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Tool PalateYou cannot go too far in Photoshop without the tools palette. You will noticethat someof the tools have a tiny arrow on the lower right of their section. This indicates

there arevariations of this tool in that slot. Click on the arrow (keep your mouse down)and seewhat is there.An overall summary of all the tools follows below. Those in bold will becovered in thisclass.

Marquee Tools: They make seither rectangular or elliptical selections of all or part

of an image.Crop Tool: Part of the Marquee tool set. Selects a part of an image anddiscards theremainder.

Move Tool: Moves selected areas within and image, to other layers within animageor to another image entirely.

Lasso: Makes freehand and straight selections of any shape by manuallydraggingaround the shape of the image.

Magic wand : Makes automatic selections of similar colored areas. Toleranceindicates the number of tones above or below the selection that are permitted.

Pen Tool: Used to make precise, straight and curved lines that can convert toselections.

Airbrush: Used to simulate spray painting. Paintbrush: Allows you to paint with the foreground color using a palette of brushes.4

Eraser: Used to erase pixels within an image or a selection. Pencil: Used to paint hard edged lines with the foreground color. Rubber Stamp: Allows you to sample an image and copy it elsewhere. Smudge: Simulates dragging a finger through wet paint.Focus: Blurs or Sharpens part of an image or a selection.Toning tools -Used to lighten, darken or saturateType Tool: Adds text to an image.

Line: Creates straight segments.Gradient: Allows transition between two or more chosen colors

Paint bucket: Fills selected areas with a chosen color

Eyedropper: Samples colors from a selection or part of an image. Hand Tool: Moves an image within a window (like using scroll bars.)

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Zoom: Allows you to increase or decrease magnification of an image.Other Terms : Image Resolution: Digital Images are represented in pixels. Image resolutionrefers to

the number of pixels in the image and is measured in pixels per inch or ppi.The more pixels per squire inch, the higher the resolution.Color Models :

RGB: (Red Green Blue) A large percentage of the visible spectrum of color can berepresented by using these three basic components of colored light in various

proportions. RGB Files are smaller than files created in other color palettes.

Monitors display RGB colors best. RGB provides a larger color spectrum than other models.CMYK: (Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black ). The CMYK color modelrepresents thefour process inks used to print images on a press:. To print an image on a

press, each of the four plates is inked with one of the colors. The plates produced for eachcolor arecalled color separations. The combined color separations create a compositeimage.