Learning The Basic Photoshop Tools
Author: David Peters

Adobe has its own Photoshop tutorials that run the gamut of
instruction.

You can find Photoshop tutorials on the Adobe site on
abstracts, automation, animation, the basics of using
Photoshop, buttons and brushes, using color effectively,
digital art, drawing, creating desired effects with drawing or
photos, retouching photos, photography in general, scripting,
textual effects, Photoshop patterns and textures, graphics for
the Web, and layouts for the Web.

One of the most basic of Photoshop tutorials is a complete
explanation of all you'll find on the Photoshop toolbar.
You'll learn lessons that include the use of the marquee tools.
There are several: the elliptical, the single row, the single
column and the rectangular.

The rectangular and elliptical marquee tools lets you expand or
reduce an area that is shaped as the tools indicate. You can use
a tool to size one row or one column with the appropriate
marquee tool.

These basic will be taught in this Photoshop tutorial, along
with the use of the move tool which lets you create movement of
a layer, the lasso tool which lets you capture a specific area,
and the magnetic lasso tools, which lets you change the
location of images with varying colors.

The polygonal lasso tool, in contrast, will go from point to
point in a straight line or lines. You'll even learn how to use
a magic want with Adobe Photoshop tutorials. This magic want
tool lets you click inside a one color area and move only that
area.

The Photoshop crop tool, part of this tutorial, lets you delete
parts of a photo.

Wit h this Photoshop tutorial you'll learn other basic tools
such as the spot healing tool, the healing brush tool, the red
eye tool, the patch tool, the brush tool, the pencil tool, and
the color replacement tool.

With the clone stamp tool, you'll learn how to use Photoshop to
copy only parts of a particular image, while the pattern stamp
tool will teach you how to take an image and brush a pattern on
to it.

The Photoshop tutorial will teach you the mechanics of history
brush tool use, how it is used to undo what you've created by
simply brushing over the image you've altered and taking it
back to the image it was before.

It has an even more advance use, though, in that, you can
actually undo the image change in only the specific parts from
which you wish to remove your latest alteration.

The art history brush, another tool taught in Photoshop
tutorials, is much the same as the history brush except that it
also lets you style at the same time.

Photoshop tutorials teach three eraser tools – the standard
eraser, the background eraser and the magic eraser tool. With
the first you can do just as its name suggests – erase part of
the image you've created with Photoshop.

With the background version you can erase only the image
background, while the magic eraser which lets you make even
more varied choices of what to eliminate from the image.


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