From the course: Photoshop 2023 Essential Training

Opening files in Photoshop - Photoshop Tutorial

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Opening files in Photoshop

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- [Narrator] When you first launch Photoshop, it displays a home screen to help guide you to the files that you want to work with. Now, don't be alarmed if you're new to Photoshop and your home screen doesn't look exactly like the one that you see here, because Adobe often updates and customizes the content that appears in this screen. For now, I'll go ahead and hide these suggestions and if you've already been working with Photoshop, you'll probably see a number of icons here for your recently open documents. All right, in order to create a new file from the home screen, I'll click on New file, and across the top there are several different categories, as well as a Recent and Saved area. If we click on one of these categories, we can see the default presets. We can also click to see additional presets and we can scroll down to see templates. Again, the presets and the templates that you see here might be different, because Adobe often updates them. It might also help to resize the screen, so we can grab the corner here and just drag to make it larger or smaller. All right, we're going to use the options on the right, in order to define the size of the new file that we're going to open. I'm just going to make it 12 by 8 inches, at a resolution of 300 pixels per inch. Now, we can always change the units of measurements, we can change the orientation, the color mode, and the bit depth, as well as a number of additional options that we'll cover later in this course. All right, if we think that we're going to open files with these same settings over and over again, then we can click this icon right here, in order to save this as a preset. So I'll just save it by, as 12 by 8 at 300 ppi. And when I choose to save the preset, we can then see it in the saved category. If I ever wanted to delete this preset, I could click on the trash icon and if I want to open it, I simply double click on it. Now, as soon as I open a document in Photoshop, it automatically hides the home screen and if I close this open document, it will automatically display the home screen again. Now, instead of opening a new file, let's go ahead and open a document. I'll choose Open, and you may see a different screen. Yours might set its default to open from Creative Cloud, but I want to open a document that's local to this hard drive, so I'll choose On my computer. Then I'm going to navigate to the exercise files, to the 01 opening files, and I'll double click on iceberg.jpg in order to open it into Photoshop. Now, to access the home screen, while a file is open, we can click on the home icon, and likewise, to hide this and return to Photoshop, we can click on the Photoshop icon. You can also open files or create a new document from the file menu by choosing File New or File Open. All right, let's go ahead and close this file. And again, we see the home screen and now we can see an icon of our recently open document. And if we want to, we can change this to a list view or just leave it in the thumbnail view. All right, a few options before we wrap up, we can also see Your files. This displays any documents that you've saved from Photoshop in the cloud, as a cloud document, and that's a special kind of format. They're stored in the cloud, and they're optimized for transferring Photoshop documents between devices like your desktop computer, and maybe an iPad. We can also see files that have been shared with us, and if we use Lightroom, the cloud version, you can access your files here, from the home screen. And if you're working with Lightroom Classic, you can see any files that you've placed into collections and then synchronize those collections with the cloud, in this dialogue and you can open the smart previews from those images into Photoshop. Now, we'll cover these options and more, in depth, in later chapters, but as you can see, there are several quick and easy ways to create new documents or new files, save new document presets and open files into Photoshop.

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