PHOTOSHOP TOOLKIT

Review Tool Options

Crop Tool

Spot Healing

Eyedropper

Match colors from your image using the Eyedropper tool. With it, you can pick a color from your image. You can click anywhere in your image to pick the color, and then you can use that color for painting or any purpose you can think of

Gradient, Blur, & Dodge

Create effects in specific areas of the image.
  • Gradient tool: this tool can make a gradient of color in the selected area or within the whole image. Choose the tool and then click and drag in the direction you want your gradient to be. Gradient also depend on the length of your drag stroke.
  • Blur tool: this tool is used to blur the image or brush strokes. Just choose the tool and paint the area you want to blur.
  • Dodge tool: this tool is used to lighten the dark area of image. Just choose the tool and start painting on the image.

Shapes



Add and adjust shapes in your image.
  • Direct or Path Selection tool. This tool is used to select the shapes created by pen tool or shape tool, and also used to modify the shapes.
  • Ellipse / Shape tool. This tool is used to create predefined tool like Rectangle, Line, star etc. Choose the tool and if you want to draw any other shape then change the shape and then click and drag to draw that shape. Hold the shift to keep the proportion intact.
Repair image issues with the Spot Healing Brush tool. By using this tool you can heal the unwanted spots in your image. Just choose the tool and paint on the spot you don't want in your image, it will magically disappear.

Marquee, Move, & Lasso

Select different areas of your image as needed. There are several tools to help:
  • Rectangular Marquee tool: Pick the tool by clicking it, and then click and drag on an area of image to select it.
  • Move tool: You can click and drag to move selected layer by using this tool. Mainly this tool is used for placing the objects (layers).
  • Polygonal Lasso tool: It is also used for selection purpose like Rectangular Marquee tool, but it gives you freedom of shape. You can make any shape manually for selection, to do that, first pick the tool then start clicking on different points and then click on the starting point to complete your selection, or just press enter. By long click you can choose lasso tool and can draw freehand stroke to select an area.
  • Magic Wand tool: Just work like magic for selection. Click on a point of image and it will automatically select the area based on color values.

Use a variety of tools to draw on your images.
  • Brush tool: a favorite of artists and Painters, which is used for painting. You can adjust size and type by right clicking on the work area (Image).
  • Clone Stamp tool: It's used for cloning the one part of the image to another part. Choose the tool and then hold alt key and then click on the area you want to clone, then leave the alt key and start painting on the area where you want to clone.
  • History Brush tool: History Brush tool is used to reveal the initial state of image, when you opened the image in Photoshop. For example if you have made a colored image black and white (alt+shift+ctrl+B) and then if you start painting with History Brush tool, wherever you paint a stroke the image will become colored there.
  • Pen tool: This tool is used to make vector shapes. Choose the tool and then click on any point inside the canvas, then click on any other point of the image, if you want a rounded corner hold the click and drag it farther to make a rounded corner. Complete the shape by clicking on the start point or just pressing enter.