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.

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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, left-click 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 Tool:

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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