New Images in Photoshop
If you want to work with an image that already is saved on your hard drive or some other type of computer storage, Photoshop provides several ways to open it using the Menu bar or the File Browser Palette.
- File-->Open lets you open multiple image files by holding down the <Ctrl> or <Shift> keys. This is very handy when you are processing lots of images from your digital camera
- File-->Browse opens the Adobe Bridge program that displays thumbnails (small versions) of any image files it finds in the folder location you choose.
- File-->Open As can be helpful if you are trying to open images that were saved on a Mac that don’t have file extensions – if you switch between the Mac and the PC, you will avoid a lot of headaches if you always include the file extension that describes the file format as part of the file name.
- File-->Open Recent displays a list of the most recent files you opened in Photoshop.
Photoshop installs with a Samples folder that contains images in several file formats. When you make changes to any of these images you need to be sure you save them in your working folder so you do not overwrite the original files.
Open images in the Photoshop
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- Use File-->Open to show the Open dialog box.
- Browse to the folders that contain images on your computer and open the Samples folder.
- Select one file or selection multiple files by holding down the shift or control keys, and clicking images with the mouse
- Adobe Bridge is available through the File-->Browse and as a standalone program.
- Bridge is an effective file manager for all your multimedia and web files.
- Open files in Adobe Raw.
- Open Preferences window (Edit>Preferences) and set up Photoshop to open all Digital Raw files and all JPEG files in Camera Raw
- Camera Raw provides powerful tonal and color settings to adjust images in one window. It can save a lot of otherwise individual adjustments in Photoshop palettes
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Rotate photos and straighten out crooked images
When you open images from a digital camera, some may be lying on the side, so you need to rotate them one-quarter turn to view them upright. Other images may have been taken at an angle and require straightening out. The Edit-->Transform pop-up menu includes a number of commands that allow you to rotate, resize, and skew a selected part of an image.
To rotate an image one-quarter turn clockwise, click Edit-->Transform -->Rotate 90 º CW. Several of the commands on the Transform Popup menu, as well as the Edit-->Free Transform command, give you handles along the edges and corners of the selection to drag and alter the image. To rotate the image, locate the curved arrow with two points at the corners of the image, and pull left, right, up, or down to rotate the selection.
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