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Using The Home Screen

Lesson 5 from: Photoshop for Beginners: Essential Training

Mark Wallace

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5. Using The Home Screen

This is the place where it all begins. Mark walks through the benefits of using the Home Screen.

Lessons

Class Trailer
1

Class Introduction

00:52
2

Introducing Photoshop

02:37
3

The Class Materials

01:36
4

How To Open Files

01:42
5

Using The Home Screen

02:35
6

Exploring The Interface

03:30
7

Getting Additional Help

01:36
8

Understanding Workspaces

05:11

Lesson Info

Using The Home Screen

let's begin by opening Photoshop. So on your computer at home go in and launch Photoshop. And by default when Photoshop launches it will start on the home screen. Now the home screen is the place that you can use to do all of the beginning stuff. Opening files, creating new documents or even learning about Photoshop. So let me walk you through each of these different things. So on the left you can see that we have home and we have this little learn tab. The learn tab is great because you have all kinds of tutorials. We're gonna learn more about those a little bit later. And then underneath that you have your work. And so if you have light room, so some people have Photoshop and Lightroom the images that you've saved in. Lightroom in the cloud will show up here in Photoshop so you can update those and save the photos and it will work back and forth between Photoshop. You can also store photos on the cloud and it will save hard drive space. And so I've got several photos here that I've s...

aved in the cloud and you can open these and work on them just like they are on your local hard drive. You can also work with other people. I haven't set this up yet, but you can share documents to work as a team and then you have your deleted files. I haven't deleted anything recently and then at last we have create new. If you click on that, this is where if you want to create a blank canvas, you can do that. And so you have all kinds of different things. You have basic photo layouts, print layouts for magazines and things like that. You've got web layouts for thumbnails and mobile and film and video. Those things that we talked about earlier, Photoshop has features for different disciplines. And so you just have to worry about the ones that work for you or you can create your own and save that as a template. I'm gonna close this and then last but not least we can open files from here as well. And so the other thing about the home screen is that you can go between the home screen and the Photoshop interface by clicking in the upper left hand corner. So up here there's a little home button if I click that I'm at the home screen even if I have a document open, so I'm gonna click on, wanna right here and this is going to open this file right here, this image. If I want to go back to the home screen, I can click on that. If I want to go back to my Photoshop interface, I can click on that, I can go back and forth between the two. Alright, now that we understand the home screen, it's start, it's time for us to start getting into the technical stuff in Photoshop. So the first thing we wanna do is explore the interface and understand how that works. So let's do that right now

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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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