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This document provides an overview of the tools available in the Photoshop toolbar. It describes 18 different tools, including selection tools like the marquee and lasso tools, modification tools like the blur and dodge tools, and navigation tools like the hand and zoom tools. For each tool, a brief description is given of its function and how it is used to edit images.

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Intro

This document provides an overview of the tools available in the Photoshop toolbar. It describes 18 different tools, including selection tools like the marquee and lasso tools, modification tools like the blur and dodge tools, and navigation tools like the hand and zoom tools. For each tool, a brief description is given of its function and how it is used to edit images.

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Intro.

to Photoshop
TOOL BAR

2. Marquee Selection Tool

11. Gradient Tool You can use this

Use this tool to make selections on your


image, in a rectangular shape. This
changes the area of your image that is
affected by other tools or actions to be
within the defined shape. Holding the
[Shift] key while dragging your selection,
restricts the shape to a perfect square.
Holding the [Alt] key while dragging sets
the center of the rectangle to where your
cursor started.

to make a gradation of colors. It creates a


blending of your foreground color and
background color when you click and drag

3. Lasso Selection Tool Use

12. Blur Tool (also the smudge

this to draw selections in whatever shape


you would like. To close the selection,
either click on the beginning point (youll
see the cursor change when youre on it),
or just double-click.

4. Quick Selection Tool Use this


to select portions of an image. Add to the
selected area by clicking shift while
selecting. Remove from selected area by
clicking Alt while selecting.

it. (Paint Bucket): The paint bucket


tool is hiding under the gradient tool, if you
hold your mouse down on the gradient. It is
used when you want to make the entire
background the same color. Just choose a
color and click and the background will
change to whatever color youve chosen.

& sharpen tools are hiding


under this tool) Blur makes things
blurry. Click and drag to make things
blurry. The more you click and drag, the
hazier images appear. Smudge makes
things smudge together. The more you
click and drag the more they smudge.
Sharpen makes things sharper.

13. Dodge (also the Burn &


Sponge tools are hiding here)

5. Crop Tool The Crop Tool works


similarly to the Rectangular Marquee tool.
The difference is when you press the
[Enter/Return] key, it crops your image to
the size of the box. Any information that
was on the outside of the box is now gone.

6. Eyedropper Tool This tool


works by changing your foreground color
to whatever color you click on. Holding the
[Alt] key will change your background
color.

7. Healing Brush Tool You can


use this tool to repair scratches and specs
on images. It works like the Brush tool.
You choose your cursor size, then holding
the [Alt] key, you select a nice/clean area
of your image. Let go of the [Alt] key and
paint over the bad area. It basically copies
the info from the first area, then it averages
the information so it blends.

8. Brush Tool (B) It paints on your


image, in whatever color you have
selected, and whatever size you have
selected.

Sponge is used to saturate or de saturate


areas of an image. Dodge is used to
lighten areas of an image. Burn is used to
darken areas of an image.

14. Type Tool It makes type or text.


You can click a single point, and start
typing right away. Or you can click and
drag to make a bounding box of where
your text/type goes.

15. Shape/Rectangle Tool


By default it draws a Shape Layer in the
form of a rectangle. It fills the rectangle
with whatever foreground color you have
selected. Hold the icon down to see other
shapes you can draw.

16. Hand Tool Its for moving your


entire image within a window. So if youre
zoomed in and your image area is larger
than the window, you can use the Hand
Tool to navigate around your image. You
can also double click on this tool, in the
tool bar to zoom out and see your entire
image on the screen.

17. Zoom Tool


9. Clone Stamp Tool This is very
similar to the Healing Brush Tool. You use
it the exact same way, except this tool
doesnt blend at the end. Its a direct copy
of the information from the first selected
area to the second.

1. Move Tool

Use this tool to move


things. Usually you use it to move a Layer
around after it has been placed. Hold the
[Shift] key to limit the movements to
vertical/horizontal

10. Eraser Tool

This is the antiBrush tool. The eraser tool is pretty selfexplanatory. It will erase whatever you
want from the photo leaving the
background color.

It allows you to zoom into your image.


Hold the [Alt] key to zoom out.

18. Foreground &


Background Color Well: These
are your color boxes, foreground (in the
front) and background (in the back). Click
on either one to bring up the color select
dialog box. Click on the curved arrows to
the upper right to switch the colors. Click
on the 2 boxes in upper left to reset pure
black & pure white.

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