Kenley Hardwick

Hand Tool (H): The only tool that works or displays in Photoshop is the hand tool, to change the
view without having to change the magnification, use the Hand tool to move the Stage.

Move Tool (V): The Move tool lets you cut and drag a pixel selection to a new location in the
photo. You can also use the tool to move or copy selections between photos in Photoshop Elements,
and to photos in other applications that support selections.

Lasso Tool (L): The Lasso tool is useful for drawing freeform segments of a selection border


Quick Selection Tool (A): You can use the Quick Selection tool to quickly paint a selection using
an adjustable round brush tip. As you drag, the selection expands outward and automatically finds and
follows defined edges in the image.


Red Eye Removal Tool (Y):


Spot Healing Brush Tool (J): The Healing Brush tool lets you correct imperfections, causing them
to disappear into the surrounding image. However, the Healing Brush tool also matches the texture,
lighting, transparency, and shading of the sampled pixels to the pixels being healed.


Smart Brush Tool (F): The Smart Brush tool apply tonal and color adjustments to specific areas of
a photo. Certain effects can also be applied using these tools. You simply pick a preset adjustment and
apply the correction.

Clone Stamp Tool (S): The Clone Stamp tool paints with an image sample, which you can use to
duplicate objects, remove image imperfections, or paint over objects in your photo.

Blur Tool (R): The Blur tool softens hard edges or reduces detail in an image. The more you paint
over an area with the tool, the blurrier it becomes.

Sponge Tool (O): The Sponge tool subtly changes the color saturation of an area. When an image
is in Grayscale mode, the tool increases or decreases contrast by moving gray levels away from or
toward the middle gray

Brush Tool (B): The Brush tool and the Pencil tool work like a traditional drawing tool applying
color with brush strokes.

Eraser Tool (E): The Eraser tool changes pixels to either the background color or to transparent. If
youre working on a background or in a layer with transparency locked, the pixels change to the
background color; otherwise, the pixels are erased to transparency.

Paint Bucket Tool (K): The Paint Bucket tool fills adjacent pixels that are similar in color value to
the pixels you click.

Gradient Tool (G): The Gradient tool creates a gradual blend between multiple colors. You can
choose from preset gradient fills or create your own.

Color Picker Tool (I): Provides a color spectrum from which you can visually select colors, color
value text boxes for manually defining colors, and color swatches.

Custom Shape Tool (U): You can draw custom shapes by using shapes from the Custom Shape
pop-up panel, or save a shape or path to use as a custom shape.

Horizontal Type Tool (T): When you use the Horizontal Type Mask tool, you create a selection in
the shape of the type. Type selections appear on the active layer, and can be moved, copied, filled, or
stroked just like any other selection.

Pencil Tool (N): The Pencil Tool has been improved to facilitate better curve-fitting, auto-closing of
paths, and drawing of constrained and unconstrained straight line segments.

Crop Tool (C): Cropping is the process of removing portions of an image to create focus or
strengthen the composition. Use the Crop tool to crop and straighten images in Photoshop.

Recompose Tool (W): The Recompose tool facilitates intelligent resizing of photos without
changing important visual content such as people, building, animals, and more. Recompose enables you
to protect content intelligently during resizing.

Cookie Cutter Tool (Q): The Cookie Cutter tool crops a photo into a shape that you choose. After
you drag the shape in your photo, you can move and resize the bounding box until you have just the
area you want.

Straighten Tool (P): Using the Straighten tool, draw a reference line to straighten the photo. For
example, draw a line along the horizon or an edge to straighten the image along it.

Zoom Tool (Z): If you want to zoom in on an element, select the Zoom tool in the Tools panel and
then click the element. To switch the Zoom tool between zooming in or out, use the Enlarge or Reduce
modifiers.

Elliptical Marquee (M): Makes an elliptical selection.

Magnetic Lasso Tool (L): Helps you draw a selection shape by helping trace certain parts of the
image.

Polygonal Lasso Tool (L): Lets you draw a selection shape line by line.

Selection Brush Tool (A): Lets you draw a selection using brushes.

Magic Wand Tool (A): Moves selections or images.

Healing Brush Tool (J): Helps repair larger areas of damage in images.

Detail Smart Brush Tool (F): Draws with the selected brush shape.

Pattern Stamp Tool (S): Duplicates patterns or patterned images onto another image.

Sharpen Tool (R): Sharpens part of an image.
Smudge Tool (R): Smudges part of an image.

Dodge Tool (O): Lightens part of an image.

Burn Tool (O): Darkens part of an image.

Impressionist Brush Tool (B): Changes parts of the image to look stylized.

Color Replacement Tool (B): Replaces certain colors in parts of your image.

Background Eraser Tool (E): Removes the background behind part of an image.

Magic Eraser Tool (E): Erases all similar pixels in part of an image.

Rectangle Tool (U): Draws a rectangle of color.

Rounded Rectangle Tool (U): Draws a rounded rectangle of color.

Ellipse Tool (U): Draws an ellipse of color.

Polygon Tool (U): Draws a polygon of color.

Star Tool (U): Draws a star shape of color.

Line Tool (U): Draws a line.

Shape Selection Tool (U): Allows the selection and movement of individual shapes.

Vertical Type Tool (T): Inserts text horizontally.

Horizontal Type Mask Tool (T): Creates a mask from horizontal text.

Vertical Type Mask Tool (T): Creates a mask from vertical text.


Text on Selection Tool (T): Add text on the outline of a path created from a selection. When you
commit a selection, the selection is converted to a path on which you can type text.

Text on Shape Tool (T): You can add text to the shapes available in the Text on Shape tool.

Text on Custom Path Tool (T): You can draw and add text along the custom path.