Photoshop Cs2 All-In-One Desk Reference for Dummies
Chapter One
Examining the
Photoshop Environment
In This Chapter
Starting Photoshop
Working with palettes
Examining the Photoshop desktop
Investigating the menu bar
Discovering the Options bar
As environments go, the Photoshop working environment is pretty cool:
as inviting as a landscaped backyard and not nearly as likely to work
you into a sweat. Each of the many tools in Photoshop is custom-designed
for a specific chore and chock-full of more options than a Swiss
Army knife. When you're familiar with your surroundings,
you'll be eager to make like Monet in his garden, surrounded
by palettes, brushes, buckets of paint, and
swatches of color, ready to tackle the canvas in
front of you.
Getting a Warm Welcome
When you launch Photoshop CS2 for the first time,
you're greeted by Photoshop's rendition of the
friendly neighborhood welcome wagon. The handy
Welcome Screen, shown in Figure 1-1, provides a virtual
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