ASSIGNMENT : PHOTOSHOPE

1 . Recraguar Marquee Tool

Selects an object by drawing a rectangle or an ellipse around it.

Click the tool button, choose a rectangular or an elliptical marquee. Drag the

marquee over the area of the image you wish to select.

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2. Elliptical Marquee Tool

the Elliptical Marquee Tool is hiding behind the Rectangular Marquee Tool in the Tools panel

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3.Lasso Tool

Selects an object by drawing a freehand border around it.

Click the tool button, drag to draw a freehand border around the are of the

image you wish to select.

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4.Polygonal lasso tool

Use this to draw selections in whatever shape you would like. To close the selection, either click on the

beginning point (you’ll see the cursor change when you’re on it), or just double-click. When holding the [Ctrl] key,

you’ll see the cursor change, and the next time you click, it will close your selection.

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5.Magnetic lasso tool

An edge selection tool that detects an image's edges and automatically selects the pixels

around them. Selections are freehand, but with assistance from Photoshop

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6.Magic wand tool

Use this to select a color range. It will select the block of color, or transparency, based on wherever you click. In

the Options Bar at the top, you can change the Tolerance to make your selections more/less precise.

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7.Crop Tool

The Crop Tool works similarly to the Rectangular Marquee tool (see above if you have no short-term memory).

The difference is when you press the [Enter/Return] key, it crops your image to the size of the box. Any

information that was on the outside of the box is now gone. Not permanently, you can still undo.

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8.Healing Brush Tool

Corrects small blemishes in scanned photos. Brush Select the tool, hold down the ALT key and

left-click on the base color you need to heal. Then left-click over the blemish.

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9.Spot Healing Brush Tools

Can be used to clone areas from an image and blend the pixels from the sampled area seamlessly with the target

area.

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10.Patch Tool

The Patch Tool retouches image using sampled pixels or pattern

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11.Red eye tool

The Red Eye tool looks for red, so it isn't of any help if you want to correct green or

white eye

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12.Clone stamp tool

This is very similar to the Healing Brush Tool (see above). You use it the exact same way, except this tool

doesn’t blend at the end. It’s a direct copy of the information from the first selected area to the second. When you

learn to use both of these tools together in perfect harmony, you will be a Photoshop MASTA! Not really, it’s just

less irritating.

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13.background eraser tool

removing unwanted areas of a photo, but it's not perfect and it does have one serious drawback.

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14.Magic eraser tool

The magic eraser tool works like the paint bucket tool in reverse. It can

be used to erase neighboring or 'similar' pixels, based on the pixel color value where you

click.

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15.Color replacement tool

The Color Replacement tool lets you change color, hue, saturation, and luminosity values,

except instead of using a dialog as you do withReplace Color, you apply changes manually

with a brush. You can also specify mode, sampling, limits, and tolerance parameters for

thetool.

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16.Blur tool

The Blur tool is cool. It makes things blurry. Click and drag to make things blurry. The more you click and drag,

the blurrier things get.

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17.Sharpen Tool

The Sharpen tool in Photoshop Elements increases the contrast among adjacent pixels to

give the illusion that things are sharper. This tool should be used with restraint, however.

Sharpen can quickly give way to overly grainy and noisy images if you’re not cautious. Use a

light hand and keep the areas you sharpen small.

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18.Burn Tool

darken areas of an image.

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19.Sponge Tool

A Sponge is a tool that is used for cleaning and washing. The spongeis made of a special

material, with many holes.

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20.Pen Tool

t’s for creating paths, in which you would use the Path Selection Tool to select the path. Paths can be used in a

few different ways, mostly to create clipping paths, or to create selections. You use the tool by clicking to add a

point. If you click and drag, it will change the shape of your path, allowing you to bend and shape the path for

accurate selections and such.

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