Introduction This handout provides an introduction to Photoshop, a popular image-editing application. This document covers the Photoshop interface, tools and palettes, working with selections and text, color correcting and resizing images, and managing documents. Objectives The learning objectives of this workshop are: • Start PhotoShop and use the basic tools. • Retouch images. • Save files in different formats. • Work with layers. • Prepare graphics for the World Wide Web.

Getting Started with Adobe Photoshop 6.0 Starting Photoshop You can start Photoshop using either of two methods: Double-click on the Photoshop application icon. This icon is usually in a folder called Photoshop. It also appears on the desktop of the computers in the Student Microcomputer Facility. Double-click on the icon of any Photoshop document on your computer. Photoshop then opens with the document already loaded. Exploring the Photoshop Interface Besides the usual window components (close box, title bar, scroll bars, etc.), the Photoshop window has several other elements: