Photoshop CS6 Self-Study (a) understanding

Photoshop CS6 The first section of the first chapter into the development history of CS6 World Photoshop CS6 Work Interface menu bar title bar document window Toolbox Options bar status bar panel preferences settings

Photoshop CS6 Self-study Section I. Chapter One enters CS6 world development History of Photoshop

In 1987, Photoshop's main designer, Thomas Nore, bought an Apple Computer (Macplus) to help him with his doctoral dissertation. At the same time, Thomas found that the Apple Computer was unable to display a grayscale black-and-white image, so he wrote a program display himself, while his brother John Nore in directing George Lucas's film special effects production company industry Light Magic Work, Very interested in Thomas's program. After more than a year, the two brothers changed display to a more powerful image editing program, and after several renaming, they accepted an exhibitor's suggestion at an exhibition and renamed the program Photoshop. At this time the Display/photoshop has a level, color balance, saturation and other adjustments. In addition, John wrote some programs that later became the basis of the plugin (plug-in).

Their first commercial success was to sell Photoshop to a scanner company, named Barneyscan XP, with the version 0.87. Meanwhile, John continued to find other buyers, including Supermac and Aldus, without success. Eventually they found Adobe's artistic director, Russell Brown. Russell Brown is now studying whether to consider another company Letraset's colorstudio image editing program. After seeing Photoshop, he thought the Knoll Brothers ' program was more promising. In July 1988 they decided to cooperate orally, and the real legal contract was not completed until the following April.
In the the early 1990s, the printing industry in the United States has undergone relatively large changes, prepress (pre-press) computerization began to popularize. The CMYK features that Photoshop added in version 2.0 enabled the printing plant to start handing out separations to the user, and a new industry table printing (desktop PUBLISHING-DTP) was created.

February 1991, Photoshop2.0 official version of the release, from Photoshop out of hand, all the way through, eliminated a lot of image processing software, became the industry's overlord.

Note Oh, so far, in this writing, someone has said that the highest version of Photoshop has reached the CC2015, but I still installed the computer CS6, since CS6 has matured, I think the higher version can be solved, so as a novice I, Bloggers prepare to start from CS6 study, is now my own learning process.

Q: What is the meaning of CS behind Photoshop?
A: CS is an abbreviation for the two words that follow in Adobe Creative Suite software, representing "authoring collections", a unified design environment

application areas of Photoshop
1. Graphic Design
2. Photo Processing
3. Web Design
4. Interface design
5. Text Design
6. Illustration creation
7. Visual Creativity
8. Three-dimensional design

Q: What is a decal?
A: "Map" is a three-dimensional software used in the production of material images, it is a professional terminology. Textures are mainly used to perform texture and bump effects on materials. CS6 's working interface

Knowledge name	function	Degree of importance
Menu bar	Execute the corresponding menu command	High
Title bar	Displays information such as the file's name, format, window scale, and color mode	In
Document window	Display an open image	In
Toolbox	Most tools for assembling Photoshop CS6	High
Options Bar	Setting parameter options for a tool	High
Status bar	Displays information about the current document's size, size, current tool and window scale, and more	Low
Panel	Coordinate with the image editing, control the operation and set parameters, etc.	High

Menu Bar

Photoshop's Menu bar contains 11 main menus, file, edit, image, layer, text, selection, filter, 3D, view, window, and help, as shown in the following illustration.
title bar

When you open a file, Photoshop automatically creates a title bar. Information such as the name, Format, window scale, and color mode of this file is displayed in the title bar. document window

The document window is where the open image is displayed, and if only one image is open, there is only one document window. If more than one image is open, it is displayed as a tab. Click the title bar of a document window to set it as the current working window.

Toggle the floating/parked state of the document window
By default, all files that are opened are compact with tabs. Press and hold the left mouse button to drag the title bar of the document window, you can set it as a floating window, if you hold down the left mouse button, drag the title bar of the floating window document to the tab, the document window will be parked in the tab. Toolbox

The toolbox sets up most of the Photoshop CS6 tools, in 8 groups. Select tools, crop and slice tools, eyedropper and measure tools, retouching tools, path and vector tools, type tools and navigation tools, plus a set of icons for background and background colors before setting and toggle model icons and special tools for quick mask mode editing. Using the left mouse button to click a tool, you can choose, if its tool has a triangle icon in the lower left corner, it means that this is a tool group, click the right mouse button above the tool to pop the hidden tool. Options Bar

The options bar is used primarily to set the tool's parameter options, and the options bar for different tools is different. status Bar

The status bar is located at the very bottom of the work interface and displays information panels such as the size of the current document, document size, current tool, and window scale.

Photoshop CS6 Altogether 26 panels, mainly with the editing of the image, the control of the operation and setting parameters. The commands under the Window menu open the panel. Preferences Settings

You can open the Preferences dialog box by clicking the Edit > Preferences > General menu command or by pressing the CTRL+K key combination. In this dialog you can modify the general settings, interface, file handling, performance, cursor, transparency and gamut of Photoshop CS6. Once set, the Photoshop CS6 will run with this setting.

Knowledge name	function	Degree of importance
Conventional	Modify some of the general settings for Photoshop CS6	In
Interface	Modify the color of the interface, etc.	In
File processing	Modify the file storage options and compatibility, etc.	Low
Performance	Modify memory usage and history, etc.	In
Transparency and color gamut	Modify the network size and color of transparent areas and color gamut warnings	Low
Units and rulers	Modify unit and column size, etc.	Low
Guides, networks, and slices	Modify guides, grids, and color and style of slices
Plug-ins	Sets whether the plug-ins folder is attached to the list in Photoshop	Low
3D	Modify options such as lighting and constraints when manipulating 3D objects	Low

Next, we will continue to write self-taught CS6 things, hoping to let people understand.