Complete Guide To Opening Images In Photoshop

In this second chapter of our Photoshop Basics series, you'll learn everything you need to know to open your images in Photoshop. Before we can do anything with our photos, we first need to get them into Photoshop. Opening images may not sound like a topic that needs an entire series of tutorials. But Photoshop is no ordinary program. And like pretty much everything we do in Photoshop, there's more than one way to open an image.

In this chapter, we take you through each of them. We start in Lesson 1 by learning how to set Photoshop as our default image editor in Windows 10. Lesson 2 covers how to set Photoshop as your default image editor in Mac OS X. In Lesson 3, you'll learn how to create new Photoshop documents from scratch, while Lesson 4 shows you how to open existing images in Photoshop. Lesson 5 is all about Adobe Bridge, the file browser included with Photoshop, and why it's a better way to select and open your images. The only problem with Bridge is that it can sometimes open a file in the wrong program. We learn how to easily fix that in Lesson 6.

In Lesson 7, you'll learn how to open images directly into Photoshop's powerful image editing plugin, Camera Raw. And, if you're an Adobe Lightroom user, you'll want to learn how to move your images from Lightroom into Photoshop for further editing. Lesson 8 covers how to move raw files from Lightroom to Photoshop, while Lesson 9 shows you how to move JPEG files between Lightroom and Photoshop. Finally, in Lesson 10, we finish off this chapter by learning how to close our images in Photoshop, including how to close all open images at once!

Some of the lessons in this chapter build on previous lessons. To learn Photoshop from the beginning, be sure to read through the tutorials in Chapter 1 - Getting Started with Photoshop, before starting Chapter 2.

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