Adobe Photoshop Visual QuickStart Guide

1. Getting Started

In This Chapter

• Opening Files

• Creating a New, Blank Document

• Document Presets

• Downloading Images from a Camera

• Saving Documents

• Closing Documents and Quitting Photoshop

When you open Photoshop for the first time, its interface can be rather intimidating: like being in the helicopter cockpit with no idea of how to fly the thing. So, before we take off, let’s do some essential background work. In this chapter, you’ll get acquainted with some of the fundamentals of working in Photoshop: opening existing files, creating new files from scratch, saving files, and ending a work session. We may not leave the ground, but you’ll feel much more confident about doing so when the time comes.

Opening Files

There are several ways to ...