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This is another great introductory video of Photoshop CS3 version. This video tells you how the Photoshop is going to change your life. Now that’s not only the purpose of this video. Its gonna tell you how to use Photoshop, what are its benefits, what are the basics of the Photoshop and how to use those basic to enhance your memories.

Photoshop is the best photo editing software ever made. There are many other software available in market, however, to find the simplest one, might be impossible. Let’s enjoy the video.

Ok so today is the big day. We are going to open up Photoshop for the first time. So I have just installed Photoshop so double click the icon to open it up. Now I have this vast alien landscape in front of me. We need only to concern ourselves with three areas. We have the menus up top from File to Help. To the left we have the tool bar which has our selection and zoom and crop and text tools and such.

And on the right we have all of the palettes. The layers and channels and the paths and the like. So for this lesson we are just gonna focus on simply opening up an image, add a little bit of text and then we will save it. You need to go up to file and it’s under file as we can see we can create a new document, open an existing document. We can browse which will send us to bridge, which we will get into later on. And right now it’s currently grayed out as we have nothing to open or we can save it as well. So I wanna choose open which will bring up the open dialog which will allow you to navigate to where your image is in your hard drive.

Select your image and then click open. Now you will notice we have this image that has kind of opened in its own window. You can move around in its workspace here and if you don’t have these rulers to the top and left. Click view and then rulers right here, by clicking that you can either hide or reveal them and we will position to this to how I want it down here at the bottom right. You can drag this window to make it a little larger. So the only thing I wanna do right now is just gonna look at the text tool right now.

The text tool is represented by this little T here. Click that. Then up on the top we will see that we have Times New Roman as the current font and I could change that. Then we have the font style which is regular, italic and bold as such. The point size, the justification, whether there is going to be left justified, center or right justified. And then right here is the color. So, I want this to be black. I will select impact. The texts I will select 30 points for the size and anywhere in here that I click I will now get this cursor. It’s a blinking cursor that is ready for me to enter some text. When you are done with the text simply click this check here and it will commit. And as you can see with this text tool selected I have this strange box like this eye cursor. If I move it over the text the little box goes away suggesting that I can select or put my cursor anywhere inside this line of text. If I move a little bit to the right or anywhere off the line of text you can see that it sort of turns into this arrow with the little, it is basically the move icon with the move symbol.

When that happens you could click and drag anywhere to move the text. So for now this is all I wanna do. I just have this text put the check to commit it and now I wanna save it. By default it is going to save or default it to the PSD format rather. Because if you look down here at the layers palette which will customize the move later on and two layers the background layer which is my image and the text layer which automatically added as soon as it added some text. So when we save this by default it is going to recommend that we save this as a PSD which is a Photoshop document. Now that’s good because that’s what we want to save this document in layers and eventually we can open up the PSD later on, we can edit the text or edit the graphic, that’s the benefit of the – layers. That’s all we are going to do for now. We go down to save and springs up the save box.

Choose the folder you wanted it to save in. I am gonna give this a name and underneath that is format and PST is currently highlighted. But if it is not you click on the first one here. Click save. This dialog may or may not pop up and this basically means maximize compatibility. That’s just making this image more compatible with older versions of Photoshop. Click ok. And now we have saved our first PSD which contains a little bit of text and we will get this further in the next few lessons.

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