When you think about manipulating visual media, Adobe CS4 Design Premium automatically comes to mind. The Adobe CS4 menu offers many options and tools to help edit and install pictures and active graphics. And, you can always make use of shortcuts to do what you want to do more quickly.
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Basic Menu Options in Adobe
Adobe CS4, like any software, gives you menu options to open, close, and save. Menu options also enable you to import, export, and undo, in addition to other basic commands. Here's a table that shows common options and what they do.
| Option | How It’s Used |
|---|---|
| New | Creates a new document in the native file format. |
| Open | Opens a dialog box where you can choose a (supported) file on your hard drive or a disk to open. |
| Close | Closes the current document; if you have unsaved changes, you’re prompted to save those changes first. |
| Save | Saves the changes you’ve made to the current document. |
| Save As | Saves a new copy of the current document. |
| Place or Import | Imports a file, such as an image or a sound file, into the current document. |
| Export | Exports the current data to a specified file format. You can sometimes select several different kinds of file formats to save the current data in. |
| Copy | Copies the currently selected data onto the computer’s Clipboard. |
| Paste | Pastes the data from the Clipboard into the current document. |
| Undo | Undoes the most recent thing you did in the program. |
| Redo | Redoes the steps that you applied the Undo command to. |
| Zoom In | Magnifies the document so that you can view and edit the contents closely. |
| Zoom Out | Scales the view smaller so that you can see more of the document at once. |
| Help | Opens the help documentation for the current program. |
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Common Adobe Keyboard Shortcuts
Like most other applications, Adobe offers keyboard shortcuts so that you can access its features quickly and easily with the touch of a key or two. Explore the shortcuts that are used the most, by both Windows and Mac users.
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Adobe Panels and Their Functions
Knowing how to use the panels in Adobe CS4 can help boost your creativity and make your job easier. Adobe panels offer information and tools to help you add color, align objects, and generally transform your Adobe files (and yes, there is a Transform panel).
Have some fun by exploring these panels:
Color: Use the Color panel to select or mix colors for use in the current document. Choose different color modes, such as RGB (Red, Green, Blue) and CMYK (Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Black), from the panel menu (the arrow in upper-right corner).
Info: The Info panel shows you information about the document itself or a particular selection you’ve made. The Info panel includes information on size, positioning, and rotation of selected objects. You can’t enter data into the Info panel. It only displays information instead of accepting it, so use the Transform panel to make modifications.
Swatches: You can use the Swatches panel to create a library of color selections, which you can save and import into other documents or other programs. You can store colors and gradients that you use repeatedly in the Swatches panel.
Tools: The Tools panel (commonly called the toolbar) isn’t available in all the Creative Suite programs, but it’s a very important panel in the programs it does exist in. A program’s toolbar contains the tools used in that program.
Layers: The Layers panel is used to display and select layers. The Layers panel also enables you to change layer order and helps you select items on a particular layer.
Align: The Align panel enables you to align selected objects to each other or align them in relation to the document itself. This panel makes it easy to do precise alignment with multiple objects.
Stroke: The Stroke panel allows you to select strokes and change stroke attributes, such as color, width/weight, style, and caps (ends). The program you’re using determines what attributes you can change.
Transform: The Transform panel is used to display and change the shear (skew), rotation, position, and size of a selected object in the document. You can enter new values for each of these transformations.
Character: The Character panel is used to select fonts, font size, character spacing, and other settings related to using type in your documents.
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Common Adobe CS4 Tools
Adobe CS4 is full of tools, most identified with little icons that hint at their functions. For example, use the tool that looks like a brush if you want to create brush marks. (Smart, huh?) Peruse this table that shows the most common tools and what each one does.
| Tool | What It Does |
|---|---|
| Selection | Selects elements in the document. |
| Marquee | Selects elements in a document using a rectangular or oval shape. |
| Lasso | Makes freehand selections in a document. |
| Magic Wand | Selects similar adjoining colors in a document. |
| Pencil | Makes freehand solid marks (with a hard edge) in the document. |
| Pen | Creates vector paths in a document. |
| Brush | Creates painterly brush marks in the document; brushes vary in size, shape, and pattern. |
| Text | Adds text to the document. |
| Shape | Creates various shapes in the document. |
| Scale | Increases or decreases the scale (size) of an element in the document. |
| Hand | Moves the contents of the document for viewing purposes. |
| Zoom | Changes the magnification of the document. |
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