Basic Operations in Photoshop

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New Document

To create a new document in Photoshop, we use the _____ dialog box, and there are a few ways to get to it.

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Recent category
Create, double-click

By default, the _____ is selected, and it gives you quick access to any recently-used document sizes. To choose one, click on its thumbnail to select it and then click the ____ button in the bottom right corner of the dialog box. Or you can just _____ on the thumbnail

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Image, Image Size

If you're the skeptical type, you can verify that the document is the size you wanted using Photoshop's Image Size dialog box. To do that, go up to the ____ menu at the top of the screen and choose ______

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Portrait, Landscape

To change the orientation of the document, click either the _____ or _____ buttons. This swaps the Width and Height values as needed

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print

You can also enter a custom resolution value for the document into the Resolution field. But keep in mind that resolution applies only to ____. It has no effect on images being viewed online or on any type of screen.

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300 pixels

For print, the industry standard resolution is ____ per inch. For images that will be viewed on screen, you can ignore the Resolution value:

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Background Contents

The default background color for a new Photoshop document is white, but you can choose a different color from the _____ option.

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RGB Color, 8 bit

You can set the Color Mode and Bit Depth for your new document. In most cases, the default settings (_____ and _____) are what you need, but you can choose other values if you need them

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Advanced Options

And finally, if you twirl open the ______, you'll find settings for the document's Color Profile and Pixel Aspect Ratio. You can safely leave these at the defaults

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Save icon

If you know you'll need the same document size again in the future, then before you click the Create button, you may want to save your settings as a custom preset. Click the _____ at the top of the Preset Details panel

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Saved

The New Document dialog box will switch to the ____ category where you'll find your new preset, along with any other presets you've created. To use the preset in the future, just open the ____ category and double-click on the preset's thumbnail

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trash bin

To delete a saved preset, click the ____ in the upper right of the thumbnail

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Home Screen

When we launch Photoshop CC without opening an image, or if we close our document and have no other documents open, then Photoshop displays the _____

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New Layer

Dragging the image in the actual working area would create a _____ for that image

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tabs

To switch between open images, click the ____ along the top of the documents

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Edit, Photoshop CC
Preferences, General

Photoshop’s Home button missing:

On a Windows PC, go up to the ___ menu. On a Mac, go up to the _____ menu. From there, choose _____ and then ______

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picture element

The term pixel is short for "______", and pixels are the tiny building blocks that make up all digital images.

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pixels

Much like how a painting is made from individual brush strokes, a digital image is made from individual ____

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Pixel Grid

A light gray outline around each pixel is known as _____

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Image size

______ refers to the width and height of an image, in pixels

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pixel dimensions

The width and height of an image, in pixels, are known as its _______, and in Photoshop CC, we can view them next to the word Dimensions near the top of the dialog box

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pixels per inch, ppi

Resolution controls the print size of an image by setting the number of pixels that will be squeezed into every inch of paper, both vertically and horizontally. That's why the resolution value is measured in _____, or “__".

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divide

To figure out the print size of the image, all we need to do is ____ its current width and height, in pixels, by the resolution value.