This document provides an overview of Adobe Photoshop and instructions for starting Photoshop CS4. It describes Photoshop as a tool for creating, modifying, combining, and optimizing digital photos and images. It also outlines the basic interface elements like the tools panel, document tab, application bar, control panel, and image window. A section is dedicated to explaining common tools in Photoshop like selection, retouching, drawing and type, and annotation tools.

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2. Starting Photoshop C4
Line1
Shape2
Direction3
Size4
Color and Value5
Texture6

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4. What is Adobe Photoshop?
It is a tool to create, modify, combine and optimize
digital photos and images in your computer.
It is a tool to create, modify, combine and optimize
digital photos and images in your computer.

5. Starting Photoshop CS4
Click Start Button1
Click Computer or My computer2
Click Local Disk (C : )3
Select Adobe Photoshop CS4 Portable4

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7. Tools Panel- Displays the different
icons or tools that are used to modify or
edit the image.
Document Tab- Displays the
name, color mode and magnification
of the open file or image.
Application Bar- Displays the
menus that contain most of the
Photoshop commands.

8. Control Panel- Displays the
controls that are used to customize the
selected tool in the Toolbox.
Image Window- Displays the
image or file that you have opened.
Panels- Small windows that allows
you to access common commands.

9. Panel Menu- Location where
panels can be stacked together to allow full
view of the image.
Status Bar- Displays the
magnification of the image and the
image information.

10. Hidden Tools or Fly outs
Tools that are inside of the other tool .Tools that are inside of the other tool .

11. Tools Panel

12. The Selection Tools
Move Tool (V)
Marquee Tool (M)
Lasso Tool (L)
Quick Selection Tool (W)
Crop Tool ( C )
Slice Tool

13. The Retouching Tools
Spot Healing ( J)
Brush Tool (B)
Paint Tool
Stamp Tool (S)
History Brush Tool (Y)
Eraser Tool (E)
Gradient Tool (G)
Blur Tool
Dodge Tool (O)

14. The Drawing and Type Tools
Pen Tool (P)
Text Tool
Path Selection Tool (A)
Shapes Tool (U)

15. The Annotations, Measuring and Navigation Tools
Note Tool
Eye Dropper Tool (I)
Hand Tool (H)
Zoom Tool ( Z )

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