Exercise 3 – Photoshop CS4 Interface

Identify the following items on the diagram below :-
Menu Bar,Tool Bar,Options Bar,Palettes/Panels,Image Title Bar,Status Bar,Button Bar
Menu Bar: along the very top of screen
Tool Bar: down the left hand side of the screen
Options Bar: under the Menu bar
Palettes/Panels:down the right-hand side of the screen
Image Title Bar: under the 'Options Bar'
Status Bar:along the bottom of the screen
Button Bar:


Start Photoshop CS4. Describe three ways of starting Photoshop :

1) Clicking the Adobe Photoshop desktop icon
2) Dragging image onto photoshop icon
3) Right Click on an image'open with: photoshop'

Open ‘Photoshop->Preferences->General …’. Turn off the option ‘Zoom Resizes Window’. Click ‘OK’ to save the change.


What are the shortcut keys for the following tools :
Hand tool: H
Move tool: V
Crop tool: C
Text tool: T
Zoom tool: Z

Open the image file ‘Img 1 – Ex 3 - Image-1.jpg’ and do the following :

a) What is the colour mode of the image, and what is the bit depth of the image ? (Identify two locations where this information can be found). Its RGB 8 bit image,info displayed on 'Image Title Bar' or through the Menu bar 'Image > Mode'

b) What is the zoom percentage that the image is displayed at ? 16.67%
c) Change the zoom percentage to 28%.

d) Click on the green button on the title bar. What happens ? This changes the display size of the image

e) Fit the image to the screen. What is the zoom percentage ? 19.99%and what is the keyboard shortcut ? Ctrl 0 (zero)

f) Zoom to 100%. What is the keyboard shortcut for this ? Ctrl Alt 0 (zero)
g) What does 100% zoom mean ? your are viewing the actual size of the image on screen
h) What do the ‘ + ‘ and ‘ - ‘ keys do ? The '+' key zooms in the '-' key zooms out

Using the 'Status Bar'
1) What is the image size in pixels and the image resolution in dpi ? 2020 by 2906pixels with 300dpi
2) What is the document size in Mb ? 16.8megabytes
3) What do the two sizes refer to ? The number on the left refers to the prining size of the image. The number on the right refers to the file's size

Press the ‘Tab’ key. What happens ? Press the “tab’ key again. allows you to turn on/off all of the toolbars/palettes and panels
What is the keyboard shortcut to close a document window ? Ctrl W
What is the keyboard shortcut for quitting Photoshop? Ctrl Q