Introducing Adobe Photoshop

Introducing software Adobe Photoshop, well i'm using adobe CS3.. its much easer then adobe cs4 or adobe cs5, even though its little bit advance but its fun playing with the tools 

Photoshop Toolbox

The Photoshop toolbox is the most important user interface with this complex

program, and includes the primary tools to work with graphics. These include

the tools that let you use type, and select, paint, draw, sample, edit, move,

annotate, and view images. Other tools in the toolbox allow you to change

foreground/background colors, go to Adobe Online by either clicking the

feather Adobe logo at the top of the pallet or by going to File > Adobe

Online

To view the name of a tool button, hold

your mouse pointer over the tool you

want to see, and the name will appear as

a tool tip. (See the image right.) Some

tool buttons have multiple tools

combined into one button. Tool buttons

with multiple tools have a small triangle

in the lower right hand corner of the

button.

The type tool creates type on an image, or selections in the shape of type.

The lasso tools make freehand, polygonal (straight-edged),

and magnetic (snap-to) selections.

The annotations tool makes notes and voice annotations that can be attached to an image.

The spot healing brush tool removes blemishes and other

imperfections in your photos by sampling pixels from

around the retouched area.

The healing brush tool repairs imperfections in a selected

area of an image using a selected sample or pattern.

The patch tool, like the healing brush tool, matches the texture, lighting, and shading of the

sampled pixels to the source pixels. You can also use the patch tool to clone isolated areas of an

image.

The red eye tool fixes red eyes with one click. Set options to adjust pupil size and darkening

amount.

The marquee tools make rectangular, elliptical,

single row, and single column selections.

The brush tool paints brush strokes.

The pencil tool paints hard-edged strokes.

Color replacement tool replaces specific colors in your

image. You can paint over a targeted color with a corrective color.

The slice tool creates slices. (Slices are what allow you to actually split up a larger image in

Photoshop so it loads faster on the internet.)

The gradient tools create straight-line, radial, angle,

reflected, and diamond blends between colors.

The paint bucket tool fills similarly colored areas with

the foreground color.

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 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.

The eyedropper tool samples any color in an image

and sets the foreground (drawing) color to it.

The color sampler tool samples colors in an image and

records them for reference.

The measure tool measures distances, locations, and

angles.

The clone stamp tool paints with a sample of an image.

The pattern stamp tool paints using 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

The magic eraser tool erases solid-colored 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 smudge tool smudges data in an image.

The hand tool moves an image within its window.

The zoom tool magnifies and reduces the view of an image.

The move tool moves selections, layers, and guides.

The magic wand tool selects similarly colored areas.

The crop tool trims images.

Using palettes

Palettes help you monitor and modify images. By default,

palettes appear stacked together in groups. Palettes groups

can be separated by “undocking” a certain palette and

rejoined by “docking” it into a group. Click and drag on the

palette title to move a palette from one group to another.

Displaying palettes

You can display or hide palettes as you work.

On the right in the Options Bar is the palette well. This is a

space where you can keep palettes that you don't use as

frequently or don't want occupying your workspace. It

keeps them easily accessible, but hidden from view until

you need them.

In the default workspace, you should have title tabs for the

Brushes, Tool Presets, and Layer Comps palettes in the

palette well. You can drag other palettes to this area and

they will remain hidden there until you click on the palette

tab to reveal it. When you need access to one of these

palettes, just click on the title tab, and the full palette will

expand below its tab.

To show or hide palettes:

Do one of the following:

• To show or hide all open palettes, the options bar,

and the toolbox, press Tab.

• To show or hide all palettes, press Shift+Tab.

To show or hide one pallet:

Choose Window > then the pallet to hide or show. A

check mark will appear beside palettes that are visible.