SETTING DISPLAY SETTINGS WITH THE WINDOW MENU

The window menu looks like the following figure.

It controls the display of panels and some other elements of the Photoshop workspace.


 

®    The top two elements on the Window menu enable us to control the display arrangement of our open documents and manage our workspace.

o   On the Window➪Arrange submenu, we can tell Photoshop to cascade (stack) or tile (butt edge to edge) all open documents. Our images must be floating in their windows to enable this option (Window➪Float All in Windows). Example shown in following figure.

o   Photoshop also sports what’s referred to as an application frame. Open documents are tabbed together neatly, one stacked behind the other. If you yearn for the old days and want your images to float within the application, choose Float in Window (for the currently selected image only) and Float All in Windows (for all your images) commands in the Arrange submenu.

If we make all images in Photoshop as “Float All in Windows” then we can see all images with separate window and we can move it as we want like following figure.

  Then suppose we click on “Windows➪Cascade” so it arranges all image like following figure.

 

It arranges the image windows based on they are opened (first opened image goes at back and last opened image comes in front).

The following table shows us the lowdown about the other options on the Window➪Arrange➪Submenu.

Table	The Window➪Arrange Submenu
Menu command	What It Does
Consolidate All to Tabs	Takes your open floating documents and tabs them together under the Options bar.
Match Zoom	Takes your open documents and matches the magnification percentage of your active document.
Match Location	Takes your open documents and matches the location of your active document. For example, if you’re viewing the lower-left corner of your active document and choose Match Location, all your open documents display from the lower-left corner.
Match Rotation	Takes your open documents and matches the canvas rotation of your active document.
Match All	Employs all Match commands simultaneously.
New Window	Opens another view of the same image, allowing you to work on a close-up part of the image while viewing results on the entire image.
Minimize (Mac only)	Hides the image while placing the image’s thumbnail on the Dock. Click the thumbnail to restore the image in Photoshop.
Bring All to Front (Mac only)	If you have multiple applications launched, thus multiple document windows open, this command brings all Photoshop documents to the front, ahead of any document windows from other open applications.

LAUNCH PHOTOSHOP & SCREEN INDRODUCTION

 

We start Photoshop the same as we launch any other program with Windows or the Mac OS. In Windows, we can launch programs from the Start menu or an icon on the taskbar. In Mac OS X, we may have a Photoshop icon on the Dock. In either Windows or Mac OS X, we can double-click a Photoshop shortcut or alias icon if we have one on our desktop. Finally, we can double-click an image associated with Photoshop, which then launches Photoshop along with the file.

 

SCREEN INDRODUCTION OF PHOTOSHOP CS5

When we launch Photoshop, the workspace, shown in Figure, appears. Photoshop desktop is a place for us to put all the images we’re working with.

 

 

Within the Photoshop application window, we have variety of other windows and boxes, such as

®    Option bar shows the current tool property and we can set it from here.

®    Image window (Document Window) that enables us to view and edit images.

®    From Dock we can see the historical editing of the image and they are shown as layered form, as well as we can hide the Panels from here using navigation buttons.

®    The application window contains the stuff we’re probably used to seeing in other programs

®    A title bar at the top of the window.

®    A status bar at the bottom (unless you have it turned off) if we’re a Windows user, and menus to help us execute commands and get important information about our image files.

®    The arrangement of controls may be a little unfamiliar to us. Photoshop arranges controls into groups, or panels.