Adobe Photoshop CC For Dummies, 3rd Edition

Chapter 4

From Pics to Prints: Photoshop for Beginners

IN THIS CHAPTER

Mommy, where do pictures come from?

Keeping track of your images

Putting pictures on paper

Sharing your work

In this chapter, I show you how to get images into Photoshop from your digital camera and your scanner and then how to keep those images organized on your hard drives and discs. I discuss the basics of printing your images on inkjet printers (and alternatives) and tell you some things you need to know to make sure that you get the prints you expect. I also explain how to prepare images for sending by email.

Bringing Images into Photoshop

Artwork in Photoshop originates in one of four ways:

• Photoshop’s Home screen, shown in Figure 4-1, opens by default when the program launches, but you can open it at any time by clicking the button at the far left end of the Options bar.The Home screen offers you a list or thumbnails of images recently opened. In the left column, you can instantly jump to your Lightroom photos, documents in your Cloud storage, documents being shared with you through the Cloud, and ...