From the course: Photoshop One-on-One: Fundamentals

How image editing begins - Photoshop Tutorial

From the course: Photoshop One-on-One: Fundamentals

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How image editing begins

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- In this first chapter, we'll start things the way every project starts, by opening an image file. I'll begin by answering my most common tech support question. How do I open an image in Photoshop? By double-clicking on it at the desktop. First in Windows, and then on the Mac. Sounds simple and it's actually not hard, but if you can't do it, it can be very frustrating, and it doesn't just happen by itself. After that, we'll take a look at the various cross-platform options. Now you think the mere act of opening a photographic image inside Photoshop would be obvious, but Photoshop is not an obvious program. Where most mainstream application support perhaps five or six formats, Photoshop supports dozens upon dozens, including the seemingly never-ending array of proprietary raw formats from a long list of camera manufacturers, which is why I think you'll be glad to know, we'll be focusing our attention on just five file formats. The best of the best. The ones that no matter who you are, you should care about. JPEG, ping, TIF, PSD, and DNG. And yes, it's ping, not PNG and DNG, not ding. Here's how they work.

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