Tools Flashcards
-lets you cut and drag a pixel selection to a new location in the photo.
We can also use the tool to move or copy selections between photos in Photoshop Elements, and to photos in other applications that support selections.
Move tool
To activate the Move tool, hold down what?
and this technique does not work when the hand tool is selected
Ctrl
Select this tool from the toolbar.
If you can’t find this tool, click and hold the Rectangular Marquee tool () to show the other related tools, and then select this too.
Elliptical Marque Tool
Select the right order of using Elliptical Marque tool:
Select the Elliptical Marquee tool from the toolbar. If you can’t find the Elliptical Marquee tool, click and hold the Rectangular Marquee tool () to show the other related tools, and then select the Elliptical Marquee tool.
Specify one of the selection options in the options bar — New, Add To, Subtract From, and Intersect With to get the selection you want.
Specify a feathering setting in the options bar. Turn anti-aliasing on or off and set the selection style — Normal, Fixed Ratio, and Fixed Size, for the Elliptical Marquee tool.
Click and drag in the image over the area you want to select.
Hold down the Shift key and drag in any direction to constrain your elliptical marquee to a circle. Hold down Alt Win as you drag to make an elliptical selection from the center out.
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Select this tool in the toolbar with your cursor. Click and hold to select the Magnetic or Polygonal Lasso tools.
Lasso Tool
allows you to quickly and easily select one area or section of an image. While there are several tools in the Photoshop toolkit that you can use to accomplish roughly the same task, each one has its own strengths and weaknesses.
Quick Selection tool
removes the part of an image surrounding the selection.
Use this to remove distractive background elements and create a focus on your desired object in the image.
When you do this in an image, by default, the resolution remains the same as the original image.
Crop tool
Use this to draw empty rectangular or elliptical frames on the canvas.
Convert any existing shape or text to a frame.
With an existing image on the canvas, use this to draw over the desired area of the image
Frame tool
- Select this tool.
- Use the Options Bar to customize tool settings, like Sample Size and Sample, to get the effect you want.
- Click on the color you want to sample.
- The sampled color will become the foreground color and will be added to your Swatches panel.
Eye Dropper Tool
- Select this (J) from the toolbar. If you can’t find this tool, click and hold the Spot Healing Brush tool to show the other related tools, and then select the Healing Brush tool.
- In the tool options bar, click the brush sample and set the brush options in the pop up panel — Mode, Source, Aligned, Sample, and Diffusion.
- To set the source sampling area, position the pointer over an area in your image and Alt-click (Win) In the Clone Source panel, click a clone source button to select the sampled source you want.
*Drag anywhere in the image. The sampled pixels are blended with the existing pixels each time you release the mouse button.
Spot Healing Brush Tool
- Click and drag in the image to paint.
- To draw a straight line, click a starting point in the image. Then hold down Shift, and click an ending point.
- When using this tool as an airbrush, hold down the mouse button without dragging to build up color.
Paint Brush tool
- Open the image you want to work with.
- Select this too and hold the Alt key (on Windows) to bring up the crosshairs. Click the area with your cursor that you want to serve as the sample point for your brush when you do your touch-up.
- Once you’ve got your sample, adjust any brush setting you want in the top drop-down menus — brush size, opacity, blending modes, and so forth. Then paint with your brush over the area you want to retouch.
- If you’re not getting what you want, try adjusting your sample in the Sample menu up top.
Clone Stamp Tool
- Choose Window > History to open the History panel.
- In the History panel, click the far-left column of the state that you want to use as the source for this tool. A brush icon will appear next to the selected history state.
- Select this tool (Y) .
- Use the Options bar to customize tool settings, like Size and Hardness, to get the effect you want.
- Drag over the parts of the image you want to restore.
History Brush Tool
- Select this tool .
- Set the background color you want to apply if you are erasing in the background or a layer with locked transparency.
- In the options bar, choose a Mode setting. Brush and Pencil set the eraser to act like those tools. Block is a hard-edged, fixed-sized square with no options for changing the opacity or flow.
- For Brush and Pencil modes, choose a brush preset, and set Opacity and Flow in the options bar.
- An opacity of 100% erases pixels completely. A lower opacity erases pixels partially. See Paint tool options.
- To erase to a saved state or snapshot of the image, click the left column of the state or snapshot in the History panel, and then select Erase To History in the options bar
Eraser Tool
If you want this tool to cover the whole canvas, create a new layer by clicking New › Layer in the top menu. If you want your gradient in the background, move the layer below the layers you want to show up in front of it.
Click the Gradient icon (a rectangle with a gray gradient inside) in the toolbar or press G. You can also find it by clicking and holding the Paint Bucket tool to expand the tool menu.
In the options bar, choose from linear, radial, angular, reflected, and diamond. You can pick the colors of your gradient with the color picker in the toolbar, choose colors from your own swatches, or choose presets.
Gradient Tool
- Select this tool .
- Use the Options bar to customize tool settings, like Size, Hardness, and Strength, to get the effect you need.
- Click and drag over the part of the image you want to blur.
Blur Tool
- Select this tool.
- Use the Options bar to customize tool settings, like brush size, range, and exposure, to get the effect you want.
- Drag over the part of the image you want to lighten.
Dudge tool
- Select this tool.
- Click on where you want your line to begin to place your first anchor point.
- Click where you want your line to end to place a second anchor point. A straight path will connect them.
Pen Tool
- Select this tool(T) .
- Use the Options bar to customize tool settings, like Font Style, Font Size, and, Text Color, to get the effect you want.
- Add point text (to add a few words like a heading or title) or paragraph text.
- Point text: Click anywhere on the canvas and type the text.
- Paragraph text: Drag the cursor on the canvas to create a bounding box and type your paragraph.
Click in the Options bar or press Control+Enter (Windows) to save your changes
Horizontal Type tool
Select this tool (A) from the toolbar. If you can’t find this tool, click and hold the Path Selection tool () to show other related tools, and then select the Direct Selection tool.
* Choose All Layers from the Select pop-up list in the Options bar, or choose Active Layers from the pop-up list and select one or more layers on the layers panel.
* Click and drag across the canvas to create a bounding box surrounding one or more paths or segments you want to select.
* Click on an anchor point or direction point to select it or hold shift to add or remove individual points to your selection.
* Adjust the position of the selection to modify the path
Direction Selection Tool
- Select this tool (U) .
- Use the Options bar to customize tool settings, like Fill, Stroke, Width, and Height, to get the effect you want.
- Draw shapes or paths on the canvas.
- Draw a rectangle: Drag diagonally in any direction.
- Draw a square: Hold down the Shift key and then drag diagonally in any direction.
- Draw from the center out: Position the crosshairs where you want the center of the shape or the path to be, hold
Rectangle Tool
- Select this tool (H) from the tool bar or press and hold the spacebar key to temporarily switch to the Hand tool.
- Drag in any direction to move the image around and view different parts of the image.
Hands Tool
used to move the selected area or the entire layer simply by dragging it with your mouse or using your keyboard arrow keys. Using this tool, you can move the selected area anywhere in the image according to your requirements. By default, this tool moves the selected area and if the area is not selected, then it will move the entire layer. You can select move tool from the tool palette or just hold down the Ctrl key in windows and Command key in mac, to activate it.
Move tool
This also a selection tool, using this tool, you can make a rectangular-shaped selection or geometric shapes.
Rectangular Marquee tool
This tool allows you to draw a freehanded choice border around the object you wish to pick out in your image.
Lasso Tool
allows you to choose an area of an image and discard everything outside this area. It also straightens photos in Photoshop.
Crop tool
you’ll be able to choose an associate object or maybe a part of an associate object in a picture.
Object Selection Tool
This tool allows you to draw placeholder frames that you will simply fill with pictures. You can simply choose this tool from the Tools panel or press K from the keyboard.
tool
tool is one of the easy-to-use tool. It is generally used by digital painters, editors, and other people who use Photoshop. This tool is used to select a color from an image or any Photoshop document and add them to your Swatches panel.
Eyedropper Tool
