GD Toolkit Summary Notes - Lesson 3

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Photoshop
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Photoshop Tools
The tools that you will be using very often are the basic tools, which include but are not
limited to the following:
Move Tool (V): It allows you to move things around the canvas. You can activate this tool by clicking and
dragging at any point on the canvas.
Lasso Tool (L): Allows you to drag as well as select items within the Lasso area. It also provides you access
to polygonal lasso.
Marquee Tool (M): This tool allows you to choose a particular section of the canvas in a particular shape.
Magic Wand Tool (W): This tool allows you to select a specific spot as well as anything in the proximity of
the spot.
Eyedropper Tool (I): This tool allows you to sample color at a specific point on the canvas that you click.
Crop Tool (C): This tool works in a similar way as other cropping tools, since it allows you to resize your
image accordingly.
Healing Brush Tool (J): This tool allows you to sample a section of your image as well as use that section to
paint over a different section. Usually Photoshop will go ahead and attempt to blend the painted section
with the rest of the image.
Clone Stamp Tool (S): This tool allows you to sample a section and paint it over a new section, but with no
extra effects as it is with healing brush tool.
Paintbrush and Pencil Tool (B): This tool is in two parts; the first part emulates a paintbrush while the
second part emulates a pencil. There are various paintbrushes that you can use, including airbrush and
standard paintbrushes.
History Brush Tool (Y): This tool allows you to paint back in time. What happens is that Photoshop tracks 50
of your past moves, which you can paint in your present photo.
Paint Can Tool (G): This tool allows you to fill in a particular section with the existing foreground color.