Although you can create some interesting images from scratch in Photoshop, most of the time you’ll be working with digital pictures that already exist. These may be images captured by your scanner, photos you’ve grabbed with your digital camera, or snapshots stored on a Kodak Photo CD.
Photoshop offers you lots of different options for opening existing images, creating new images, and saving changes to your hard drive. This chapter takes you through the steps you need to know to begin working with your images.
If you want to capture an image with your scanner or import a photograph from your digital camera, opening such a digital image may involve a little more than just using the file navigation tools built into Windows Explorer or the Mac OS Finder. Browsing for Files If you don’t know the exact filename of the image you want to open or can’t remember its location, you can use the Photoshop File Browser to search for and open files. Finding a file is about as easy as you might expect: Choose File➪Browse, or press Shift+Ctrl+O (Shift+Ô+O on the Mac). Guess what! The File Browser window opens.
To navigate to a folder you’d like to search, use the folder tree in the upper-left corner of the window. Click an image to see it in the Preview window (which shows up on the left side of the File Browser). Photoshop graciously provides information about the file on the Metadata palette below the preview.
When you find a file you’re sure you want to open, double-click it, or choose File➪Open on the Browser menu.
If you know exactly where an image file is stored, you can open the file in a similar way to opening a word processing, spreadsheet, or other file; the default Open dialog boxes resemble those that you find in most other applications. (I discuss other file-opening options in the following sections.)
Follow these steps to open a file:
1. Choose File➪Open, or press Ctrl+O (Ô+O on the Mac).
The standard Open dialog box for Windows or the Mac OS appears. The layout of the dialog box differs slightly between the two operating systems.
2. Navigate to the folder that contains your file.
From the Files of Type list (Windows) or Show list (Mac OS), you can choose which types of files you want displayed.
3. Click the name of the image file you want to open.
To select multiple files, click the first file and then Ctrl+click (Ô+click in Mac OS X) each additional file.
You may see a preview of the image in the dialog box’s Preview window.
4. After you select the file you want, click the Open button.
The file opens in Photoshop. If you choose File➪Open Recent, a submenu lists the last files you worked on.
Click a filename to open it or simply type the number next to the filename.
You can define the number of files that appear on this menu in File Handling section of the Preferences dialog box.
Photoshop offers you lots of different options for opening existing images, creating new images, and saving changes to your hard drive. This chapter takes you through the steps you need to know to begin working with your images.
If you want to capture an image with your scanner or import a photograph from your digital camera, opening such a digital image may involve a little more than just using the file navigation tools built into Windows Explorer or the Mac OS Finder. Browsing for Files If you don’t know the exact filename of the image you want to open or can’t remember its location, you can use the Photoshop File Browser to search for and open files. Finding a file is about as easy as you might expect: Choose File➪Browse, or press Shift+Ctrl+O (Shift+Ô+O on the Mac). Guess what! The File Browser window opens.
Now you can also just click the new File Browser button, which looks like a folder & magnifying glass, and is on the right side of the Options bar.
To navigate to a folder you’d like to search, use the folder tree in the upper-left corner of the window. Click an image to see it in the Preview window (which shows up on the left side of the File Browser). Photoshop graciously provides information about the file on the Metadata palette below the preview.
When you find a file you’re sure you want to open, double-click it, or choose File➪Open on the Browser menu.
If you know exactly where an image file is stored, you can open the file in a similar way to opening a word processing, spreadsheet, or other file; the default Open dialog boxes resemble those that you find in most other applications. (I discuss other file-opening options in the following sections.)
Follow these steps to open a file:
1. Choose File➪Open, or press Ctrl+O (Ô+O on the Mac).
The standard Open dialog box for Windows or the Mac OS appears. The layout of the dialog box differs slightly between the two operating systems.
2. Navigate to the folder that contains your file.
OS X has a Favorites folder like the Windows taskbar where you can add frequently used folders. It also sports a Find button in the Open dialog box for those hard-to-locate files.
From the Files of Type list (Windows) or Show list (Mac OS), you can choose which types of files you want displayed.
To view all image files, choose All Formats (Windows) or All Readable Documents (Mac OS).
3. Click the name of the image file you want to open.
To select multiple files, click the first file and then Ctrl+click (Ô+click in Mac OS X) each additional file.
You may see a preview of the image in the dialog box’s Preview window.
4. After you select the file you want, click the Open button.
The file opens in Photoshop. If you choose File➪Open Recent, a submenu lists the last files you worked on.
Click a filename to open it or simply type the number next to the filename.
You can define the number of files that appear on this menu in File Handling section of the Preferences dialog box.
Getting Started and Finishing Up Photoshop
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