Photoshop Toolbar

Photoshop Rectangular Marquee Tool

Used to select a rectangular area.
You can expand your selection by holding SHIFT and selecting the area you want added to the current selection.You can make your selection smaller by holding ALT and selecting the area you don't want in the selection.

Photoshop Elliptical Marquee Tool

Used to select an elliptical (round) area.
You can expand your selection by holding SHIFT and selecting the area you want added to the current selection.
You can make your selection smaller by holding ALT and selecting the area you don't want in the selection.

Photoshop Single Column Marquee Tool

Selects a single pixel column.
You can expand your selection by holding SHIFT and selecting the area you want added to the current selection.
You can make your selection smaller by holding ALT and selecting the area you don't want in the selection.

Photoshop Single Row Marquee Tool

Selects a single pixel row.
You can expand your selection by holding SHIFT and selecting the area you want added to the current selection.
You can make your selection smaller by holding ALT and selecting the area you don't want in the selection.

Photoshop Move Tool

Used to move a layer.
Use the mouse or the arrow keys to move it.

Photoshop Lasso Tool

Selects an area of your choice. Click and hold the left mouse button to select.
When the left mouse button is released the area will be closed with a straight line from the ending point to the starting point.
Hold ALT while selecting to create a straight line. You can expand your selection by holding SHIFT and selecting the area you want added to the current selection.
You can make your selection smaller by holding ALT and selecting the area you don't want in the selection.

Photoshop Magnetic Lasso Tool

Selects an area of your choice.
Click to start selecting, move the tool over the image to create the selection.
This tool will guess were you want to select by selecting were the colors differ the most in the area were you move your mouse.
If you think you should help it a bit just click were you want it to go next.
This tool is very nice if you want to select something on a background with a completely diffrent color.
You can expand your selection by holding SHIFT and selecting the area you want added to the current selection.
You can make your selection smaller by holding ALT and selecting the area you don't want in the selection.

Photoshop Polygonal Lasso Tool

Selects an area of your choice. Click to start selecting, then make the selection click by click.
The selection will go from point to point (were you clicked) with straight lines. Hold SHIFT while selecting to make horizontal, vertical or diagonal lines. You can expand your selection by holding SHIFT and selecting the area you want added to the current selection.
You can make your selection smaller by holding ALT and selecting the area you don't want in the selection.

Photoshop Magic Wand Tool

Selects a colored area.
Click in the area you want to select.
This tool will select an area that has one color.
For example if you click in a bright red area it will select the whole bright red area, but not the green area next to it.
By setting the tolerance higher it will also select the slightly darker and lighter red next to it.
You can expand your selection by holding SHIFT and selecting the area you want added to the current selection.
You can make your selection smaller by holding ALT and selecting the area you don't want in the selection.

Photoshop Crop Tool

This tool enables you to make a selection, and it will delete everything that is not in the selection.
Usefull is you only need a small part of a big image.

Photoshop Slice Tool

The slice tool is very usefull when building websites.
You can use it to tear an image down in to seperate images, put into a html table.
When you want to save the stuff go to File>Save for Web... or hit ALT+SHIFT+CRTL+S and save it.
Photoshop will automatically create a html file with the table for you.

Photoshop Slice Select Tool

The slice select tool is very usefull when building websites.
Use this tool to set the slices options.
Double click on a slice and an option menu will pop up with various html options like creating a link out of the image.

Photoshop Spot Healing Brush Tool

This tool can be used to repair an image.
When an image has a very small scratch or something like that, click on it with this tool and Photoshop will use a nearby color to fix the image.

Photoshop Healing Brush Tool

This tool can be used to repair an image.
When holding ALT you can select the source from were you want to copy.
After selecting the source, brushing over the image will copy from the source to the spot were you are brushing and repair the image.
This can be used to repair little scratches in the image.

Photoshop Patch Tool

This tool can be used to repair an image.
With this tool, select the part you want to repair.
Then move the selection to another place, and Photoshop will use the second position to repair the first position.

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