Create a new document.
To create a new file can be used in several ways:
1) Traditionally - the main menu: File -> New.
2) The combination of keys Control N.
3) Hold the Control key, double-click on the working field of the window.
In all cases, after the above-mentioned actions have a dialog box, creating a new image.
Generally the contents of the window is divided into two blocs:
1) The section describes the size and characteristics of the picture.
2) Section with info about the contents of the picture.
The first section indicates the height and width of the image created, the resolution and color model describes created picture. The size of image can be specified in different units of measurement, using the popup menu, which is located right of the size box. An interesting fact is the dependency file size from image size. By changing the numbers in the fields Width and Heght can easily see that while increasing the size of the figure is increasing, and the initial file size. There are several options to describe the colors in the picture. This topic will be addressed in next topics, but currently recommend setting mode RGB. Section Contents allows you to set the background color of the created image.
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