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The marquee tools make The Move tool moves The lasso tools make The Quick Selection tool lets
rectangular, elliptical, single selections, layers, and guides. freehand, polygonal you quickly “paint” a
row, and single column (straight-edged), and selection using an adjustable
selections. magnetic (snap-to) round brush tip
selections.
The Crop tool trims images. The Slice tool creates slices. The Slice Select tool selects
slices.
The Spot Healing Brush The Healing Brush tool The Patch tool repairs The Red Eye tool removes
tool removes blemishes and paints with a sample or imperfections in a selected the red reflection caused by a
objects pattern to repair area of an image using a flash.
imperfections in a image. sample or pattern.
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The Clone Stamp tool The Pattern Stamp tool The Eraser tool erases pixels The Background Eraser
paints with a sample of an paints with part of an image and restores parts of an tool erases areas to
image. as a pattern. image to a previously saved transparency by dragging.
state.
The Magic Eraser tool The Blur tool blurs hard The Sharpen tool sharpens The Smudge tool smudges
erases solid-colored areas to edges in an image. soft edges in an image. data in an image.
transparency with a single
click.
The Dodge tool lightens The Burn tool darkens areas The Sponge tool changes the
areas in an image. in an image. color saturation of an area.
The Brush tool paints brush The Pencil tool paints hard- The Color Replacement tool The History Brush tool
strokes. edged strokes. replaces a selected color with paints a copy of the selected
a new color. state or snapshot into the
current image window.
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The Art History brush tool The gradient tools create The Paint Bucket tool fills
paints with stylized strokes straight-line, radial, angle, similarly colored areas with
that simulate the look of reflected, and diamond the foreground color.
different paint styles, using a blends between colors.
selected state or snapshot.
The path selection tools The type tools create type on The type mask tools create a The pen tools let you draw
make shape or segment an image. selection in the shape of type. smooth-edged paths.
selections showing anchor
points, direction lines, and
direction points.
The Eyedropper tool The Ruler tool measures The Hand tool moves an The Zoom tool magnifies
samples colors in an image. distances, locations, and image within its window. and reduces the view of an
angles. image.
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The Counting tool counts The Rotate View tool non- The Note tool makes notes
objects in an image. destructively rotates the that can be attached to an
(Photoshop Extended only) canvas. image.
The 3D Rotate tool rotates The 3D Roll tool rotates the The 3D Pan tool pans the The 3D Slide tool drags side
the model around its x-axis model around its z-axis camera in the x or y direction to side to move the model
(moves the object not the (moves the object not the (moves the object, not the horizontally, or up and
camera). camera). camera). down to move the model
closer or farther away.
The 3D Scale tool scales the The 3D Orbit tool orbits the The 3D Roll View tool The 3D Pan View tool pans
model larger or smaller. camera in the x or y direction rotates the camera around the camera in the x or y
(moves the camera, not the the z-axis (moves the direction (moves the camera
object). camera, not the object). not he object).
Use a tool
❖ Do one of the following:
• Click a tool in the Tools panel. If there is a small triangle at a tool’s lower right corner, hold down the mouse button
to view the hidden tools. Then click the tool you want to select.
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• Press the tool’s keyboard shortcut. The keyboard shortcut is displayed in its tool tip. For example, you can select
the Move tool by pressing the V key.
Pressing and holding a keyboard shortcut key lets you temporarily switch to a tool. When you let go of the shortcut
key, Photoshop returns to the tool you were using before the temporary switch.
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A
Normal Brush Tip The pointer outline corresponds to approximately 50% of the area that the tool will affect. This
option shows the pixels that would be most visibly affected.
Full Size Brush Tip The pointer outline corresponds to nearly 100% of the area that the tool will affect, or nearly all the
pixels that would be affected.
Show Crosshair In Brush Tip Displays cross hairs in the center of the brush shape.
3 Click OK.
The Painting Cursors options control the pointers for the following tools:
Eraser, Pencil, Paintbrush, Healing Brush, Rubber Stamp, Pattern Stamp, Quick Selection, Smudge, Blur, Sharpen,
Dodge, Burn, and Sponge tools
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The Other Cursors options control the pointers for the following tools:
Marquee, Lasso, Polygonal Lasso, Magic Wand, Crop, Slice, Patch, Eyedropper, Pen, Gradient, Line, Paint Bucket,
Magnetic Lasso, Magnetic Pen, Freeform Pen, Measure, and Color Sampler tools
To toggle between standard and precise cursors in some tool pointers, press Caps Lock.
• To resize a cursor, right-click + Alt (Windows) or Control + Option (Mac OS) and drag to the left or right.
• To change the hardness of a cursor, Shift + right-click + Alt (Windows) or Control + Option + Command (Mac
OS) and drag to the left or right.
A B
Lasso options bar
A. Gripper bar B. Tool tip
To return tools to their default settings, right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Mac OS) the tool icon in the options
bar, and then choose Reset Tool or Reset All Tools from the context menu.
For more information on setting options for a specific tool, search for the tool’s name in Photoshop Help.
Show Current Tool Presets Shows only the loaded presets for the active tool. You can also select the Current Tool Only
option in the Tool Presets pop-up panel.
Text Only, Small List, or Large List Determines how presets are displayed in the pop-up panel.
Note: To create, load, and manage libraries of tool presets, see “Working with pop-up panels” on page 15 and “Work with
the Preset Manager” on page 41.