A teenager boy was toiling extremely hard to draw something on Photoshop. It was the mid of December, but he kept on wiping sweat out of his wet face. Apart from that boy, there were sitting almost 20 more students in the same room. All of whom were taking their final test for DIT. That was a computer institution in which I was working as a graphics instructor.
I approached that boy, peered over the screen and in an instant, understood the cause of his embarrassment. All I could see was a rectangular selection which he had made definitely using Rectangular Marquee Tool. He was trying to fill some color in that rectangular selection, and clicking again and again on different colors in the color picker window. But, whichever color he selected, turned into either lighter or darker shade of gray, simply because he had selected the Grayscale mode by mistake for the document. Meanwhile, he felt my presence behind his chair, turned abruptly and blushed. When I enquired about his lack of practice, he revealed that he had been practicing regularly but didn't come across the issue he was then coping with. I felt a great temptation to help the boy, but that was against the rules because no teacher is supposed to help any student during final tests. At last the time was over, and the boy couldn't get through the test.
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| Three important things always to be remembered while working with Photoshop |
For an experienced graphics designer that issue might be a laughable one, but, If you are a beginner in the field and you don’t know how to create a new Photoshop document properly, you may take the place of that boy anytime.In fact, it is to create a new Photoshop document without getting confused is not a big deal. Everyone, experienced on inexperienced, can do it quiet easily. However, there are a few things to keep in mind to protect yourself from being embarrassed at the eleventh hour.
How to create a new Photoshop document?
In order to creat a new Photoshop document, first of all get inside the File Menu and select the option named New either by clicking on it in the menu or by hitting CTRL + N on the keyboard. |
| File Menu of Photoshop 7.0 |
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| Dialogue box referred as New |
Name, Size and Resolution
Inside that dialogue box, the first box you can see is referred as Name. In that box type the name for the document which is about to be created. Apart from the box called Name, the rest of dialogue box contains two pans under the heads of Image Size and Contents.
At the top of the pan named Image Size, there can be seen a drop-down menu referred as Preset Sizes. Out of the different size options given in that drop-down menu you can select any size for your document by clicking on it. As soon as you will select any size, expected width and Height of the document that is about to be created will be appeared inside the boxes referred as Width and Height given right beneath the drop-down menu named Preset Sizes. If you don't want to select any preset size out of the menu, you can define the Custom size for your document by specifying required values in the boxes named Width and Height. Further, along with the size, measurement unit for the document can also be specified through this dialogue box. If you select any preset size out of the options given in the drop-down menu named Preset Sizes there is left no need to specify width, height or the measurement unit for the document but if you define any custom size, measurement unit for the document too, is supposed to be specified along with width and height. If you want to create a document for the use in web, Pixels as measurement unit should be your choice. If you want to create a document for printing, Inches or Centimeters as unit of measurement should be your choice.
When it comes to set the Resolution for the document, always keep in mind the purpose of it's creation. If you are going to create it for the use in web and presentations, default resolution, that is 72 px / Inch, is perfectly fine. If you intend to print the document for some ordinary purpose you can set the Resolution equal to 240 px/Inch, but in order to print the document for some professional purpose Resolution less than 300 px/Inch cannot be suitable.
Selection of Color Mode
Right beneath the Resolution, there can be seen another drop-down menu that is called” Mode”. In order to select the right Color Mode, you need to understand what these Color Modes are? And why do we use them? So here I'll explain all the Modes separately but briefly .BITMAP
If you select the Bitmap color mode, you can see your document in only black and white as this color mode doesn't use any other color or shade to represent the pixels. Further, you cannot add any layer in the document while working with this color mode other than background layer. |
| This color mode shows pixels in only black and white |
GRAYSCALE
This color mode is used to represent pixels in only black, white and different shades of gray. You cannot see any other color in your document while using this mode. |
| This color mode shows only black, white and different shades of gray |
RGB
If we select the RGB color mode, it’s mean that we are going to use different combinations of three primary colors: red, green and blue (R stands for red, G stands for green and B stands for blue). While working with RGB color mode we use 255 shades of Red, Green and Blue each. |
| RGB:This color mode shows different combinations of red, green and blue |
CMYK
In CMYK color mode, C stands for cyan, M stands for magenta, Y stands for yellow and K stands for key or black, because K is the last letter of black. |
| CMYK is the suitable color mode for the images which are going to be printed on paper |
LAB
This color mode is used only to generate some consistency among different devices e.g displays (CRTs, LCDs) and printers. This color mode is considered to be a device independent color mode because capabilities of different devices to display colors doesn't create any impact on the colors of the images which are composed using this color mode. In LAB, L stands for light, A stands for A ( red-green) axis and B stands for B(blue-yellow) axis. This mode is very rarely used by graphics designers whether experienced of inexperienced.
Selection of Content
There are three different content styles are available in Photoshop these are:
White
If you choose White, you will have a Photoshop document with pure white locked background layer to work at..
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