Image
Manipulation
using
Photoshop
Different Types of Tools and
their Functions in
Photoshop
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Move Tool
allows you to move a selection or entire layer by
dragging it with your mouse or using your
keyboard arrows keys
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Adobe Photoshop also offers a number of selection tools:
Quick Mask, Rectangular marquee, Elliptical marquee, Lasso,
Polygonal Lasso, Magnetic Lasso, Magic Wand. The most
efficient way to make a selection in Adobe Photoshop is to use
Quick Mask mode.
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Marquee Tool
at the most basic level, the tool is used to select areas of an image,
which can then be copied, cut or cropped. Specific sections of a
graphic can be selected to apply a filter or effect to a particular
area. It allows you to draw rectangular and elliptical selections.
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Lasso Tool
it allows us draw freehand selections around objects as if
we were outlining them on paper with a pen or pencil.
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Quick Selection tool
using the Quick Selection tool to quickly “paint” a
selection using an adjustable round brush tip. As you
drag, the selection expands outward and automatically
finds and follows defined edges in the image.
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Quick Selection tool
using the Quick Selection tool to quickly “paint” a
selection using an adjustable round brush tip. As you
drag, the selection expands outward and automatically
finds and follows defined edges in the image.
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Magic Wand Tool
lets you select a consistently colored area (for example, a
red flower) without having to trace its outline. You specify
the selected color range, or tolerance, relative to the
original color you click.
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Crop Tool
allows you to select an area of an image and discard
everything outside this area.
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Slice Tool
allows you to divide an image into smaller sections which
fit together like a jigsaw (but with straight edges).
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Eye Dropper Tool
is used to sample a color from an image to use this color
further. Eyedropper tool enables you to change foreground
or background colors by lifting them from the image.
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Healing Brush Tool
allows you to fix image imperfections such as scratches,
blemishes, etc. By sampling the surrounding area or using
a predefined pattern you can blend the imperfections into
the rest of the image.
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Spot Healing Brush Tool
is the default healing tool in Photoshop and can be used to clone areas
from an image and blend the pixels from the sampled area seamlessly
with the target area. The basic principle is that the texture from the
sample area is blended with the color and luminosity surrounding
wherever you paint.
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Patch Tool
is one of the best tools Photoshop has to offer. It can save you a
ton of time when trying to make some adjustments to your
image. You can use it to remove small or large areas from your
photo. You can also use it to duplicate parts of your photo.
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Brush Tool and the Pencil
Tool
work like traditional drawing tools applying color with brush strokes.
In the options bar for each of these painting tools, you can set how
color is applied to an image and choose from preset brush tips. It's
located in the standard Tool Bar and its default shortcut is the letter
B.
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Mixer Brush Tool
this tool allows you to blend colors and vary your wetness within a
single brush stroke. The Mixer Brush tool uses two paint wells — a
“reservoir” that deposits color (Adobe calls it paint) on the canvas and
a “pickup” that receives, or picks up, color from the canvas (which can
be an image or color you've applied).
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Clone Stamp Tool
allows you to duplicate part of an image. The process
involves setting a sampling point in the image which will
be used as a reference to create a new cloned area.
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Pattern Stamp Tool
is a very useful tool while making designs. You can use it
to give interesting textures and backgrounds to your
image. This tool allows you to create your own pattern
stamps. You can fill pattern in your image using this tool.
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Eraser Tool
can be found in the second group of icons in the toolbox. It has three
variations: Eraser, Background Eraser and Magic Eraser. The eraser is
basically a brush which erases pixels as you drag it across the image.
Pixels are erased to transparency, or the background color if the layer
is locked.
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Eraser Tool
One of the easiest ways to remove a background or part of a
background from an image in Photoshop is to use the Background
Eraser Tool. The Background Eraser tool samples the color at the
center of the brush and deletes pixels of a similar color as you drag
around your image.
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Background Eraser Tool
One of the easiest ways to remove a background or part of a
background from an image in Photoshop is to use the Background
Eraser Tool. The Background Eraser tool samples the color at the
center of the brush and deletes pixels of a similar color as you drag
around your image.
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Magic Eraser Tool
selecting similar pixels and it deletes them
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Paint Bucket Tool
is grouped with the Gradient tool in the toolbar. If you can't find the
Paint Bucket tool, click and hold the Gradient tool to access it.
Specify whether to fill the selection with the foreground color or
with a pattern. Specify a blending mode and opacity for the paint.
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Blur Tool
is grouped with the Gradient tool in the toolbar. If you can't find the
Paint Bucket tool, click and hold the Gradient tool to access it.
Specify whether to fill the selection with the foreground color or
with a pattern. Specify a blending mode and opacity for the paint.
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Sharpen Tool
, it increases the contrast among adjacent pixels to give
the illusion that things are sharper. Sharpen can quickly
give way to overly grainy and noisy images if you're not
cautious.
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Smudge Tool
can be used to create a lens blur effect and to blend certain aspects
of a picture.
Smudge tool can be used for smoothing. This tool performs more of a
warping effect, something like the Warp tool in the Liquify dialog box
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Sponge Tool
is an amazing but not a well-known tool that is
incredibly useful. It allows you to choose a brush to
desaturate or saturate a certain area on a picture.
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Curvature Pen
tool lets you intuitively draw curves and
straight segments.
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Standard Pen tool
lets you draw straight segments and curves
with great precision.
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Freeform Pen Tool
tool lets you draw paths as if you were
drawing with pencil on a piece of paper.
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Magnetic Pen Tool
options let you draw a path that snaps to the
edges of the defined areas in your image.
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Magnetic Pen Tool
options let you draw a path that snaps to the
edges of the defined areas in your image.
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Type Tool
allows direct on-image text editing. The only difference
between the horizontal and vertical type tools is that the
horizontal type tool adds text horizontally and the vertical
type tool adds text vertically
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Path Selection Tool
is a simple and handy tool that allows you to move around your
path selections. A path selection is something you created either
with the Pen Tool or the Shape Tool that can allow you to create
new layers or masks that allow for fully controllable selections.
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Direct Selection Tool
selects and moves existing path's / vector
shape mask's segments / anchor points.
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Shape Tools
allow you to add graphic shapes in the form of a filled
layer with a vector mask, a solid fill, or as a path outline.
Using the shape tools, you can draw rectangular, rounded
rectangular, elliptical, polygon, line or custom shapes
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Hand Tool
allows you to move your image around its
window by dragging. This tool is great when
navigating while zoomed in.
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Zoom Tool
is very versatile and allows you to zoom in and out of an
image in many different ways. You can even have
different views of the same document open at once, with
different zoom levels!
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