If you click with the Path Selection Tool on a path, you will select the entire path whereas if you click with the Direct Selection Tool on a path, you will select only a point or a handle bar. These tools are designed to manipulate and select paths. Path Selection Tool, Direct Selection Tool You can change the font, size and other settings in the Options Panel. With one of these two tools selected, simply click anywhere in your document and start typing. Horizontal and Vertical Type tools allow you to add text to your images. Horizontal Type Tool & Vertical Type Tool The Pen Tool allows you to create vector shapes as well as make selections. The Blur Tool and the Sharpen tool both do one thing in common which is – they blur and sharpen respectively.ĭodge Tool lightens and Burn Tool darkens while in the same time increasing contrast. The Gradient Tool allows you to create a gradient from the background and foreground colors. If you click with Paint Bucket Tool on a picture, it will fill the area with the foreground color. The Magic Eraser Tool looks and acts a lot like the Magic Wand Tool but instead of selecting pixels, it deletes them. The Background Eraser Tool is like the Color Replacement Tool but instead of replacing the color, you erase it. The Eraser Tool allows you to delete pixels from a pixel layer or a layer mask. This is an important tool but it all depends on your workflow.Įraser Tool, Background Eraser Tool, Magic Eraser Tool The History Brush Tool allows you to paint on a new layer from a previous state of your image.
#Photoshop 2013 toolbar skin
It is very useful for creating new content based on an existing one and removing skin imperfections or undesired objects. It clones areas from one part of the image in other parts. The Clone Stamp Tool has a lot of uses and if you are doing photo manipulations, this is a tool you should use. The Color Replacement Tool allows you to replace one color with another. The Pencil Tool is basically a downgraded version of the Brush tool. Holding Shift while pressing the bracket keys allows you to increase/decrease the hardness of the brush. Clicking the left bracket key decreases the size of the brush while the right bracket key increases the size. The shortcut for this tool is the bracket keys. You can use it to paint with pixels over your image. The Brush tool is probably the most used tool in the Toolbar panel. The Red Eye Tool requires you to select an iris with a red eye problem and it attempts to remove the redness in the pupil.īrush Tool, Pencil Tool, Color Replacement Tool
#Photoshop 2013 toolbar Patch
The Patch Tool is very useful for seamless blending of skin. The Healing Brush Tool is the same as the Spot Healing Brush Tool except it requires you to set a sample point. You simply find the skin imperfection you want to remove and click on it. The Spot Healing Brush Tool is the easiest to use. These tools are very important if you are doing a lot of facial retouching. Spot Healing Brush Tool, Healing Brush Tool, Patch Tool, Red Eye Tool Set the Sample Size in the option bar first and then hold Shift and left click while using the Eyedropper tool to access the Color Sampler Tool and create a new color sampler. If you are doing color correction in an image, the Eyedropper Tool is your best choice. The Slice Tool and Slice Select Tool are mainly for Web Designers and have very few uses for regular uses. The cropping is best done at the end of the editing process. Click, drag and press Enter to crop your image. The Crop Tool allows you to crop your images to the desired size. The Magic Wand Tool is a nice little tool that has its uses from time to time as well.Ĭrop Tool, Slice Tool and Slice Select Tool If you start painting with this brush inside of an object, you will quickly select it. Quick Selection tool has the advantage of being, as the name suggests, quick. This is a recommended tool for beginners. The Magnetic Lasso Tool has the most precision of all the tools in the group. The Polygonal Lasso tool is a bit more precise, allowing you to create a selections formed by straight lines. The Lasso Tool is used for making freehand selections. Lasso Tool, Polygonal Lasso Tool and Magnetic Lasso Tool The Rectangular Marquee Tool is used for making rectangular selections and the Elliptical Marquee tool is used for making elliptical selections. Rectangular Marquee Tool & Elliptical Marquee Tool You can move text, layer masks, normal layers, selected areas. Move tool is used for moving pixels on the screen. The shortcut is given on the right of the tool name. All the tools in the toolbar have shortcuts assigned to them.
#Photoshop 2013 toolbar how to
You need to know these toolbar so that you know how to photo edit. In this tutorial, we will give you a quick introduction to the Photoshop toolbar.