Different Tools

Rectangular Marquee Tool(M): It is used to select your image in a rectangular shape.

• Holding the shift key while dragging your selection restricts the shape to a perfect square.
• Holding the Alt key while dragging sets to the center of the rectangle to where your cursor started.

Move Tool(V): It is used to move things.

• Usually you use it to move a layer around after. It has been placed.
• Hold the shift key to limit the movements to vertical/horizontal.

Ploygon Lasso Tool(L): It is used to draw selections in whatever shape you would like.

• To close the selection, either click on the beginning point, or just double-click. When holding the [ctrl]key, you'll see the cursor change, and the next time you click, it will close your selection.

Magic Wand Tool: Use this to select a color range.

• It will select the block of color, or transparency, based on wherever you click.
• In the options Bar at the top, you can change the Tolerance to make your selections more/less precise.

Crop Tool(c)

• The crop Tool works similarly to the Rectangular Marquee tool.
• The difference is when you press the Enter 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.

Slice Tool(k)>

• This is used mostly for building websites or splitting up one image into smaller ones when saving out.
• It is an advanced tool.

Healing Brush(J)

• This is really useful tool. Mildly advanced.
• You can choose your cursor size, then holding the [Alt]key, you select a nice/clean area of your image.
• Let go of the [Alt] key and paint over the bad area.
• It basically copies the info from the first area to the second, in the form of the Brush tool.
• It averages the information, so it blends.

Brush Tool(B)

• It paints on your image, in whatever color you have selected, and whatever size you have selected.
• It is the basic tool.

Clone Stamp Tool(s)

• This is similar to the Healing Brush Tool.
• You use it the exact same way, except this tool doesn't blend at the end.
• It's a direct copy of the information from the first selected area to the second.

History Brush Tool(H)

• It is same like Brush Tool except the info that it paints with is from the original state of your image.
• If you go window →history you can see the history palette.
• This History Brush Tool paints with the information from whatever History state is selected.

Eraser Tool(E)

• This is the anti-brush tool. It works like an eraser and erases whatever info wherever you click and drag it
• If you're on a layer, it will erase the information transparent.
• If you are on the background layer, it erases with whatever secondary color you have selected.

Gradient Tool(G)>

• You can use this to make a gradiation of colors.
• Gradiation doesn't appear to be a word, but it makes sense anyway.
• It creates a blending of your fore ground color and background color when you click and drag it. Like a gradient.

Blur Tool

• The Blur tool makes things blurry.
• Click and drag to make things blurry.

Dodge Tool(D)

• This tool used to lighten whatever area you use it on.
• As long as it is not absolute black.
• Absolute black won't lighten.

Notes