Adobe Photoshop CS5 Complete Training "Lesson 04 Tools"
Toolbox :
The Toolbox (or Tools panel) contains a wide range of tools used to create and manipulate images. Photoshop provides an integrated set of tools with which you can produce sophisticated graphics for print, web, and
mobile viewing . Some tools are arranged in groups, with only one tool shown for each group and the
other tools in the group hidden behind that tool. A small triangle in the lower right corner of a tool icon is your clue to
look for hidden tools. Select a hidden tool by clicking and holding down the small triangle
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 Tools
Drawing & Type Tools (Vector 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.
Selection Tools
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).
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 scissors.
Retouch Tools
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 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.
Painting Tools
The Brush and Pencil tools are used to paint strokes in graphics. These tools can be highly customized for very effective painting.
The Fill Tools are used to fill entire layers, selections and areas with a solid color, or gradient.
Vector Drawing & Type Tools
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.
Cutom Shapes are vector objects that can be created on the fly from a list of presets (including user created shapes).
Foreground / Background Color
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.
Select a tool by clicking on its button or by pressing its shortcut key on the keyboard. Some tools have a small black triangle in the bottom right corner of the button. Click and hold on a tool button displaying a triangle to see other variations of the tool that appear in a fly-out menu. To do this using the keyboard, hold down the Shift key while repeating the tool's shortcut letter to cycle through the tool variations. In the example shown here, the Brush tool is currently selected and the user's cursor is hovering over the Pencil tool so that's why it's highlighted in yellow.
Each tool has a set of properties or options that you can modify. These properties are contained in theTool Options bar. For example, when you select the Brush tool, the Tool Options will change to display all the settings available for the Brush. You can set the brush size, the hardness or softness of the brush and various settings that determine how it operates. An example of the Tool Options bar for the Eyedropper tool is shown below.
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