Day 02- GDA | Navigation in Photoshop

Today marked the second day of my journey at MAAC Institute, where we learned the essentials of Adobe Photoshop. Which covers layers, layout, navigation, shortcuts, the move tool, and the marquee tool. Here's a breakdown of what I learned:

Layers in Photoshop

In Photoshop, layers are fundamental to everything you do. Each element you draw or add is placed on its own layer. This is crucial because it allows for the creation of effects such as overlapping elements and using some layers as reference points that can be deleted later. However, it's important to note that not all layers can be deleted. While you can add as many layers as you want, the last layer cannot be deleted; the option simply isn't available.

Move Tool and Marquee Tool

We also covered the move tool and the marquee tool, both of which are indispensable for manipulating elements within your project. The move tool allows you to reposition elements, while the marquee tool helps in selecting specific areas for editing.

Layout and Navigation

Understanding the layout of Photoshop and how to navigate within it is essential for efficient workflow. We explored various shortcuts that streamline the process and make working in Photoshop more intuitive.

There are 5 sections in default layout Tool Bar, Menu Bar, Panels, Property Bar and work space or canvas as shown in below image.

• Tool Bar: It is a section where all the available tools can be seen can we can choose any other them to use.
  
  
• Menu Bar: It is a section where we have additional settings and options related to the editor or photoshop sofwart itself, it has optios like changing the layout, opening new canvas and alot of things it is not something to be used for editing it is something which changes the settings, layout or any property of the software itself.
  
  
• Panels: This section has different windows for different purpose like layer panel shows the layer which is selected also we can change layer from this panel similarly we have properties panel which gives information about the location of any object on the canvas and many other panels are there.
  
  
• Property Bar: This section has different properties like style, width, height and other options depending on the tool selected from tool bar.
  
  
• Canvas: The work space or area where you will have your image or you will actually work.

There are some shortcuts in Photoshop which can be used to speed up the designing process the list are given below for navigation and transform of an image:

• Ctrl + E :- Merges the selected layers and delete the original layers.
• Ctrl + Alt + E :- Merges the selected layers and keeps the original layers as well.
• Ctrl + T :- Creates a bounding box for resizing the image or object in selected layer.
• Space + Drag :- Enables temperary Hand Tool to move the canvas or view.
• Ctrl + Backspace :- Apply background color on selected layer.
• Alt + Backspace :- Apply foreground color on selected layer.

In photoshop there are some color schemes also the 2 which are mostly used are RGB and CYMK.

• RGB stands for Red Green Blue, in this color scheme all the colors are made with the combination of pixel values of Red Green and Blue color.
• CMYK stands for Cyan Magenta Yellow Black, in this color scheme all the colors are made with the combination of the percentage of these 4 CMYK colors.

However we can use the paint pickup tool for selecting any color we want as we don't need to remember the values we can select it in interface directly also if we want we can use Hex code for any color if we find over internet on the sites like coolors.

Well, that is it for today from next session I believe we will start more important tools of Photoshop as this was it we got to know today because of time, well whatever is the case I am happy that I am learning something which I thought I will never will be able to understand. So, let's see what will happen in the future and till what level we can take this learning. I will continue to describe my learning here as I will proceed in the journey till then hoping for the best and waiting for the rest...