Adobe Photoshop Tools Guide to beginners Part II

Photoshop tool guide

• Retouching & Painting Tools
• Drawing Tools
• Navigation Tools

• Spot healing brush tool - It helps to remove the minor problems or marks from an image. use the size of the brush slightly larger than marks.
• Healing Brush Tool - It helps to remove the major marks from an image by painting over them. Hold the alt key and click on the good texture.
• Patch Tool - With this tool, you can make a selection outline of marks or problem areas. drag the selected outline area of good texture.
• Content-aware move Tool - With this tool, you can move a selected area to another part over the image. Photoshop automatically fills the original gaps from the surrounding areas using elements.
• Red-eye Tool - It removes the red-eye marks from the eyes to reduce the camera flash impact.
• Brush Tool - With this tool, you can paintbrush strokes on a layer or layer mask.
• Pencil Tool - With the brush tool, you can only brush the soft edge strokes, but the pencil tool will paint the hard edges.
• Color Replacement Tool - with this tool you can replace the color of the object with a different color.
• Mixer Brush Tool - With this tool, you can design images as real as you can mix and combine the colors as per your choice.
• Clone Stamp Tool - With this tool, you can pick sample colors from one area of the image to another area.
• Pattern Sample Tool - with this you can paint the whole pattern over the image.
• History Brush Tool - It paints the previous step of the image into the current version of the image. You can select the previous state from the history panel.
• Art History Brush Tool - You can paint the history state of an image and you can also use Stylized brush stokes.
• Eraser Tool - with this you can permanently erase the pixels from the layer. It can be used in a historical state also.
• Background eraser tool - It helps to erase the similar area of an image by painting over them.
• Magic Eraser Tool - With this, you can select a similar color in area with a single click & delete them permanently.
• Gradient Tool - With this, you can slowly mix the multiple colors. You can enjoy your own customization of colors.
• Paint bucket tool - With this, you can fill a similar area with foreground color or pattern.
• 3D Material Drop Tool - this will help you to take samples from one area to another area f the 3D model.
• Blur Tool - This will help you to blur or soften the areas with paint over the tool.
• Sharpen Tool - it helps to Sharpen the areas you paint over the image.
• Smudge Tool - it helps you to give muddy & dirty paint over the image. you can also put the finger painting effect over the image.
• Dodge Tool - with this tool you can lighten the area of the images where you want to do it.
• Burn Tool - With this tool, you can darken the area of the images where you want to do it.
• Sponge Tool - With this tool, you can increase or decrease the color saturation.

• Pen Tool - It will help you draw the exact proper paths, Vector shapes & Selections.
• Freeform Pen Tool - with this you can draw freehand paths or shapes. It will automatically ads the anchor points to your paths.
• Add Anchor Point Tool - With this tool, you can add additional anchor points along with your path.
• Delete anchor point tool - This tool will help you delete the existing anchor tool.
• Convert Point Tool - with this tool you can convert the smooth point to corner point.
• Horizontal Point Tool - With this tool, you can add your document in standard type.
• Verticle Type Tool - with this tool, you add your document in the top to bottom.
• Horizontal Mask Type Tool - It helps you to create a selection outline of the shape type.
• Path Selection Tool - With this tool, you can select & move the entire complete path instantly.
• Direct Selection Tool - With this tool, you can select & move individual path segments, anchor points.
• Rectangle Tool - with this tool, you can draw a rectangle type shapes. hold the shift key & drag according to your required area.
• Rounded Rectangle Tool - With this tool, you can draw rectangle images with rounded corners. hold the shift key and drag according to your requirement.
• Ellipse Tool - This will help you to draw elliptical shapes or paths. Hold the shift key and drag according to your requirements.
• Polygon Tool - with this you can draw polygonal, straight-edged vector images. You can set the number of sides from the options bar sides option.
• Line Tool - With this, you can draw a straight line. you can adjust the width of the line with the weight option from the option bar.
• Custom Shape Tool - With this tool, you can draw shapes according to your requirements.

• Hand Tool - With this tool, you can drag the image to view different areas of images when image is zoomed in.
• Rotate View Tool - With this, you can rotate the complete image or stage to view & edit the images according to your angles.
• Zoom Tool - with this tool you can zoom in on specific areas.