Lesson 1
- "Always use this this app to open .jpeg files," which is what we want. Then, click okay and that is going to open the image inside Photoshop and it's going to open all future .jpeg files in Photoshop as well. Going to go ahead and minimize Photoshop again so that we can check out this .ping file. And so, notice if I double click on it, this time it opens up in yet another utility, it's called Paint. While it does have a few editing functions, it's nowhere near as powerful as Photoshop.
- Right click on that .ping file, choose "Open With," choose that final command, locate the most recent version of Photoshop in the list, go ahead and select it, turn on the checkbox, click, "Okay," and that's going to open the .ping file in Photoshop. Alright, we have just one more file and so, go ahead and minimize Photoshop and note this guy right here, welcome.psd. .psd stands for the Photoshop document format. It is by far the most versatile format you can work with because it saves layers and all the other goodies that you can create inside Photoshop.
- Right click on that file, choose "Open With," and then choose this final command. In my case, it looks like this file is set to open in an older version of Photoshop CC, that's not what I want. I want the latest and greatest thing so just go ahead and select the most recent version of the software, turn on the checkbox, and click "Okay." It's very possible that you're going to see this Missing Fonts warning, and that's because I'm using a lot of specialty fonts including Brka, but I also have Aveneer, Futura, and Helvetica New, and so you may see a much longer list.
-Inside of another program, you would need to resolve these font conflicts because after all, you generally need the fonts installed in your system that you're using inside the document but in Photoshop, that's not actually the case. I'm just going to click on the "Don't resolve" button and then, over at my Zoom tool which is located toward the bottom of the toolbox over here on the left hand side of the screen, and then I'll click a few times on the word "Photoshop" up here at the top of the image until I zoom to a 100% as indicated by this title tab up here at the top of the screen.
-Notice my layers panel, which is located, by default, at the bottom right corner of the screen. Notice if scroll up this list, to this Photoshop layer right there, it has the yellow warning and if hover over it, it's telling me that a font is missing on the system and needs substitution. If this were some other application, that would be true. I would need to substitute that font but as you're seeing right here, the word "Photoshop" is beautifully rendered even though that font is missing and that's because Photoshop, very helpfully, includes a pixel level preview of every text layer that you create.
- Going up to the Photoshop CC menu here and choosing Hide Photoshop CC, which is going to take me back to the Finder. Now, notice what happens by contrast when double-click on this JPG file. It ends up opening in Preview, which is the utility that ships along with every Macintosh computer. And even though it does offer a few basic editing functions, it is not nearly as powerful as Photoshop. So go up to the Preview menu and choose Quit Preview in order to quit the application and then right-click on this JPG file and choose the Get Info command in order to bring up this basic dialog box here.
-If you want to go ahead and twirl open this Open With section by clicking on its triangle and then change the application from Preview or whatever it is for you to the most recent version of Photoshop CC. Next, you want to click on the Change All button in order to change all JPG files so that they open inside Photoshop CC. Then go ahead and click the Continue button and now you can close that info panel. After which point, if you double-click on that JPG file, it will now open inside Photoshop like so.
-Go up to the Photoshop CC menu and choose that Hide command and then double-click on the PNG file, which in my case ends up opening the image in the browser Google Chrome, which is of course not remotely what I want. So go up to the Chrome menu and choose the Quit command and then I will once again right-click on it and choose the Get Info command and next change Open With from Chrome in my case to the most recent version of Photoshop CC.
-And then you want to click on the Change All button followed by continue and that will go ahead and update all the PNG images. So now if I were to close that panel and double-click on the PNG file, it's going to open in Photoshop like so. Alright, just one more file to go. So return to the Photoshop CC menu and choose that Hide command and this time we have a PSD file. PSD stands for Photoshop Document and it is the most versatile of the file formats because it supports layers and all the other crazy stuff that Photoshop has going on.
-And so more than likely this file is going to just open up inside Photoshop when you double-click on it as it does for me, but as you can see here I'm confronted with a Missing Fonts warning and it's very likely that you will be as well if you're working along with me and that's because I used a bunch of specialty fonts including Birka, Futura, Helvetica New, and so forth. Now, in another application this would be a big problem. After all, you need to have the proper fonts open to edit a text layer.
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