December 2008
Beginner
800 pages
28h 55m
English
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Chapter 1. Photoshop CS4 Guided Tour
Photoshop CS4 is bursting with amazing features that’ll help you edit and create digital masterpieces. If this is your first foray into the world of Photoshop, all these features will be new to you. If you’re an experienced pixel pusher, there are surprises a-plenty waiting for you, too. With Photoshop CS4, Adobe introduced major changes to the work environment, and while these changes make Photoshop easier to use, they take some getting used to.
Throughout the rest of this book, you’ll dive much deeper into specific tools and techniques, but this chapter gives you a good, solid foundation on which to build your Photoshop skills. You’ll learn how to work with the new Application Frame and Application bar and how to wrangle all the windows and panels filling your screen. Once you’ve gotten them placed just right, you’ll learn how to save your setup as a custom workspace. If you’re a beginner, the section on using Undo commands and history states will show you how to fix mistakes and back out of almost anything you’ve done. Finally, you’ll learn how to fine-tune Photoshop’s behavior through preferences and built-in tools (called presets) that let you personalize your work environment even more.
Meet the Application Frame
When you launch Photoshop CS4 for the first time, you’ll be greeted by the new Application Frame shown in Figure 1-1. It’s part of Adobe’s effort to consolidate your work environment and lessen clutter; the frame confines all things ...
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