People complained about how the wiki wasn't up to date for the Microsoft Word test. So we have to get the pages for photoshop into the wiki so that we can study for the test that it bound to be coming up in a while.
Everyone is responsible for knowing everything that we learn in photoshop, but everyone also has to be responsible for a function on photoshop and making a page on the wiki.
Here is a quick review of the tools that are on the toolbar on the left of your page.
Elliptical Marquee Tool: You can use this tool to select a certain area on your image. You have an option of choosing from a circular, oval, or rectangular shaped selector. Lets say you want to colour in a part of your image without getting the colour on the rest of the picture. So what you do is select the kind of shape you want, select the area and make any changes to it. Once you have finished, you can turn off the selecting by clicking Ctr+D.
Move tool: If you have inserted a picture, object, or text into your image and you want to move it around to the area you want, you select the move tool, which looks like an arrow, and you can move it around.
Lasso Tool: Lets say you want to have two of the same shape in your picture. So the first thing you think of is copy the shape in your picture and pasting it somewhere else. Here's a tool that will almost guarantee a perfect replica of the shape you have selected. You use the lasso tool to select the outsides of the shape/image that you want a replica of. What the lasso tool does is that it makes sure that it can get the edges of the shape as perfectly as it can so that its copy will look almost alike.
feather tool- softens your selection
when you change your feather to 20, and you want to do that to the picture, then it will make your picture kind of soft.
Magic Wand Tool: lets say you want to choose all the pixels in the picture that are the same colour or ten steps away, then you would select the pixel you want and it will highlight all the pixels in the screen that are the same colour. Contiguous means touching.
Crop Tool: The crop tool is very handy when you want a certain part of your picture taken out of a final copy. You can do this by going to the crop tool and selecting an area in which you want taken out. Let's say you want to put a picture on the Internet, and you choose the size of the picture you want. Once you have chosen the size of your picture, then go to the crop tool to crop your picture, the tool will be a square and it will be the same size that you selected. And when you print it, it will be the same size that you selected.
Type Tool: The type tool is handy when you want to amaze your friends by putting words onto your picture. You simply go to the type tool and select an area in which you want your text to appear on.
Polygon Tool: Now having a simple picture isn't enough to dazzle a group of friends. So the next best thing is to add different shapes to your picture. All you need to do is go to the polygon tool and select the shapes you want into your picture. Keep in mind that these shapes are not hearts and stars but only polygons of different sizes and colours.
Gradient Tool: What this tool does is that it creates a blend between two colours. So if you have an area that is blank and is in between two shades of colours, you can colour in that blank area with a combination of both colours.
Airbrush Tool: This creates an airbrush effect. Sort of like a soft look to the picture but not entirely visible. It more or less blends in with the picture to make it look more natural, although only if you use the right amount, then it would look very fake and airbrushed.
Paintbrush Tool: As you can probably tell from the name of the tool, it is used like a paintbrush. Most of the things you do in Photoshop require you to use the paintbrush tool. It is kind of like a pencil that you would normally use to do everything with. Also, don't forget that you can change the size of the brush and the effect it has on the picture. For instance, you can make it soft light, hard edges, hard light, dissolve and many more.
Paint Bucket Tool: You have a blank area and you want to fill it in. What tool do you use? Paint Bucket tool. This is used to fill in an area with the colour you have selected.
Eraser Tool: Out of all the functions, I think this one is the most obvious. Yes, it is the eraser tool. But don't be tricked, there are three different erasers you can use. The normal eraser tool. You use it to erase a part of your picture. Background eraser tool is used for erasing things only in the background. And the Magic eraser, which uses tolerance to erase everything within the amount of tolerance you have put into it.
Impression Brush: It is very similar to the paintbrush but instead it adds an impression to the image. For example, you can make your picture look like it has been pencil drawn or painted.
Blur Tool: The blur tool is used to blur any part of your picture that you chose. In my opinion, i think that this is a very useful tool for when you have text on a picture you have selected off the Internet, and you want to erase the text. There are a few ways in which you can do this, but you can use the blur tool to blur the text and then o over it with the same color.
Sharpen Tool: This sharpens your image by increasing the contrast between the image. Though keep in mind that if you have taken a picture and your hands have shaken and you are planing on sharpening it, make sure you use it to some extent or it will look fake.
Sponge Tool: This softens your picture and blends all the colours in with each other. Lets say someone in your picture looks mad but they really aren't, you can use this icon to soften their look.
Smudge Tool: Don't get this wrong with the sponge tool. They are totally different. This tool smudges your image and makes it look out of proportion if you have used too much.
Red Eye Tool: Oh man! Another picture with red eyes for everyone. How do you fix this? Go to the red eye tool, and go to the place that is red and click on it once. It will make the red eye look darker.
Dodge Tool/Burn Tool: The doge tool lightens an image. It is used for highlights for some one's hair. The burn tool makes you look darker.
Clone Stamp Tool: This is used to make clones of an object. You can make as many as you want. Just click Alt+Click.
Eye Dropper: You can use this tool to select a colour in your image and use that colour to colour in the rest of your picture and it will look almost the same.
Hand Tool: This tool moves the objects on your picture around.
Zoom Tool: This is pretty straight forward too. You use this tool to zoom into or out of a picture.
That's everything!
Bye.
- Peggy .
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