The Menu OptionsĪlong the left of the Start screen is the main menu. But if this is the first time you've launched Photoshop, or you've cleared your Recent Files history (we'll see how to do that later), the Start screen will appear in its default state, with some brief tips and instructions in the center of the screen on how to get started: Normally, the Start screen displays a list of your recently-opened files so you can quickly re-open one and continue working. The Start screen appears each time we launch Photoshop on its own, meaning we haven't yet selected a document or image to work on, and it appears whenever we close out of a document and have no other documents open on the screen. We can use the Start screen to create a brand new Photoshop document, or we can use it to open an existing image.

Before we can do any work in Photoshop, we first need something to work on, and that's where the Start screen comes in. Photoshop's Start screen gets its name from what it does it gives us a place to start. Let's get started!ĭownload this tutorial as a print-ready PDF! Photoshop's 'Start Here' Point To follow along, you'll need to be using Photoshop CC (Creative Cloud) and you'll want to make sure that your copy of Photoshop CC is up to date.

We'll look briefly at it here as we make our way through the Start screen's features, but I'll also cover it in much more detail in its own separate tutorial.

The biggest change, though, isn't really with the Start screen itself but with the New Document dialog box which has been completely redesigned in Photoshop CC 2017. The Start screen was actually introduced back in Photoshop CC 2015, but in CC 2017, Adobe has streamlined it a bit and made a few important changes, all of which we'll look at here. In this tutorial, we'll learn all about the updated Start screen, or Start workspace as it's officially known, in Photoshop CC 2017.

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