Starting Adobe Photoshop and opening files
The Adobe Photoshop and Adobe ImageReady work areas include the command menus at the top of your screen and a variety of tools and palettes for editing and adding elements to your image. You can also add commands and filters to the menus by installing third-party software known as plug-in modules.
In this part of the lesson, you’ll familiarize yourself with the Adobe Photoshop work area and open a file in Adobe Photoshop.
Both Photoshop and ImageReady work with bitmapped, digitized images (that is, continuous-tone images that have been converted into a series of small squares, or picture elements, called pixels). In Photoshop, you can also work with vector graphics, which are shapes made up of smooth ...
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