ASSIGNMENT PHOTOSHOP

Give description of the tool and pic/symbol of tools.

1)Rectangular marquee tool

TheMarquee toolis the most basic of selectiontoolsand often the one most useful. Thistoolis used to draw selections based on geometric shapes. Specifically, themarquee toolallows you to drawrectangularand elliptical selections

2)Eliptical marquee tool

TheElliptical Marquee Tool, which is what we'll be looking at here, is another of Photoshop's basic selection tools. It's nearly identical to the Rectangular Marquee Tool and works much the same way.

In fact, the only real difference is that the Elliptical Marquee Tool allows us to draw oval or circular selections! If you already know how to use the Rectangular Marquee Tool, think of the Elliptical Marquee Tool as being the same thing, just with extremely rounded corners.

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

Polygonal Lasso Tool. Similar to thelasso 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. You can also hold down the Alt key (Windows) or Option key (Mac OS) to draw freehand sections.

5)Magnetic Lasso tool

Periodically, theMagnetic Lasso tooladds fastening points to the selection border to anchor previous segments. If the border doesn't snap to the desired edge, click once to add a fastening point manually. Continue to trace the edge, and add fastening points as needed.

6)magic wand tool

Select themagic wand toolin the toolbox. In the options bar, select a Tolerance value (0 to 255). This determines how closely to match colours - higher tolerance means a larger selection. Check Anti-aliased todefinea smooth edge to the selection.

7)Crop tool

TheCrop Toolcuts out adefinedarea deleting or hiding the rest of an image: In the Toolbox, select theCrop Tool, click on the image and draw a rectangle holding mouse's button pressed. When you release the button a bounding box appears. You can move, resize and rotate it.

8)Healing Brush tool

TheHealing Brushtool allows you to fix image imperfections such as scratches, blemishes, etc. By sampling the surrounding area or using a predefined pattern you can blend the imperfections into the rest of the image.

9)Spot healing brush tool

Thespot healing brushis the defaulthealing toolin Photoshop and can be used to clone areas from an image and blend the pixels from the sampled area seamlessly with the target area. The basic principle is that the texture from the sample area is blended with the color and luminosity surrounding wherever you paint.

10)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 selection-defined 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. For example, you can hold down the Option/Alt key to temporarily convert the patch tool to become a polygonal lasso tool with which to draw straight line selection edges. However, you dont actually need the patch tool to define the selection, because any selection tool or selection method can be used to prepare a patch selection. Once you have made a selection, select the patch tool to proceed to the next stage.

11)Red eye tool

he Red Eye Tool in Photoshop removes the red eye in the flash photos. Earlier removing red eye was a task of creating adjustment layers, adding blur, modifying the saturation and so on. Removing red eye has been made very simple with the Red Eye tool.

12)Clone stamp tool

Photoshop's clone stamp tool allows you to duplicate part of an image.

The process involves setting a sampling point in the image which will be used as a reference to create a new cloned area.

Select the Clone Stamp tool, then check the settings in the options bar. Make sure you have a brush size appropriate for the job. The following settings are fairly typical:

13)Background eraser tool

Photoshop'seraser toolcan be found in the second group of icons in thetoolbox. It has three variations:Eraser,Background EraserandMagic Eraser.

The eraser is basically a brush which erases pixels as you drag it across the image. Pixels are erased to transparency, or the background colour if the layer is locked.

14)magic eraser tool

Select themagic eraser tool. Enter a tolerance value in the options bar. This setting defines the range of colors that can be erased. A low tolerance erases pixels within a range of color values very similar to the pixel you click. A high tolerance erases pixels within a broader range

15)Color replacement tool

The Color Replacement tool lets you replace a specific color in your image. For best results use soft brushes with this tool to help blend the colors into the original image. Have you ever captured that perfect picture of a family member or friend, only to find they have red eyes? Or maybe theres a part of your image where the color draws attention away from the focal point. Either way, the Color Replacement tool is a great feature that allows you to take control of the final image.

16)Blur tool

The Blur tool allows you to soften hard edges and reduce detail in specific areas of an image. The Sharpen tool sharpens specific areas of an image. The Smudge tool simulates the effect you see when you drag your finger through wet paint.

17)sharpen tool

The Sharpen tool sharpens specific areas of an image. The Smudge tool simulates the effect you see when you drag your finger through wet paint.

18)burn tool

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.

19)Sponge tool

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 byBarbara 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.

20)pen tool

The pen tool is, perhaps, the most bizarre and valuable tool Illustrator has to offer. It places anchor points which define a path that, eventually, becomes an object.

Anchor points define the path by controlling the angle of a corner, or the shape of a curve. While it takes time to master this tool, it is worth every minute of effort. The shapes you end up with are economical, clean and precise.

(HINT: when you are drawing a symmetrical shape, only draw half of it, and use the reflect/copy option to create the other half.)

Click the play buttons (below) to see how the pen tool works. You can pause the movie at any time.