Getting started

Before beginning this lesson, restore the default application settings for Adobe Photoshop. See “Restoring default preferences” on page 5.

Unlike most other lessons in this book, you’ll work on three separate image files in this lesson. Each of these employs the different retouching tools in unique ways, so you’ll witness the strengths and special uses of the various tools.

You’ll start by using the File Browser to preview the three finished images that you’ll retouch in this lesson and to open your first start file.

1.
Start Adobe Photoshop.

If a notice appears asking whether you want to customize your color settings, click No.

2.
Choose File > Browse, or drag the File Browser tab from the palette well on the tool options bar to the center of your work area.

Or, after you select the File Browser tab in the palette well, you can click the arrow on the tab to open the File Browser palette menu, and then choose Show In Separate Window.

3.
In the upper left pane of the File Browser, locate and select the Lessons/Lesson07 folder.

4.
In the right pane, select the thumbnail for the 07A_End.psd file. If necessary, resize the middle pane on the left side of the File Browser (by dragging its upper, lower, and right edges) to see an enlarged thumbnail of the image.

The image includes a photograph ofa women’s crew team and some text in the foreground.

5.
Select the other thumbnails in the Lesson07 folder to see the “before” and “after” states of the three images you’ll work on in this lesson:

  • In the first project, you’ll repair a torn-off corner of the scanned image and then remove some distracting areas where a boat and its wake appear behind the rowers.

  • In the second project, you’ll clean up the stone wall beside the climber to remove some graffiti and bullet holes from the surface of the rock.

  • In the third project, you’ll retouch the portrait to remove some of the fine lines from the man’s forehead and around his eyes.

6.
When you have finished previewing the files, double-click the thumbnail for the 07A_Start.psd to open the file. If necessary, zoom in to 100% and resize the image window so that you can see the entire image.

7.
On the File Browser palette menu, choose Dock to Palette Well, or click the File Browser close button to close it.

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