Adobe Photoshop CS5 Classroom in a Book: The official training workbook from Adobe Systems

1. Getting to Know the Work Area

Lesson overview

In this lesson, you’ll learn how to do the following:

• Open Adobe Photoshop files.

• Select and use some of the tools in the Tools panel.

• Set options for a selected tool using the options bar.

• Use various methods to zoom in on and out from an image.

• Select, rearrange, and use panels.

• Choose commands in panel and context menus.

• Open and use a panel docked in the panel well.

• Undo actions to correct mistakes or to make different choices.

• Customize the workspace.

• Find topics in Photoshop Help.

This lesson will take about 90 minutes to complete. Copy the Lesson01 folder into the Lessons folder that you created on your hard drive for these projects (or create it now), if you haven’t ...