How do use Adobe PhotoShop tool Palette

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Adobe PhotoShop 7.0 How do use Adobe PhotoShop tool Palette

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1. Introduction to the Work Area: 

In this section we will look at the tools, palettes, menus and work area of Photoshop.  

The Tool Palette: 

To the right we have the tool palette. This contains the tools you 

need for image creating, editing and manipulation. The tools with 

black arrows at the bottom right corner indicate that there are more 

options within that tool. To access the other tools within that tool, 

just left click the mouse and hold it down. The currently selected 

tool is the move tool. Hovering the cursor over the tool will give 

you its name and the keyboard shortcut to access it (in the case of 

the move tool Shift + M will automatically select it for you). 

The tools in the top four sections of the tool palette are as follows 

(moving anticlockwise): 

 Marquee: this tool allows you to select an area of an 

image within a particular shape. The default is rectangle, 

but there is also an ellipse selection as well as a single row 

and single column marquee 

 Lasso: this tool allows you to select irregular areas of an 

image. In the image to the right, the polygonal lasso tool is 

showing. There is also the freehand lasso tool and the 

magnetic lasso tool (which will find the edge of an 

element within the image you are trying to select). 

 Crop: this tool allows you to cut an image to a particular 

segment. 

 Healing Brush: this tool allows you correct imperfections, 

causing them to disappear into the surrounding image. You use the healing 

brush tool to paint with sampled pixels from an image or pattern. The other 

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tool that this button allows you to select is the patch tool. The patch tool lets 

you repair a selected area with pixels from another area or a pattern. 

 Clone Stamp: this tool takes a sample of an image, which you can then apply 

over another image or part of the same image. Each stroke of the tool paints on 

more of the sample. The other tool that can be selected here is the pattern 

stamp tool, which lets you paint with a pattern. You can select a pattern from 

the pattern libraries or create your own patterns. 

 Eraser: this tool allows you to erase parts of your image. You can also select 

the background eraser tool or magic eraser tool which allow you to erase 

specific parts of the image. 

 Smudge: this tool allows you to create an effect similar to the effect caused 

when working with pencils and you smudge an area of the image with your 

finger. The companion tools to this tool are the blur tool and the sharpen tool 

which allow you to blur the focus or sharpen the focus of an area of the image 
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 Path Selection: used for selecting vector images. Vector images are images 

that can be resized without loosing resolution because they are based on 

mathematical formula as opposed to bitmapped or raster images, which are 

constructed using a finite number of pixels. The companion tool to this is the 

direct selection tool, which allows you select a path segment. 

 Pen: used for creating straight lines and smooth curves with precision. The 

image created is a vector image. There are a number of companion tools to 

this tool – freeform pen, add anchor point, delete anchor point and convert 

point tools 

 Notes: this tool is used to add notes to an image. They are not part of the 

image but can be useful when sharing the image as the image author can add 

valuable information about the image to the image file so others can appreciate 

what is intended by an image. The companion tool to this tool is the audio 

annotation tool, which allows a user with a microphone attached to their 

computer to add a “speaker note” to the image to convey information to other 

users of the image. 

 Hand: allows you to move an image around the screen to allow access to 

various parts of the image when the image is too big for the screen.

 Zoom: allows you to magnify/de-magnify areas of an image to allow for more 

detailed work 

 Eyedropper: this tool allows you to set the colour of the foreground of the 

colour palette from a colour within the image. The companion tools are the 

colour sampler tool and the measure tool, which can be used to get the exact 

coordinates and pixel height and width of any part of the image 

 Rectangle: this tool allows you to draw different shapes, 

with the default set to rectangle. You can also draw 

rounded rectangles, ellipses, polygons, lines and custom 

shapes. 

 Text: this tool allows you to add text to your image. You 

can also change the orientation of text to the vertical type 

tool.

 Sponge: this tool allows you to subtly change the colour of 

the image, by altering the colour saturation of the area 

adjusted by the sponge tool. The other options under this 

tool are the dodge and burn tools, which are used to 

lighten or darken an area of the image respectively.

 Gradient: a gradient allows you to fill an area of an image 

with a colour range, where the colours gradually run into 

each other. The other option with this tool is the paint 

bucket or fill tool, which you would use to fill a selected 

area of the image with a single colour.

 History Brush: this tool allows you paint with the source 

data from a specified history state or snapshot. The other 

option is the art history brush which allows for painting 

with stylized strokes from a specified history state or 

snapshot

 Paint Brush: this tool is as you would imagine used to 

paint on an image. There are numerous different brush shapes and sizes that 

allow the user to create different textures to their image. The other option to 

this tool is the pencil tool. Slice: the slice tool allows you to divide an image into sections, making it 

easier to break up the image for putting it on the web or for making composite 

images. The second option under the slice tool is the slice select tool, which 

allows you to apply modifications to a slice that you have created.
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 Magic Wand: the magic wand tool is another tool that you can use to select 

an area on the screen. It is used when you want to select an area that contains 

the same colour throughout.