Thanks for your reply. Yes, I did put those words into a search engine (duckduckgo) but didn't come across the link which you gave. In any event, I couldn't do much with the tutorial, as, although it was ostensibly for absolute beginners, I found it difficult to grasp what it was all about, in fact, I fell at the first fence with this:
"Choose the new document preset, transparency of background or type the width, height, and resolution for the document when the “New Image” dialog appears. Then click “Create” to begin working on the new document". By 'new document' I assume he means image, but not sure. I couldn't locate a 'new document' pre-set. Anyway, my main problem was re-setting the default font colour, which I can find no way of doing. As one who used to write technical articles for a living, I didn't find the article too helpful. Thanks, though, for your assistance in this matter. Ah!,just noticed the second link on your post, I'll take a look at that. Cheers.