RE:  PHOTOSHOP CC - MENU ITEM EXPLANATIONS

1)  Where can I find a very basic, very in depth discussion of of all menu items?   There are so many that do not seem to be covered in any of the tutorials - such as "Image" > "Mode" > "8, 16, 32 Bit/Channel".   That's just an example.  Even Fundamental Tutorials do not cover.  Even the Photoshop "manual" I downloaded do not cover.
2)  In trying to find and view tutorials, one illustrates how to move the entire opening screen around to avoid opening in the Bridge CC (and to keep them side by side if desired), through . .  the menu item "Window" > "Application Frame".  I don't have an Application Frame.
3)  I was under the impression that if I subscribed to Creative Cloud that I would automatically have everything and it would be automatically downloaded with all of the appropriate updates.  Now I find there's so much I do not have - but worse - no way to know what I am missing.  Could anyone explain this.  I want to spend my valuable time doing my art work, not trying to learn how/when/what/why/IF Creative Cloud downloads, mess-ups, screw-ups, etc.
Thanks for any help.

I had at first, decided to ignore the implications of some of your responses. However, after much consideration and reading some other comments and blogs (and even a comment in a popular book) about Adobe customer service, I've decided to respond.  I think your response was condescending and somewhat rude. I do NOT expect anyone to explain the entire Photoshop CC program to me. If you could just look at my opening question - "Where can I find a very basic, very in depth discussion of of all menu items?", I'm asking where I might go to find an explanation of menu items.  You go on to tell me that a lot of what I was asking was not even specific to Photoshop, although every single thing I refered to…..File;  Scripts; Image;  Mode;  Window; Timeline; 8bit/16bit/32bit;  Application Frame…. IS within Photoshop. 
Then, to suggest that I “type a handful of phrases into a web search” to do my own research - when its Photoshop’s own menu I’m trying to research….. and when I’m only asking to be directed to find what I need, is insulting.  I do not think it is appropriate customer service.
At the same time, I recognize that I was the first to be rude in calling out Creative Cloud’s mess-ups and screw-ups, etc.  I must apologize for that because it was not you who participated in or had anything to do with failing in information about the missing Bridge “Output” module.  Nevertheless I did start out asking the right question - where to go to find what I wanted - because I too do not believe a forum is the correct place for in depth basic information about a program.  I believe is a strong failure on the part of Adobe is discarding a very useful in depth, item by item, manual. 

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