Tips for using the PS File menu

tips for using the PS File menu

The File menu

(1) "New" command

Let's learn how to create a new document. If you don't have a document open in Photoshop CS2, any of its tools and options are not operational, so first we choose "New" in the File menu bar and you can hold down the CTRL key and double-click the left mouse button to pop up a new File dialog box. We set up a 500-pixel, 360-pixel-high document that is appropriate for most display's workspaces, as shown in the following illustration:

In the first Name column, you can enter a topic for the document you want. To the right of the width and Height fields, you can select "inches, millimeters, centimeters, dots, and pies" by pressing the DOWN ARROW pop-up menu. To access the pop-up menu, Mac users simply click anywhere in the pop-up menu, and Windows users must click the pop-up menu Drop-down button.

If the width is not set to 500, the height is not set to 360, now let's enter these values. Select it by clicking on the "width" field, and then enter 500. Press the TAB key, move the cursor to the Height field, and enter 360. The cursor movement between the fields can be clicked by using the mouse or by pressing the TAB key.

We generally set the "resolution" to 72 pixels per inch. Photoshop CS2 the 72ppi as the default, because most monitors display 72 pixels per inch in the screen area. In other words, the document is set to the same resolution as the monitor. If your setting is not 72ppi, change it to 72. If you increase the resolution, height, or width of the value, then the size of the image will also increase. In our actual operation we try to avoid large images, because the large image in the operation is very bulky, slow response, and it will also reduce the speed of the computer.

In the mode option, it should be set to the RGB color (red/green/blue). Photoshop CS2 the RGB color as the default, because RGB is the standard color mode for video display colors. In RGB mode, colors are composed of three colors, red, green and blue. All of the drawing and editing properties of Photoshop CS2 are valid when set to RGB color mode. If your computer is not set to RGB color mode, you can set the RGB color by clicking the "mode" pop-up menu and selecting "RGB Color".

If you want the new layer background to be white, click the "White" button in the combo box. If you choose the background color option, the background color that the Photoshop CS2 last used will be the back color of your new document. If you choose "Transparent", you will work on a background layer with no color values, when we click OK to close the New dialog box, a new document window will appear on your screen with the name of the file (untitled), the current display mode, and the magnification in the window's subject bar. You can scroll, resize, and close the Photoshop CS2 window, or you can move the window to where you want it by clicking and dragging the theme bar. We can also enlarge the picture by selecting "View" ︱ "zoom in" or press CTRL + + "+", select "View" ︱ "Zoom Out" or press CTRL + "-" to zoom out.

(1) "Open" command

The Open command is used to open a picture file and is one of the most basic commands.

2.1: In the "Look in" we can choose to open the location of the picture. Select a good picture and click, so that a preview of the picture appears below the panel, and then press Open.

2.2: Press the Ctrl+o key or double-click the operation interface with the mouse to open the blank space can be quickly opened this dialog box.

(3) "Recently opened file" command

The most recent open File command is to list some of the files you've opened recently, and you can easily find files that you've opened before.

(4) "Save As" and "Save Web" command

Save As you can save the file in a different format so that it can be exported to the network and multimedia programs. The Save as Web command allows you to save files to the Internet. To use Save as Web, you can select not only a Web file format, such as GIF or JPEG, but also your files are guaranteed to be saved as "network safe" colors.

(5) "Automatic" command

Automatic commands can run a set of files or batch processing multiple Photoshop CS2 commands. For example, you can use the automatic command to convert all folders that contain GIF or JPEG files to a Web image. The switch to command allows you to immediately switch to other programs, such as Adobe ImageReady or Adobe illustrators.

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