All language subtitles for 02 Before you start this Adobe Photoshop CC Tutorial.en

Hi there. In this video we're going to just get

everything set up for this course of it all runs nice and smoothly.

The first thing you'll do is download the exercise files.

There'll be a link on the page here to go off and download those so you can play along.

You don't have to, but obviously it'd be

easy if you had the exercise files work along with me.

The next thing you'll do is just getting your workspace.

It depends on, what I mean by workspace is just what Photoshop looks like.

Sometimes it looks like this,

sometimes it looks like this, sometimes it looks completely different.

Everyone right now get it all looking the same by going to Window,

go under Workspace, and let's click on "Essentials Default".

That's the basic kind of layer for Photoshop.

Now you won't have this group of images because that's specific for me.

But what you might do is,

it might still be looking different.

You go to, Window, Workspace and click on "Reset Essentials",

they just kind of like rejiggers it to make sure it's kind of as it was out of the box.

That's quite handy if later on you're dragging this and it somehow gets connected

to this thing over here and this pic is dragged out.

If you ever get lost like this,

you're like man, everything is everywhere.

Let's go backup to Window,

go to Workspace and go to "Reset Essentials",

and it goes back to its happy home.

The other thing you might do,

this is more optional,

I have to do it when I'm teaching because on a Mac,

it's under Photoshop CC, preferences general.

If you're on a PC, it's under it and its way on the bottom here somewhere.

Go to Preferences General.

You might click both of these where it says reset preferences

on quit and reset all warning dialog boxes.

That's just kind of like,

if you've made any changes throughout the software and it's going to

kind of reset it back to the default and you might not do that.

I do it so that yours always looks exactly like mine.

If you are kind of a reasonable user of Photoshop,

you might just leave that because you might have made some changes and you don't want to,

I guess, wreck your changes.

One thing to note, though, if you reset your preferences, it's on quit.

It means you've got to go to, on a PC,

go to "File", quit Photoshop or on a Mac,

it's under here Photoshop, quit.

Just quit it and open a back up and underneath in bold those preferences be redone.

Next thing to note is I'm using CC 2018.

That's the version of Photoshop.

If you're using an earlier version,

you might find some of the features won't work.

Now, what features won't work? They'll be a few of them.

If you are using say, CSX or CS5,

which is quite old now and 90 percent of this course will still work.

Should you do it? You should.

There's going to be a few things that don't work and that's just,

I guess you need to upgrade to the newer version,

but there'd be lots of useful stuff in here still for you.

But double-check, you can go to "Help" and go to "Updates".

Just make sure you've got the latest version.

One of the thing you might notice the difference

between yours and mine is you might not see this

is 3D option here and a couple of like little weird things under filter and render.

We're not going to cover them in this kind of essentialist course. That's no big deal.

But if you are finding later on after this course like man,

why there was 3D in Dan's version and not in mine?

It's probably just your version of Photoshop was not your Photoshop,

it's your laptop or your computer.

It's probably using what's called a 32-bit operating system

and it just won't work with three daisies.

Photoshop can kind of come in a couple of flavors and

it'll do its best on your operating system.

You've got an old operating system really old poor laptop,

fans are coming on, it's overly stressed and might not

do these things just cause your computer can't, just can't handle it.

You might have to upgrade the same version of Photoshop beam.

You might have to get a new upgraded laptop or computer.

The last thing to cover is the use of the images in this course.

You've got the exercise files,

you can totally use them to practice and follow along with me.

But if you want to use them in your say,

portfolio or in some of your actual work,

your professional work, you need to go and license the images.

I've got all these images from Adobe Stock, it's stock.adobe.com.

I pay a monthly fee and I get in images.

You can start your 30-day trial and get in images.

But you got to go in and find those images and pay for them to use them,

or just go and switch them out.

Do the examples with me and then find

some other free stock library images to use for your portfolio or your commercial work.

Great places to get free stuff from is couple here.

Pexels is really cool.

Just good quality, high quality, free 3D images.

Is that is freeimages.com.

There is unplash.com, is really cool as well.

Really awesome images. What another place?

deathtothestockphoto.com. Same thing here.

Can you allowed to use them commercially?

Another way to use it is Google images, right?

You can't just do a search, can't just go,

I'm going to use I need a picture of a shoe and just steal stuff from him.

What you can do those you can figure out which are allowed to be used.

You can go to tools.

I do a couple of things. I make sure I want to find large images.

Good quality ones, I want to find usage rights and I want to go

and this one here labeled for reuse with modification.

This I could use but I wouldn't be able to miss within Photoshop.

I want this license and it will cut it down to the risk is quite small,

but you can see large images that I'm allowed to use in my work.

That's a way of getting around

image licensing or if you've got the budget jumped to Adobe Stock.

Another paid one is Shutterstock and other paid one is iStock,

they are all really good.

Adobe Stock tend to fit in with photoshop a little bit better.

All right. This is a really long video.

Were all ready to concide with Photoshop.

Let's actually start making some stuff.

All right. Let's get into the next video.