PHOTOSHOP TOOLS

 In Photoshop there are 4 types of tools

1.Selection Tools

2.Vector Drawing & Type Tools

3.Retouch Tools

4.Painting Tools

 

Marquee Tools-The Marquee Tools are used for selecting objects such as rectangles, squares, and ellipses.

Move Tool-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.

Magic Wand Tool-The Magic Wand Tool selects an area of similar colors in a single click (such as the white in the cloud logo).

Crop Tool-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.

Pen Tools-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.

Type Tools-The Type Tools are used for creating and setting type in an image. Both vertical and horizontal type can be created.

Cutom Shapes Tools- Theseare vector objects that can be created on the fly from a list of presets (including user created shapes).

 

Healing Tools-There are several healing tools in Photoshop which are used to repair imperfections in images, or handle blemishes and red-eye.

Clone Stamp Tool-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.

Eraser Tool-The Eraser Tool can be used to erase parts of an image, selection, or layer.

Sharpen Tool-The Sharpen Tool is used to sharpen edges in an image, while the Blur Tool burs edges.

Smudge Tool-The Smudge Tool smudges an image, similar to using fingerpaint.

Dodge Tool-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.

Brush and Pencil tools-The Brush and Pencil tools are used to paint strokes in graphics. These tools can be highly customized for very effective painting.

Fill Tools-The Fill Tools are used to fill entire layers, selections and areas with a solid color, or gradient.