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ASSIGNMENT : PHOTOSHOPE

1. Rectangular marquee tool

The Rectangular Marquee tool is used for making rectangular selections within an image. It is among the most basic of tools, and appears in most every image editing program available. It can be used to prepare an image for cropping, while the similar Crop tool automatically completes the crop when used.

2. Elliptical marquee tool

First, click the mouse button, and then before you move the mouse, hold down Alt (Option on the Mac) and drag. Release your mouse and then the key when you have your desired selection. If you want to draw from the center out and want a perfect circle, hold down the Shift key, as well.

3. Lasso tool

The lasso tool behavior is more or less identical to that of the marquee selection tools and the same modifier key rules apply. To use the standard, freehand lasso tool, just drag around the area to be selected holding down the mouse as you draw. When you release the mouse, the last point of the lasso selection drawn will join up with the starting point to form a complete selection.As with the marquee selection tools, you can hold down the Shift key and then drag with the lasso or polygon lasso tool to add to an existing selection. Or, you can hold down the Option/Alt key to subtract from an existing selection, or hold down the Shift+Option/Shift+Alt keys to intersect with an existing selection. Note that if you hold down the Option/Alt key, the freehand lasso tool temporarily switches to a polygon lasso tool mode. Figure 1 below shows the freehand lasso tool Options bar.

4. Polygonal lasso tool

Photoshop's Polygonal Lasso Tool, another of its basic selections tools, is a bit like a cross between the Rectangular Marquee Tool and the standard Lasso Tool, both of which we looked at in previous tutorials. It allows us to easily draw freeform selection outlines based on straight-sided polygonal shapes. But while the Rectangular Marquee Tool limits us to drawing 4-sided polygons (rectangles or squares), the Polygonal Lasso Tool lets us draw as many sides as we need, with as much freedom as the Lasso Tool gives us to move in any direction we need.

5. Magnetic lasso tool

An edge selection tool that detects an image’s edges and automatically selects the pixels around them. Selections are freehand, but with assistance from Photoshop. This gives it a high degree of precision, particularly if there is some contrast between image and the background. You can think of it as a mix between the Pen tool and the Quick Selection tool.

6. Magic wand tool

The Magic Wand Tool, known simply as the Magic Wand, is one of the oldest selection tools in Photoshop. Unlike other selection tools that select pixels in an image based on shapes or by detecting object edges, the Magic Wand selects pixels based on tone and color. Many people tend to get

7. Crop tool

One of the great new features in Photoshop CS6 is the improved and enhanced Crop Tool. If you've been using earlier versions of Photoshop to crop your photos, you'll find quite a few changes with CS6, all designed to make cropping and straightening images easier and more flexible than ever before. In this tutorial, we'll learn how it works.

8. Healing brush tool

The Healing Brush tool 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

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. The basic principle is that the texture from the sample area is blended with the color and luminosity surrounding wherever you paint. The main difference between this and the standard healing brush is that the spot healing brush requires no source point. You simply click on the blemishes you want to get rid of (or drag with the tool to paint over the larger areas you wish to repair) and the spot healing brush works out the rest for you. It is in many ways a lot easier to use than the standard healing brush and extremely effective at removing most blemishes and marks.

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

11. Red Eye Tool

Red eye in portraits is caused when the flash source is used too close to the lens axis and the pupils of the eye are wide open. One way to avoid this happening is to set your camera flash to red eye mode (if available). The camera will usually pop a single or short series of flashes just before firing the main camera flash exposure. Failing that, the red eye tool in Photoshop is an easy-to-use tool for removing red eye from photographs that have been taken with a direct flash source.

12. Clone Stamp Tool

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.

13. Background Eraser Tool

In this Photoshop tutorial, we look at the Background Eraser Tool and how we can use it to easily remove background areas of an image. The Background Eraser is especially useful with photos that contain lots of fine detail along the edges between the foreground and background, like, for example, if you want to erase the sky in an image without first having to select all of the trees below it.

14. Magic Eraser Tool

The magic eraser tool erases all colours within a set tolerance. This is essentially the same as using the magic wand and hitting delete . Using this tool you don't need to drag — just click once.

15.Colour Replacement Tool

In a previous tutorial, we looked at the Background Eraser and why it's one of the best tools in Photoshop for removing unwanted areas of an image. In this tutorial, we'll learn all about the Color Replacement Tool and how it enables us to change the color of an object in a photo without a lot of fuss or hassle.

16.Blur Tool

The Blur tool uses the current brush to locally blur or sharpen your image

17.Sharpen Tool

The Sharpen tool in Photoshop Elements increases the contrast among adjacent pixels to give the illusion that things are sharper. This tool should be used with restraint, however. Sharpen can quickly give way to overly grainy and noisy images if you’re not cautious. Use a light hand and keep the areas you sharpen small.

18.Burn Tool

In older versions of Photoshop, when we wanted to burn, we had to jump through a bunch of hoops (creating special layers, and using blend modes and such).

19.Sponge Tool

The sponge tool is an amazing but not a well known tool that is incredibly useful. It allows you to choose a brush to desaturate or saturate a certain area on a picture. For those of you who do not known desaturate is to take colour away and to saturate is to add more colour or brighten a picture.

20.Pen Tool

The Pen Tool makes appearances across almost the entire Adobe product range. Its function and behavior varies depending on the application, but by mastering it youll find you work quicker, smoother and with better results. This guide will give you a comprehensive basis for working with the Pen Tool in Photoshop.