Getting Started With Adobe Photoshop

In Lesson 1 in Getting Started with Photoshop, you'll learn how to keep your copy of Photoshop CC up to date with the latest features and improvements. Then, in Lesson 2, you'll learn how to install Adobe Bridge, the powerful file browser included with Photoshop. Lesson 3 covers how to use Bridge to download photos from your camera to your computer. And in Lesson 4, we take a more detailed look at Bridge and learn why you'll want to use Bridge to organize, preview and open your images.

From there, we move on to Lesson 5 where we learn about some important color settings in Photoshop. You'll learn why Photoshop's default color settings are not the best choice for image editing, and how to help your photos look even better with just one simple change. If you use Photoshop as part of the larger Creative Cloud or Creative Suite, you'll also learn how to sync Photoshop's color settings with your other Adobe apps (like Illustrator and InDesign) to keep your colors accurate no matter which app you're using. We cover that in Lesson 6.

Lesson 7 explores some important options in the Photoshop Preferences that can keep Photoshop and your computer running smoothly. You'll also learn how to customize Photoshop's interface from the Preferences, how to save backup copies of your work, and more! And finally, in Lesson 8, you'll learn how to reset Photoshop's Preferences to their defaults, and why knowing how to reset them is such an essential troubleshooting skill.

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