Alright, welcome to the course. Uh, the first thing we need to do is you need  to download the exercise files, okay? So you can play along with the rest of the course. Uh, there'll be a link on the screen here somewhere  and download those. Put them on your desktop and we'll get started. The other thing you can do is download.

I've got printed notes  that you can use, uh, throughout this course. Take your own notes. If you're old school,  wanna write stuff down on paper. Um, I'll jump into the screen now and show you where you  Download those. Alright. To download the workbook, it's free, go  to bring your own laptop.com, click on this resources tab,  along the top navigation.

Then you'll find it in here under this recent posts  or under this Photoshop tab. Okay. Give it a click and then click here. It says, download high res PDF, and that'll get you the PDF. You can download, it's free, print it off. It's for the people who love to kind  of make notes as they're going through.

Alright, two more things we'll do  before we get started, just so  that we're all following along the same is we need  to change our units of measurement. We're gonna use pixels in this class. So to change that, we're going to go to, I'm on a Mac here. So we go to Photoshop, cc preferences come down  to units and rulers. Okay? Click on that.

If you're on a pc, go up to edit. Okay? And come all the way down the bottom here  and you'll see your preferences. And once you find that, find that units and rulers. Alright? Once you've done it, just under here it says rulers,  change it to pixels.

Okay? You can change it back afterwards,  but let's just make sure we're  all looking at the same thing. Once you've done that, click okay. The other thing you're gonna do is just  to make sure our workspace looks the same. If we go a window, go to workspace  and just make sure it's set to essentials. Okay?

If it's not, got the little  techniques to it, click it again. Okay? And the other thing we're gonna do is reset the  essentials just so that it all looks the same. So if all the panels aren't mixed up, easy stuff. Let's get now started with all the fun stuff.