Photoshop Settings Tutorial

Video Transcript

"Adobe Photoshop is a registered trademark of Adobe Systems Incorporated, and I am in no way affiliated with Adobe. Okay, so today I'm going to be talking about settings in Photoshop. For instance, when I click on the "X", it's going to give me something that looks like this: save changes to Adobe Photoshop document. If you want to save, obviously save, or don't save. I don't want to save that one, I want to close. Okay, now for savings on opening a new document, we're going to go into new and it's going to bring up this dialogue box, and some people don't know what to do with it. Basically, there's presets up here. If you want film and video size, it will give you film and video size, which is seven-twenty by four-eighty. You could change your resolution, and this is for, if you want to make, say for instance, I don't know--like the beginning of a movie, you want to make some kind of title for it or something, you can do this in Photoshop and hit the preset for film and video. If you want to do web, you hit web or inter--you know, photo is going to bring up a three by two. Landscape size, you can change your landscape to four by six, you can change it to eight by ten. You can do portrait eight by ten, and most people are going to be using the portrait eight by ten. And the reason why the resolution is set at three hundred--this is basically when people say "DPI", this is what they mean. Resolution in DPI is three hundred. Now in this dialogue box, a simple way for you to move, like I'm doing here, if you click and you drag on any one of these--any one of these titles here, it will actually give you a way to move your numbers without having to type anything. You also got your RGB mode, you got grayscale, CMYK color, lab color. Most of the time you're going to use RGB; if you're going to get stuff printed in magazine and stuff, you want to switch it to CMYK. And all these other ones have their own reason too. They've got the eight bit, sixteen bit, thirty-two bit. Most of the time, everything's going to be done in eight bit unless somebody asks you to switch to sixteen bit. Thirty two bit would be used for like, tone mapping and doing HDR photography. Background contents--this is if you want your actual file that's going to come up right now, if you want the background color to be certain color, or white, or transparent. Transparent's pretty good; you can use transparent or you can use a white, whatever it is you like. You can always change your background color in Photoshop. You got your advanced tools that open up down here. You got a bunch of different--different profiles that you can use. Work in RGB is good; basically you just leave it the way it is, I wouldn't change it. Unless you have a calibrated monitor, and then you want to go to, like say for instance, first calibration is my calibrated monitor profile. Pixel aspect ratio, this is basically if you're working with--this is more film type stuff, you might need it if you're doing film. That's basically it for the settings in here. So what you want to do is name your document, you know a white background. And this is like if we're working in, say for instance we want to make a template for--I don't know, you're doing weddings or something, and you want to make a template. You hit okay, and it gives you an eight by ten image, three hundred DPI, and what you can do is you can actually spread that open, or you can hit the "F" button to make it a full eight by ten. And the way you can tell it's eight by ten, is if you look up here, you can actually see where it starts right here at the zero, and it ends at ten, and this is your ruler. You can always use the ruler, and it will work perfectly fine every time. So you do have an eight by ten image right here. And that is it, basically, for the settings when opening a new file in Photoshop."