So many menus, so little time! The second you begin working with Photoshop, you may be convinced that Adobe’s flagship image editor has somewhere on the order of 8,192 different menu selections for you to choose from. In truth, Photoshop has only about 500-plus separate menu items, including some that are duplicated. That figure doesn’t count the 100 or so entries for filter plug-ins (which can expand alarmingly as you add third-party goodies).
However, even 500-plus menu items are considerably more than you’ll find in the most ambitious restaurants. Basically, if you want to do something in Photoshop, you need to use the menu bar. The menu bar consists of nine main entries, each of which holds a dozen or more nested subentries and sub-subentries that cascade into view as you drag the cursor down the list. If you’re using the Mac OS, the Photoshop menu bar may share space with Finder components, such as the Apple menu or the Clock.
You’ll find pop-up menus everywhere, next to icons on the Options bar, on menus that fly out from palettes, in the status bar, and especially in the menu bar. You can find detailed descriptions of the menus and how to use them elsewhere in this blog, but the following sections offer a summary of what you can find and where you can find it.
Photoshop also helps you by providing context-sensitive menus, which change their listings depending on what you’re doing. You don’t see options you don’t need and do see options appropriate to what you’re working on.
However, even 500-plus menu items are considerably more than you’ll find in the most ambitious restaurants. Basically, if you want to do something in Photoshop, you need to use the menu bar. The menu bar consists of nine main entries, each of which holds a dozen or more nested subentries and sub-subentries that cascade into view as you drag the cursor down the list. If you’re using the Mac OS, the Photoshop menu bar may share space with Finder components, such as the Apple menu or the Clock.
You’ll find pop-up menus everywhere, next to icons on the Options bar, on menus that fly out from palettes, in the status bar, and especially in the menu bar. You can find detailed descriptions of the menus and how to use them elsewhere in this blog, but the following sections offer a summary of what you can find and where you can find it.
Photoshop also helps you by providing context-sensitive menus, which change their listings depending on what you’re doing. You don’t see options you don’t need and do see options appropriate to what you’re working on.
Working with Your First Photoshop File
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