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• Menu Bar: It is located at the top of the Photoshop window. It contains eleven different menus
such as File, Edit, Image, Layer, etc. It also contains window control buttons.
• Options Bar: It appears just below the Menu Bar. It contains the settings of the selected tool.
• Tools Panel: It is docked at the left-hand side of the Photoshop window as a long vertical strip.
All the tools for creating and editing an image can be found here. Some of the tools have a small
arrow at the bottom right corner which means these tools have some other tools in them.
• Color Panel: This panel displays the colour values for the current foreground and background
colours. You can change the foreground and background colours.
• Layers Panel: It contains all the layers present in the Photoshop document. Whenever you add
an image into a Photoshop document, a new layer is created. In short, layers are transparent
sheets stacked on top of each other.
• Document Window: It displays the file you’re working on. Document windows can be docked.
OPENING AN IMAGE IN PHOTOSHOP
In Photoshop, you can open files using the Open, Open As and Open Recent commands.
Perform the following steps to open an image file in Photoshop:
Step 1: Select the File → Open option from the Menu Bar. The Open dialog box will appear.
Step 2: Browse the location and select the image which you want to open in Photoshop.
Step 3: Click on the Open button. The image will open in Photoshop.
Tech Hint
• To undo a mistake: Ctrl + Z
• To undo more than one step: Ctrl + Alt + Z
TOOLS IN PHOTOSHOP
As you know that the Tools Panel has the different tools for editing and enhancing images. When you
click on any tool, the mouse pointer takes the form of the selected tool. For better understanding,
Photoshop tools can be divided into related tools group.
MOVE AND SELECTION TOOLS
Photoshop provides a tool called Move Tool to move object around the surface. It also provides
various types of selection tools. Let's learn about them.
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