Rendering Photoshop

Along the very top of Photoshop's interface is the  Menu Bar . The Menu Bar is where we find various options and commands, all grouped into categories. The  File  menu, for example, holds options for opening, saving and closing documents. The  Layer  menu lists options for working with layers. Photoshop's many filters are found under the  Filter menu, and so on. We won't go through every category and menu item here, but we'll learn all about them in future lessons as they become important. Note that the "Photoshop CC" category on the left of the Menu Bar in the screenshot is only found in the Mac version of Photoshop:

The  Toolbar  (also known as the Toolbox or the Tools panel) is where Photoshop holds all of its tools. You'll find it along the left of Photoshop's interface. There's tools for making selections, for editing and retouching images, for painting, adding type or shapes to your document, and more:

The  Document window  is the large area in the center of the interface where the image is displayed. It's also where we edit the image. The actual area where the image is visible is known as the  canvas . The dark area surrounding the image is the  pasteboard . The pasteboard doesn't really serve a purpose other than to fill in the space around the image when the image itself is too small to fill the entire Document window: