Open an Existing Document in Photoshop CS6

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You're watching VisiHow. In this video, we are going to show you how you can open an existing document in Photoshop CS6 in Windows 7.

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    To begin, we need to open Photoshop
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    This can be seen at the bottom by the blue square icon with the letters "PS".
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    Once Photoshop has been opened, it will look similar to the one in the tutorial
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    We click "File" in the top left-hand corner
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    We click the second option, "Open...", once to bring up the "Open" window
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    Now, we should search for the file that we want to open
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    We should know whether it's on the desktop, in "Libraries", in our "Pictures" folder, and so on. In this video, the file is on the desktop.
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    We scroll through until we find the file
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    We click the file
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    It will be selected at the bottom as well.
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    We click "Open" at the right-hand side
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    Photoshop will open up our file.
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    We can zoom out by pressing "Ctrl" and "-"
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    We can zoom in by pressing "Ctrl" and "+" on our keyboard
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    At the top, we can close the particular document by clicking the cross at the right-hand side of the tab
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    The more files we open, the more tabs we have. They will fill up the bar along the top. Photoshop will not double-check with us unless we have made any changes. Otherwise, Photoshop will ask us to save the document as a Photoshop file.
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