Assignment: PHOTOSHOPE

1. Rectangular Marquee Tool

The Rectangular Marquee tool is used for making rectangular selections within
an image. It is among the most basic of tools, and appears in most every image
editing program available.
It can be used to prepare an image for cropping, while the similar crop
tool automatically completes the crop when used.

2. Elliptical Marquee Tool

The only real difference is that the Elliptical Marquee Tool allows us to draw oval or
circular selections! If you already know how to use the Rectangular Marquee Tool,
think of the Elliptical Marquee Tool as being the same thing, just with extremely
rounded corners.

3. Lasso Tool
The lasso tools allow you to select precise areas of an image by drawing or tracing the
selection outline. This is a freehand selection tool. Click and hold your left mouse button on
the image and draw your selection.

4. Polygonal Lasso Tool

Similar to the lasso tool, except that instead of holding your mouse button down to draw, leftclick on various points to create a selection with a series of straight edges.You can also hold
down the Alt key (Windows) or Option key (Mac OS) to draw freehand sections.

5. Magnetic Lasso Tool

This is a very handy tool for selecting areas which have reasonably well-defined edges.
Left-click at the starting point of your selection and simply move the mouse along the
edge."Fastening points" are automatically made at various points along the edges. Left-click
at any time to add a fastening point manually.

6. Magic Wand Tool

The Magic Wand tool allows you to select an area of an image based on its colour. The tool is
located near the top of the Photoshop Toolbox. When you click an area in an image with the
magic wand, all areas which are a similar colour are selected. You can specify various options
to determine the exact selection.

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 spot healing brush is the default healing tool in Photoshop and can be used to clone areas
from an image and blend the pixels from the sampled area seamlessly with the target area.

10. Patch Tool

The Patch Tool retouches image using sampled pixels or pattern.
It works as a combination of the Healing Brush

with the Lasso

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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

Photoshop's clone stamp tool allows you to duplicate part of an image.The process involves
setting a sampling point in the image which will be used as a reference to create a new cloned
area.

13. Background Eraser Tool

The background eraser tool allows you to remove the background colour from an image or
layer. When you click the image, the eraser samples the colour at the centre of the brush
and erases this colour as you drag.

14. Magic Eraser Tool

The magic eraser tool erases all colours within a set tolerance. This is essentially the same
as using the magic wand and hitting delete. Using this tool you don't need to drag just
click once.

15. Color Replacement Tool

Color Replacement Tool and how it enables us to change the color of an object in
a photo without a lot of fuss or hassle.

16. Blur Tool

The Blur Tool does what it says on the tin - it blurs out sections of your photo or
artwork. For all of these tools you will need to select a brush that is appropriate
for the job you are going to do. You can manage the strength of the blur with
the strength option.

17. Sharpen Tool

The Sharpen Tool tightens up pixels that you select. The tool can be a little
crude so it is worth playing with the options. Again how much you sharpen can
be controlled with the strength dropdown.

18. Burn Tool

Burn tool lighten or darken areas of the image.

19. Sponge Tool

The sponge tool is an amazing but not a well known tool that is incredibly
useful. It allows you to chose a brush to desaturate or saturate a certain area
on a picture. for those of you who do not known desaturate is to take color
away and to saturate is to add more color or brighten a picture.

20. Pen Tool

In graphics software, the pen tool is frequently used in the creation of smooth-edged selections,
but is not a type of selection tool. The Pen Tool creates vector paths that can be converted into
selections that in turn can be used to extract or mask groups of pixels.

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