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PHOTOSHOP CS4 CREATIVE SUITE

Lesson 8 (Adobe Photoshop CS4)

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PHOTOSHOP CS4CREATIVE SUITE

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THE PHOTOSHOP WORKSPACE

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It contains the different menus and commands that you need to start working with your Photoshop project.

The Menu Bar

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New in Photoshop CS4 is the Application Bar. On a Windows system, you’ll find the Application Bar combined with the Menu Bar at the top of the screen.

It contains the necessary commands and functions like Adobe Bridge, View Extras, Hand Tool, and the different types of Photoshop workspaces.

The Application Bar

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The Application Bar itself may be new, but many of the options you’ll find here are not. The bar’s main purpose is not really to wow us with new features (although there are some new ones) but to give us a central location for some commonly used features, tools and options rather than having them scattered throughout Photoshop. For example, the first icon on the left (not counting the blue PS icon in the Mac version) will quickly open Adobe Bridge:

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To the right of that is the View Extras icon, giving us easy access to Photoshop’s Guides, Grid and Rulers.

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Next is the Zoom Level icon which allows to quickly choose from four preset zoom levels – 25%, 50%, 100% or 200%. You can also type your own zoom level directly into the input box if none of the presets work for you:

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Also found in the Application Bar are Photoshop’s standard Hand and Zoom Tools which have traditionally been (and still are) found at the bottom of the Tools panel:

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The Rotate View Tool allows us to rotate our view of the image on screen as if we were rotating a photo on a desk or table, which can make it easier to paint or edit certain areas. What’s great about it is that since we’re only rotating our view of the image, not the image itself, no pixels are harmed by the rotation and the image will still save, print and export upright.

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New Multi Document LayoutsAlso new in Photoshop CS4 is the Arrange Documents icon which gives us lots of new layouts for viewing multiple documents on screen at once. You’ll also find some standard viewing options from the Window menu like Match Zoom and Match Location, but the new multi document layouts are a great new feature and one we’ll look at in more depth later:

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Finally, rounding out the options in the new Application Bar is the Screen Mode icon, allowing us to quickly choose between Photoshop CS4′s three screen modes – Standard, Full Screen with Menu Bar and Full Screen Mode

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The tool options bar changes its command and functions base on the selected tools on the Tools Panel

Every tool has its own set of options which will always be available in the Options Bar.

Tool Options Bar

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Along the left side of the screen is Photoshop’s Tools panel, formerly known as the Tools palette, and also (palettes are now officially known as panels in Photoshop CS4) commonly referred to simply as the Toolbox. This is where we find all of the various tools we need for working on our images. In Photoshop CS4, you’ll find the Tools panel displayed in a single column, but I’ve split it in half here just to make it easier to fit on the page:

Tools Panel

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Single Or Double Column Layout

Photoshop CS4, like CS3 before it, gives us a choice of how we want the Tools panel displayed. We can leave it in the default single column, or if you prefer, you can click on the small double-arrow icon at the top of the panel which will switch it to a double column layout, handy if you’ve upgraded from Photoshop CS2 or earlier and you can’t get used to the new single column design. Click again on the icon to switch back to a single column:

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Accessing The Hidden ToolsPhotoshop CS4, like earlier versions, comes with so many tools that if Adobe tried to display them all at once, the Tools panel would need its own scroll bar. So instead, Adobe has grouped many related tools together, with one tool in the group visible in the Tools panel and the others hidden behind it. Whenever you see a tool in the Tools panel with a small arrow to the bottom right of the icon, it means there are additional tools behind it waiting to be selected, and if you click and hold your mouse button down on one of these tools, a fly-out menu will appear showing you the additional tools.

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For example, by clicking and holding on the Rectangular Marquee Tool at the top of the Tools panel, a fly-out menu appears giving me access to the Elliptical Marquee Tool, the Single Row Marquee Tool and the Single Column Marquee Tool. Simply move your mouse cursor over the name of the tool you want, then release your mouse button to select it.

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There are several types of measurement that you can use in Photoshop according to its purpose. You use Pixel units if you intend to use your image for web imaging since you monitor dimensions are measured in pixels. If you want to print your work later on, you may use inches, centimeters, and picas since they are the standard measurements

*pica-a unit of measurement for printing type, equal to 12 points or 0.422 cm/0.166 in

Types of Measurement

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One of the most commonly used panels in Photoshop is the history palette. Unlike other applications, you can only use the CTRL+Z command or the undo command once in Photoshop but you can always use the history palette to go back to your previous work. The default operation you can undo in the history panel is 20 but you can set this up to 1000 operations by accessing the Performance in the Preference window.

History Palette