Ashley Plowden
Photoshop Tools
Selection Tools
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Move Tool – Allows you to move a layer by using the mouse or arrow keys.
Artboard Tool – Allows you to create multiple designs in a document
Rectangular Marquee Tool – Make selections with geometric shapes. [Ctrl+I]
Elliptical Marquee Tool – Allows you to select objects and areas based on rectangle or square
shapes.
Single Row Marquee Tool – Makes a rectangular selection [Shift Tool]
Single Column Marquee Tool – Selects one row or column one pixel size.
Lasso Tool – Allows you to create a selection with series of straight edges.
Polygonal Lasso Tool – Create a selection with a series of straight edges.
Magnetic Lasso Tool - Adds fastening points to the selection border to anchor previous
segments.
Crop and Slice Tools
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Crop Tool – Cuts out a defined area deleting or hiding the rest of an image.
Perspective Crop Tool – Enables you to isolate different planes within an image.
Slice Tool – Allows you to divide an image into smaller sections.
Slice Select Tool – Selects, moves and resizes slices.
Eyedropper Tool – Allows you to pick colors from web pages, color picker and your personal
color.
15. 3D Material Eyedropper Tool – Loads selected material from a 3D object.
16. Color Sampler Tool – Samples up to four areas of an image.
Measuring Tools
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Ruler Tool – Measures distance, locations and angles.
Note Tool – Makes notes that can be attached to an image.
Count Tool – Counts objects in an image
Spot Healing Brush Tool – Removes blemishes and imperfections from photographs with a
uniform background.
21. Healing Brush Tool – Paints with a sampler pattern to repair imperfections in an image.
22. Patch Tool – Repairs Imperfections in selected area of an image using a sample pattern.
23. Content- Aware Move Tool – Recomposes and blends pixels to accommodate a moved object.
Retouching Tools
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Red Eye Tool – Removes red-eye in flash photos.
Brush Tool – Paints brush strokes.
Pencil Tool – Paints hard edged strokes
Color Replacement Tool – Subsites a color for another
Painting Tools
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Mixer Brush Tool – Blends sampled color with existing color.
Clone Stamp – Paints with a sample of an image
Pattern Stamp Tool – Paints with a part of an image as a pattern.
History Brush Tool – Paints a copy of selected slate or snapshot in the current image window.
Art History Brush Tool – Paints stylized strokes that stimulate the look of different paint styles
using a selected state or snapshot.
Eraser Tool – Erases Pixels and restores parts of an image.
Background Eraser Tool – Erases areas to transparency by dragging
Magic Eraser Tool – Erases a solid colored area to transparency with a single click.
Gradient Tool – Creates straight- line, radial, angle, reflected, and diamond blends between
colors.
Drawing and Type Tools
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Paint Bucket Tool –Fills similarly colored areas with the foreground.
3D Material Drop Tool – Loads selected material from a 3D object.
Blur Tool – Blurs hard edges in an image
Sharpen Tool – Sharpens soft edges in an image.
Smudge Tool – Picks up color where the stroke begins and pushes it the direction you want.
Dodge Tool – Lightens area in an image.
Burn Tool – Darkens areas in an image.
Sponge Tool – Changes color saturation of an area.
Pen Tool – Draws smooth edges paths.
Freeform Pen Tool – Draws the greatest precision.
Add Anchor Point Tool – Reshapes existing vector shapes
Delete Anchor Point Tool – Deletes vector shapes
Convert Point Tool – Edits existing vector shape.
Horizontal Type Mask Tool – creates typed shaped selections
Vertical Type Tool – Creates and edits vector based text in a separate layer.
Horizontal Type Tool - Creates and edits vector-based text in a separate layer.
Vertical Type Mask Tool – Creates typed shaped selections.
Path Selection Tool – Selects and moves existing paths.
Direct Selection Tool – Select individual anchor points
Rectangle Tool – Used to make rectangular objects
Rounded Rectangle Tool – Creates rectangular shapes and paths with rounded corners.
Ellipse Tool – Creates elliptical shapes and paths
Polygon Tool – Allows you to draw a polygonal shape of any size
Line Tool – Used to draw straight lines on a canvas
Custom Shape Tool – Allows you to create your own unique shape.
Navigation Tools
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Hand Tool – Moves an image within its window
Rotate View Tool – Rotates the canvas
Zoom Tool – Magnifies and reduces the view of an image
Standard Screen Mode – Displays document window.
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Full Screen Mode With Menu Bar
Full Screen Mode
Color Picker (Foreground Color) – Allows you to select a color value.
Edit in Quick Mask Mode
Change Screen Mode (F)
Default Foreground and Background Colors (D)
Switch Foreground and Background Colors (X) - identifying your primary painting color
Set Foreground Color – Allows you to set the color at which is closest to you.
Set Background Color – Allows you to change the background color.