Tools with little black arrows in their bottom right corner

The toolbox in detail
Move Tool

Marquee Tool

Tip: Holding down the shift key and making a new marquee will add to a current selection. Holding down option will take away. (There will be a little + or - by the tool that will let you know if you have one of these choices selected)

- The Lasso tool will close the selection will close automatically when the mouse is unclicked.
- The Polygonal Lasso tool and Magnetic Lasso tool need the ends of the selection to be joined for the section to become selected.
Tip: The same adding and subtracting methods discussed with the marquee tool work with the lasso tool..
Magic Wand Tool

Tip: The default setting will only select the same colors that are touching each other (contiguous). However, this can be changed with the options bar.
Crop Tool

Tip: When using Crop, the area that will be removed will be in shadow. The area can be expanded or contracted by clicking and dragging on one of the 9 points of the box. Once an image has been cropped, the only way to retrieve the parts that were removed is to undo the crop.
Healing Tool

- The Spot Healing Brush removes blemishes and objects.
- The Red Eye tool removes the red refl ection caused by a fl ash.
Note: The Healing Brush tool and The Patch tool are a little tricky to work with, so they won’t be covered in this handout.
Drawing Tools

- The Brush tool paints brush strokes.
- The Pencil tool paints hard-edged strokes.
- The Color Replacement tool replaces a selected color with a new color.
Tip: If you want to draw in a very specifi ce place, with no spill-over, use the pencil instead of the brush.
Eraser Tools

- The Eraser tool will restore parts of an image to a previously saved state or will display the background color.
- The Background Eraser tool will turn the erased areas into a transparency.
- The Magic Eraser tool will erase everything of the same color into a transparency.
Tip: Color selection for the Magic Eraser tool works the same as the Magic Wand tool.
Fill Tool

- The Gradient Tool creates a smooth straight-line change from the foreground color to the background color.
- The Paint Bucket tool fills in areas of similar color with the foreground color.
Tip: Color selection for the Paint Bucket tool works the same as the Magic Wand tool.
Pen Tool

- Freefrom Pen Tool serves to make the line the path with a nicer shape.
Text Tool

- The type tools create type on top of an image.
- The type mask tools make a selection of the document in the shape of type.
Tip: Both types can be used to create text either horiontally or vertically.
Shape Tool

- The Shape tools will create a solid color shape of their type.
- The Line tool will create a solid color line.
- The Custom Shape tool makes customized shapes selected from a custom shape list.
Tip: If you want to draw a rectangle or circle with a transparent center, it’s easlier touse the Custom Shape tool.
Color Picking and Ruler Tools

- The Eyedropper tool changes the foreground color to the color that is clicked on.
- The Color Sampler tool is an advanced tool.
- The Ruler tool measures the distance, location, and angle between to points in the document.
Hand Tool

Tip: This is very useful when the image is naturally larger than the window or zoomed in.
Zoom Tool

Tip: To zoom out instead of in hold down the option key. When this is done, the + will turn into a -.
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