Lesson Info
6. Exploring The Interface
Lessons
Class Introduction
00:52 2Introducing Photoshop
02:37 3The Class Materials
01:36 4How To Open Files
01:42 5Using The Home Screen
02:35 6Exploring The Interface
03:30 7Getting Additional Help
01:36 8Understanding Workspaces
05:11Tools and The Options Bar
03:50 10Why You Should Use a Tablet
04:31 11Finding Hidden Tools
04:23 12How to See What You’re Working On
08:12 13Selecting Things
08:01 14More Selection Tools
12:25 15Testing the Magic Wand and Quick Selection Tools
07:25 16The History Palette – Undoing Things
05:24 17Resolution and Bit Depth
07:03 18Photoshop Preferences
01:31 19Menu and Item Shortcut Keys
02:39 20Non-Destructive Editing
02:57 21Working with Layers
12:19 22Groovy 3 Exercise
11:43 23Layer Effects and Styles
05:38 24Layer Masks – Karen on Beans
08:33 25Using Adjustment Layers
05:38 26Martian Karen
03:37 27Advanced Compositing Using Layers
08:43 28Non-Destructive Editing Techniques
05:22 29Understanding Smart Objects
07:28 30Smart Sharpen
06:42 31Understanding Histogram
06:24 32Adjusting Curves
03:48 33The Healing Brush Tools
10:26 34The Clone Stamp Tool
07:47 35The Burn and Dodge Tools
05:55 36Understanding RAW Files
01:44 37Adobe Camera Raw
04:18 38XMP Sidecar Files
02:14 39Camera Raw: Edit
12:24 40Camera Raw: Crop & Rotate
03:13 41Camera Raw: Spot Removal
04:56 42Camera Raw: Adjustment Brush
08:17 43Camera Raw: Graduated Filter
05:40 44Camera Raw: Radial Filter
05:11 45Camera Raw: Red-Eye Removal
02:04 46Camera Raw: Snapshots and Presets
09:39 47Neural Filters
10:09 48Portrait Retouching Session
36:53 49Scenic Retouching Session
11:25Lesson Info
Exploring The Interface
let's explore the interface together. So go into Photoshop and then we're gonna click on open, 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 palette, so a palette 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 perhaps 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 thing...
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 tool things are a little bit later on. The most important thing to understand is this right here is called the tools palette is 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. The important thing to understand is that you have an organization here of different panels that you can see different things by clicking on these different words inside this menu. Now, what we want to 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 history Graham, you have the Navigator and then now you have uh, 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 an 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. So there are different ways to accomplish different things. You can either use a tool or you can use a palette or you can use menu items. And then the other thing that's very, very important is this area right here at the very top of the screen. This right here is called the options bar. And we're going to talk about the options bar a little bit later, but it's important right now that you know where that is okay now that we sort of know where things are in Photoshop. What I need to help you understand is how to organize everything specifically for photography. And so we don't see all those tools for all the other disciplines like medical stuff and engineering and three D. All that kind of stuff. And so we do that by creating a workspace. And so we're going to do that next. I forgot that.
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Ratings and Reviews
Katie
Mark did a great job at explaining things and going over them multiple times throughout the lessons. My only issue was that sometimes it went a little faster than I could keep up and I needed to rewind it a bit and start again. But from someone who has never worked in photoshop before I 100% recommend this class to anyone trying to learn.
Terri Schwartz
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