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Tools of Photoshop

By: William Redants, Thu Dec 14th, 2006

Tools of cut and selection.

tool of cut The tool "cut" serves, like its name indicates it, to cut an image. In the bar of tools you can select the resolution and the size of the cut; Later, with the mouse, you draw the "framework" of the new image. You can move this framework to elect the zone on the one that to do the setting and, when be ready, do double click with the mouse for trim.

This tool is very useful to adapt the size of the images to the impression. For example, the standard size is 10 x 15 cm. If in the options of the tool to trim you select these measures will be able to adapt the size of the photography to this format.

selection tool.

selections inside the image. When your have fact a selection inside the image, any tool that your utilize will apply only inside the selection. This is very useful, since normally only you will need to retouch part of the image and, with the selections, the touch results more exact. Several tools of retouch exist, I mentioned how the more simple retouch tools are used.

Selections of framework.

The first one is called "tool of rectangular framework" and serves to do a selection with this form. Only one must do click with the mouse and to drag until obtaining the size that desire. If you maintain tight the key The selection will be regular and will have form of square. The "tool of rectangular framework" has associates other tools that are hidden. One of them is the "tool of elliptic framework", that functions in the same way, but doing a selection in the shape of ellipse, or of circle if the key is utilized at the same time. These tools are very easy to use, but only they are efficient when we have geometric forms.

Magic Wand This tool serves to select zones of a same color or with a tone seemed. It is very useful when in an image a continuous fund appears or a uniform sky but otherwise this tool does not serve of great aid.

Tie Tool The tool of tie serves to draw a selection by hand raised. It is utilized doing click with the mouse and dragging it on the zone that we want to select. To finish a done selection with this tool, is done double click with the mouse.

In the following part we will see the tools of paint and text.

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