

This menu also houses the ability to show/hide rulers and guides, which will aid in editing your images. View The View menu contains options to change your view of an image e.g., zooming in and out or displaying how the image might look when printed or viewed on another computer. 3D (Photoshop Extended version only) This menu contains tools for creating and manipulating 3D objects but won't be covered in this course. Analysis This menu provides options for measuring, counting objects, and placing markers in your image document.

Examples of some filter effects: blurring, sharpening, distorting, and applying brush strokes or textures to an image. Applying a filter to an image will modify the image based on the filter's predefined instructions. Filter Filters, or special effects, are contained in this menu. For example, you might want to isolate a person's eyes to change the colour without affecting the rest of the image. Selections are areas of an image that you choose to isolate from the rest of the image. Select The Select menu contains options to create, modify and manipulate Photoshop's selections. (Layers are covered in depth later.) To summarize, a Photoshop image can contain a number of separate levels, or layers, that contain image information. Layer This menu contains options to modify and manipulate layers.

Image The Image menu contains options to modify colour depth or mode, manipulate or adjust colour and other image properties, modify image size, canvas size and orientation, examine colour information and extract areas of an image from backgrounds. Edit The Edit menu contains options to copy, cut, and paste entire images or parts of images, fill areas of an image, create strokes or outlines around image elements, transform or modify images and set preferences. File The File menu contains options to create new images, load existing images, save images, acquire images from scanners, print images, automate functions, set colour settings and exit the program.
