Tool and Palette Introduction

It can be a dizzying experience when you open Photoshop for the first time and seeing all the tools and palettes scattering arround your screen. You might be amazed but still asking the Photoshop creators why they forgot to leave room in there for you to work! Some of the more fortunate Photoshop users who have "the money" get to have a second monitor, just to have more space for their palettes. Still the rest of us do find ways to make our screens neat and arranged.

Finding places to put your most important tools and palettes in Photoshop is almost as important as knowing how to use them. You will discover this later as you work more with Photoshop. On the other hand, it is also very important to know how to effectively manage your workspace and get acquainted with the oodles of gadgets and gizmos found in your Photoshop software.

Before going into the different functionalities of Photoshop, it is inevitable to learn also how to control the prodigious profusions of palettes in Photoshop. However, there's a word of advice: No matter how many times you feel like nuking a palette the way you like it, no matter how many times your screen turns into a blinding jumble of annoying little boxes, just remember that you can organize the clutter into an elegant arrangement like a magic. Yes, just a few seconds away!

(Opening Photoshop for the first time.)