All right.
Welcome back.
So if you don't already have Photoshop open go ahead and open it up.
And in this video going to be covering the File menu.
But before I get started on that just real quick I want to talk about the splash page here the welcome
page.
So you can take a tour you can check out what's new and you can drag and drop an image or select one
from a computer to get started.
And that's basically what they would do as a start project if you click on learn.
There we go.
They do have tutorials here.
So you can check out tutorials and these are good ones.
I've looked them over.
You can take a tour of Photoshop save your images crop and straight and image add an image add an object
to an image and there's a lot more right here.
You can also do tutorials on the Web.
There's all sorts of videos here they're all great.
I think this is fantastic.
I wish they would've had this when I was in school I would have had a ball with us.
So I encourage you to check that out at a later time.
They do have Lightroom photos as well.
I don't have any in here but if you had them in here you could pull them out and then work from there.
So I just want to show you the the welcome screen just so you understand what it does.
And then right here you have the search bar so you can search and then you have a link to your account
as well.
If you need to get there.
OK.
So in this video like I said we're in we're talking about the file menu.
So what I'm going to do is I'm going to go to file and the first thing we're going to be learning about
is the new command or the new file.
And basically what this is going to do is this is going to give you a couple options when you start
you're going to get a default Photoshop size that's seven inches by five inches and the resolution is
300 pixels so 300 DPA.
So think three hundred dots per inch or pixels per inch.
They really say dots per inch but it's the same thing.
Basically what that does is if you do a 300 pixel resolution or DP I should say it's going to have a
crisper image because you can have more dots per inch.
So you're going to have more quality.
OK.
So let's click OK just to see what happens.
And now you can see it opens up the document.
So now you can start working in that document.
Now the next thing.
So that's really new all new does is it just takes you to this little prompt menu here and you can go
through and if you look at the document type there's a lot of document type.
So you can the U.S. paper International Paper photo web mobile app design film and video kind of goofy
art and illustration our board untitled and custom.
So they give you a lot of options you can say presets you can set the resolution to if I go to Web it's
going to be 72 DP not 300 because 300 is really for print.
The reason why they do 72 for our G.B. is because load time if you are building a Web site and you have
300 DP images your Web site is never going to load.
It's going to be really slow plus you're trying to reach everybody.
So it's going to be a tall hill to climb if you're trying to reach everybody but you're putting really
high end quality content out there which is great but you've got to do it somewhere where it can handle
that.
So if it's video that's a different story but for the Web you need to optimize.
So that's that's the new.
That's how you make a new document.
So the shortcut for that is control.
And so if you have control and then you go in here and you change this to Let's do video 1920 by 10
80.
OK there you go.
So now you have new and now we have three tabs open.
So if I want to close these you can do a couple of things you can click on The X you can hit control
W to close them as well.
And then that will take us back to the homepage.
OK.
So that's the new command.
Now you can also do open and what opens gonna do is it's going to look for Photoshop files so I don't
have currently anything here to grab but that's OK if you did have a file you could click new open and
then it would open or you can have control Oh OK.
Next up is browse and bridge.
So I don't have bridge installed but what bridge does is bridge will show you real quick this is a bridge.
OK.
So you can centralize all content with the bridge.
So think of bridges kind of like a folder with all your content on it.
OK.
It gives you centralize access to all the files and assets you need for your creative projects organize
personnel and team assets batch added with these add watermark sense set centralized color preferences
and even upload your photos to Adobe stock bridge simplifies your workflow and keeps you organized now
including creative called libraries.
So what it will do is it will optimize everything and keep it organized.
It can make folders to organize everything and pull things in.
So you by running that command browse and bridge or hitting control all oh that's going to pull
bridge open.
If you have it installed we do not have it installed so it's not going to work right now.
But that's OK.
All right.
The next one is open as so open as is the same as open but instead of just doing open and picking a
random file this is gonna have you open as well as overseas and see all of the files the formats the
extensions here.
Wow that's a big.
OK there we go.
All right.
So you can open as a BSD PDT or PTSD.
D.T. OK.
A large document 3D Studio audio file BNP camera Ras
C.I.A. D.A. Jeff
G.P.S. flash while flash through the school Google Earth pics are Photoshop raw Photoshop PDA.
OK so there's a lot of formats in there.
The point is I can scroll down and there's even more.
So this is pretty much going to open just about any file format that there is not every single one.
I'm not guaranteeing that but you can see here from the list
there's about 30 extensions right here.
OK.
Because one two three four five six seven eight nine ten that's 10 right there.
So
much 20.
Yeah.
So we're about 30 right here.
OK.
So you're going about 30 to 50 extensions.
I don't know the exact number but you have a lot of options to open as here.
OK.
Now the next one.
And if you want to do the shortcut you can do alt shift control.
Oh let me try to I'll shift control.
Oh I'm going to say a lot of shortcuts because shortcuts increase your productivity dramatically domestically
not domestically dramatically.
It makes you faster.
Trust me
open is a smart object.
So what this is going to do.
It's going to do all formats
and you're going to open a smart object.
So that would be like for an example that I use a lot is I grab Illustrator files and bring them over.
So they're vector images so you can save it as a as a vector image you can save it as a smart object
if you want it to.
There are other examples but that's the primary one that I use open recent.
We don't have anything recently opened close.
That's only if you have a document open software control end and then openness.
Now this menu is going to be open so you can control w close all as can control w close and go to bridge
shift control w ok.
Now if we want to save what's not going to let us save right now because we haven't done anything but
if I grab this brush and I do this you see this little star right here now it's going to open up this
menu here and say OK now you can save OK or we can save as Soviet control s or shift control as you
can save or save as OK.
Now what I recommend doing is if you're going to save just save it just to control.
You don't need to save as because this appears defile.
So when you're building out files in Photoshop you want to always have a source.
And what I mean by that is save it as a PSA first then export it as whatever you need.
That way you can edit the file because if you edit it not edited it but if you save it as a flat image
you're not going to be able edit any layers because what it does is when you export it out as a j peg
PGA golf etc. It's going to flatten the layers so you're not going to be able to do anything with it.
You're going to redo everything.
So if you get into the habit of saving appears defile then you're not going to have problems later when
you have one hundred and eighty layers that you flattened and now you can't do anything because you
didn't save the PSP file.
So please please please save a BSD file it will save you in the long run.
OK so if I control apps and I go to the desktop I'll save it there.
OK.
Now you can do save as as well and we could save it as a photoshop EDF.
OK let's save that.
OK.
Save PBF.
Yes.
OK.
Now if I minimize this for a second go to the desktop.
There you go.
We have the photoshop file and a PDA file open that up.
I don't have a PDA of readers so never mind.
Let's go back to Photoshop and let's do the next one.
So revert
believe I can do revert right now and just seize on them.
There we go.
OK.
So revert basically undo is and does your last action.
So if I do this and I do this and then I go here and I hit revert or if I hit 12:00
OK it's going to revert or undo your previous action.
So even if I do this and I'm doing four different things right.
If I had f twelve it gets rid of all of them.
OK.
So that's just if you need to undo four things at once or just undo everything that you just did.
Besides this right here my beautiful artwork.
OK Expo excuse me export quick export as PSG export as export preferences save for web and then all
these are players to files color look up tables pass to illustrator zoom ify.
So if I do a quick export as PSG
let's have it minimize
OK it didn't work like that normally what I'll do is I'll do alt shift control s and then I work in
this window.
This is what I use when I export stuff.
Right wrong or indifferent.
That's what I use because right here they have the preset so you can to a.
You can do JPEG PMG 8 p.m. G 24 WB MP I don't really use that much but ok let's do PMG and then I'll
save that and let's go to the desktop.
Save it as untitled 1 and I'll replace it.
And there you go.
So now if I minimize this there's my pinky.
So we have PSP PDA F and A PMG.
OK.
So now generates you can do image assets
we can share be hints so we can upload here.
Close that this is Sharon behind us again we can search Adobe stock place embedded place linked
so these are just files that you can bring in and then what it's gonna do is make a layer of that so
you see how it's the same file but
OK so you see how they have different little icons here.
So we did the embedded
OK so the embedded has this little document icon right here and then the link has a little lock on it
for a link
package you can grab a folder with content on it.
Automate so you can do batch PDA presentation create droplet create straight and crop and straighten
photos contact sheet conditional mode change fit image lens correction merged the HD pro and photo merge
scripts you can run scripts to like delete all empty layers there's a lot of things you can do this
is really a cool thing.
He can flatten all masks which I don't have any but you can write all your own scripts and really you
know write out like five different things that you're doing and then make it a process and then run
it and then it will flatten a layer of facts which I don't have any but
the right call.
All right well done.
Next up we have import so we can import video frames the layers notes w I support file info so this
is gonna give you the info on the PD f
I haven't put a lot of metadata in here but you want to because it's going to give you good SEO optimization
if you're going that route and other places as well we can print I'm going to cancel.
We can do print one copy I'm to cancel that as well.
And then the final thing in the file menu is the exit.
So if I click on this it's going to prompt me to save my file I'm in it no.
And then it's going to close I'll photoshop.
So that's the file menu in a nutshell.
I know that's a lot to take in but again it's just to get you started with Photoshop to understand what's
going on.
And so what I want to do is I want you to delete all these files right here for me and I will see in
the next video.
Thanks for watching.