Adobe Photoshop CS5 One-on-One

• You’ll see a folder called McClelland Boys, be- Step 2Step 3
  cause these are photos I took while out with
  my kids. Click that folder to fill the content
  browser with a collection of eighteen tiny
  photographic thumbnails, as in Figure 1-3.

To change the size of the thumbnails, drag the slider

triangle in the bottom-right corner of the window

(labeled Thumbnail size slider bar in Figure 1-3).

3. Select a thumbnail. Locate and click the
   file called Butterflying_03.jpg, highlighted in
   Figure 1-4. (Some of these images were captured
   and automatically named by a digital camera,
   hence their cryptic filenames.) This activates the
   image and displays it in the Preview panel on
   the right side of the Bridge window.

To see more detail, enlarge the Preview panel by

dragging the vertical and horizontal panel dividers

that separate the five panels.

4. Double-click the thumbnail. Double-click the
   thumbnail in the Content panel, and choose
   File→Open or press Ctrl+O (�-O on the Mac).
   The Bridge hands off the image to Photoshop,
   which in turn loads the photo. I turned off Open
   Documents as Tabs (see page xxi of the Preface), so
   for me the photo appears in a new image win-
   dow, as in Figure 1-5.

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The title bar or tab lists the name of the image and
magnification level followed by a color notation, RGB/8.
These six characters convey three pieces of information.
RGB tells you that you’re working with the three primary
colors of light—red, green, and blue—the standard for
scanners and digital cameras. Next, /8 lets you know that
the image contains 8 bits of data for each of the red,
green, and blue color channels, which permits the image
to include any of 16.8 million colors. Finally, the asterisk
() alerts you that you’re working in a color environment
other than the one you specified in the Color Settings
dialog box (see Step 7, page xix). The upshot: Photoshop is
aware of this image’s specific needs and is doing its best to
accommodate them, thus ensuring accurate color.

Color notation in parentheses

Independent window (better for grabbing screen captures)

Figure 1-4.

Figure 1-5.

Opening an Image 7