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Graphic Design and Layout Lab LM1

The document summarizes the commonly used tools in Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign. It lists tools like the marquee, lasso, magic wand, crop, slice, and healing brush tools in Photoshop. It also discusses the pen tool for precision selection, text tool for adding text, and tools for drawing shapes, embedding audio, and selecting pixel colors. The document provides an overview of basic tools for selection, modification, and layout across the graphic design programs.

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Graphic Design and Layout Lab LM1

The document summarizes the commonly used tools in Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign. It lists tools like the marquee, lasso, magic wand, crop, slice, and healing brush tools in Photoshop. It also discusses the pen tool for precision selection, text tool for adding text, and tools for drawing shapes, embedding audio, and selecting pixel colors. The document provides an overview of basic tools for selection, modification, and layout across the graphic design programs.

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Anshika Gupta
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Graphic

design and
layout lab

Lab Manual – 1 The Interface palettes and toolbox

OBJECTIVES
To learn the commonly used palettes and toolboxes in Photoshop, Illustrator and
InDesign
Graphic design and layout lab

The commonly used Toolbox of Photoshop

Marque tool - tool


Selection you can select
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can select withitem
design some predefined shapes

Lasso tool - you can select any shape by using one of these lasso tool

Magic wand - you can select pixels with similar properties

Crop tool - you can extract or cut a particular region in the image

Slice and Slice Select tool - can divide the design pane into slices and select
individual slices. Used for web/e-publishing designs

Healing brush tool - can modify selected areas with the sample reference part in
the image
Brush tool - you can paint or modify portion of the images with any
foreground color and brush pattern
Clone and Pattern Stamp tool - you can paint or modify portion of the images
with another part of the same of different image
History and Art History brush tool - you can paint with any style of
previously used images
Eraser tool - you can erase the foreground color to reveal background color
or make it transparent
Paint Bucket and Gradient tool - you can fill selected areas with foreground color or any
gradient

Smudge tool - provides smudging effect with the pixel color where it is
initiated
Burn, Dodge and Sponge tool - can simulate area-wise exposure modulation
in the image

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Graphic design and layout lab

Pen tool - precision selection with the help of adding and removing nodes

Text tool - adding and modifying texts in the design

Direct Selection tool - selecting individual nodes or path of a selection made


with pen tool

Rectangle and other geometric shape tool - drawing different geometric


shapes with selected foreground colors

Audio Annotation and Notes tool – embed audio reference and notes to the
design

Eyedropper tool – select the attributes of any desired pixel from the image and
apply them to other pixels

Hand tool – dragging overall image to see any desired portion

Zoom tool – zoom in and out


Switching between foreground and background colors

Foreground colors
Background color

Edit in Quick mask mode – you can mask a portion of the image to edit it

Change the screen mode to maximize/minimize and others

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