Title: Photoshop Intro Lecture
Course: IN 166 Introduction to Graphics > Section: Module 2

This week we will start taking a look at Photoshop.  I am sure some of you, if not most of you, have been exposed to or currently use Photoshop.  It is the most widely used raster style photo editing/graphical creation software. You are required to have access to or own your own version of Photoshop to successfully do the assignments for this class.

Following will be some screenshots of the User Interface of Photoshop so you can start the learning process of what each is called.  With a greater understanding of terminology and the "parts" that make up Photoshop, you will be able to more rapidly learn the tools.

This weeks goal with Photoshop is to understand the layout of Photoshop, how to create a new document and how to save. Next week we will learn about usage, but for now, just the basics!

Below is the User Interface as you see it when you first start Photoshop and click the "New" button.  You will notice you have some choices to make when creating a new document, so please make sure to look at them all, but I will mention a few.  You can set the size of the document in inches, pixels and other options, but for this class, almost everything will be done in pixels to start with.  You can also set the resolution in Pixels per inch, wich for our needs should be set to 72.  We will go into more specifics later.

Below is the user interface after you have created a new document. You will notice there are many "areas" inside of the interface and the second screenshot below will detail them.

Pallets are a very important part of Photoshop as they contain all of the things necessary to transform your work, manipulate your layers, set type and etc.  The Layers pallet will be the most important one... as Layers are what makes Photoshop work!  The next screenshot shows the menu drop-down where you can access all of the Pallet windows.  If you are missing one or wish to add one to your interface, simply click on it in the drop-down.

The last few screenshots will show how to save a file from Photoshop.  Over the next few weeks you will learn of all the different file types, so as you save one please pay attention to the drop-down when saving.  The two primary types we will be saving for this class are PSD's (Photoshop Documents) and JPG's (Look at your file type document!).

As shown above, go to File and click it.  This drop-down will appear.  As seen in the next screenshot, choose Save As.  This is my personal preference so I won't accidentally over-write a file.  Once you are certain you are saving correctly, you can always just click Save or even Control S.

The last screenshot shows the  interface when you are actually saving.  Please pay notice to the File Type drop-down.  You have MANY choices and this is how you will select the type you want.  Do Not just type the extension in the above window... select it from the drop-down, otherwise you will have a corrupt document.

Lastly, choose where to save it to... and click save and you are done!

This was a fast and short tutorial in the interface found in Photoshop.  You will learn more as we move forward.  For this week please take a look at the interface and see what all it can do.  Explore and if you have any question, please post them in the ungraded discussion post for this week!