When we launch Photoshop for the first time, the first thing that catches the eye is the toolbar. “Great!” We think, “we have the most powerful graphical application!
Side Toolbar
Now it remains only to figure out what's what. "Everything is simple at first glance, but this is also a mistake. Let's look at the side toolbar in more detail ...
1) Move Tool -
designed to select layers and manipulate them, for example, with the help of it we drag layers across the document.
2) Rectangular Marquee Tool -
designed to select the document area (this tool has several types of selection: rectangle, oval, column or line).
3) Lasso Tool -
it, in turn, is needed to select a more complex shape. This tool also has several varieties: lasso - the selection will follow the cursor path; polygonal lasso - selection is done by specifying vertices; magnetic lasso - it will try to determine the boundary of the object that is selected.
4) Magic Wand Tool-
this magic wand highlights the area of one color (sensitivity can be set).
5) Crop Tool -
crop the document area.
6) Pencil Tool -
a pencil, the name speaks for itself, for drawing. There are also other varieties: pencil and brush.
7) Clone Stamp Tool -
area cloning. A very useful photo retouching tool.
8) History Brush Tool -
the original tool for interacting with the history of changes in the document. Shows in a certain area what it was before, for example, before applying a sharpness filter.
9) Eraser Tool -
in other words "eraser".
10) Gradient Tool-
gradient fill. The second type of tool is a uniform color shading (the tool is applied to the selected area)
11) Blur Tool -
brush blur. Other varieties of this tool: sharpening and brushing.
12) Dodge Tool -
highlighting area. Another type of tool: dimming.
13) Pen Tool -
pen. Designed for building and editing paths.
14) Horizontal Type Tool -
a tool for creating / editing text. You can type text, both horizontal and vertical.
15) Path ion tool-
the same as the Move Tool, only intended for paths. There is a variety of tools for selecting individual points of the path.
16) Ellipse Tool -
creating geometric shapes.
17) Notes Tool -
create notes in the document.
18) Eyeper Tool -
measuring the color of a point.
19) Hand Tool -
"foot" to move around the document.
20) Zoom Tool -
document zoom tool (zoom in / out the viewer).
21) Default Foreground and Background Colors -
sets the initial colors for the background and foreground. Switch Foreground and Background Colors - swaps these colors among themselves.
22) Set Foreground Color / Set Background Color -
set color values for the moment.
