Click on the edit option.
You will now have a screen layout which looks like this. Click on this picture to make it bigger so you can really look at it.
Except I have drawn all over mine in lovely colorful writing. I could use text but it's boring. I have tried to highlight some of the key areas you will be using as a beginner.
Top menu tabs.
Dont be shy, click on each one and read the menus. Some will be really familliar, the sort you find in word processing. Like open a new window, or save. Some less familliar at the moment like distort.
These tabs I will refer to as the top tabs. So if I say go to edit in the top menu, you will be looking here.
Under this is the options menu for the side tabs. These change depending on which side tab is selected. Try it, click on each of the side options and see how they change. This is just a space saving way to give you options to hand. Nice huh?
Left side menu will be refered to as the tools. So if I say go to the left side tool menu for the shape tab, this is where you will be looking. Just go all the way down and you will find it. I think the most important tool for that menu is the move tool. It is the first tool and I will refer to it as the move tool. This is used to select and move things around.
I have highlighted some of the other popular tools in colored writing.
Marquee tool is used to put a box of flashing dots or as people call them 'marching ants' on the screen. You click and pull and it leaves a box.
Erase obviously rubs things out
Pencil (right click for brush) gives you something to draw with
The two squares with the colors in shows forground color and background color
Project bin. At the bottom. Will show all open windows that you are using. These can be clicked on and dragged into the open window on your desk.
Layers pallette on the right side arrowed in red is where you will open new layers and see how many layers you have open. A layer is just the window you are working on. And you can then hide that window if you like by clicking on the tiny box next to your layer. Layers sound confusing but they are not. Think of it as a pad of paper with lots of pages which you can move through. The only difference is with a computer you can hide the pages if you want and you can make them transparent, awesome :)
You can open new pages by clicking on the tiny box labelled new layer at the bottom left of the layers palette. Why they make it so small is beyond me.
So that was a quick lay mans tour of the first screen. I am sure the real instructions are more thorough but also a bit confusing.
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