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Rectangular Marquee Tool


Rectangle Marquee
Make a rectangular selection. Hold the shift key down to constrain the
selection to a square.
Note: ImageReady also allows rounded corners in rectangles.
When you select any marquee tool, related options appear in the Tool
Options bar (just below the main menu). This allows you to set the type of
selection, feathering, etc. Options are slightly different for each marquee
tool.

2.Elliptical Marquee Tool


Make an elliptical selection. Hold the shift key down to constrain the
selection to a circle.

3.Lasso Tool
Photoshop actually gives us three variations of lasso to work with. The one
we'll be looking at in this tutorial is the standard Lasso Tool, which you can
access by clicking on its icon in the Tools panel. It's the tool that looks like
the sort of lasso you'd find a cowboy swinging at a rodeo:

Drawing Freehand Selections

4.Polygonal Lasso Tool


Drawing selections with the Polygonal Lasso Tool is a lot like drawing
straight-sided paths with the Pen Tool. Begin by clicking somewhere
along the edge of the object or area you need to select,
then release your mouse button. This adds a point, commonly called an
anchor or fastening point, to the document. As you move the Polygonal
Lasso Tool away from the point, you'll see a thin straight line extending
out from your mouse cursor, looking a bit like a spider weaving a web,
with the other end of the line attached to the anchor point. Click again
to add a second point, then release your mouse button. The line will
become "fastened" to the new point, with both points now joined
together by the straight line.

5.Magnettic Lasso Tool


The Magnetic Lasso Tool is one of three lasso tools in Photoshop. We've already looked at the
first two - the standard Lasso Tool and the Polygonal Lasso Tool - in previous tutorials.
Like the Polygonal Lasso Tool, the Magnetic Lasso Tool can be found nested behind the
standard Lasso Tool in the Tools panel. To access it, click and hold your mouse button down on
the Lasso Tool until a fly-out menu appears, then select the Magnetic Lasso Tool from the list

6.Mealing Healing Brush Tool


Here's a photo I have open in Photoshop of a Chinese sculpture. The edges of the sculpture are
well defined, so I could try to select it by tracing around it with the standard Lasso Tool. At least,
I could do that if I was looking for an excuse to pull my hair out in frustration. A much better
choice here would be the Magnetic Lasso Tool since it will end up doing most of the work for me:

7.Crop Tool
The Crop tool allows you to select an area of an image and discard

everything outside this area. The tool is located third from the top in the
Photoshop Toolbox, on the left side.
Although cropping reduces the dimensions of an image, it is not the same
as resizing. Whereas resizing reduces or enlarges the entire image and
everything in it, cropping does not alter the size of the image content at
all.

8.Healing Brush Tool


The Healing Brush tool allows you to fix image imperfections such as scratches, blemishes, etc. By
sampling the surrounding area or using a predefined pattern you can blend the imperfections into the rest
of the image.
The healing brush tool is located in the Photoshop Toolbox, on the left side.

9.Spot Healing Brush Tool


The Healing Brush tool allows you to fix image imperfections such as scratches, blemishes, etc. By
sampling the surrounding area or using a predefined pattern you can blend the imperfections into the rest
of the image.
The healing brush tool is located in the Photoshop Toolbox, on the left side.

10.Patch Tool
Use the Content-Aware Patch tool to heal away undesirable portions of an image. Select a
specific region, and Photoshop automatically defines a randomized fill pattern.

n the toolbar, hold down the Spot Healing Brush and select the Patch
tool .

1. In the toolbar, hold down the Spot Healing Brush


2.In the options bar, do the following:

and select the Patch tool

3.Select an area to replace on the image. You can use the Patch tool to
draw a selection, or use any of the other Selection tools as well.
4.Drag the selection over the area you want to generate a fill from.
11.Red Eye Tool
Simply select the Red Eye Tool, then click-drag on the image to draw a box
around the red eye... you may need to click-drag a couple times to get the
entire eye.

12. Clone Stamp Tool


The process involves setting a sampling point in the image which will be used as a reference
to create a new cloned area.
Select the Clone Stamp tool
, then check the settings in the options bar. Make sure you
have a brush size appropriate for the job. The following settings are fairly typical:

13.Background Eraser Tool

By default, the Background Eraser is hiding behind Photoshop's regular Eraser Tool in the Tools
palette. To select it, click and hold your mouse button down on the Eraser Tool until a small flyout menu appears, then select theBackground Eraser Tool from the menu:

14.Magci Eraser Tool


In the same menu as the Erase and Background Erase tool you'll find a third eraser and this
one's called the Magic Eraser tool.

15.Color Replacement Tool


The Color Replacement Tool was first introduced in Photoshop CS, and if you're using
Photoshop CS or CS2, you'll find the Color Replacement Tool nested under the Healing Brush in
the Tools palette. To access it, click and hold your mouse button down on the Healing Brush until
a fly-out menu appears, then select the Color Replacement Tool from the menu.

16.Blur Tool
The Blur
Tool unfocuses image areas:

In the Toolbox, select the Blur

Choose brush size and style.

Set the tool's strength.

Drag on the image.

In the Options bar, you can also specify the effect's "Mode".

Tool.

19. Shonge Tool

1.Open photoshop and the photo that you would like to edit.
2.Go to the burn or dodge tool on the toolbar.

3.Right click and select the sponge tool.


4.Choose your brush in on the toolbar were you usually change brushes.
5.Select saturate or desaturate and adjust the exposure.
6.Draw over any of the areas that you want to be adjusted. Draw over any of the
.areas that you want to be adjusted.
7You're done! Now go and add more color or take away color to your hearts desire!

18.Burn Tool
Applying the Dodge tool or Burn tool to the background layer
permanently alters the image information. To edit your images
nondestructively, work on a duplicate layer. For information on
duplicating layers, see Layer Basics.
1. Select the Dodge tool

or the Burn tool

2. Choose a brush tip and set brush options in the options bar.
3. In the options bar, select one of the following from the Range
menu:
Midtones
Changes the middle range of grays
Shadows
Changes the dark areas
Highlights
Changes the light areas
4. Specify the exposure for the Dodge tool or the Burn tool.
5. Click the airbrush button
to use the brush as an airbrush.
Alternatively, select the Airbrush option in the Brush panel.
6. Select the Protect Tones option to minimize clipping in the
shadows and highlights. This option also tries to keep colors
from shifting hue.
7. Drag over the part of the image you want to lighten or darken.

19.Sponge Tool

20.Pen Tool
Before we start talking about what the Pen Tool is or how to use it, we should look at where to
find it in Photoshop first. You'll find the Pen Tool in the Tools palette, grouped in with the Shape
Tools, the Type Tool, and the Path Selection (the white arrow) and Direct Selection (the black
arrow) Tools (see the image on the left)
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