Learning The Basic Photoshop Tools

Adobe has its own Photoshop tutorials that runyou delete parts of a photo.
the gamut of instruction.Wit h this Photoshop tutorial you'll learn other basic
You can find Photoshop tutorials on the Adobetools such as the spot healing tool, the healing
site on abstracts, automation, animation, thebrush tool, the red eye tool, the patch tool, the
basics of using Photoshop, buttons and brushes,brush tool, the pencil tool, and the color
using color effectively, digital art, drawing, creatingreplacement tool.
desired effects with drawing or photos, retouchingWith the clone stamp tool, you'll learn how to use
photos, photography in general, scripting, textualPhotoshop to copy only parts of a particular
effects, Photoshop patterns and textures,image, while the pattern stamp tool will teach you
graphics for the Web, and layouts for the Web.how to take an image and brush a pattern on to
One of the most basic of Photoshop tutorials is ait.
complete explanation of all you'll find on theThe Photoshop tutorial will teach you the
Photoshop toolbar.mechanics of history brush tool use, how it is
You'll learn lessons that include the use of theused to undo what you've created by simply
marquee tools. There are several: the elliptical, thebrushing over the image you've altered and taking
single row, the single column and the rectangular.it back to the image it was before.
The rectangular and elliptical marquee tools letsIt has an even more advance use, though, in that,
you expand or reduce an area that is shaped asyou can actually undo the image change in only
the tools indicate. You can use a tool to size onethe specific parts from which you wish to
row or one column with the appropriate marqueeremove your latest alteration.
tool.The art history brush, another tool taught in
These basic will be taught in this PhotoshopPhotoshop tutorials, is much the same as the
tutorial, along with the use of the move toolhistory brush except that it also lets you style at
which lets you create movement of a layer, thethe same time.
lasso tool which lets you capture a specific area,Photoshop tutorials teach three eraser tools - the
and the magnetic lasso tools, which lets youstandard eraser, the background eraser and the
change the location of images with varying colors.magic eraser tool. With the first you can do just
The polygonal lasso tool, in contrast, will go fromas its name suggests - erase part of the image
point to point in a straight line or lines. You'll evenyou've created with Photoshop.
learn how to use a magic want with AdobeWith the background version you can erase only
Photoshop tutorials. This magic want tool lets youthe image background, while the magic eraser
click inside a one color area and move only thatwhich lets you make even more varied choices of
area.what to eliminate from the image.
The Photoshop crop tool, part of this tutorial, lets