Adobe Photoshop 101
Monday, February 23, 2009 // 9:05 AM
Oh gosh, I was so tired when I came to class. But still, here is what we learned:
Toolbar:
*All of these have Letter shortcuts so you can type in a letter to automatically go into each toolbar.
Rectangular Marquee Tool - Bottom right corner has an arrow that gives you choices such as Elliptical Marquee Tool(draws circle). Used for selecting. When the marquee is active, it means you can only do things to the selection and nothing outside of it. Ctrl-D turns off the selection. If you want a perfect circle, use the elliptical marquee tool and hold down shift. You can do the same for the Rectangular Marquee Tool.
Move Tool - You use this to move things around or individual objects.
Lasso Tool - Draw a selection line around a certain object to select only what you've seperated. Polygonal Lasso Tool selects in polygon shapes while Magnetic Lasso Tool tries to find the edges for you so it is more accuarate.
* Feather: creates soft border around your selection (also applicable to Rectangular/Elliptical Marquee Tool as well as Lasso)
Magic Wand Tool - Selects colours on your image based on the tolerance level. (e.g. if you enter 10, it will select everything 10 levels similar to the colour you select with your cursor) Useful for selecting entire areas of your images (e.g. someone's eye) Contiguous: touching.
Crop Tool - Used to crop parts of an image. You can customize your cropping even more by inserting the inches/pixel size (width, length), resolution and more.
Type Tool (horizontal or vertical) - Puts words into your image.
Polygon Tool - Puts shapes into your image.
Gradient Tool - Creates a blend between to colours.
Airbrush Tool - Creates an Airbrush effect. Used to draw.
Paintbrush Tool - Creates a paintbrush effect. Used to draw.
Paint Bucket Tool - Fills in an area with your selected colour.
Pencil Tool - Creates a Pencil effect. Used to draw.
Eraser Tool - Erases parts of your image. Background Eraser Tool - erases only the background. Magic Eraser- uses tolerance to erase everything within the amount of tolerance you input.
Impressionist Brush - Same as paint brush except it puts in an impressionist effect. (e.g. makes it appear like you've painted the image)
Blur Tool - Used to make parts of an image blurry.
Sharpen Tool - Increases the contrast between the image (the edges between the different colours). You have to use carefully or it will look unnatural. Best way to use is very lightly.
Sponge Tool - Softens an image, blends the colours. Use this to soften someone's expression.
Smudge Tool - Like sponge tool, except harsher. Blends colours, softens.
Red Eye Brush Tool - Used to get rid of the red eye.
Dodge Tool/Burn Tool - Opposites of each other. Burn subtly darkens an image. Dodge subtly lightens an image. Use for highlights, shadows, etc.
Clone Stamp Tool/Pattern Stamp Tool - Clones the area you choose (Alt+Click). Pattern Stamp - Puts a pattern in.
Eye Dropper Tool - Used to go in the image and select a colour.
Hand Tool - moves things around.
Zoom Tool - Zooms in or out.
Hope this helped!
Goodbye,
- Serena
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