Learning about your document can be done right from within the document window
itself and some of the controls are actually hidden and I'm gonna show you some
of the shortcut keys to get the most out of this window. So if the first thing
you want to do to see all this information which includes, let me move this up a
little bit the status bar is to go to the uh standard screen mode and of course
you'll have the ability to see the entire document window itself. Now let's talk
about the tools on the top of the window here. First of all we see that we have
our standard buttons for our closing, maximizing, and resizing our document
altogether. We also have down here in the opposite corner our resize handle and
we can resize the document to scale it up as far that you know how it, how much
space it takes up in our screen. Where we can also see up here in the title bar
region is the name of the file and whenever you rename it that will change. And
to the left of it we have this curious little icon here, what in the world does
this icon do. Well this icon will allow you to see whether or not you saved your
image or not. For example currently its not ghosted out but if I make a change
for example I'll take the brush tool and I'll make a mark on my document, you'll
notice that the document preview ghosted out. That means I have not saved it
recently so I'm gonna go to file, I'm gonna choose save as and on my desktop
I'll just save it as aaa, I'll click OK, and then it changed the name up here in
my title bar as well it gives me a preview which is no longer ghosted out and it
looks exactly like the artwork here. I can also see an at symbol which tells me
which percentage I'm currently looking at my document in the document window. So
you'll notice down here we are looking at it at 66.67 percent, which is
indicated up here as well. So I can click and drag my mouse in this region, this
text field, enter 100 percent and now I'm looking at the document at a 100 percent.
Likewise I can also use the zoom tool to zoom in and change that number. And I can
hold down the alt or option key to zoom out. OK so that number changes as well.
Now what else can we find out about this document, well the cool thing is if I hold
down the control key and I click right here in this align a preview window
appears which tells me how big this image will appear on a printed sheet of paper.
So this is the region of the blank paper that it will take up. Also if I hold down
the alt or option I can find out the width, the height, the channels and the
resolution. So once again those are some hidden commands in there. Now I can
also see by default the document size as far as how big or how weighty this
thing is as far as pixel dimension. Currently its 569.5 kilobytes, which is
under a megabyte, if I click on this pop up arrow, I can find out what's going
on with my version queue if I was working with a group of people, I could find
out what the status was on the version queue, I can currently see the document
size which is down there right now. I can see a document profile which shows me
that it's in RGB. I can look at the document dimensions and it tells me this
document is five inches by 7.5 inches at 72 pixels per inch or ppi. I can also
look at the scratch sizes which tells me that out of the available 796 megs on
my computer this document is taking up in the scratch disk 87.1 megabytes. The
efficiency is kinda of interesting, what it does is it records how fast the last
operation took to perform. So if I go ahead and do a quick squiggly like so, it
will tell me the efficiency and let me know whether or not Photoshop is using
the scratch disk or whether its working at full operation on the RAM that's in
my computer. So you'll notice that the number did not go below a 100 percent
which means that Photoshop is running at maximum efficiency on the RAM that I
have in my computer. Let me undo that. Another cool thing that you can use, look
at your timing and your efficiency of something is how the tool performs. For
example the last operation took 1.8 seconds. When I did the little squiggle
things, let me go ahead and do something else, I'm gonna go to my pencil tool
and I'll be a little bit more elaborate so I'm just gonna take some time to draw
this out and I'll wait a moment, and then I'll let go of the mouse and that took
me 5.9 seconds ok. And once again if I go to efficiency its still at a hundred
percent so Photoshop is still working on my RAM and not working on my scratch disk.
And this is very helpful for people who are learning Photoshop and you want to keep
a track of the name of the current tool and it tells me that I have the pencil
selected. I have the uh move tool selected, pencil, I have blur, I have dodge
and so on. So that's very helpful to keep your eye on when you are learning the
application and you want to know what tool your working on. Likewise what you
can do is hover mouse over a tool and just leave it there for a second and the
tool will appear as well as the shortcut key in parenthesis. So that's the dodge
tool and if I put my mouse over the move tool it tells me that if I press V I'll
get the move tool. And last but not least if you want to uh work with your image
in 32 bit mode what you can do is turn on the 32 bit exposure and that will
allow you to work with your image in 32 bit mode as far as the preview is
concerned. Once again the document window contains quite a bit of information
that can come in quite handy as you work on your documents.
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