Basic PhotoShop Introduction

Basic PhotoShop Introduction, In this article you will learn Basic things that you need to learn in Photoshop CS5. Understanding Photoshop interface, Opening a file in Photoshop, creating a file in Photoshop. How to save a file in different file formats using Photoshop. Understanding difference between foreground and background colour in Photoshop.

• Menu Bar
• Photoshop tools
• New Document WorkSpace
• Object Bar
• Work Space switcher
• Layers Palette

Understanding Photoshop Interface

Creating New Photoshop document

To save a file, From the Menu. Click on File->Save. It will be saved as PSD document. For saving a file keyboard short cut is (Ctrl+s).

How to save a file in Photoshop

If you want to save a file in different format then you can use. From Main menu File->Save As, then select format click on Save button.

How to save a file in different file formats using Photoshop

After saving a file in Photoshop, if you want to open it. Navigate to File->Open menu in Photoshop.

Opening a file in Photoshop

If you want to apply foreground colour use short cut (Alt + Backspace).
For using Background Colour use short cut (Ctrl + Backspace).

Understanding foreground and background colour in Photoshop

This is just basic tutorial for complete beginners, I hope this article helped you to learn Basics of Photoshop.