10 Essential

Photoshop Tools
1 Patch Tool
You can remove unwanted
spots in a jiffy with the
patch tool Photoshop. You
can also clean up other
forms of distractions like
stray grass, stones,
wayward clouds, and
graffiti.

The shortcut key for the

patch tool on both
Windows and Mac OS is J.
 2 Text/Type Tool

× The Type tool allows you to add text to your file. Locate and select the Type tool
in the Tools panel. You can also press the T key on your keyboard to access the
Type tool at any time.
3 Brush Tools

Brush tool  works as a digital paint brush. It basically works like traditional painting tool. In
Photoshop, designers get option of various brush tips to choose from . They can adjust their
diameter, rotate the angle and can maintain the hardness and smoothness of the brush according to
their requirements
 4 Crop Tool

× As the name suggests, crop tool let you crop a part of image or object. To activate crop
tool, you can press ‘C’. It is one of the popular tools, designers used to remove the
unwanted area of the image.
 5 Selection Tools

× The first tool that we are going to discuss  is selection tool. The selection tool is used to create
selection of any object or image. This tool is considered as one of the essential tools of
photoshop. Within selection tool there are several tools available for designers to choose as per their
convenience like rectangular marquee, elliptical marquee tool, polygon selection tool, lasso tool  and others.
6 Blur and Sharpen Tool
Blur and sharpen tool as the name suggests, are
used to blur or sharpen the image pixels. Using
blur tool, you can modify any sharp areas or edges
in the image. The sharpen tools works in the same
way. You can use it to highlight certain areas of
image.
7 Clone Stamp Tool

Clone stamp is used to copy a certain area of the image to another. With the help of clone
tool, you can duplicate a certain part of the image and then you can place it on any image of
the same mode.
8 Gradient Tool

You can blend two or more colors using the gradient tool. Gradient tool allows the designers to
smoothly merge multiple colors into one.
You can select Gradient tool by pressing ‘G’ there are total 5 types of gradient available in Photoshop :
Linear, radial, angular, diamond and reflect gradient.
9 Pen Tool

Pen tool is vital part of Photoshop that is used to create selection and path of certain
area. Initially people find it hard to operate the pen tool but once you get comfortable with it,
you can create wonders with the tool.
10 Shape Tool

Photoshop expands the Live Shapes feature to include not just the Rectangle, Rounded Rectangle and Ellipse Tools from previous
versions but also the Polygon Tool and the Line Tool. This means that no matter which tool you use, the shape's properties remain live and
editable even after the shape is drawn.
Thank you!
 Presenters

WONDRINE S. PATIGAYON CHICLET T. ALFECHE

National Illustrator, DepEd TV