Photoshop is the industry-standard image rendering software. You can use Photoshop to create customized graphics, edit photographs and make flyers and images for print as well as for the web. This handout provides a simple how-to guide to familiarizing yourself with the Photoshop environment.

The Photoshop Environment
Photoshop Toolbox
The Photoshop toolbox is the most important user interface with this complex program, and includes the primary tools to work with graphics. These include the tools that let you use type, and select, paint, draw, sample, edit, move, annotate, and view images. Other tools in the toolbox allow you to change foreground/background colors, go to Adobe Online by either clicking the feather Adobe logo at the top of the pallet or by going to File > Adobe Online.

Overview of the tools
To view the name of a tool button, hold your mouse pointer over the tool you want to see, and the name will appear as a tool tip. (See the image right.) Some tool buttons have multiple tools combined into one button. Tool buttons with multiple tools have a small triangle in the lower right hand corner of the button. Right click and hold this button to view the alternate tools

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