ASSIGNMENT PHOTOSHOP

1. Rectangular Marquee Tool

Make a rectangular selection. Hold the shift key down to constrain the
selection to a square.

2. Elliptical Marquee Tool

Make an elliptical selection. Hold the shift key down to constrain the
selection to a circle.

3. Lasso Tool
This is a freehand selection tool. Click and hold your left mouse button
on the image and draw your selection.

4. Polygonal Lasso Tool

Similar to the lasso tool, except that instead of holding your mouse
button down to draw, left-click on various points to create a selection
with a series of straight edges.

5. Magnetic Lasso Tool

This is a very handy tool for selecting areas which have reasonably welldefined edges. Left-click at the starting point of your selection and simply
move the mouse along the edge.

6. Magic Wand Tool

The magic wand tool is similar to the magnetic polygon lasso tool except
that rather than dragging to make a selection, you click in a region and a
selection appears around similar colored pixels. You can control how
similar pixels must be to be included in the selection by altering the
tolerance value.
This tool is useful for selecting monochromatic regions or pieces of highcontrast images.
7. Crop Tool (C)
The Crop Tool works similarly to the Rectangular Marquee tool (see
above if you have no short-term memory). The difference is when you
press the [Enter/Return] key, it crops your image to the size of the box.
Any information that was on the outside of the box is now gone. Not
permanently, you can still undo.

8. Clone Stamp Tool (S)

This is very similar to the Healing Brush Tool (see above). You use it the
exact same way, except this tool doesnt blend at the end. Its a direct
copy of the information from the first selected area to the second. When
you learn to use both of these tools together in perfect harmony, you will
be a Photoshop MASTA! Not really, its just less irritating.

9. Blur Tool (R)

The Blur tool is cool. It makes things blurry. Click and drag to make
things blurry. The more you click and drag, the blurrier things get.

10. Pen Tool (P)

I mentioned this tool above. Its for creating paths, in which you would
use the Path Selection Tool to select the path. Paths can be used in a
few different ways, mostly to create clipping paths, or to create
selections. You use the tool by clicking to add a point. If you click and
drag, it will change the shape of your path, allowing you to bend and
shape the path for accurate selections and such.

11. Spot healing brush

The spot healing brush is the default healing tool in Photoshop and can
be used to clone areas from an image and blend the pixels from the
sampled area seamlessly with the target area.

12. Sponge Tool - Adjusting Saturation

When you adjust saturation you adjust the strength of a colour. With the
sponge tool you paint with a brush to either increase the saturation of
decrease it. In the following example we have a beautiful photo
by Barbara Rich Using the sponge tool we are going to bring out the
colours a little more by saturating them. Specifically the boat and the sky
have been "sponged" to saturate the colours in these areas. Conversely
if you wish to tone down colours select desaturate.

13. Burn Tool - the same in reverse

The Burn Tool is really the inverse of the Dodge Tool. Instead of
compensating for overexposure it allows you to darken areas that have
been underexposed.

14. Patch tool

The patch tool uses the same complex algorithm as the healing brush to
carry out its blend calculations, but the patch tool works with selectiondefined areas instead of a brush. When the patch tool is selected, it
initially operates in a lasso selection mode that can be used to define the
area to patch from or patch to

15. Sharpen tool

Sharpen tool can be used on blurred images. The blurred pixels gets
sharpened. The resulting picture will have more contrast.

16. Red eye tool

Red eye tool used to remove the red colour reflection in eyes caused by
flash.

17. Healing brush tool

Healing Brush tool is used to repair any imperfection in an image by
painting with a sample or pattern.

18. Colour replacement tool

You can change or replace a selected colour with a new colour

19. Background eraser tool

When a picture file (.jpeg, .PNG, .GIF, .BMP or any image file format) is
opened in Photoshop, the layer palette will display it as the back ground
layer. If you try to erase part of the image, the selected background
colour will be filled to that area. That means you won't get transparent
background.
But with the Background Erase tool you can erase the background
layer & the erased portion will be transparent!

20. Magic Erase Tool

Can do some magic! When you click with the Magic Erase tool on a
particular pixel, similar pixels will be erased (like magic wand selects
similar color). You can click on different shades to erase parts of a
picture. Magic Erase may be defined as a color based Eraser