Getting Started with PhotoShop


Computers in Communication
Boston University College of Communication
Copyright © 1996 by Professor Jim Lengel

PhotoShop includes software tools to do most anything you want to the image you have on the screen. The PhotoShop for Macintosh Visual QuickStart Guide from PeachPit Press (at the bookstore) provides a good introduction to these tools. For further instruction, use the Adobe PhotoShop Classroom in a Book, from Adobe Press (on the shelf in the Multimedia Lab), will take you deeper into Photoshop's capabilities.

Just to get started, here is a summary of selected items from Photoshop's tool set: