Getting Started with Photoshop

Operating System : MS Windows XP
Application : Adobe Photoshop CS or newer

Before we started, then we should set up the Photoshop for getting the best result :

1. Start your Photoshop.

2. Immediately press and hold CTRL+ALT+SHIFT on your keyboard to display the confirmation dialog box that says “It will delete your Photoshop setting”, choose Yes.

3. Then come up another dialog box that says “You need to set up your Photoshop paging file”, choose OK.

4. Then come up another dialog box that says “You need to set up your Photoshop color settings”, choose No.

5. Finally come up the welcome screen, just choose OK.

6. Now we will need to set up the paging file, choose Edit>Preferences>Plug-Ins & Scratch Disks…

7. Just use the following setup for your configurations. Please take a note that you will need to set the first scratch disk to your drive with many free spaces. Also the amount of drives available here depends on your drive partition. If you have 4 drive partitions (C,D,E,F) then you can use all of them.

8. Now you are ready to work with Photoshop.

NOTES :

- Paging file (scratch disks), works like virtual memory for Windows XP. It works like a secondary RAM for processing images in Photoshop so we need to put it on the drives which has a lot of free space.