This is the tutorial only for beginners of photoshop. To introduce them with all basic tools and options of Adobe Photoshop they must know to work with the software in future. I think it will help them a little to proceed!

As we know that- Adobe Photoshop is a graphics editing program developed and published by Adobe Systems Incorporated. Photoshop has ties with other Adobe software for media editing, animation, and authoring.

Here is some basic guides for Photoshop software.

  • Tool Box

This is the image of Tool Box you will find at the right side when you open Adobe photoshop. I have marked some tools which is veru frequently used. I have give some brief about the tools below:

  • Moov Tool: Moov tool is used to move any object of a particular Layer. If you select any layer and use moov tool the, all drawings of that layer will move. It is used for proper placing.
  • Eraser: Erase is used to delete or remove any unwanted object.
  • Pen tool: Pen tool is a frequently used tool of Photoshop. You can draw any shape, line, curve with the help of pen tool. Also can draw outline to select any portion of image and remove from bacjground etc.
  • Foreground color: Drawing image is of the color as foreground color is selected.
  • Background color: If two colors are use, for example- gradient tools, second option of color can be selected using Background color.

Another very important,  mostly used tool is Brush tool. It is described below:

To use brush, Brush tool has to be selected from Tool box. If Brush Tool is selected- we can see more options for brush settings at Option Bar.

We can select the type of the brush, blend mode, opacity Flow etc.

With the help of brush tool, we can draw any freehand shape, fill color.

New nice free brushes can be uploaded also to use for graphic design.

There are also some options for color adjustments we must know to enhance our images with Photoshop like brightness and contrast settings, color balance etc.

Go Image->Adjustment-> you will find many option of image adjustment.

Select any option, a new window will open, watch preview and give settings as you like to make the output.

Layer window is also a important window for working with Photoshop. If it is not shown, go to Windows->Layers

I have marked some necessary areas need to know.

There are buttons to add a new layer, delete layers, change blend mode, opacity and many more.

You can also drag layers to rearrange them.

Layers help you to maintain and manipulate image objects separately.

You can change brightness, gloominess, transparency of every single objects included at a image separately if you put them at different layers.

There are many more options, tools, techniques at the software. It will take long time to describe them all right now. i have included very basic information only in this tutorial. I hope to describe other functions in future.

Sources:

http://en.wikipedia.org/