Photoshop Basics

Photoshop Basics :-

Hi its Our First Lecture Of Adobe PhotoShop...
In this Lecture I will tell You about Some Basic Commands Of Photoshop (Version 7).

I will Discuss about all these tools Showing in the above pic.

Tools Box:-

  In tools box there are many tools ..


Adobe Online:
 By this We can get help Online from Adobe Photoshop Official website.

Move tool: 
The move tool lets you drag a selection or layer to a new location in the image. With the Info palette open, you can track the exact distance of the move. You can also use the move tool to align selections and layers and distribute layers within an image.

Marquee tools:
The marquee tools let you select rectangles, ellipses, rounded rectangles,and 1-pixel rows and columns. By default, a selection border is dragged from its corner.

Lasso tools:
The lasso and polygonal lasso tools let you draw both straight-edged and freehand segments of a selection border. With the magnetic lasso tool (Photoshop), the border snaps to the edges of defined areas in the image.

Magic wand tool:
The magic wand tool lets you select a consistently colored area (for example, a red flower) without having to trace its outline. You specify the color range, or tolerance, for the magic wand tool's selection.

Slice tool:
You select a slice with the slice select tool in order to apply modifications to it. In the Photoshop Save for Web dialog box.

Crop tool:
Cropping is the process of removing portions of an image to create focus or strengthen the composition. You can crop an image using the crop tool and the Crop command.

Brush or Pencil tools:
The brush tool creates soft strokes of color and the pencil tool creates hard-edged, freehand lines.

Spot Healing Brush tool:
The healing brush tool lets you correct imperfections, causing them to disappear into the surrounding image.
you use the healing brush tool to paint with sampled pixels from an image or pattern. However, the healing brush tool also matches the texture, lighting, and shading of the sampled pixels to the source pixels.

Clone Stamp tool:
The clone stamp tool takes a sample of an image, which you can then apply over another image or part of the same image. Each stroke of the tool paints on more of the sample.

History brush tool:
The art history brush tool lets you paint with stylized strokes, using the source data from a specified history state or snapshot. By experimenting with different paint style, size, and tolerance options, you can simulate the texture of painting with different colors and artistic styles.

Eraser tool:
The eraser tool changes pixels in the image as you drag through them. If you're working in the background or in a layer with transparency locked, the pixels change to the background color; otherwise, the pixels are erased to transparency. You can also use the eraser to return the affected area to a state selected in the History palette.

Paint bucket tool:
The paint bucket tool fills adjacent pixels that are similar in color value to the pixels you click.

Blur and Sharpen tools:
The blur tool softens hard edges or areas in an image to reduce detail. The sharpen tool focuses soft edges to increase clarity or focus.

Dodge and Burn tools:
The toning tools consist of the dodge tool and the burn tool. Used to lighten or darken areas of the image.

Type tools:
The type tool used for typing any word, letter, number etc with different fonts and Designs.

Pen tools:
You can create or edit straight lines, curves, or free form lines and shapes using the pen tools. The pen tools can be used in conjunction with the shape tool.

custom shape tools:
By this you can draw multiple shapes in a layer and specify how overlapping shapes interact.

Notes and audio tools:
You can add notes and audio annotations anywhere on a Photoshop image canvas. When you create a note, a resizeable window appears for entering text. When you record an audio annotation, you must have a microphone plugged into the audio-in port of your computer.

Hand tools:
by this tool If the entire image is not visible in the document window, you can navigate to bring another area of the image into view.

Eyedropper tool:
The eyedropper tool samples color to designate a new foreground or background color. You can sample from the active image or from anywhere else on the screen.

Zoom tool:
 You can magnify or reduce your view using by this tools.


Foreground and background colors:
Photoshop uses the foreground color to paint, fill, and stroke selections and the background color to make gradient fills and fill in the erased areas of an image. The foreground and background colors are also used by some special effects filters.

Screen Modes:
1) Quick Mask Mode
2) Stander Mode
3) Full Screen Mode
4) Stander Screen Mode
these are Different screen mode types that we can use, but mostly we use Default screen mode as it is already.

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Thank you for reading.. :))
 Regards,