Inside Photoshop® CS

Accessing Photoshop's Preferences Settings

The good news is that there's an entire menu of preferences in Photoshop; all you need to do to display it is press Ctrl()+K. The not-so-good news, however, is that some of the useful stuff on the Preferences menu is “logically opaque” (in other words, unfathomable) to beginners and even some intermediate users. So our best advice is to follow our lead about which preferences to select. We'll show you examples and perhaps a mini-tutorial or two, and then you can decide for yourself what you're going to hold and what you're going to fold.

In Photoshop, press Ctrl()+K now so you can get started on the following ...