Research and Planning: Introduction to Photoshop (Creating a Document)

Here in my media studies lesson I had to go onto photoshop and change the background colour to blue. To do this i had to pick the colour from the colour panel and find the blue to select it. I then had to go onto the paint bucket tool and click on the background and then the colour would automatically change to the selected colour.
Then I had to add some text to the photoshop document. i had to type 'AS Media Studies' and change the colour to red. To change the colour i had to highlight the text and then click on the colour box. Then I had to drop shadow my text by firstly clicking on the correct layer that the text belongs to and then going onto Layer and the Layer Style which then took me onto drop shadow.
Next, I had to place my skin tutorial picture onto the document by making sure I had saved the picture as a JPeg. Then I went onto file and then Place to chose the correct picture, double click and load it on.
Finally, I had to draw a rectangle onto the document by clicking on the Rectangle Tool and drawing out my box over the top of my picture, making sure that it is slightly bigger than the picture. Then the rectangle would go over the top of the picture so then I had to click on the layers palette on the one which had the layer for the rectangle and drag the layer over the top of the layer to that skin tutorial picture. I also selected the Paint Bucket Tool to change the colour of the rectangle to black.