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PARTS OF PHOTOSHOP By: Julio Miguel Roque and Rhian Jacob Tamayo 1. Move: Allows you to move layers, selections, and objects within your document. 2. Marquee: Creates rectangular, elliptical, single-row, or single- column selections in your image. It’s often used to select large...

PARTS OF PHOTOSHOP By: Julio Miguel Roque and Rhian Jacob Tamayo 1. Move: Allows you to move layers, selections, and objects within your document. 2. Marquee: Creates rectangular, elliptical, single-row, or single- column selections in your image. It’s often used to select large areas or shapes. 3. Lasso: Provides freeform selection, allowing you to draw and select parts of an image by hand. 5. Crop & Slice: Crop: Allows you to cut or trim parts of your image, changing the composition or removing unwanted areas. Slice: Divides an image into smaller sections for use in web design, making it easier to export and optimize portions of the image individually. 6. Measure: Helps to measure distances, angles, and sizes within your image. It’s especially useful for precise layouts and design work. 7. Retouch: A category of tools used to enhance or fix image imperfections. 8. Paint: Refers to tools like the Brush and Pencil, which allow you to draw or paint on an image, add color, or add custom details. 9. Clone: The Clone Stamp tool duplicates a part of an image and applies it elsewhere. It’s often used for covering up elements in an image or for duplicating textures. 10. History Brush: Restores parts of an image to a previous state based on your history. Useful for selectively undoing 11. Erase: Removes parts of a layer or mask, effectively “erasing” them from view. 12. Gradient: Creates smooth transitions between colors in a selected area or layer, often used for backgrounds and blending effects. 13. Blur: Softens edges and details in an image, creating a 14. Dodge/Burn: Dodge: Lightens areas of an image to enhance highlights. Burn: Darkens areas of an image to add contrast or emphasize shadows. 15. Pen: Creates precise paths or shapes using vector points and curves. Often used for creating selections, outlines, or detailed illustrations. 17. Path: A vector outline that you can create using the Pen tool. Paths can be used for making selections, creating shapes, or defining boundaries in your image. 18. Shape: Draws predefined shapes like rectangles, circles, polygons, etc. Shapes are vector- based and can be scaled without losing quality. These tools make up the core functionality in Photoshop, each serving a unique purpose in creating or editing digital Aside from the tools listed above, Photoshop includes a range of other features and components that enhance its functionality. Here are some of the most significant parts: 1. Layers Panel: Organizes and manages layers within your document. Layers allow you to work on individual parts of an image separately. 2. Adjustment Layers: Layers that apply effects (such as brightness, contrast, hue, and saturation) non-destructively, allowing for adjustments without permanently changing the image. 3. Layer Mask: Used to hide or reveal parts of a layer non-destructively. You can “paint” on masks to control the visibility of different areas of the layer. 4. Smart Objects: Layers that retain original image data, allowing for non-destructive editing and transformations. You can edit Smart Objects without losing image quality. 6. Filters: Predefined effects that can be applied to images or layers to create specific looks or styles, such as Sharpen, Distort, Noise, and Artistic filters. 7. Actions: Recorded steps that you can save and apply to other images for automating repetitive tasks. Useful for batch processing. 8. Brush Settings: Customizes the brush tool's appearance, shape, texture, and behavior, including size, hardness, and dynamics. 9. Color Panel: Allows you to choose colors for your brushes, text, and shapes. It includes options for RGB, CMYK, grayscale, and other color modes. 11. Gradients Panel: Contains gradient presets and customization options for creating smooth color transitions. 12. Channels: Displays the individual color components of an image (such as Red, Green, and Blue in RGB mode) and allows for advanced selections and editing based on color information. 13. Paths Panel: Manages vector paths created with the Pen tool or other shape tools, allowing for precise control over selections and shapes. 14. History Panel: Tracks changes you make to an image, allowing you to revert to previous states. You can go back multiple steps if you make a mistake. 16. Info Panel: Displays information about your image, including color values, dimensions, and the position of the cursor. Useful for precision work. 17. Properties Panel: Shows options and settings for the selected layer, mask, or Smart Object. It allows you to adjust properties without navigating away from your work. 18. Libraries: Allows you to store and access frequently used assets like colors, styles, and graphics across different projects and Adobe applications. 19. Artboards: Provides a way to create multiple layouts within a single document, commonly used for designing multiple screens or pages for mobile apps or web projects. 21. Timeline: Used for creating animations and video editing. It enables you to work with frame-by- frame animation or video layers for basic video editing. 22. Selection Tools: In addition to Marquee and Lasso, other selection tools include the Magic Wand, Quick Selection, and Select and Mask tools, which allow for more advanced selection techniques. 23. Content-Aware Tools: Content-Aware Fill: Automatically fills in selected areas based on surrounding content. Content-Aware Move: Lets you move or extend parts of an image, and Photoshop will fill in the area intelligently. 24. Export Options: Provides multiple ways to