To start this lesson.
Make sure you have Project 1 open.
This is in the for the PSU Files folder under Project 1 not the final one but just the other option
resizing and placing layers.
You should see something like this and this is the basic layout of Photoshop at the top.
We have our menu with a dropdown options for all kinds of different things.
We're going to be going through a lot of these throughout the course.
Basic File menu where you can save your project create new projects.
Edit and image menus that allow you to edit the canvas which is what we call the project itself or the
specific images that are in your project a layer menu which is how you can edit the layers et cetera
et cetera.
This is I don't want to dive too deep into what each thing is because that's not how I want to teach
this class and I don't think that's the best way to learn.
I think the best way to learn is to learn through practical projects and examples and through the course
you're going to learn what most of these options are.
But it's not of course where I'm going to say Okay the first thing is file new What does new do.
The next thing file open it does open in two because I don't think that's the best way to retain that
information.
But just knowing that your top menu is a great place to access a lot of options is good to know.
Below this you have your canvas right here.
This is your main Photoshop project area where you're going to be doing all of your editing you're typing
out tags adding shapes that this mean area where you're seeing your actual images going to the left.
You have your toolbar so that the toolbar is where you have all your tools.
You have tools that can crop your images tools that can paint on your images you have brushes text all
kinds of things.
Again we'll be going through these one at a time throughout the course.
It's not a course where I'm gonna go.
Just start at the top and go one by one but know that we will be covering these throughout the entire
course.
If you hover over each tool you kind of get a pop up and the name of the tool and it kind of shows you
what it does and then if you click and hold you can see that for some of these tools there's other options.
So if you see this little arrow on the bottom right of each tool if it has that which I think pretty
much everyone does now except for the zoom tool down here there are other options that you can get to
it that are a related tool to the main tool on the top.
You have your sort of tool adjustment bar or tool settings bar so depending on the tool that you have
open you'll have different settings up here that you can adjust to change how that tool works moving
over to the right hand side.
You have several panels now the way that this looks right now is what it should look like if you just
open up photoshop for the very first time.
Now I probably should have mentioned this in the very beginning but if you are using have used photoshop
before your layout might look a little different and the panels or these windows which is what we call
panels and Photoshop those might look different for you.
What you probably want to do is go either up to window workspace and then choose essentials which is
the default view or set up for this.
There is different view options or setups depending on what kind of editing you're doing.
Now there's another place to get to this if you click this dropdown right here.
It's this little icon that looks like the photoshop layout itself.
And then you can change it if you're on essentials and it doesn't look like this click the reset essentials
button because you might have moved some panels around or things like that.
And by clicking reset essentials it will get back to this basic essentials view and that's important
as we move forward so that we're all on the same page.
Let me just show you though if I go to workspace and change it to graphic or photography for example
it changes what the windows are up here or say let's go to graphic and web.
Again it changes what is up here or the panels that are open and you can see as I do that there are
different panels for all sorts of things.
You've got color swatches gradient patterns.
These are how you select colors that you're going to be using in your project.
Below that you have libraries and adjustments libraries is something that's really cool with Adobe where
you can save specific color swatches even things like photos or brand images like logos that you can
always have quick access to in your library below that you have layers channels paths.
So the layer panel is actually one where we're going to be working a lot in and if you kind of look
down below you can see some layers already that I've created in this project.
We have a bird layer a kid layer an elephant layer.
We're gonna be diving into this in more detail in a future lesson but you can start to understand how
Photoshop works by looking at the layer panel and seeing all the different layers we have.
And that's basically how Photoshop works is we're layering different images and effects and graphics
on top of each other to create a brand new piece of art.
So these panels can be adjusted and moved around and customized to what you think you're going to need
to use for your specific project.
There's one other bar right here that has more panels.
It's kind of a way to hide or minimize the real estate that it takes up in your in your window.
But there's different ones and you can actually move panels onto this bar which we'll be showing you
in the next lesson.
But just so you see these panels that are open.
If you go up to a window you can see which panels are open by seeing which ones have checkmarks next
to them.
So for example if we want to have our character panel open click character and now we have our character
panel open on this bar.
Character is our options for text and it also opens the paragraph panel as well which is related to
character.
And if you've ever edited pretty much any text in any sort of application even like Microsoft Word you'll
be familiar with what paragraph options there are.
That's a lot.
I know this is a lot and this is kind of a whirlwind if you feel like hey Phil this is getting a little
bit too in-depth right this second.
Don't worry we're gonna be going over all of these things.
And by the end of this course you're going to be so comfortable with it.
Now if you're like Phil this is super basic I know all this.
Let's get to the good stuff.
While just be a little bit more patient because we're getting there but for anyone who's brand new to
photoshop understanding this stuff is a little bit complicated.
I know that but now you know the basic workspace and also how to change your workspaces here.
So in the next lesson we're going to be diving a little bit deeper into customizing the workspace and
panels to get to a view that I think is going to be perfect moving forward with its class.
See you then.