A Selection Tools

Move tool Rectangular Elliptical Single The Single

moves selections, marquee tool Marquee tool Column Row
layers, and is used to draw
guides.
is designed Marquee tool Marquee Tool
selections based for elliptical, creates one pix creates one pixel
on geometric including el wide and all high and all
shapes. circular, image image
Specifically, the selections. high column sel wide row
marquee tool
ections selections
allows you to
draw rectangul
ar and elliptical
selections.

Polygonal The Magnetic The Quick The Magic

The Lasso tool is
Lasso Tool, Lasso Tool Selection tool Wand Tool is
useful for
another of its creates is great at one of the oldest
drawing
basic selections selections, finding the selection tools in
freeform
tools, is a bit like automatically edges of Photoshop.
segments of a
a cross between clinging to objects, so you It’s selects pixels
selection border.
the Rectangular edges of can simply draw based on tone
Marquee Tool contrast objects your selection and color.
and the
standard
Lasso Tool
B Crop and Slice Tools

Cropping is the process of removing The Perspective crop tool can be

portions of a photo to create focus or used to crop and correct the
strengthen the composition. converging verticals or horizontal lines
in a picture with a single crop action.

The Slice tool allows you to divide an The Slice Select Tool selects, moves,
image into smaller sections which fit and resizes slices
together like a jigsaw (but with
straight edges).
C Measuring Tools

The Eyedropper 3D Material Eyedropper Color Sampler

tool (the icon in the Tool allows you to
Drops the material filled
Toolbar) is used to view color values in
in the tool onto the
sample a color from an defined spots of your
target area of a 3D
image to use this color image.
object. 3D Material
further.
Eyedropper Tool. Loads
picked material from a
3D object.

The Ruler tool let’s You can use the Note The Count tool is only
you measure distances tool to add text notes to found in the extended
and angles in an image. a file in Photoshop. version of Photoshop. Its
main use is in areas such
as scientific and medical
imaging, where it is useful
for recording the number
of items that appear in a
particular image.
D Retouching Tools

The Spot Healing The Healing The Patch tool is Content

Brush is the Brush tool allows similar to the Aware will allow
default healing you to fix image Healing Brush Tool, you to select
tool in imperfections in that it matches pixels and move
Photoshop and such as scratches, the texture, or extend them to
can be used to blemishes, etc. lighting and another area of
clone areas from shading of the your image
an image and sampled pixels to without the use of
blend the pixels the source area. layers and masks.
from the sampled
area seamlessly
with the target
area.

The Red Eye tool Clone Stamp Pattern Stamp The Eraser is
in Photoshop is an tool allows you to Tool is a very basically a brush
easy-to- duplicate part of useful tool while which erases
use tool for an image. The making designs. pixels as you drag
removing red process involves This tool allows it across the
eye from setting a sampling you to create image. Pixels are
photographs that point in the image your own pattern erased to
have been taken which will be used stamps. transparency or
with a direct flash as a reference to the background
source. create a color if the layer is
new cloned area. locked.
The Background The Magic Eraser The Blur Tool is The Sharpen tool
Eraser tool works like the used to paint allows you to
tool samples the paint bucket tool a blur effect. Each apply localized
color at the in reverse. It can stroke made using sharpening effects
center of the be used to erase the Blur Tool will to an image.
brush, and deletes neighboring or lower the contrast
pixels of a similar ‘similar’ pixels, between affected
color as you drag based on the pixels, making
around your pixel color value them
image. where you click. appear blurred.

The Smudge The Dodge Tool is The Burn tool makes The Sponge tool is
tool simulates the constructed permanent changes a
effect you see to lighten areas to your Images by retouching tool use
when you drag a without affecting darkening the pixels d to alter the
finger through wet hue or saturation. in Photoshop. Burn saturation of a
paint. can be used to portion of an
create deep image. It is
shadows. reminiscent of
the sponges used
by watercolor artists
to soften (or even
remove) a color
that has already
been lain on the
canvas.
 D Painting Tools

The Brush The Pencil The Color Mixer Brush The History
tool is a basic p tool is used to Replacement tool allows you Brush
ainting tool. It draw free hand tool in to blend colors Tool allows you
works lines with a hard Photoshop CS6 and vary your to paint and
like a traditional edge. allows you to wetness within a reveal previous
drawing tool by colorize single brush states of
applying the by replacing ori stroke. images.
color using ginal color of an
strokes. image with the
foreground
color.

The Art History The Gradient The Paint 3D Material

Brush tool paints tool creates a Bucket Tool in Drop Drops the
with stylized gradual blend Photoshop Elem material loaded
strokes, using between ents fills in the tool onto
the source data multiple colors. adjacent pixels the target area
from a specified that are similar of a 3D object.
history state or in color value to
snapshot pixels you
select.
F Drawing and Type Tools

The Pen tool is The Freeform Pen The Add Anchor The Delete Anchor
frequently used in Tool enables easy Point Point
the creation of drawing vector Tool adds anchors a Tool deletes anchors
smooth-edged shapes and paths nd reshapes existing and reshapes
selections, but is not (shape outlines) by vector shapes / existing vector
a type of automatically paths (shape shapes / paths
selection tool. adding anchor outlines). (shape outlines).
The Pen Tool creates points.
vector paths.

The Convert Point The Horizontal Type The Vertical Type The Horizontal
Tool edits existing Tool creates and Tool creates and Type Mask
vector shape masks edits vector-based edits vector- Tool creates
and paths (shape text in a separate based text in a create type-shaped
outlines) layer. separate layer. selections.
by converting smoot
h anchor points to
corner anchor
points and vice
versa.
 The Vertical Path selection The Direct The Rectangle The Rounded
Type Mask tool is a simple Selection tool creates re Rectangle
Tool creates and Tool selects ctangles with Tool creates re
create type- handy tool that and moves square or ctangular shap
shaped allows you to existing path's / rounded sides. es and paths
selections. move around vector shape (shape
your path mask's outlines)
selection a segments / with rounded c
path. anchor points: orners.
In the
Toolbox, select
the Direct
Selection Tool.

The Ellipse The Polygon The Line tool is The Custom

tool is a tool is a used to draw Shape offers a
path tool that Draw/Reshape straight lines on number of
allows you to tool, which the canvas. ready-to-use
create shapes means that it shapes.
from making can reshape-or
paths that can edit-
create masks. existing polygo
ns and
parallel polygo
ns. Reshape as
you draw.
G Navigation Tools

The Hand tool is more of Rotating the view of an The Zoom tool allows you
a function than an image can make it easier to zoom in on the image
actual tool because you to edit or retouch certain to get a better idea of
rarely need to click areas. Photoshop lets us the actual pixel makeup
the Hand tool to use it. rotate our view using of a section you are
the Rotate View Tool. working on. It is fairly easy
to use the tool.
Photoshop Tools
Photoshop CS6
Tools Panel Introduction

When you start Photoshop, the Tools panel appears at the left of the screen. Some tools in the
Tools panel have options that appear in the context-sensitive options bar. You can expand
some tools to show hidden tools beneath them. A small triangle at the lower right of the tool
icon signals the presence of hidden tools.

Tools Panel Overview