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Introduction
| Creating and Opening an Image | Editing
an Image | Understanding and Switching Between
Layers
Cropping and Resizing Images | Moving
and Selecting/Deleting Parts of Images | Adding
Text
Altering Your Images | Rotating
and Drawing Shapes | Eyedropper and Zoom
Tools | History
Brightness & Contrast | Layer
Styles | Filters | Saving
Editing an Image:
Once you have an image created or opened, you can edit or draw on
top of it with Photoshop's "Tools" window, which is the
long, thin window that is automatically open on the left side. Here
is a break down of all the tools contained on this bar:
1. Marquee Tool - used for selecting areas of an image
2. Move Tool - used for moving an image to a different area
of the canvas
3. Lasso Tool - used for selecting areas of an image that
may not necessarily be comprised of straight lines
4. Magic Wand Tool - used for auto-selecting large areas
of an image that are similar in color
5. Crop Tool - used for reducing the image to a certain
area ("cropping")
6. Slice Tool - used to "slice" an image into
different sections; generally used for the creation of images for
a web page design
7. Healing Brush Tool - used to fix imperfections in an
image by copying other pixels from the image. The Healing Brush
tool will also match the texture, lighting, and shading to perfectly
match the are you are fixing
8. Brush Tool - used with the mouse to simply draw lines
on your image
9. Clone Stamp Tool - used to "clone" or copy
one area of an image to another; first hold "Alt" and
click an area of the image to copy, then click on a different area
to copy it there
10. History Brush Tool - used to copy and draw a pre-existing
image in different artistic styles
11. Eraser Tool - used to erase certain areas of an image
11. Gradient Tool - used to create gradient fills for an
image, of any color
12. Blur Tool - used to blur or blend areas of an image
13. Dodge Tool - used to uniquely adjust the brightness
and contrast of an image
14. Path Selection Tool - used merge overlapping components
into a single component
15. Type Tool - used to place text on an image
16. Pen Tool - used to draw lines and curves with better
precision
17. Rectangle Tool - used to draw rectangles and other polygons
18. Notes Tool - used to leave notes for yourself on your
image
19. Eyedropper Tool - used to select and match specific
colors
20. Hand Tool - used to quickly view different areas of
an image
21. Zoom Tool - used to zoom in and out of an image
22. Set Foreground / Background Color - used to set the
foreground (front) and background (back) colors of an image; can
also be used to change the colors of text, etc. Click on the boxes
to change the colors (a new window will appear).
23. Edit Modes - used to switch back and forth between modes
24. Switch Screen Modes - used to switch between full screen
and standard screen modes
25. Jump to ImageReady - used to easily launch the ImageReady
program
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