From the course: Photoshop CC 2017 One-on-One: Fundamentals

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Opening from the Macintosh Finder

Opening from the Macintosh Finder - Photoshop Tutorial

From the course: Photoshop CC 2017 One-on-One: Fundamentals

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Opening from the Macintosh Finder

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- [Instructor] In this movie, I'll show you how to open an image file inside Photoshop just by double-clicking on its icon here at the Macintosh Finder. If you're working on a PC, you can go ahead and skip to the next chapter. So notice that I'm looking at the contents of the 01_open folder, which is available to those of you who have access to the exercise files. I'm also viewing the images as thumbnails, which you can do by choosing the As Icons command from the View menu. Now, in all I'm looking at four versions of this image, welcome.jpg, welcome.png, welcome.psd, and welcome.tif named after the four major file formats that you're going to use when you're working with Photoshop. Now, I explain how all these file formats work in Chapter Six when I show you how to save image files from Photoshop, but for now it's just important to understand that different file formats are often associated with different applications. Now, if for some reason you're not seeing these three character…

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