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1. Rectangular Marquee Tool

Click on the starting point and begin dragging out a rectangular selection
as you normally would, then hold down your Shift key as you continue to
drag. As soon as you press the Shift key, you'll see the selection outline
jump to a perfect square. Keep holding the Shift key down until you're
finished drawing the selection. Release your mouse button to complete the
selection,
then release the Shift key.

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
Dont release your mouse button until
you
complete the selection by returning to the starting point to close the loop.
When you release your mouse button, Photoshop thinks youre done and

closes the selection with a straight line from your endpoint to the starting
point.

4. Polygonal Lasso Tool

Begin by clicking somewhere along the edge of the object or area you
need to select, then release your mouse button .

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Magnetic Lasso Tool

Just hold down your Shift key and press the letter L repeatedly to switch
between them (note that you may not need to include the Shift key
depending on how you have things set up in Photoshop's Preferences).

6. Magic Wand Tool

tool allows you to select an area of an image based on its colour. The tool
is located near the top of the Photoshop Toolbox. When you click an area
in an image with the magic wand, all areas which are a similar colour are
selected. You can specify !arious options to determine the exact selection.

7. Crop Tool
We can click on any of the handles and, with the mouse button held down,
drag them around to resize and reshape the crop box

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

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with the
larger
repair) and
brush
you.

Spot Healing Brush Tool

You simply click on the
blemishes you want to
get rid of (or drag
tool to paint over the
areas you wish to
the spot healing
works out the rest for

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Patch Tool
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

11.Red Eye Tool

The default tool settings should be OK to start with. To use the tool just
click on the red area of the eye. Photoshop can then automatically
calculate how to remove the red cast and darken the

12.Clone Stamp Tool

Point the cursor at the image area you want to paint with, hold down [Alt]
key, then mouse-click. You have just selected the source point for cloning .

13.Background
Eraser Tool
adjust the size of
the circle directly
from your
keyboard just as you can with Photoshop's other brush tools. Press the left
bracket key ( [ ) to make the circle smaller or the right bracket key ( ] )
to make it larger. You can also adjust the hardness of the edges by adding
the Shift key. Press Shift+left bracket ( [ ) to make the edges softer

or Shift+right bracket ( ] ) to make them harder. In general, you'll want

to use hard edges with the Background Eraser, since soft edges can leave
many background artifacts behind

14.

Magic Eraser Tool

Select the Magic Eraser tool .

Do the following in the options bar: Enter a
tolerance value to define 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.
Click in the part of the layer you want to erase .

15.

Color
Replacement Tool

As you drag
the Color
Replacement
Tool over
your image,

Photoshop continuously samples the color that's directly under the target
symbol in the center of the tool's cursor. This is the color that will be
replaced, and it will be replaced with your current Foreground color.

16.

Blur Tool
Open an image
and select the
Blur tool from
the Tools panel.
In the Options bar, specify these settings: Select a brush from the Brush
Preset Picker or the larger Brush panel.
Paint over the areas you want to blur.

17.Sharpen Tool
1. Select the Sharpen tool .
2. Set options in the options bar:
Mode
Determines how the paint that you apply blends with the existing pixels in
the image.
Brush
Sets the brush tip. Click the arrow next to the brush sample, choose a
brush category from the Brushes menu, and then select a brush
thumbnail.
Size
Sets the size of the brush, in pixels. Drag the Size pop-up slider or enter a
size in the text box.
Strength
Specifies the amount of sharpening that occurs with each stroke.
Sample All Layers
Sharpens all visible layers. If this is deselected, the tool sharpens only the
active layer.
Protect Detail
Select Protect Detail to enhance details and
minimize pixelated artifacts. Deselect this
option if you want to produce more
exaggerated sharpening effects
3. Drag over the part of the image you
want to sharpen.

18.Burn Tool
1.
Select the Dodge tool or the Burn tool .
2.
Choose a brush tip and set brush options in the options bar.
3.
In the options bar, select one of the following from the Range
menu:
Midtones
Changes the middle range of grays
Shadows
Changes the dark areas
Highlights
Changes the light areas
4.
Specify the exposure for the Dodge tool or the Burn tool.
5.
Click the airbrush button to use the brush as an airbrush.
Alternatively, select the Airbrush option in the Brush panel.
6. Select the Protect Tones option to minimize clipping in the shadows and
highlights. This option also tries to keep colors
from shifting hue.

19.Sponge Tool
Open an image and select the Sponge tool
from the Tools panel. ...
In the Options bar, make the following
changes: ...
Paint carefully over the areas you want to
saturate or desaturate with color.

20.Pen Tool
1. Select the Pen tool.
2. Position the Pen tool where you want the straight segment to begin, and
click to define the first anchor point (do not drag).
3. Click again where you want the segment to end (Shift-click to constrain
the angle of the segment to a multiple of 45).
4. Continue clicking to set anchor points for additional straight segments.