Chapter 3: Starting, Finishing, and Getting It on Paper
In This Chapter
Opening images
Saving images
Closing down Photoshop
Printing from Windows and the Mac
Although you can create some interesting images from scratch in Photoshop, most of the time, you work with digital pictures that already exist. These pictures may be images captured by your scanner; photos you, or your family and friends, have snapped with a digital camera.
Photoshop offers you many options for opening existing images, creating new images, and saving original files or copies to your hard drive. After you open, edit, and save your files, you may want to transfer those images from screen to paper. This chapter takes you through the steps you need to know to get your photos in and out of Photoshop.
Browsing for Files
If you don’t know the exact filename or location of an image, you can use Adobe Bridge to search for and open files. (Check out Book I, Chapter 4 for a complete description of Bridge.) Finding a file is about as easy as you might expect: Choose File⇒Browse in Bridge or press Alt+Ctrl+O (Option++O on ...
