Photoshop comes with a lot of Blank Document Presets that you can start with. So, this time, from the File menu, let's choose New. You might do that when you want a blank canvas on which to draw, or on which you want to place some images. Let's leave those open and talk about how to create a new image from scratch. If you want to see another Open_Image, just click its tab. And the tab tells you the name of the image. At the top of the document window, there is a tab for each Open_Image.

Both selected images open into Photoshop editing workspace, which is called the document window. If you want to open more than one image at a time, hold the Command key on a Mac, or the Ctrl key on Windows, and select another image file. You could select one of the practice files that come with this tutorial, as I'm doing, or you can select an image of your own. That will launch your Mac Finder or your Windows File Explorer, where you'll navigate through your file system to an image file and select it. from the File menu, to open some existing image files into Photoshop. So even if your start screen isn't showing, you can always go up to the File menu at the top of Photoshop, and choose New.

But there's another way, to get to these same commands from anywhere in Photoshop. button on the start screen and click, or if you wanted to create a new image from scratch, you could use the New. If you wanted to open an existing image, you could go to the Open. When you launch the latest version of Photoshop, you may see a start screen that looks something like this. The first thing you'll do in Photoshop, is either open a file or create a new file.

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