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Photoshop Tools
Photoshop CS6
Tools Panel Introduction
When you start Photoshop, the Tools panel appears at the left of the screen. Some tools in
the Tools panel have options that appear in the context-sensitive options bar. You can expand
some tools to show hidden tools beneath them. A small triangle at the lower right of the tool icon
signals the presence of hidden tools.
Tools Panel Overview
Selection Tools Gallery
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The marquee tools
make rectangular,
elliptical, single row,
and single column
selections.
The Move tool
moves selections,
layers, and guides.
The Magic Wand
tool selects similarly
colored areas.
Crop and slice tools gallery
The lasso tools
make freehand,
polygonal (straightedged), and
magnetic (snap-to)
selections.
The Quick Selection
tool lets you
quickly paint a
selection using an
adjustable round
brush tip
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The Crop tool trims images.
The Slice tool creates slices.
The Slice Select tool
selects slices.
Retouching tools gallery
The Spot Healing
Brush tool removes
blemishes and
objects
The Healing Brush
tool paints with a
sample or pattern to
repair imperfections
in a image.
The Patch tool
repairs imperfections
in a selected area
of an image using a
sample or pattern.
The Red Eye tool
removes the red
reflection caused by
a flash.
The Clone Stamp
tool paints with a
sample of an image.
The Pattern Stamp
tool paints with part
of an image as a
pattern.
The Eraser tool
erases pixels and
restores parts of an
image to a previously
saved state.
The Background
Eraser tool
erases areas to
transparency by
dragging.
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The Magic Eraser
tool erases solidcolored areas to
transparency with a
single click.
The Blur tool blurs
hard edges in an
image.
The Sharpen tool
sharpens soft edges
in an image.
The Dodge tool
lightens areas in an
image.
The Burn tool
darkens areas in an
image.
The Sponge tool
changes the color
saturation of an area.
Painting tools gallery
The Smudge tool
smudges data in an
image.
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The Brush tool
paints brush strokes.
The Pencil tool
paints hard-edged
strokes.
The Color
Replacement tool
replaces a selected
color with a new
color.
The Mixer Brush
tool Simulates
realistic painting
techniques such as
blending canvas
colors and varying
paint wetness.
The History Brush
tool paints a copy
of the selected state
or snapshot into
the current image
window.
The Art History
brush tool paints with
stylized strokes that
simulate the look of
different paint styles,
using a selected state
or snapshot.
The gradient tools
create straightline, radial, angle,
reflected, and
diamond blends
between colors.
The Paint Bucket
tool fills similarly
colored areas with the
foreground color.
Drawing and type tools gallery
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The path selection
tools make shape or
segment selections
showing anchor
points, direction lines,
and direction points.
The type tools create The type mask tools
type on an image.
create a selection in
the shape of type.
The shape tools
and Line tool draw
shapes and lines in
a normal layer or a
shape layer.
The Custom
Shape tool makes
customized shapes
selected from a
custom shape list.
Navigation, notes, and measuring tools gallery
The pen tools let you
draw smooth-edged
paths.
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The Hand tool moves The Rotate View
tool non-destructively
an image within its
rotates the canvas.
window.
The Zoom tool
magnifies and
reduces the view of
an image.
The Note tool makes
notes that can be
attached to an image.
The Eyedropper tool
samples colors in an
image.
The Ruler tool
measures distances,
locations, and angles.
The Count tool
counts objects in an
image. (Photoshop
Extended only)
The Color Sampler
tool displays color
values for up to four
areas.
3D tools gallery (Photoshop Extended)
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The 3D Object
Rotate tool rotates
the object around its
x-axis.
The 3D Object Roll
tool rotates the
object around its zaxis.
The 3D Object
Pan tool pans the
object in the x or y
direction.
The 3D Object Slide
tool moves the object
laterally when you
drag horizontally, or
forward and back
when you drag
vertically.
The 3D Object Scale
tool scales the object
larger or smaller.
The 3D Rotate
Camera tool orbits
the camera in the x
or y direction.
The 3D Roll
Camera tool rotates
the camera around
the z-axis.
The 3D Pan Camera
tool pans the camera
in the x or y direction.
The 3D Walk
Camera tool moves
laterally when you
drag horizontally, or
forward and back
The 3D Zoom
Camera tool
changes the field of
view closer or farther
away.
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when you drag
vertically.
Other Resources:
http://tinyurl.com/photoshop-cs6-tools
Sources:
Adobe Help
