Description about the tools

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In the earlier post, we have discussed about the minimum basics of the photoshop now move on to the in-depth description about the different tools in the tools bar. Tools are the major things that one should know. Every tool in the tools bar are specific or multi featured. For better understanding, we have provided the screenshot below.

Observe the above screenshot, start from left-side column and  top row first tool and follow row-wise, the names of each tool are listed below:

  1. Marquee tool:
    Marquee tool is a type of selection tool. Whenever we edit an image to select a particular portion of an image this tool is used. The selection can be done in different geometric shapes as listed below
      a.Rectangular marquee tool
      b.Elliptical marquee tool
      c.single row marquee tool
      d.single-column marquee tool
    By right clicking on the marquee tool, we can access to different geometric shapes. Here, the selection can be done in only geometric shapes no free selection is possible.
  2. Move tool:
    This tool is used to move an image to a desired position and the selected image can be enlarged and compressed by the transform option.
  3. Lasso tool:
    Lasso tool provides free selection of  portion in an image. By right clicking on the tool, you will different types of lassos as listed below:
    a. Lasso tool: In this type selection is free and linear.
    b. Polygonal lasso tool: In this type, the selection is free but as a whole it looks like a polygon.
    c. Magnetic lasso tool:In this type, the selection will be done in accordance with the object outline and it follows like a magnet.
  4. Magic wand tool:
    This tool is used to auto-enhance the image with default values provided with in software.
  5. Crop tool:
    This tool is used to crop a required portion from an image.
  6. Slice-select tool:
    It is also used as a selecting tool. but the difference between the lasso tool and this tool is that it has more accuracy of selecting an irregular object more accurately.
  7. Healing brush tool:
    This tool is used for the repairing and retouching of an image. This can be done by spreading the color.It is of two types healing brush tool and a patch tool. Patch tool is used to repair or retouch in the form of patches.
  8. Brush tool:
    a. As the name implies it is used as brush and can paint with several different types of brushes. There are different types of brushes available in the websites. Some of the types are free of cost and some are having cost to be paid. Some of the sites which provides these services are www.shutterstock.com
    b. By right clicking you can get a pencil tool which is used to produce pencil type of effect.
  9. Clone stamp tool:
    This tool is used to paint the cloned pixels for that position the cursor over the area and then start painting.
  10. History brush tool:
    It creates artistic effects using defined history state.
  11. Eraser tool:
    It is used for erasing purpose.
     
  12. Paint Bucket and gradient tool:
    a. Paint bucket is used to fill a color in a selected area
    b. Gradient tool creates a gradient of two colors. It provides several other options like angle of gradient, selection of colors.
  13. Blur, sharpen & smudge tools:
    a. Blur tool is used to blur the desired portion in an image. We can increase the brush pressure, hardness, opacity etc.
    b. sharpen tool is used to sharp the colors of the image.
  14. Selection tool:
    This tool is used as a path selection tool and by right clicking you can access to direct path selection tool too.
  15. Rectangular tool:
    This tool is used for selecting there some geometric shapes so that you can select in your required way.
  16. Notes tool:
    This tool is used to write notes.
  17. Eye-dropper tool:
    This tool is used to select different color with in the image. This can be done by making contact with the area of a image such that which color do you want. Now by selecting brush tool or paint bucket tool you cam fill the area with your desired color.
  18. Hand tool:
    This tool is used to drag the image and move the image. Whenever we zoom in the image with zoom tool it is not easy to move the image so we select the hand tool and move the image.
  19. Zoom tool:This tool is used to zoom in or zoom out the image.
  20. Fore-ground & Back-ground colors:It indicates the fore-ground and background colors of layers.

    These are some of the tools we have discussed in detail and their options. We can learn more whenever we practice and make some edits. There are so many other tools and so many options that are to be discussed but it is not that much easy to explain the whole tools and their options. So we will discuss them while applying the effects.

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