Let’s get acquainted with the general principles of work with the interface of Adobe Photoshop. The following figure shows the interface elements (in the latest version of photoshop interface little changed for the better, so you havent problems with it).
In the left part of your screen, placed a Toolbar. Tools in Photoshop quite a lot, so they are grouped. In order to activate a tool icon is visible on the screen, click on it. Near some of the pictograms is a small arrow. If you click on it, it opens pop-up palette, which contains tools that are included in the group.
Main elements are located in the so-called floating palettes, which are also connected to the group. Each palette is a tab and has a label with the name. Switching between palettes, is click on the appropriate label palette. In addition to the visual elements in the palette, there is the options menu, which can cause a push of a button, located in the upper right corner of the palette. In the options menu palette, you can choose commands for the current palette and call setup palette point Palette Options. Palettes and their groups can be placed anywhere on the screen. There is also the possibility of combining the palette at their own discretion. You just need to drag the label of one palette to another palette. If you have the desire to leave the palette on the screen alone, it should be easy to drag anywhere on the screen, with the exception of other palettes.
Example:
1) On the right side of the main window are four palettes. Access to individual palettes ensured their labels. Do click on the label Actions in the top third group palettes, and it would be on top of the palette History.
2) Move cursor to the label Palette Actions.
3) Click the left mouse button.
4) Not releasing the mouse button, move the cursor outside the window palette. The current situation Actions palette will retain a thin line of circuit.
5) When the cursor will be outside the History palette, release the mouse button. Palettes will be divided.
6) Do the reverse operation: drag the Actions palette for her label, entered the History palette. Palettes will be grouped again.
To remove a palette from the screen, simply click on the button of its closure. The first time the palette you will regularly disappear :-). This is due to the temporary lack of skills to work with the program. Especially upset is not because the palette is very easy to restore the screen.
Palettes “Office” is located in the main menu. In the menu window you can see the names of palettes. “Tick” beside the name indicates that the palette is open. To open the palette, simply click on its name in the menu window. Then see the box on the menu, and the palette on the screen.
For restore standart palette locations need to be done the following steps: Log on to the main menu item Window, click Workspace and sub Reset Palette Locations. Following this action, the location of all the palettes on the screen to recover the default. If you have lost range of instruments, it is also not a problem. It is also the palette? So, we already know how to find it. Choose Window sub Tools.
At the end of the topic to be told about the interface elements of the program as a status bar. The lower part of the main window holds a status bar. If you do not see the status bar, then it is turned off. As a floating palette, the line of the state included the command Window -> Status Bar. Repeated her choice remove the status bar on the screen.
In the status bar, Photoshop displays information about current operations performed, Windows gives a hint about the functions of this instrument, as well as information about an open document that you select the menu line. Menu opens click on the button with a triangular arrow. In its choice of the following options:
Document Sizes. The memory occupied by the image. Do not confuse the size of the image file.
Document Profile. Color profile document. If the document does not contain a profile, you’ll see the word “Untagged”.
Document Dimensions. The size of the document in pixels.
Scratch Sizes. The first figure shows the amount of memory to deal with all open images, taking into account the clipboard and rollback, as well as images. The second shows the amount of memory available at the moment PhotoShop. If the figure is more than the second, the program uses virtual memory.
Efficiency. The proportion of time during which the program runs in memory. If it is less than 100%, then slow virtual memory used.
Timing. Time spent on the implementation of the latest operation or command.
Current Tool. Clearly, without comment.
Clicking on the information field of the status bar, displays a small window, which shows how the current image will be available when printing on the printer. This is handy when you want to track the correct orientation of the paper (set in the print dialog box), and the size of the image. If you click with hold down the Alt, it will be another window, which will include the physical size of the image in pixels and the current measurement units, image type and resolution.
In the left position of the status bar is a field that displays the current scale of the demonstration images and allows you to specify its size. To see the status bar, all described the data, you must open at least one document. So it will begin to learn the basic operations of the documents.
