General term to describe all of the tools, panels, and bars in the program.

The topmost bar in the program includes drop-down menus for file, edit, image, layer, etc...

The bar is directly below the menu bar. This bar will change based on the tool currently selected.

Bar on the left side of the screen that offer different tools.

Located on the right side of the workspace. These tabbed windows offer options to modify the document.

The white area of the workspace where your image is visible.

Grey area of the workspace where the image is NOT visible.

Image editing program for raster / bitmap / pixel images.

“Picture Element” square unit of color displayed on a screen of a raster image.

Pixel density, we use ppi (pixels per inch)

Hold the spacebar to move around the document while a tool is active.

To make the image bigger or smaller you can:

use the navigator panel

hold CTRL and press “-” or “+” key

use the view drop down in the menu bar.

To resize an image, have the layer selected then either:

hold CTRL and press “t”

go to the menu bar under edit

To resize an image without stretching it activate free transform then hold SHIFT while dragging a corner handle.

Located in the menu bar under file. This will preserve a copy of your work to the last location with the last used file type.

Located in the menu bar under file. This action will give you the option to preserve your work with a new name, location, and file type.

This panel will allow you to put image on top of or below other layers. Layers on top will hide layers below.

Also known as marching ants. While active, only pixels inside the marching ants can be edited.

To remove the marching ants you can:

Hold CTRL and press “d”

In the menu bar go to select

While using any selection tool this button will appear in the options bar. This will bring up a new window to refine the selection.

To make a perfect circle or square using the marquee tools hold shift while dragging.

You can move the origin point of a marquee selection by holding spacebar while still holding down the left mouse button and dragging.

To reset the organization of tools, bars, and panels go to Menubar > Window > Workspace > Reset Essentials

To the left of each layer will be a box or eye icon that can be toggled to hide or reveal a layer

A panel that can be found by going to:

Menubar > Window > History

This panel will allow you to jump to previous actions by clicking on the grey area of each action.

By clicking on the layer and selecting “CREATE CLIPPING MASK” the pixels on the CURRENT LAYER will replace with the AVAILABLE Pixels on the layer directly below.

Select the layer

Hold CTRL, and press J once

Menubar > Layer > Duplicate Layer

Used only inside the SELECT AND MASK pop up window.

This tool allows you to remove the background from selections.

Used only inside the Select and mask pop up window.

This slider will soften and fade the edge of a selection.

This tool can displace pixels on a layer.

Tool used to create a text layer. This tool is required to “enter” and edit a text box.

Tool used to fill an area with a solid color.

The active color used for tools like the paint brush or paint bucket.

Tool used to make oval or circular selections.

Tool used to make rectangular or square selections.

Tool used to make geometric selections.

Tool that makes selection based on brush size.