DT 216-PHOTOSHOP

Photoshop Toolbar

When you open Photoshop, you will come across the toolbar along the screen's left.

» Changing the Columns of Toolbar

The Photoshop toolbar appears as a single, long column by default. You can lessen the height of the column by making it
double once you click the icon of 'double arrows' located on top. If you click the icon again, the Toolbar would again assume
single column format.

» Layout of the Tools

The tools' icons in Toolbar are neatly organized although at the first glance, they may seem to have random listing. But it is not
so as grouping of related tools are done in logical manner.

The 'Move and Selection' tools are situated on the top of tools panel in Photoshop. The 'Crop and Slice' tools sit beneath
them. 'Measurement' tools come next. After that, you will come across different tools for 'Retouching and Painting' followed
by 'Drawing and Type'. The 'Navigation' tools are located at Toolbar's bottom.

» The Default Tool

'Default Tool' is the one that is originally displayed as icon within the toolbar. It is not necessary that the default tool would
always be displayed by Photoshop. The tool which you had selected last will be displayed. If you choose 'Single Row Marquee
Tool' from the fly-out menu, it would be displayed in place of the default 'Rectangular Marquee' tool. You will have to follow
the steps mentioned above for accessing the 'Rectangular Marquee' tool from 'Elliptical Marquee' tool icon's flyout menu.

1. CROP TOOL
The cropping tool is a valuable feature of Photoshop, using which you can eliminate any unnecessary element from the image.
You can simply leave out an element from the image.
2. HEALING BRUSH
In order to remove small specs and scratches in the image, you can use the healing brush tool. It works like a paintbrush and
allows the users to make images more perfect.
3. MOVE TOOL
Using this, you can simply move certain objects around the canvas in a given layer. This is one of the most important Photoshop
functions.
4. MARQUEE TOOL
You can select particular areas of any image using the tool, copy them, cut and crop the areas. You can choose four different
shapes with the tool. These are ellipse, rectangle, single column and single row.
5. PENCIL AND PAINTBRUSH
This is one of the extensively used photoshop elements editing tools. You can choose different types of paintbrushes in
Photoshop. The users may choose a standard paintbrush, or use airbrush styles in the process. The brush tool enables the
users to paint different types of shapes.
6. CLONE STAMP
Using a clone stamp, you can create a sample part of a particular image and paint other areas using it. you can simply select
the color from one area and use it to paint in other area.
7. PEN TOOL
In case you are interested in drawing vector graphics, you can use the pen tool. This is one of the most commonly used
photoshop tool for beginners. You can also use this in creating various paths.
8. LASSO TOOL
This free-form selection tool has to be dragged around the desired objects on the canvas for selecting them. Clicking on the
tool icon will let you access other sub-tools. The polygonal lasso allows selecting objects on the canvas by clicking on strategic
areas for creation of interlinked points in polygonal shape. The magnetic lasso behaves like regular lasso and additionally
carries out edge detection for spontaneously snapping to them. Basically, the lasso tools help in making the selections.
9. PATCH TOOL
This facilitates drawing of a freeform outline around the defective region to select the same. The defect can be repaired
subsequently by getting the selection outline dragged over the region whose texture you prefer.
10. EYEDROPPER
You have to click the desired area of the canvas with eyedropper tool for sampling the color on the clicked point. It would
automatically convert the foreground color to the color which was sampled by clicking canvas part.
11. ERASER TOOL
It erases the portion over which it is moved
12. TYPE TOOL
Adding text to a document. The Type Tool comes in four different variations and allows users to create both horizontal and
vertical type.
13. HAND TOOL
Clicking and dragging around the Photoshop canvas is facilitated by this. This would be ineffectual if the complete canvas sits
flush with the screen. After zooming in, you can easily move around using this. It also proves handy when the image is so big
that it fails in fitting the screen at normal level.
14. COLOR SELECTION
The colors that you have working with on Photoshop canvas can be managed using 'Color selection' tools. Foreground color is
the color that sits on the top and would be used by brushes. Background color is in the back and is used when anything from
the background is removed or extended. Shortcut functions can be accessed by clicking on any of the 2 smaller icons that sit on
the top. One icon, that sits on the left, is represented by a black square atop a white square. Click on it would result in setting
of the colors in background and foreground to defaults. Clicking on another icon in the shape of double headed curved arrow
would result in swapping of the colors in background and foreground. When you click on any color in the background or
foreground, a color picker would pop up which can be used for setting the color that you exactly need.
15. DODGE BURN, SPONGE
You can lighten the areas in the picture by retouching and painting over them with Dodge tool. You can darken the areas in the
image by painting over them with Burn tool. Color
saturation can be increased or decreased over selected regions of image by painting over with Sponge.