From the course: Cert Prep: Adobe Certified Associate - Photoshop (2019)
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Configuring application preferences - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Cert Prep: Adobe Certified Associate - Photoshop (2019)
Configuring application preferences
- [Instructor] In this movie, we'll see how to customize some of Photoshop's preferences, which is something you should know how to do before you take the ACA exam. To open preferences, go to the Photoshop menu on the Mac, or the edit menu on Windows, and choose preferences. And from here, you can go directly to the set of preferences you want to edit by choosing it. I'll open general preferences. And I don't want to change anything here, but I just want to point out a couple of things. First is this alert icon you'll see in certain places in the preferences dialog box. It says that the preference change won't take effect until you restart Photoshop. The other thing is this button, reset preferences on quit. Clicking this and then restarting Photoshop will put all preferences back to their defaults. Now let's go to interface. Here you can customize things like the color theme, and you can see the effect right away. And the user interface font size. Workspace is where you can reset all…
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Setting appropriate document settings3m 6s
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Creating a new document preset2m 5s
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Using elements of the Photoshop interface4m 4s
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Organizing and customizing the workspace4m 57s
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Configuring application preferences2m 10s
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Navigating a document4m 51s
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Using rulers1m 38s
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Using guides and grids3m 20s
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Placing assets in a Photoshop document3m 50s
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Using Adobe Camera Raw to process images4m 46s
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Setting the foreground and background colors4m 13s
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Creating and customizing gradients5m 29s
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Creating and editing swatches3m 38s
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Using brushes, shapes, and patterns3m 9s
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Creating brushes3m 33s
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