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GRA617 – Photoshop Tools– Photoshop CS6 1 Photoshop Tools Photoshop CS6 Tools Panel Introduction When you start Photoshop, the Tools panel appears at the left of the screen. Some tools in the Tools panel have options that appear in the context-sensitive op...

GRA617 – Photoshop Tools– Photoshop CS6 1 Photoshop Tools Photoshop CS6 Tools Panel Introduction When you start Photoshop, the Tools panel appears at the left of the screen. Some tools in the Tools panel have options that appear in the context-sensitive options bar. You can expand some tools to show hidden tools beneath them. A small triangle at the lower right of the tool icon signals the presence of hidden tools. Tools Panel Overview Selection Tools Gallery GRA617 – Photoshop Tools– Photoshop CS6 2 The marquee tools The Move tool The lasso tools The Quick Selection make rectangular, moves selections, make freehand, tool lets you elliptical, single row, layers, and guides. polygonal (straight- quickly “paint” a and single column edged), and selection using an selections. magnetic (snap-to) adjustable round selections. brush tip The Magic Wand tool selects similarly colored areas. Crop and slice tools gallery GRA617 – Photoshop Tools– Photoshop CS6 3 The Crop tool trims images. The Slice tool creates slices. The Slice Select tool selects slices. Retouching tools gallery The Spot Healing The Healing Brush The Patch tool The Red Eye tool Brush tool removes tool paints with a repairs imperfections removes the red blemishes and sample or pattern to in a selected area reflection caused by objects repair imperfections of an image using a a flash. in a image. sample or pattern. The Clone Stamp The Pattern Stamp The Eraser tool The Background tool paints with a tool paints with part erases pixels and Eraser tool sample of an image. of an image as a restores parts of an erases areas to pattern. image to a previously transparency by saved state. dragging. GRA617 – Photoshop Tools– Photoshop CS6 4 The Magic Eraser The Blur tool blurs The Sharpen tool The Smudge tool tool erases solid- hard edges in an sharpens soft edges smudges data in an colored areas to image. in an image. image. transparency with a single click. The Dodge tool The Burn tool The Sponge tool lightens areas in an darkens areas in an changes the color image. image. saturation of an area. Painting tools gallery GRA617 – Photoshop Tools– Photoshop CS6 5 The Brush tool The Pencil tool The Color The Mixer Brush paints brush strokes. paints hard-edged Replacement tool tool Simulates strokes. replaces a selected realistic painting color with a new techniques such as color. blending canvas colors and varying paint wetness. The History Brush The Art History The gradient tools The Paint Bucket tool paints a copy brush tool paints with create straight- tool fills similarly of the selected state stylized strokes that line, radial, angle, colored areas with the or snapshot into simulate the look of reflected, and foreground color. the current image different paint styles, diamond blends window. using a selected state between colors. or snapshot. Drawing and type tools gallery GRA617 – Photoshop Tools– Photoshop CS6 6 The path selection The type tools create The type mask tools The pen tools let you tools make shape or type on an image. create a selection in draw smooth-edged segment selections the shape of type. paths. showing anchor points, direction lines, and direction points. The shape tools The Custom and Line tool draw Shape tool makes shapes and lines in customized shapes a normal layer or a selected from a shape layer. custom shape list. Navigation, notes, and measuring tools gallery GRA617 – Photoshop Tools– Photoshop CS6 7 The Hand tool moves The Rotate View The Zoom tool The Note tool makes an image within its tool non-destructively magnifies and notes that can be window. rotates the canvas. reduces the view of attached to an image. an image. The Eyedropper tool The Color Sampler The Ruler tool The Count tool samples colors in an tool displays color measures distances, counts objects in an image. values for up to four locations, and angles. image. (Photoshop areas. Extended only) 3D tools gallery (Photoshop Extended) GRA617 – Photoshop Tools– Photoshop CS6 8 The 3D Object The 3D Object Roll The 3D Object The 3D Object Slide Rotate tool rotates tool rotates the Pan tool pans the tool moves the object the object around its object around its z- object in the x or y laterally when you x-axis. axis. direction. drag horizontally, or forward and back when you drag vertically. The 3D Object Scale The 3D Rotate The 3D Roll The 3D Pan Camera tool scales the object Camera tool orbits Camera tool rotates tool pans the camera larger or smaller. the camera in the x the camera around in the x or y direction. or y direction. the z-axis. The 3D Walk The 3D Zoom Camera tool moves Camera tool laterally when you changes the field of drag horizontally, or view closer or farther forward and back away. GRA617 – Photoshop Tools– Photoshop CS6 9 when you drag vertically. Other Resources: http://tinyurl.com/photoshop-cs6-tools Sources: Adobe Help