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THE TOOLBOX IN PHOTOSHOP IS SPLIT UP INTO 4 UNIQUE CATEGORIES SO THAT FINDING
the right tool is never a hassle.
Those categories are:
Selection, Crop & Slice Tools
Retouch & Paint
Drawing & Type Tools
Annotations & Measurement Tools
In addition to these 4 sections a few other components make up the toolbox,
most notably, the Foreground and Background colors.
The toolbox in Photoshop is split up into 4 unique
categories so that finding
the right tool is never a hassle. Those categories are:
-Selection, Crop & Slice Tools
-Retouch & Paint
-Drawing & Type Tools
-Annotations & Measurement Tools
In addition to these 4 sections a few other components make up the toolbox,
most notably, the Foreground and Background colors.
The Marquee Tools are used for selecting objects such as
rectangles, squares, and ellipses.
The Move Tool is used to move selections, objects, and
layers.
There are several Lasso Tools which are used to make
irregular selections. There is a polygonal lasso tool for polygon
selections, and a magnetic lasso tool which automatically follows edges
of objects.
The Magic Wand Tool selects an area of similar colors in a
single click (such as the white in the cloud logo).
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The Crop Tool allows users to redefine their active image area but not resize the ENTIRE image. It’s sort of like cutting out a smaller picture from a larger photo with a pair of
There are several healing tools in Photoshop which are used to repair imperfections in images, or handle blemishes and red-eye.
With the Clone Stamp Tool, a user may select a source starting point somewhere on an image, and then paint elsewhere using that starting point as a reference, effectively cloning the source.
The Eraser Tool can be used to erase parts of an image, selection, or layer.
The Sharpen Tool is used to sharpen edges in an image, while the Blur Tool burs edges. The Smudge Tool smudges an image, similar to using fingerpaint.
The Dodge Tool lightens parts of an image while the Burn Tool darkens. The Sponge Tool is used to saturate, or desaturate parts of an image.
The Brush and Pencil tools are used to paint strokes in graphics. These tools can be highly customized for very effective painting.
The Type Tools are used for creating and setting type in an image. Both vertical and horizontal type can be created.
The Pen Tools are used to create clear shapes and paths which can be used as vector objects that can be scaled to any size.
A foreground color and background color can be set to be used to paint with, color text, and fill objects among other things. This view provides an easy way to see what colors are currently selected, and allows for easy switching between two different colors.
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