A Quick Tour Of Adobe Photoshop; Selecting - Adobe PHOTOSHOP 5.0 User Manual

Chapter 1: A Quick Tour of
Adobe Photoshop
T
his interactive tour introduces you to key
features of Adobe Photoshop and takes
about an hour to complete.
For detailed instructions on how to use many of
the features introduced in this tour, as well as a
movie version of the tour, see the lessons on the
Tutorial CD. For complete information about any
feature, see the index in this user guide.
You can bring images into Adobe Photoshop in
many ways. Most projects begin with a scanned
image, stock digital art, or artwork created with a
drawing program, such as Adobe Illustrator. You
can also create images from scratch in Adobe
Photoshop. For this tour, you'll use files from all
of these sources.
Start Adobe Photoshop.
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Choose File > Open, and open the files
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Tour.psd, CD.psd, and Horn.psd, located in the in
the Adobe Photoshop 5/Training/Tour folder or
on the tutorial CD. Arrange the windows so that
you can work with them easily.

Selecting

In Adobe Photoshop, you modify part of an image
by first selecting that area. You'll begin the tour by
making selections in images using the selection
tools. (If you make a mistake at any point in the
tour, simply choose Edit > Undo, and try again.)
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