Adobe Photoshop Tools

Photoshop Tools

• Clone Stamp Tool (S) - paints with pixels
• Magic Wand Tool - selects similarly colored areas
• Pattern Stamp Tool - paints using a chosen pattern
• Crop Tool (C) - trims or expands the edges of an image
• History Brush Tool (Y) - restores parts of an image to an earlier state

Selection Tools

• Rectangular Marquee Tool (M) - makes a selection in the shape of a rectangle
• Elliptical Marquee Tool - makes a selection in the shape of an ellipse
• Single Row Marquee Tool - makes a horizontal selection that’s a single pixel high
• Single Column Marquee Tool - makes a vertical selection that’s a single pixel wide
• Lasso Tool (L) - makes freehand selections
• Polygonal Lasso Tool - creates straight-edged selections
• Magnetic Lasso Tool - makes a selection by snapping to image edges
• Quick Selection Tool (W) - makes a selection by finding and following the edges in an image
• Object Selection Tool - finds and automatically selects an object inside a defined region

Painting and Editing Tools

• Paint Bucket Tool (G) - fills similarly colored contiguous areas with foreground color
• Gradient Tool - creates a gradual blend between colors
• Blur Tool - blurs areas of an image
• Sharpen Tool - sharpens the soft edges in an image
• Dodge Tool (O) - lightens areas in an image
• Burn Tool - darkens areas of an image
• Sponge Tool - changes the color saturation of an area in an image
• Eraser Tool (E) - changes pixels to the background color or makes them transparent
• Background Eraser Tool - erases the pixels of a sampled color
• Magic Eraser Tool - erases similarly colored areas with a single click

Other Tools

• 3D Material Drop Tool - drops material loaded in the tool onto the target area of a 3D object
• Hand Tool (H) - pans over different parts of an image
• Rotate View Tool (R) - rotates the view of an image
• Zoom Tool (Z) - magnifies or reduces the view of an image
• Move Tool (V) - moves a selection or layer
• Artboard Tool - creates, moves, or resizes multiple canvases
• Ruler Tool - measures distances and angles in an image
• Eyedropper Tool (I) - samples color from an image
• 3D Material Eyedropper Tool
• Color Sampler Tool

Healing and Correction Tools

• Spot Healing Brush tool (J) - removes marks and blemishes
• Healing Brush Tool - repairs imperfections using pixels from another part of the image
• Patch Tool - replaces a selected area using a pattern or pixels from another part of the image
• Content Aware Move Tool - selects and moves part of an image and automatically fills the area left behind
• Red Eye tool - fixes red-eye caused by a camera flash

Design Principles

• Contrast - unique elements in a design should stand apart from one another
• Alignment - proper alignment in a design means that every element is visually connected to another element
• Proximity - related elements should be placed in close proximity to one another
• Repetition - repetition breeds cohesiveness in a design