Toolbox Tutorial in Photoshop

This is a Photoshop toolbox tutorial which has been designed for beginner to learn easily. It works like artist's hand brush, there are given enough tools to work on the canvas.

Toolbox has many different type of tools to create and edit picture and shapes. Some tools have a little black triangle shape that is situated right bottom of the tool. The black triangle shows some hidden tools.

If you click on the black triangle shape or right click on the tool, the hidden tool will appear. It can be selected by using their shortcut key with hold shift key.

Marquee Tool

The marquee tool helps us to make selection of desired area on the canvas in different mode of selection like rectangle, circle, 1px horizontal and vertical selection.

If you want to select two deferent area of the file and make shape, you need first selection normally by tool and for another selection apply tool with shift key.

This method also use to increase selected area by hold shift key and can be decreased selected area by hold Alt key.

Move Tool

The move tool helps us to select object on you canvas simultaneously layer, It is also use to move selected objects and makes it’s duplicate also by hold Alt key with move a little bit of mouse or arrow key.

If there are more layer and you want to select one of them without going to layer panel, you have to just right click on shape and select your desired layer.

Lasso Tool

The Lasso tool helps to make free form selection around the object to make editing on selected area. It is very useful for antialiasing. If you have a sharp hand on mouse pointer then you try to make selection by using this tool. Otherwise you can go for another one.

If you need to make selection point to point, you can do it by using Polygonal Lasso Tool.

You can make selection with holding mouse by the lasso tool, Polygonal lasso tool make selection point to point, wherever you click that will come into selected area for deselect point press backspace and Magic lasso tool select one color area.

Magic Wand Tool

It is also used for make selection of the area on canvas, by this tool you can select only same colour area. if you want to make more than one selection of different color area, apply with hold shift key for batter result.

Crop Tool

You can cut any part of the picture by using Crop tool. Apply this tool on the picture, the anchor point will appear. Click mouse on the anchor point to modify the size as you need and press enter.

Slice Tool

The slice tool helps us to make slicing of the whole document and it makes very easy to cut them in accurate size. Mainly it is used by the web designer. When we go for convert web design into HTML format. We need little picture of the web design, this tool is used for that.

Slice Select Tool: This tool is used to select sliced area.

Spot Healing brush Tool: This tool is used to repair any affected area of the picture. Press Alt key and click mouse to take color and move on the affected area.

Healing Brush Tool: It is also work same as spot healing brush tool.

Patch Tool: Patch tool is used to fill any area of the picture on any spot. Make selection by the patch tool and move selection by the mouse on the area where you want to replace spot from.

Red Eye Tool: This tool is used to replace red spot from the eye. You often see red spot in the eye on the snap, that can be removed by this tool.

Brush Tool: Brush tool is used to draw any type of lines and shape, it is editable to make different type of drawing. 

Pencil Tool: This tool is used to draw a sharp line.

Color Replacement Tool: You can replace color anywhere you want on the picture, take favorite color and move mouse with click on the wanted area. 

Clone Stamp Tool: This tool is used to make clone of any picture and background on the wanted area. Hold Alt key and click on the object to take source point, which you want to make clone. Now move mouse on the wanted area, the object clone would appear.

Pattern Stamp tool: This tool is used to fill pattern on the picture.

History Brush Tool: This tool is used to remove all modified step on the current file.

Art History Brush: This tool is used to make unclear area of the picture.

Eraser Tool: Where ever you move mouse with the Eraser tool, the pixels will be removed.

Background Eraser Tool: This tool is also used to erase area of the picture.

Gradient Tool: This tool is used to fill two or more colors in the file at a time.

Paint Bucket Tool: This tool is used to fill on color in the picture and shapes.

Blur Tool: This tool is used to give a blur effect to the picture.

Sharpen Tool: This tool is used to give a Sharpen effect to the picture.

Smudge Tool:  This tool is used to give a Smudge effect to the picture.

Dodge Tool: This tool is used to give brightness effect on the object.

Burn Tool: This tool is used to make a dark spot on the object

Sponge Tool: This tool is used to modify the current color of the picture.

Path Selection Tool: This tool is used to select all the anchor point of the shape but it doesn't apply on the shapes, which has made by selection or brush.

Direct Selection Tool: This tool is used to select one anchor point to edit the shape.

Horizontal Type Tool: This tool is used to write horizontally text.

Vertical Type Tool: This tool is also used to write vertically text.

Mask tool: This tool is used to write text like a selection text.

Pen Tool: Pen tool is used to make shape by anchor point.

Freeform Pen Tool: This tool is used to make shapes without any anchor point.

Add Anchor Point Tool: This tool is used to add anchor point on the shape which is made by the pen tool.

Delete Anchor Point Tool: This tool is used to delete anchor point on the made pen tool shape.

Convert Point Tool: This tool is used to edit the anchor point to make deferent shape.

Rectangle Tool: This tool is used to draw a rectangle shape.

Rounded Rectangle Tool: This tool is used to draw a rounded rectangle shape.

Ellipse Tool: This tool is used to draw a circle shape.

Polygon Tool: This tool is used to draw many cornered shape.

Line Tool: This tool is used to draw a straight line.

Custom Shape Tool: This tool is used to draw shapes as given in the Photoshop.

Notes Tool: This tool is used to write notes any place on the picture.

Audio Annotation Tool: This tool is used to give audio annotation any spot on the file.

These tools are used to pick color on any place of the file.

Hand Tool (H key): This tool is used to move your file on the screen in the zoom condition.

Zoom Tool (Z key): This tool is used to zoom your picture.

Set Foreground and background color.

Use mask tool to give effect to the file.

Change screen mode.

Jump to Image Ready to give animation effect to the file.

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