Let's begin working in Adobe Photoshop CS4 by defining what's called the workspace. The workspace is at what you actually see when you open up Adobe Photoshop and let me start up here in the top section. The top section is called the menu bar. It begins with the Apple menu in Photoshop and it contains file, edit, image, layer, select, filter, analysis, 3D view, window, and help. This is called the menu bar and at any point, throughout this tutorial, if you hear me reference the menu bar, this is where I'd like for you to go. All of these elements that you see, these are called palettes over here. This is called the toolbar. The second one is called the preferences bar. They can all be accessed through the menu bar and that's very important. First thing I want to discuss now is what is inside the menu bar and some of the basic functions. So beginning with file, if you click with your mouse, you'll find a variety of options. Most importantly, to start, you find a new file. That's where we can create new ones or open existing files. This is also where you're going to import files. For example, if you scan a photo or an image and also where you will close and save files. These are grayed out right now, meaning they're not available to you because we do not have a file open. The next option is called edit. What I'm going to do to activate some of these, I'm going to create a new file right now. I'm going to click new. You'll notice here you have the command N, that is the keyboard shortcut for a new file. This first window here that opens up allows you to name it and it's good practice to always include a name right at the very beginning. So we'll just call this image one and it's good practice to also to not include spaces inside of your naming convention, to always use an underscore and then the zero one before the first nine digits, so zero one, zero two, zero three. You'll understand the reason for this later on in the video. Our first initial setting defaults to 800 by 600. You can also use pre-made presets such as US paper, which is your eight and a half by eleven paper. You'll notice the resolution, we'll explain this a little bit more later, is set to 300. This is print quality resolution. I'm just going to go ahead and skip the rest, we'll come back and define the rest of the screen later on in this video. I'm going to click okay. Now here I'm looking at my document now, it is eight and a half by eleven. What I want to do is show you what some of these options are right up here. As you roll over them, you'll notice there's a red circle that's called the close box and that's how you can close this document. The minus is to reduce and the plus is to maximize. So I'm going to click maximize right now and you can see nothing really happened. But if I was to reduce by clicking and dragging from this corner, this is called your resize box down here, that allows you to reduce the actual file size. You can click the maximize now and it increases it back up so that you can see the full document. So now we're actually ready to go. Going back to the menu bar. Now you can see the edit menu. Here you'll find the most important part of Photoshop which is your undo. Right now it says can't undo because we actually haven't done anything. Keep in mind you can also redo or step forward if you don't like the change that you undid or you want to go back to that change. You can also undo up to 20 steps and I'll define what that means a little bit later. Here's also where you can copy and paste and do a variety of other functions. Under the image section or these are called actual headings, you'll find your mode. Mode it right now with default to RGB but you'll also find CYMK which is the color mode you want to use when you print. You'll see you're also your adjustments. This is where you will make most of your adjustments to your images and a variety of other elements that we'll discuss later on in this video. Under layer this is how Photoshop likes to treat new objects. It treats them all in layers and I'll define that a little bit later as well. The select menu deals with selections. So in other words you can address specific elements inside of your image or the image as a whole. Filter, better known as special effects. This is all your special effects. Analysis we're going to skip for right now that gets into more advanced techniques. Same as 3D. Under the view you will need a couple things in here. For example, rulers is often helpful. When you click view and then rulers it activates some rulers right across here so you can actually see and measure what it is that you're doing. Another important one is you can zoom in and zoom out and you'll notice there are keyboard shortcuts, command plus and command minus. Also fit your entire image on the screen. These are all very useful tips that you'll want to memorize the keyboard shortcuts for. It's the window. This is probably the most important part of this menu bar as it contains all of the palettes that you will need and you use throughout Photoshop. So at any given point if you lose a palette it's going to be found in this windows heading. Now lastly the default workspace that we have right now is called Essentials and you'll notice this is the workspace button here. The Essentials setting looks exactly like you see it here but if you click on that you can see different types of settings. For example if you want to paint what it'll do is it'll change and now it shows you all of your painting options. You can see here the workspace is now changed or if you want to work with typography. Now it switches and shows you for example your font and your font sizes. So these are called your workspaces. How you're going to use this probably will be that you will be able to save your own personal workspace once you're comfortable. So now we're all done discussing the workspace. Let's move on to the next lesson.