Photoshop CS3 for Screen Printers- P5: The toolbox is the heart of Photoshop CS3, and where you’ll find the tools you need to create your artwork and perform editing tasks. From the toolbox you can access the selection tools, shape tools, type tools, Crop tool, and eraser tools. These are basic tools that any screen printer or graphic artist needs. | 96 Part I The Photoshop Interface Figure 6-2 Browsing for a file Note In this figure there is a local drive C a DVD drive D an external backup drive E My Web Sites on MSN and My Sharing Folders. Because this is Windows Vista there is also access to the Desktop Recent Places Network and more. 4. Double-click on the drive that contains the image or file that you want to open. 5. Double-click again if necessary or expand the folders in the browser to locate the files. You will see thumbnails or a list of the files available. Once you ve located the file you can open it in several ways. For most folks double-clicking on the file is the most comfortable. However there are other ways. With the file selected Press Enter or Return. Right-click and choose Open. 97 Chapter 6 Opening and Managing Files Tip Multiple files can be selected by holding down the Ctrl key while selecting files Cmd key on a Mac . Using File Open As You ll use File Open As when you need to open a file that was saved in a format other than .psd or with an extension that does not match its true format. You may also be able to open files with no extension. Choose File Open As select the file to open and select the format from the Open As pop-up choices. Figure 6-3 shows the choices. As noted earlier in this chapter the look of the Open As dialog can be personalized and the views of the thumbnails can be changed dramatically. Clicking on the additional options in the Open As dialog in Windows Vista brings up the choices shown in Figure 6-3. You ll see similar options in other operating system versions. BMPl . Camera Raw Tl F .CRW .NEF RAF . OR F .M RW . DCR . MOS .RAW .PE F . E Cineon . CI N . s D FX . D FX Fl D 0 i Collada DAE CompuServe GIF .GIF Dicom DCM .DC3 .DICj Photoshop EPS .EPS Photoshop DCS EPS Photoshop DCS EPS EPS TIFF Preview .EPS Filmstrip ij .FLM Google Earth 4 KMZj JPEG JF G .JF EG JF Ei Large Document Format i .PSB OpenEXR I .EXR G eneric EPS Al 3 . Al 4 . Al 5 .AI 6
