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We will devote the next lessons on working with Adobe Photoshop to tools.
The toolbar plays an important role in working with Photoshop. Some commands can only be performed from the toolbar, for example, working with text, or with drawing tools.
Let's look at the tools. The first group, selection tools.
1.Rectangles Marquee Tool– (Rectangular selection). Selection is made by moving the cursor while holding down the mouse button. If we select an area and then try to select another area, the old selection will disappear. In order to add a new selection to the old one, before starting the selection, you need to press and hold the key Shift . To subtract a new selection from the old one, press and hold the key Alt . If you hold down a key together Shift and Alt
,this will lead to the fact that the selected area will be the area combining the old and new selection. Elliptical Marquee Tool (Elliptical selection) – allows you to select an elliptical area. Keys Alt and Shift
, are used similarly to rectangular selection. Single Column Marquee
– selecting a column of pixels. Single Rou Marquee
- selecting a line of pixels. 2.Lasso Tool (Lasso) – allows you to make a selection of any shape. Selection is made by dragging the cursor while holding down the left mouse button. Once the area is defined, you can subtract a specific area from it. If you hold the button Alt pressed, you can select another selection area within the first block. Key combination Shift+Alt
– to set the selection area. Polygonal Lasso Tool
(Polygonal lasso). Let's say we need to select a triangle. Press the left mouse button and move the cursor to the base, then release the mouse button again, click again and select the base of the triangle, release it again and press the button, select the second side until the selection reaches the first side. Double-click with the left button to activate the selection. Magnetic Lasso too of your image and with the left mouse button pressed, start selecting. Photoshop It will look for areas with maximum contrast and will draw a selection outline along them. During the selection process, the program automatically sets anchor points. By pressing a key Backspace, you can delete the last anchor point and continue the selection. Pressing this key multiple times will remove anchor points step by step.
17.Magic Wand – (Magic wand) – a tool for selecting solid areas filled with one color. Select the magic wand tool and move it to the desired area of the image.
16 .Click with the left mouse button and you will have a section of one color selected. The Alt and Shift key combinations work the same as with rectangular selections. Move (Move). Once an area is selected, it can be moved. Select a tool move . To subtract a new selection from the old one, press and hold the key and move the cursor to the selected area. With the left mouse button pressed, drag your area where you want it. If you hold down the key , a copy of the moved area will be created. If you need to move the selected area strictly horizontally or vertically, then hold down the key Shift . Also, if you need to precisely place the selection at a certain point, you can use the arrow keys on the keyboard; when you press the key, the selection moves by 1 pixel, and if you hold down the key Shift
, then the movement will occur in increments of 10 pixels. 3.Crop (Cropping), is intended for cropping the raster area of documents, followed by cropping those parts of it that are not included in this rectangular area. Select a tool Crop and move it to the desired part of the image, and while holding down the left mouse button, select the desired area. You'll see that the selected area is lighter in color than the rest of the image, and that's the area that will remain. Once you have set the desired selection, press
Enter and the conversion will be done.
18.Slice Tool(Brush), is the main drawing tool, draws lines with soft edges. We draw by moving the mouse with the left button pressed over the image. Before you draw, you need to set the tool parameters. You can select the brush diameter, color, transparency, and pixel blending mode.
Pencil Tool(Pencil), produces lines with sharp, jagged edges. Has the same settings as the brush tool.
20.History Brush Tool(History Brush) - allows you to return to any previous state of the image, undoing one or more editing operations. Before use, in the history palette you need to check the box in front of the item you want to return to. Using a brush will erase all history items that are below the checkbox.
7.Blur Tool– (Blur). To blur local areas of the image. Place the cursor at the desired location in the image and activate the blur tool. Select the desired size in the options bar, and while holding the left mouse button, blur the desired area using circular movements.
Sharpen(Sharpness), for local image correction.
Increases the sharpness of processed image areas. Works the same as the blur tool. Smudge Tool
(Finger). The operating principle is the same as the first two tools. 22.Dodge Tool
(Brightener) is designed to locally brighten the image. The work occurs when the tool is moved around the image with the left mouse button pressed. Sponge Tool (Sponge) - designed to reduce or increase the color saturation of image areas processed by tools. In the attributes line you can select parameters for this tool diameter brushes, Flow – impact force, Mode-Saturate – increase in saturation, Desiderate
– decrease in saturation. All the same, with the left mouse button pressed, we move over the desired areas of the image. 5.Clone Stamp Tool . To subtract a new selection from the old one, press and hold the key(Clone Stamp), allows you to copy one part of an image to another. It is necessary to determine the area of the image that will be copied. To do this, press the key
and while holding it, click the mouse in the right place, after which you can release the key and start drawing as if with a brush in the right place, only the drawing will be carried out with an image taken from the copied area. Pattern Stamp (Pattern stamp), the stamp works similar to the cloning stamp. Just first you need to determine the pattern. This is done in the attribute line, in the column.
Pattern(eraser), designed to remove part of an image, regardless of color.
Magic Eraser– allows you to erase an area filled with one color with one click. The color on which the mouse was clicked will be erased. The actions of this tool are similar to those of a magic wand, only the eraser does not select, but erases the image.
Background Eraser(background eraser), removes everything but leaves the background if the option is enabled Protect Foreground Color.
21.Paint Bucket–(Fill) paints an area of the image with the color you specify. The foreground color is used. Select a tool, select a color. Then move the cursor to the place that needs to be filled, the cursor will take the shape of a bucket, and click the left mouse button. If there are no selections, the entire document will be flooded. To fill with texture, select (Pattern stamp), the stamp works similar to the cloning stamp. Just first you need to determine the pattern. This is done in the attribute line, in the column(Texture).
Gradient Tool(Gradient) – this tool produces a fill with a smooth transition of colors. Maybe like two basic colors, and more. First, select the gradient type in the attributes panel by left-clicking on the desired type. Then select the gradient fill method, these are the five buttons next to the gradient type list. To fill, place the mouse cursor in the desired location and, while holding down the left mouse button, move the cursor to the desired distance; when you release the mouse button, the image area will be filled with the selected gradient.
4.Spot Healing Brush(Spot Healing Brush), works the same as the clone tools. But unlike a stamp, the Healing Brush tool takes into account the structure, lighting and shadows of the image area being processed. Select the Healing Brush tool, click Alt, holding the left mouse button at the location you specify in the image. Drag the tool over the areas of the image that require restoration. For example, this tool is good for removing shine from some parts of the image.
Patch(Patch) – allows you to restore a selected area by cloning pixels taken from another area or sample. To get a high-quality result, choose small areas for correction.
9.Pan Tool(Pen) - allows you to draw paths, i.e., anchor points are created, which Photoshop automatically connects with segments.
Freeform Pan Tool- (Free pen).
Add Anchor Point Tool–(Add anchor point).
Delete Anchor Point Tool– (Delete anchor point).
Convert Point Tool- (Corner).
24.Tools for constructing figures:
Rectangle Tool- rectangle.
Rounded Rectangle Tool– a rectangle with rounded corners.
Ellipse– ellipse.
Polygon Tool– polygon.
Line Tool– line.
Custom Shape Tool– arbitrary figure. Allows you to create a variety of shapes that are immediately filled with the foreground color. To create all shapes except an arbitrary shape, you need to select a shape, place the cursor in the desired area of the image, and while holding the left mouse button, create the shape by moving the cursor. If, after the shape is created, you press the spacebar, the shape can be moved to any point in the image. If you hold down the key . To subtract a new selection from the old one, press and hold the key When creating a figure, the figure will be created from the center. To create a custom shape, you need to select it in the tool settings line in the item Shape. To change the radius of the curves of a rectangle shape with rounded edges, in the same settings line, set the desired value in the Radius item.
8.Path Selection Tool–(Outline selection).
Direct Selection Tool– (Direct selection).
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Horizontal Type Tool– (Horizontal text). To enter text, select a tool. Place the cursor at the desired location in the document. Click the left mouse button, a flickering cursor will appear. Enter text using the keyboard.
Vertical Type Tool–(Vertical text) is the same, only the text will be entered vertically. In the options bar you can set the font typeface, text size and paragraph formation mode, text color and format.
25 .Eyedropper ( Pipette ) transfers the color of the image area where we clicked the mouse to the color fields of the toolbar, or displays digital color values in the palette Info.
Color Sampler(Color comparison), allows you to set up to four points from which color values will be read. These values are displayed in the Information palette Info, For each new point, a new field opens in this palette into which the values for this point are entered. In order to delete all points, you need to click the Clear button in the settings line.
Measure Tool(Ruler) – designed to measure distances and angles in an image. Click on the starting point of measurements, drag the cursor to the end point of measurements, on the palette Info The distance between the start and end points will be displayed.
10.Notes Tool-(Notes).
Audio Annotation Tool–(Sound annotation).
11.Hand( Hand ) – if the image does not fit into the screen frame, we can drag it.
26.Zoom Tool(Scale), if you hover the cursor over the image, it takes the form of a cross in a circle, and with each left click the image will be enlarged. If you press the key Alt, then with each click, the image will become smaller.
13.Quick Mask–(Quick mask mode).
12.Color squares- main and background colors
14 Document viewing modes. The first, standard mode, is set by default, the second is full screen with a menu bar, the third is full screen. You can also switch between modes by pressing the key F.
15. Transferring images to Image Ready and back.
In the next article on Adobe Photoshop, we will look at the settings and tools line.
Adobe has released a beta version of the graphics editor Photoshop CS6. While beta testing is underway, the new Photoshop can be used for free. Versions of Photoshop CS6 for Windows and Mac OS X are available for download on the Adobe Labs website.
The computer on which the new Photoshop will be installed is required to have a processor with a frequency of at least 2 GHz, a gigabyte of RAM and a gigabyte of hard drive space for the program itself.
The first thing that catches your attention in Photoshop CS6 is the interface. Now it is designed in a stylish dark gray color scheme, however, the user can change it if desired. color design to the more familiar light gray tones characteristic of Photoshop CS5.
Early versions of Photoshop did not have an original interface and users were often confused by the many bright panels and buttons. To get rid of this misunderstanding, Adobe turned to interface development specialists, after which Photoshop finally acquired its “face”. Panels began to be located in convenient places, access to tools became easier, and the color design of the editing window acquired a strict gray color and no longer distracted the user’s attention.
By the way, in the new Photoshop you can change color scheme interface “on the fly” - using the context menu, choosing one of the four available shades of gray.
In addition to changes in appearance, Photoshop CS6 has acquired many new tools and functions.
Engine
Photoshop CS6 uses the Mercury Graphics Engine, which significantly improves program performance. Now complex image editing operations occur almost in real time. If earlier, when using a brush with a size of more than 1500 pixels, the program began to slow down, now you can safely set the brush diameter to 15000 pixels - there will be no lags.
Trimming
The Crop tool has become more intelligent. During cropping, the image can now be scaled, rotated and aligned to the horizon. In addition, when cropping, you can now use the golden ratio rule, and the crop area can be automatically centered.
Working with RAW
The Adobe Camera Raw 7 plugin, built into the new Photoshop, allows you to work with digital images in RAW format and achieve incredible results in tone correction, adjusting the shadow and highlight areas of your images, as well as performing local corrections for shades, noise and color temperature using brushes.
Text
You can now use styles in the design of paragraphs and individual characters. To do this, use the new Character Styles and Paragraph Styles panels. A nice bonus for users is the Lorem Ipsum generator, which allows you to quickly create texts that do not carry any semantic load, being used in layouts only for clarity.
Depth of field
The new group of Blur Gallery filters is designed to simulate defocus of part of the image. It includes Field Blur, Iris Blur and Tilt-Shift filters that allow you to quickly and easily extra effort change the depth of field in photos interactively.
Black magic Content-aware
The new Content Aware Patch and Content Aware Move tools use black magic. There is no other way to call it. Using Content Aware Patch, you can replace some image fragments with others, and Content Aware Move allows you to move selected objects - for example, you can select a human figure in a photo and move it to a new location. And no one will suspect that a photoshopper worked on the photo.
Adaptive Wide Angle
The Adaptive Wide Angle filter can “straighten” images taken with wide-angle lenses. Photoshop analyzes the metadata of the image, finds in it the type of lens with which the photo was taken and allows you to remove distortions in the image, eliminating the fish-eye effect.
Video
Photoshop CS6 has acquired video editor functions. Now you can edit video in it, providing this video with sound, text and transition effects. Many video formats are supported - WMV, MOV, MP4, MPEG, FLV, AVI, etc. The position, transparency and effects of animated layers can be changed on the timeline using keyframes. Ready project You can save as a PSD file or export the video to QuickTime, DPX or H.264 formats.
Auto-correction
The new Photoshop has significantly improved automatic image correction functions. To do this, Adobe used the work of hundreds of specialists who manually corrected thousands of photographs. The company collected their work, analyzed it and created software algorithms for automatic color and tone correction.
Autosave
Edited files are now automatically saved every 5, 10, 15, 30 or 60 minutes. Many users who work with Photoshop have more than once found themselves in a situation where hours of work on a project went down the drain because the program crashed. In such cases, Photoshop CS6 allows you to restore automatically saved work in a few seconds. Autosave does not load your computer's system resources - if you save a multi-layered file in earlier versions of Photoshop high resolution led to temporary blocking of the program, now automatic saving processes do not in any way prevent the user from continuing to work on the project.
Other useful things
Photoshop CS6 has improved working with layers - you can now filter them by name, effects, color and other parameters.
If you often work with photographs of people, you will definitely like it new technology skin discharge.
Also greatly improved Liquify filter and tools for working with 3D, the Properties and Adjustments panels have become more convenient, and the brush settings panel can now be called up by simply clicking on the image while holding down the Ctrl button.
We continue to study the Photoshop program. Many novice users often have difficulty working with one of the most important panels of the program - the toolbar. Difficulties arise because it’s hard to remember everything the first time Photoshop tools, what they do, what they are used for and what they look like.
Therefore, especially for my readers, I created detailed diagram toolbars. You can download this diagram to your computer and return to it as needed. The diagram shows what the tool looks like, its name and where it can be found.
Photoshop Tools
If a tool icon has a small black triangle in the lower right corner, that means it has a tool submenu. To view a tool's name, its hotkey, and other submenu tools if there is one, simply hover your mouse directly over the tool.
Advice: If you accidentally closed the toolbar and don’t know how to get it back, here’s a solution for you. Go to the top menu of the program Window\Tools. Now the toolbar is back with you. See the picture below.
Bringing back the toolbar
Now let's explore Photoshop tools more details. For ease of understanding, I have divided them into groups. Logically, they can be combined into 5 large groups:
Selection group
Framing group
Retouching group
Coloring group
Text and drawing group
Selection tools:
The tools in this group are intended for quick selection and moving areas of the most different forms, both regular and irregular forms. Having mastered these tools, you will be able to reactively select and move areas of the most complex shapes and create beautiful compositions.
Subgroup of tools “Area” (Marquee Tool). Using these tools, you can select any areas: oval, square, vertical, horizontal, etc.
Move Tool. With this tool, you can move layers, guides, selections, effects, etc. as you wish.
Subgroup of Lasso tools (Lasso). They will help you select areas manually by tracing with the mouse, polygonal areas and areas snapped to the boundary of the edge of the object.
Quick Selection Tool. With this tool, you can quickly and easily paint a selected area by adjusting the round size of the brush.
Magic Wand Tool. This tool will allow you to select different areas of different shapes with the same color.
Crop Tools:
This group contains all the tools for changing the image size, the shape of areas and creating fragments.
Crop Tool. With this tool, you can carefully crop images as you need.
Slice tool. This tool will allow you to create various fragments from images and photographs. This tool is very popular among web designers; they use it to cut layouts to create websites.
Slice Select Tool. With this tool you can select fragments and work with them.
Retouching tools:
These tools are designed for image editing. Using them, you can correctly remove defects, adjust saturation, sharpness, tone, blur in images, etc.
Spot Healing Brush Tool. This tool will help you remove blemishes and small unwanted objects from an image and restore small elements.
Healing Brush Tool. With this tool, you can easily and quickly eliminate minor image defects by painting them with the samples or patterns you choose.
Patch Tool. This tool is somewhat similar to the Healing Brush tool. It will help you select an editable area in the same way as the Lasso tool and eliminate defects on it using samples or patterns.
Red Eye Tool. With this tool you can quickly get rid of the red-eye defect that often appears when photographing using flash.
Clone Stamp Tool. One of my favorite instruments. With it, you can draw according to the selected sample, which is taken from the image.
Pattern Stamp Tool. Similar to the previous tool, with this tool you can draw from an image using a pre-taken sample. The sample can be taken not only from the original image, but also from the pattern palette.
Eraser tool. Using this tool, you can erase unnecessary pixels from an image and, if necessary, restore them to the state of the last save location.
Background Eraser Tool. With this tool you can erase areas of an image by dragging. The trick of this tool is if you hold down the ALT key », a dropper appears, you can use it to choose a color that will not wash off.
Magic Eraser Tool. With this tool, you can easily and quickly erase the monochromatic parts of an image with one click.
Blur Tool. This tool is designed to soften the sharp edges of an image by blurring.
Sharpen tool. This tool is the opposite of the previous tool. If the edges of your image are too soft and blurry, sharpen them in a few clicks using this tool.
Smudge Tool. With this tool, you can blur areas of the image.
Dodge Tool. This tool gives you the ability to lighten any areas you choose.
Burn Tool. The complete opposite of the previous tool, with this tool you can darken any areas you select.
Sponge Tool. With this tool, you can change the color saturation of the area of the image over which you moved this tool.
Painting Tools:
This group includes all the tools that can be used to colorize images, replace colors, and stylize images.
Brush Tool. One of the very first tools in Photoshop. With this tool, you can draw and apply strokes across the image by adjusting the size and hardness of the brush.
Pencil tool. The name of this tool speaks for itself. With this tool you can easily draw lines with clear edges.
Color Replacement Tool. This tool will help you select a color and replace it with any other you wish.
History Brush Tool. With this tool, you can return the image to its original or previous state, but not everything is as complete as when you click CTRL+Z(return the action), and the current part of the image you selected.
Art History brush tool. With this tool you can paint with stylized strokes or strokes that imitate different artistic styles, using a selected state or a snapshot of a specified image.
Gradient Tools. With this tool, you can easily and quickly create various, correct transitions between colors. Transitions can be straight, radial, vertical, mirror, cone-shaped and diamond-shaped.
Paint Bucket Tool. One of the most popular Photoshop tools. With it, you can quickly fill the desired areas with the color of your choice.
Drawing and Text Tools:
This group contains tools responsible for working with text, creating and editing various shapes, creating and highlighting contours.
Path selection tool. With this tool you can select shapes based on the anchor points that you have fixed.
Text Tool (Type). One of the most commonly used Photoshop tools. With this tool, you can add horizontal or vertical text to images.
Type mask tool. With this tool, you can select areas in the form of text directly on the image, in order to further process it as you need.
Pen tool subgroup. With this tool you can easily and quickly draw precise contours, adjusting the curves as you need.
Subgroup of “Shape” tools (Shape). With this tool you can draw lines and shapes, selecting them from a ready-made list, editing their size as you need.
Tool " Free figure" (Custom Shape). This tool will help you draw custom shapes that are already present in Photoshop, plus those shapes that you downloaded yourself.
For those who use the English version of the program, I post 2 tables with translations of tools from English into Russian. Perhaps they will be useful to someone. I’ll say right away that the signs are old, not all the tools are there, but just the basic ones. So save them to your computer and use them.
Tables of tools with translation from English into Russian:
Translation of Photoshop tools from English. into Russian. Table No. 1
Translation of Photoshop tools from English. into Russian. Table No. 2
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Let's start getting acquainted with the program. In this tutorial we will look at Photoshop interface– tools, palettes, menus, options and we will analyze the most used tools.
Install Photoshop program, go to “Start”, then “Programs”, find the blue “Ps” icon, click on it.
After the first launch of Adobe Photoshop it looks something like this -
The first thing we will do is look at the program interface. Without water right off the bat!
On the left are Photoshop tools. You can change their appearance by clicking on the two arrows at the top. You can also move tools throughout Photoshop to a place convenient for you by holding the gray bar above the “Ps” icon.
If you count, you get 26 instruments, but in reality there are many more. You may have noticed that some tools have a small arrow at the bottom. This suggests that it hides one or more similar tools. Just press and hold the left mouse button and the rest of the tools will open.
At the very top there are various menus, we will gradually get acquainted with them.
Below the menu are the options for the selected tool. They are needed to configure the instrument. They are always different, i.e. if you choose one instrument, they will differ from another instrument. Each instrument has its own settings. The options are very important and before using any tool here you need to configure it.
On the right are the various palettes - layers, history, brushes, etc. We will talk about the most important of them in the following lessons.
The rest of the space, the largest one, around tools, palettes, options, occupies the workspace - where our documents will be open - photographs, pictures, etc.
Let's open some image and experiment with the tools on it. In order to open any photo or picture, go to the “File” menu and select “Open” from the drop-down list.
In the window that appears, find the image on your computer and double-click on it. The image is open.
So, let's start with the tools.
Tool "Move" - needed to move everything that is on the document - layers, lines, text, shapes, etc.
Tool “ Selection” - there are several of them in the drop-down list, you can see the rest of similar types. They are needed to select the area you need in the image for further work. To select, just left-click and drag until the right size. If you want the proportions to be maintained, then hold down the “Shift” key.
Tool "Lasso" - designed for arbitrary selection. Hold down the left key and move around the area you need to select. This tool also contains " Straight-line lasso»
- draw lines from point to point and at the end close with the first point, a selection is formed.
« Magnetic lasso"- click once on the document and move around the area you want to select. Points are created automatically. Experiment and you will understand everything.
By the way, in order to remove the selection, go to the menu “ Selection" In the drop-down list, select the item " Deselect"or press the key combination "Ctr + D".
Tool " Magic wand" is not a very neat selection tool, but is still often used.
The “Frame” tool is simple and useful, needed to cut off unnecessary parts from a picture.
Just hold down the left key and move the mouse to the side. After you release the key, 8 dots appear, you can correct them by pulling them. The frame can also be moved. What's highlighted dark color will be cut off. After everything is done, press “Enter”, the document will be cropped.
Tool " Spot Healing Brush» most used for photo retouching. For example, if you need to remove a pimple from a photo, select this tool, adjust the dimensions in the options, click on the defect, Photoshop will replace this place with neighboring pixels.
Tool " Healing brush" works a little differently. First you need to take a sample. Hold down the “Alt” key and click on the place where you want to take a sample, for example, in order to remove that same pimple. Next, just left-click on the pimple, it will be replaced by the piece we took earlier when we held down “Alt”.
Tool " Patch" - designed to replace one piece of a document with another. Circle the area you want to take and move it to where you need to replace
Tool "Brush" - needed for drawing, in the drop-down list there is also " Pencil».
The Stamp tool is essentially similar to the Stamp tool. Healing brush».
The “Eraser” tool, as in life, is needed to erase. Only in Photoshop it erases not only the pencil, but everything else.
Fill tool - fills the document with the selected color. Tool " Gradient" - transition from one color to another. Select in the options which gradient you need and draw a line on the document.
Tools Brightener, Darkener, and Sponge. From the title, I think everything is clear here - these tools in photoshop for lightening and darkening, and a sponge for bleaching. Select, for example, a lightener and click on the photo a couple of times. In the options you can select the diameter and hardness. Experiment, darken, lighten.
Tool “Text” - designed for writing text on an image. Don’t forget about the options, where you can choose the font typeface, color size, etc.
The “Pen” tool is designed to draw circles and various other shapes. Well suited for highlighting any complex parts in a photo. Difficult, but useful tool, we will definitely talk about it in a separate lesson.
Tool " Free figure» - designed for creating various shapes - arrows, hearts, checkmarks. After selecting the tool, do not forget to select the shape you need from the options. In the drop-down menu you can select a ready-made shape, rectangle, polygon, etc.
The “Pipette” tool will come to your aid if you suddenly want to take a color sample from any image.
Tool “Lupe” - designed to enlarge an image. Select the magnifying glass and click on the image, the scale will increase. To decrease in the options, set the switch to the minus sign.
Colors . IN in this case green color is the main fill, and white is the background fill. If you click on the double arrow, the colors will change places, and the upper squares will become the default ones - white and black. Try it and see for yourself.
Tool “Quick Mask” - designed for more precise selection of any area of the image, for further editing of the selected area.
This is how things are with tools in Photoshop! In the following lessons we will begin to work with each of them in more detail, and apply them to real photographs and pictures. You will try each of them a little bit and remember what's what. So move on to the next lesson.
Hello comrades! In this article I will tell you about the main ADOBE Photoshop Tools, in this lesson we will use the CS6 version of the program. Each of the tools will then be given a separate article with a detailed description of it, but here we touch on it only in passing and omit a lot, this is a navigation article. Thanks for understanding.
We will analyze them all and possible operating modes each of tools, of course, telling fully enough about each tool in one article is an impossible task. Most likely, later, there will be a continuation of this article, or rather, several parts. This is where we will give free rein to our imagination and reveal the dirty secrets of each instrument.
In this article, everything is structured and very clearly stated; its main task is to convey brief information about what this or that tool does. Our goal is not to teach you how to use it; there will be other calculations for that. Now let me finish the introductory part and begin. Do you allow me? Great, I'm starting!
Main toolbar:
A brief description of all Photoshop tools. Section guide.
1 - Move
The hotkey for calling this tool is . The names are actually all clear; this tool is used to move individual objects, groups of objects, selection, etc. VIDEO LESSON: “Moving”2 - Selection
Selection tool The hotkey for calling this tool is . It serves for highlighting, which again follows from its name. In turn, this tool has, so to speak, a group of modifications:
3 - Free selection or Lasso of different types
The tools of this group are similar in function to the tools of group (2), but they have one important feature, they select an arbitrary area, it all depends on which tool you chose:
4 – Photoshop Quick Selection Tools
5 – Crop and Markup Tools
6 - Auxiliary tools: pipette, ruler, commentary
7 – Retouching tools: healing brush, patch
9 - Drawing: brush, pencil, etc.
9 – Stamp and Pattern Stamp
10 – History Brush and History Art Brush
11 – Leaf, Background Eraser, Magic Eraser
12 – Fill and Gradient
13 – Blur, Sharpness and Finger (O_o)
14 – Brightener, Darkener, Sponge (Bob)
15 — Pen and its modifications. Outlines
16 - Text
17 — Outline selection and Arrow (not the one that flew into space)
18 - Figures
19 - Hand
Hand— used to move around the canvas, you can call it while in any tool mode by holding down the spacebar.Good to know! Each tool in Adobe Photoshop has a hotkey, for example, for the brush, the key, for the Pen. Did you know that you can switch between modifications of a particular tool using the keyboard shortcut + TOOL KEY. For example, + will toggle the brush tool, pressing once = Pencil, etc.
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