Hour 1. The Basics

What You'll Learn in This Hour:

• Finding Your Way Around

• The Toolbox

• Tool Options Bar

• What's on the Menus?

• Setting Preferences

Photoshop is still the ultimate graphics program, although it's far different from the first version released about 15 years ago. Even though it's mainly used for photo retouching and image manipulation, you can also use it to create original art, either from scratch or based on a photograph. You can even use it to set type and turn plain fonts into gleaming metal or three-dimensional puffy satin, or whatever you like. It's much more fun than a video game and much less difficult than you might think.