Toolbox

What we will learn

• Marquee
• Move
• Lasso
• Magic Wand
• Crop
• Slice
• Restoration
• Drawing
• Stamp
• History Brush
• Eraser
• Fill
• Distortion
• Exposure
• Type
• Pen
• Shape
• Annotation
• Eyedroppper and Measure
• Hand
• Zoom
• Background / foreground color swatches
• Mask modes
• View modes

Definition

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Toolbox houses icons for many uses.
Every toolbox icon has an options tool bar

Marquee Tool

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• Marquee tool : Used for selecting areas with specific geometric shapes like rectangle or oval
  
  

• Marquee options toolbar

Move Tool

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• Move tool : used to move objects or areas selected within a layer

Lasso Tool

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• Lasso Tool: used to defined non-geometric shapes
  
  

• Lasso options toolbox

Magic Wand Tool

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• Magic Wand Tool : used to select areas with similar color
  

• Magic Wand options toolbox

• Magic wand tool selects the area with similar color tone.

• Tolerance option is used to vary how much you can select with this tool

Crop Tool

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• Crop Tool : used to cut up and select your graphic
  

• Crop options toolbox

Slice Tool

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• Slice tool : used to defined areas in a web page
  
  

• Slice tool is used for webpage designing

Restoration Tool

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• Restore Tool : used for touching up graphics
  
  

• Restore Tool options

• Healing Brush tool:
  Press Alt to choose the region to copy.
  Click in the region you want to paste.
  

• Patch Tool:
  Click Source in the options toolbox and draw an area to copy
  Click destination and move the copied area to the desired place.

Drawing Tool

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• Drawing Tool
  
  

• Brush tool is used for painting or selecting areas in the quick mask mode

• Drawing Tool options
  

Stamp Tool

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• Stamp tool
  
  

• Stamp tool options

History Brushes Tool

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• History brush Tool
  

• History brush tool paints the graphic as it was a step before in the History

• Art History Brush tool can be used to apply various effects from the Art Periods

• History Brush Options Tool

Eraser Tool

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• Eraser Tool
  
  

• Eraser options tool

• Eraser Tool : normal eraser tool and upon erasing it will reveal the background.

• Background Eraser Tool: Upon using this it will make the area transparent.

• Magic Eraser Tool: It will erase the area with the same color tone.

Fill Tools

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• Fill Tool
  
  

• Fill tool options

Distort Tool

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• Distort Tools
  
  

• Distort Tool options

Exposure Tool

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• Exposure Tool
  

• Dodge Tool: Makes the area lighter
• Burn Tool: Makes the area darker
• Sponge Tool: Makes the area more contrasting

  Exposure Tools options

Type Tool

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• Type Tool
  
  

• type tool options

Pen Tool

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• Pen Tool
  
  

• Pen Tool options

Shape Tool

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• Shape Tool
  
  

• Shape Tool options

Annotation Tool

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• Annotation Tool
  

• This tool is used for adding notes for your own reference

• Annotation Tool options

Eyedropper and Measure Tool

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• Eyedropper and Measure Tool
  

• Eyedroppper and Measure Options

Hand Tool

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• Hand Tool

• When you zoom until it spreads beyond the screen, you can use this hand tool to shift your around your picture.

Zoom Tool

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• Zoom Tool

• Press Alt to make zoom in or out

• Zoom Tool options

Background and Foreground Swatches

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• Swatch Tool
  
  

• Swatch Tool Options will open when you click on either the Background or Foreground Color
  

Mask Modes

• Mask Modes
  
• Standard Mode
• Mask Mode
• Double Click on the Mask Mode icon to open the Mask Mode Options
  
• Make sure that the foreground color is black is you want 100% opacity with no degree of transparency
• Choose white as the foreground if you want to erase the selected part
• Color tones between Black and White as the foreground color is used to vary the transparency of the area selected.

View Modes

• View Modes

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