Tool Palate You cannot go too far in Photoshop without the tools palette.

You will notice that some of the tools have a tiny arrow on the lower right of their section. This indicates there are variations of this tool in that slot. Click on the arrow (keep your mouse down) and see what is there. An overall summary of all the tools follows below. Those in bold will be covered in this class. 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 and discards the remainder. Move Tool: Moves selected areas within and image, to other layers within an image or to another image entirely. Lasso: Makes freehand and straight selections of any shape by manually dragging around the shape of the image. Magic wand: Makes automatic selections of similar colored areas. Tolerance indicates 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 to selections. 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 saturate Type 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.)

Zoom: Allows you to increase or decrease magnification of an image. Other Terms: Image Resolution: Digital Images are represented in pixels. Image resolution refers 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 be represented 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 model represents the four 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 each color are called color separations. The combined color separations create a composite image.