Introduction to photoshop

• What is Photoshop?

Adobe Photoshop is a professional image editing software.

• About the work area.

 menu bar: This is where you can access most features and commands in Photoshop. It is located at the very top of Photoshop.

Option Bar: displays your too options. It changes as different tools are selected.

Tool Bar: contains all of your tools. They are used for creating and editing images.

Palettes: to monitor and modify images. There are 5 palettes by default.

Stage/Canvas: where the image being worked on will appear.

• Layers

The layers window shows the various layers that your image is made of.

• Selection

There are several ways to select images or portions of images in Photoshop. Here is one basic method to do so: • Adding to a selection and making a square.

1. Use the rectangular selection tool to select the area to be worked on.

2. To add to a selection, hold shift before dragging.

3. To make the selection exactly square, start dragging, then hold shift.

4.You can press ctrl and D to deselect and remove the selection at anytime.