1. PhotoShop Creative Suite 3
Chapter 1
The Work Area

2. Objectives After completing this chapter, you will be able to:
Identify different features of Photoshop’s work area, including menus, tool options and palettes
Modify the work area using a variety of methods
Reset Photoshop’s work area
Change and reset the foreground and background colors

3. Default Work Area
If Photoshop has just been installed, you will see the default workspace.
What does default mean?
“How a computer program looks before any settings are changed.”

4. The Toolbox Also called the Tools palette
Contains most of Photoshop’s tools
Can be displayed as:
Long, single row of tools
Shorter version with two rows of tools
To switch back and forth, click the double arrow at the top of the Toolbox.

5. The Toolbox Small arrow in the lower-right corner
Indicates that other tools will appear if you click and hold the mouse button.

6. Foreground and Background Colors
Two colored boxes near the bottom of the Toolbox
Show what colors are currently selected for foreground and background colors
Foreground color=top color box
Used by the painting and drawing tools.
Background color=bottom color box
Appears when you create a new document or when you open an image and erase part of it.

7. Foreground and Background Colors
To change either, click on the corresponding color box in the Toolbox
This opens the Color Picker
Click on the desired hue in the color slider

8. Resetting the Colors to Black and White
In Photoshop, white means “no color”
When you print, the white areas are not printed.
Black used as a foreground color when creating objects such as text or lines
Can reset colors to black and white by clicking on the Default Foreground and Background Colors icon.

9. Switching Foreground and Background Colors
Small icon next to the foreground and background color boxes is the Switch Foreground and Background Colors icon.
Looks like a curved arrow and switches the colors used

10. Screen Modes
Change Screen Mode button appears at the bottom of the Toolbox
Click and hold the mouse button to reveal four different screen modes that change how files you have opened fit into your screen.

11. Standard Screen Mode Activates the default setting
Menus, options bar, palettes, the toolbox and all open files are displayed

12. Maximized Screen Mode Title bar of each image is hidden
Information that normally appears there is displayed at the top of the screen
Open images are resized as much as possible
You can switch between images by using the Window menu.

13. Full Screen Mode w/ Menu Bar
Similar to Maximized Screen Mode
Creates even more room by removing the application title bar from the top of the screen

14. Full Screen Mode Hides the title bars and the menu bar
They can be accessed by clicking the tiny downward-pointing arrow at the top of the toolbox 

15. The Options Bar Located just below the menu bar
When you click on any tool in the toolbox, the options appear here
If you hold the mouse for two seconds over any section of the options bar a tool-tip appears
This is a brief description of each option.

16. The Options Bar
At the far left side of the options bar, the current tool’s icon appears
This is a picture or symbol that represents the selected tool
If you click the small arrow pointing downward, you can access the Tool Preset
As you become more comfortable, you can create your own presets.

17. The Options Bar
At the far right of the options bar, there are two settings that appear
The Go to Bridge option opens Adobe Bridge, a program that organizes files
The Workspace button is the other option
This opens the Workspace drop-down list.

18. Menus
Lists of commands that are related to each other

19. Palettes Small windows that contain a variety of settings
Hide the ones you don’t use very often
Move to another location by clicking and dragging their tab
Zip and restore them by double-clicking on tabs.
Can be closed by clicking on the X
Can be stretched or grouped.

20. Saving the Workspace Arrangement
If you find an arrangement of palettes that works for you, you can click on the workspace button and choose save workspace
Once you name the configuration, you will be able to pull that arrangement up in the future.

21. Working with Multiple Image Windows
If you have more than one image file open, you can also use the Window menu to quickly arrange your images
In the Arrange category of the Window menu, there are three options:
Cascade
Tile horizontally
Tile vertically  

22. Cascade
The images stack on each other.

23. Tile Horizontally
Fit the screen to make the maximum horizontal space

24. Tile Vertically
Resizes the images so that they fill the screen to provide the maximum vertical working space

25. Working with Multiple Image Windows
Choose Window>Arrange>New Window
A second copy of an image that is already open and selected will appear
At the bottom of the window menu, you will find a list of all the images that are currently open

26. Using the Help Menu
You can quickly find information about a particular topic

27. Using the Undo and Step Backward Commands
Any time you make a mistake while using the program, be aware that you can undo it by choosing Edit>Undo or pressing Ctrl-Z.
If you want to undo more than one mistake, choose Edit>Step Backward