Getting Started with Photoshop

In this tutorial, you’ll learn Photoshop’s major web design tools. After reading this chapter, you’ll know enough to get up and running with the software. You’ll also learn about creating logos - an important but often overlooked area of web design.

Logos are usually only a small part of a website; however, they carry much weight. They’re symbolic…carrying messages about the nature of a company’s business and the company’s style.

In this tutorial:

1. Getting Started with Photoshop
2. Style Requirement for Logos
3. Starting Photoshop
4. The Photoshop Work Area 
5. Creating a New Image  
6. Working with the Toolbox