on Beans
06:41 18Using Adjustment Layers
04:36 19Using Filters
03:06 20Advanced Compositing Using Layers
07:42 21Non-Destructive Editing Techniques
03:17 22Understanding Smart Objects
05:16 23Smart Sharpen
04:36 24Understanding Histogram
04:08 25Adjusting Curves
03:46 26The Healing Brush Tools
07:28 27The Clone Stamp Tool
05:24 28The Burn and Dodge Tools
03:41 29Neural Filters
07:52Lesson Info
Exploring The Interface
Let's explore the interface together. So go into Photoshop and then we're gonna click on open and explore to the class materials folder and then click on wanna dot jpeg to open that. And so we should all be seeing the same thing. And so what we wanna do is understand what all of these different menus and panels and things are. And so let me go through the most important ones in your class handout in that workbook there's a description of, of all of this stuff listed out. So you can take a look at that for a refresher but the most important thing over here on the left hand side, this is our tools pallet. So a pallet is a little thing that you can collapse. There's these little arrows right here. So I can zoom into that. If you click on those little arrows, it collapses that or it pops it open. You'll see another one over here. I can collapse these panels over here or pop them out. You'll see these little arrows all over the place that allows you to expand or collapse things. The same th...
ing is true. So right next to this little thing that says, canvas there's a little arrow. You can click that. It expands or collapses that. So these are all over in Photoshop. You can even see them next to tools. We'll talk about what those little tools things are a little bit later on. The most important thing to understand is this right here is called the tools pallet. It's where you have all the tools that you'll be using for retouching things. Now, the other thing on the right hand side is we have different panels and pallets. And so these pallets are these little things that you can click on. So we have properties click on adjustments, click on libraries. And what we wanna do is see the stuff that is specific to photography. And we can do that by going right up here to the very top of the screen, I'm gonna zoom in and you can see this little square box over here. If you click on that, it should say essentials. What we want to do is choose photography. And when you do that you'll see something that probably looks like this but you have the histogram, you have the navigator. And then now you have libraries and adjustments. These are the tools that are specific for photography. And we're gonna talk about how you can arrange all of these different tools using workspaces in a little bit. But before that, I need to also remind you that at the very very top of the screen, you have the menu items. And so these are things that you can click like file and edit and image and layer. And so those are all available at the very top of the screen. And we'll be using these quite a bit.
Class Materials
Bonus Materials with Purchase