Photoshop Help

by Fishing4Infinity 7/25/2010, 8:37 am

I finally figured out and stole Photoshop CS4 :D!

But, I have no idea how to use it! I've been trying to figure it out all morning but... RAWR! Ctl+Z doesn't seem to be working and I'm pretty sure that I lose whatever I draw... Seeing as there's a load of people on this site who have used Photoshop before and are amazing artist, care to give a PS noob some advice or pointers or anything really. Totally wish I had a tablet but I've been getting better with drawing with a mouse so I'll stick with that for a while.

Please help D:

by **TheDeceiverGod** 7/25/2010, 11:20 am

Let's see, first Ctrl+Z is the step backward command, it will undo one step of what you have just done, Ctrl+Alt+Z is the undo command, pressing it will undo everything you have done unto the last step in you have left in your history.

B is the brush hot key, there are various types of brushes to be chosen from in the top left of the view port, just click on that part that looks like it shows you your brush stroke and that should open up a menu.

I'm not intimately familiar with the lay out of CS4, since I use like version 7 and that's only about 10 versions previous to CS4 but there should still be a layer pallet somewhere. Layers are important in photoshop basically they let you stack your drawings on top of each other, you can do fancy things to individual layers and merge layers together and such and such, but that's something for another time.