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Vocabulary
Vocabulary
Main Menu - This is where your Options, Image Adjustments and Filters are. When you run filters in Photoshop, they will be found in this section under the Filters Menu.
Document Window - This is the actual image or file that you are working on in Photoshop. This also refers to any other open document inside of Photoshop. You can have multiple images open in Photoshop at once.
Workspace - This is the area where you will work on your image. The workspace consists of everything you see when you open the program.
Toolbar - By default, this sits on the left side of your screen and contains all of the different tools that are available in the program. If a tool contains a black triangle in the bottom-right corner, then there are other tools related to that one stored in a sub menu. All you have to do is click and hold your mouse over that tool to reveal the submenu.
Options bar - This menu is most used when you have a tool selected. It allows you to adjust settings that are specified for the active tool.
Color - This is where you select and apply a color of your choice to your image.
Layers - One of the most important aspects of Photoshop is the feature called Layers. Layers is where you can stack images on top of each other, blend images together, add color, take it away, merge layers together and much more. In the example below, the document is made up of 3 layers: the black background layer, the middle texture layer set to the blend mode of hard light and then the type layer on top. How layers stack will greatly determine the look of your work.
Panels - This refers to each window inside of Photoshop, which contains controls over different aspects of your document. Good examples would be the "Color Panel", the "Layers Panel", and anything else besides the toolbox that is open alongside your actual Photoshop document. What is great about Panels is that you can arrange them however you desire. You can dock any panel with another set of panels, so that you can consolidate your workspace. All you have to do is click and drag the title tab of any panel over another panel. The bottom panel will outline in blue, letting you know that you can dock this panel with another set. Release your mouse, and now you will have multiple panels in one small window.
All of the panels are listed under the "window" menu
All Photoshop panels
A look of what all the panels look like when they are all oped and visible on the workspace
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