Adobe Photoshop Basics

This will give all the basics of using Adobe Photoshop, suitable for the first timer on amateur user.

As soon as you open Adobe Photoshop you are shown with the main screen.

At the top left we have a menu, consisting of, 

File , Edit , Image , Layer .. and so on. These menu's each have their unique purpose, most often you will be using the 'File' menu.

Below the file menu we have lots of smaller buttons. 

Note: The coloured outlines and not actually in photoshop but are for demonstration purposes.

This buttons inside the red outline are for moving the image and manipulating it. The first button that is selected already is the rectangular marquee tool. This tool is for selecting around the image or layer. Right clicking and dragging inside the layer will select it. 

The rest of the buttons are different ways of selecting the image.

The tools inside the green outline are for drawing ,erasing and filling things on your image. For example the bucket, fills the image with the selected colours (inside the yellow outline below).


The yellow outlined buttons consist of your colour palette. The one infront (black) is your foreground, and the one in the back (white) is your background. Clicking on either one will bring up every colour can choose from.

This is an image of where basically everything is.

The best way to learn is play around with an image for an hour and just try every button.