And you can choose from any of these four different color themes. Again on Windows, this would be under the edit menu. Some of you may also choose a lighter or darker color theme for Photoshop, and we can do that by again, going to the preferences, but this time I'll select interface. Now, if I do need to switch to another application, say bridge, for example, I can always choose file and then browse in bridge, or I can use the keyboard shortcut command tab on Mac to cycle through all of my open applications. On Windows, you'll want to click the rectangular maximize icon in the upper right of the application. So on the Mac, I would just click on this green icon right here, if it wasn't maximized, I had just already done that. So first I like to maximize the application so that I'm taking advantage of the entire screen and so that I'm not distracted by other applications that I've opened in the background. In addition, there are a few small changes that we can make to the interface to help us to get the most out of the Photoshop environment. That way we'll all be starting with a similar setup. And if they still look different, choose to reset the essentials. But for now I would suggest that you reset your panels by choosing the essentials workspace. So I'm going to be talking about hiding and showing and rearranging panels in depth in other videos. Now it's important to note that your screen might look different than mine because you either rearrange these panels yourself or Photoshop has arranged panels differently based on your screen resolution. Then on the right, we have a number of different panels that have additional options for Photoshop. Now at the bottom of the Window, we have a status area and we can click on the Chevron in order to access additional options. All right, when you select a tool, the options for that tool are going to appear in the options bar and below the options bar, we can see the tab for the open document and in the center is our image preview area. And in fact, I'm also going to turn off the regular tool tips. Now on Windows, this would be under the edit menu and then tools, and then disable show rich tool tips. So in order to turn them off, you can always go under the preferences to tools. But as you get more advanced, you might get distracted by these. Now all of the tools are on the left side and as you hover your cursor on top of the tools, you may see a rich tool tip for the tool, which I think is great for beginners. Now across the top, you will notice there are a number of different menus and they're grouped together by topics such as layers or type or selections. I'm going to start in bridge and then double-click to open the barren tree image into Photoshop. Let's take a few moments to familiarize ourselves with the Photoshop interface.
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