The Interface of Photoshop CS5

In this tutorial I will tell you about the basics of the interface in Photoshop CS5. After this tutorial you should be able to easily navigate around in Photoshop and at least have an idea of how to solve simple problems. When typing the name of the tool I will do (Shortcut key here). Shortcuts can be important to learn to improve your skills and speed working in Photoshop.
Also this tutorial explains the tools a little superficial but don't worry to much about it because you will get to use all the tools a lot in the next tutorials.

But what are we waiting for, lets get started.

 The first tool in Photoshop is the Move Tool (V). This tool is for dragging your objects around in your document. Guess I don't need to say much more about this tool as it is pretty straight forward.

 This is the selection tool (M). Using this tool you will be able to make selections of your objects which we will need very much in the next tutorials.

 The crop tool (C) is used for cropping your image.

 The brush tool (B) is a very important tool in Photoshop. To start drawing simply select the tool and start painting on your scene.

 The eraser tool (E) is pretty straight forward to use. Selecting it and start clicking on your scene, like you did with your brush, will erase the content you've made.

 Using the Pen tool (P) is a little more advanced. This tool sets points to where your guided line should be drawn. I personally kinda hate this tool but it has a few interesting things. More about this later.

 The text tool (T) is simply for creating text.

 Shape tool (U) is used to create squares with rounded corners, custom shapes etc. This is a handy tool. I have used it a lot, specially for creating buttons, text fields and stuff like that for web designs.

Navigating around in Photoshop is very easy. Photoshop has a pan function and a zoom function.

 The Hand tool (H) is for panning around on your scene. When having other tool active you can also just push the Spacebar button and while holding it down you can pan around as your like.

 The Zoom tool (Z) is for zooming in and out on your scene. You can also hold down CTRL and then scroll up or down to zoom. Or you can press CTRL and press "+" or "-".

This was the very basic of the main tools your at least need to have some knowledge about. Next time we will be looking at pixels and resolution when working in Photoshop.