Summary in Adobe Photoshop (Empowerment Technology)

About the work area

The work area consists of the following components:

Menu bar

The menu bar contains menus for performing tasks. The menus are organized by topic. For example, the
Layers menu contains commands for working with layers.

Options bar

The options bar provides options for using a tool. (See Using the tool options bar.)

Toolbox

The toolbox holds tools for creating and editing images. (See Using the tools.)

Palette well (Photoshop)

The palette well helps you organize the palettes in your work area. (See Using the palette well
(Photoshop).)

Palettes

Palettes help you monitor and modify images. (See Using palettes.)

Using the toolbox

The first time you start the application, the toolbox appears on the left side of the screen. Some tools in
the toolbox have options that appear in the context-sensitive tool options bar. (See Using the tool options
bar.) These include the tools that let you use type, 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, work in different modes, and jump between Photoshop and ImageReady applications.

Toolbox overview (1 of 3)

The lasso tools make

The marquee tools make
The move tool moves freehand, polygonal The magic wand tool
rectangular, elliptical,
selections, layers, and (straight-edged), and selects similarly colored
single row, and single
guides. magnetic * (snap-to) areas.
column selections.
selections.
 The healing brush tool *
paints with a sample or
The crop tool trims The slice tool creates The slice selection tool
pattern to repairs
images. slices. selects slices.
imperfections in a
image.

The patch tool * repairs

imperfections in a The clone stamp tool
The brush tool paints The pencil tool paints
selected area of an image paints with a sample of
brush strokes. hard-edged strokes.
using a sample or an image.
pattern.

The art history brush tool *

The history brush tool *
paints with stylized strokes The magic eraser tool
The pattern stamp tool * paints a copy of the
that simulate the look of erases solid-colored
paints with part of an selected state or snapshot
different paint styles, using areas to transparency
image as a pattern. into the current image
a selected state or with a single click.
window.
snapshot.

Toolbox overview (2 of 3)

The gradient tools create

The eraser tool erases The background eraser The paint bucket tool fills
straight-line, radial *,
pixels and restores parts tool * erases areas to similarly colored areas
angle *, reflected *, and
of an image to a transparency by with the foreground
diamond *, blends between
previously saved state. dragging. color.
colors.
 The sharpen tool
The blur tool blurs hard The smudge tool smudges The dodge tool lightens
sharpens soft edges in
edges in an image. data in an image. areas in an image.
an image.

The path selection tools *

The sponge tool make shape or segment
The burn tool darkens The type tools create type
changes the color selections showing anchor
areas in an image. on an image.
saturation of an area. points, direction lines, and
direction points.

The custom shape tool * The annotation tools *

The type mask tools * The pen tools * let you
makes customized shapes makes notes and audio
create a selection in the draw smooth-edged
selected from a custom annotations that can be
shape of type. paths.
shape list. attached to an image.

Toolbox overview (3 of 3)

The eyedropper tool The measure tool * The zoom tool magnifies
The hand tool moves an
samples colors in an measures distances, and reduces the view of
image within its window.
image. locations, and angles. an image.

The toggle image map The toggle slices

The image map tools § The image map select
visibility tool § toggles visibility tool § toggles
define image map areas tool § selects image
between showing and between showing and
in an image. maps.
hiding image maps. hiding slices in an image.
The preview document The preview in default
tool § previews rollover browser tool § previews
effects directly in animations in a Web
ImageReady. browser.