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 of the features and commands in Photoshop. It is located at the very top of Photoshop.

Options Bar

Displays your tool 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 modify and monitor 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 being made up 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 and hold the shift key.
4. you can press Ctrl+D to deselect and remove the selection at any time