Learn the shortcut commands
it will help you for fast edits.
These toolbar are aptly which
divides the sections based on
the common needs of any
Photoshop user as outlined on
the right.
Given below is some important tools for PS edits
Marque Tool
The options for this tools are Feathering (Feathering softens the selection edges by a number of pixels specified in the dialogue box) and Style.
Lasso Tool
The Lasso tool has three tools: The freehand lasso tool (default), Polygonal Lasso Tool and the Magnetic Lasso Tool. All the lasso tools allow you turn on/off antialiasing, or adjust the feathering for softer edges. In addition the magnetic lasso has two more options, edge contrast, which allow you to tune the intensity of the differentiation the magnitic makes between two colours, and frequency which adjusts how often the magnetic lasso places a node in the path.
Wand tool
It select adjacent pixels of the same colour tolerance.
Crop tool
Use to crop and resample an image
Healing tool
The
Spot
Healing Brush automatically samples
from
around the retouched area.
Pencil/Brush tool
The Brush and Pencil Tools make your basic painting tools, they both support the use of brushes, although you may find yourself using
brushes more with the paint brush for softer edges.
Stamp tool
By pressing ALT and clicking on the image you determine your original sample point. The sample point is based on distance from the sampled point to the destination point. This means that wherever you release same location relative to the initial selection.
History tool
The History Brush allows you to take a snapshot from your history and repaint the image using pixels from it, this can be useful when you applied an effect to the image but you only
need
it appear in specific
parts. The
Art History brush also uses a snapshot but unlike the History Brush this one allows you to paint using the snapshot as a sample allowing you to create a more artistic and stylized look for your paintings.
Eraser tool
The Eraser tool needs no explanation, it does what it says, it erases. The Background Eraser tool has the ability to use brushes for their desired shape (as well as the Eraser Tool), however, this tool will attempt to remove what it considers to be the background colour based on the settings and tolerance of the tool. The Magic Eraser tool works much like the magic wand but it instead of selecting it deletes the pixels that match the tolerance settings it is set to.
Fill tool
The
fill tools allow you use a solid or a pattern to fill
an area (Paint Bucket Tool) or use different types of gradients (Gradient Tool).
Adjustment tool
These are tools designed to allow you to selectively change the state of the pixels in the image by Blurring (fading pixels of the same colour outwards and blending them with adjacent pixels) Sharpening (adjusting the pixels contrast levels) and Smudging (blending pixels over the distance of a stroke with adjacent pixels).
Photo Adjustment tool
This group contains the Dodge Tool, Burn Tool and Sponge Tool. The Burn Tool allows you to take the high lights, shadows, or mind tones of an image and adjust their level of brightness (to darker); the Dodge Tools allows you to do the same thing but to the dark sections of the image (to lighter). These tools have their origins in traditional
photography where by adjusting the
amount
of light the
film receives you can
lighten the image (Dodge) or by adjusting the exposure you can generate greater shadows (Burn). The Sponge Tool used a grayscale model to increase or decrease the saturation of an area of the image.
Text tool
Allows you to place text in your Photoshop document. You can control de orientation from Horizontal to Vertical and the same applies to the Type mask tools which generate a selection
using
the text’s shape.
