What is Photo Editor?

·         Photo editing means manipulation of an image.

·         Photo editing software allows for complex adjustments to made down to the image pixel.

·         This software is used to remove unwanted objects, color editing of image, add multiple image, etc.

·         Adobe Photoshop is a most popular Photo editing software. In this software we can manage various types of file like - .pdf, .png, .jpeg, etc.

Features of Photo Editing

·         Selection

·         Layers

·         Image size alteration

·         Histogram

·         Selective color change

·         Lens correction

·         Removal of unwanted elements

·         Stamp clone tool

·         Color adjustments

·         Special effects

Toolbox in Photoshop

·         It is also known as Tools panel. It is just like a container which holds the all tools of Photoshop and using this tool easily manipulate any image.

There are tools making selections, for cropping an image, for editing or retouching and many more.

·         Basic Photo Editing tools are given below-

1.       Selection tools

2.       Paint tools

3.       Transform tools

4.       Text tools

1.       Selection tools –

a.       Move tools ( V )

b.      Marque tools (M)

                                                               i.      Rectangular Marque

                                                             ii.      Elliptical Marque

                                                            iii.      Single Row Marque

                                                           iv.      Single Column Marque

c.       Lasso tools (L)

                                                               i.      Lasso

                                                             ii.      Polygonal Lasso

                                                            iii.      Magnetic Lasso

d.      Magic Wand Tool (W)

2.       Painting Tools

a.       Paintbrush tool

b.      Pencil tool

3.       Transform Tools (Ctrl + T)

a.       Scale

b.      Rotate

c.       Skew

d.      Distort

e.      Perspective

f.        Flip horizontally or vertically

4.       Text tools (T)

Layers

·         Layers are a very important part of graphics work. Each layer can be edited without affecting any other layer.

·         We can perform different functions in the layer such as adding layers, copying layers, deleting layers, merging layers, duplicating layers as well as adjusting.

o   Layers Creation –

§  New Layer – Ctrl + Shift + N  or  Shift + Ctrl + N

o   Viewing & Hiding Layers

Color Adjustment

        I.            Levels (Ctrl + L)

   II.            Curves (Ctrl + M)

III.            Hue / Saturation (Ctrl + U)

IV.            Color Balance (Ctrl + B)

Filters

             Filters are digital effects used to modify images and selections to create effects, repair images, and move pixels.