Youve probably been hanging out to get stuck into the very nifty Photoshop toolbox. In this article Ill introduce some of the most frequently used tools found in the toolbox.
Youll notice that some of the tool icons have small black triangles in their bottom right-hand corners. These icons contain hidden treasures! The triangle indicates that there are more related tools available; if you click on the tool icon and hold it down, a flyout menu will appear, displaying the additional tools.
Selection Tools:
You can use the selection tools to select certain areas of your document for editing. If you use a selection tool, only the area thats selected will be affected by any changes you make. You can feather selections (specify a fuzzy radius for them) using the Feather field in the options bar.
Marquee tools (M) are used to create rectangular or elliptical selections, including selections that are single row (one pixel tall, stretching across the entire width of the document) and single column (one pixel wide, tretching through the entire height of the document).
To make single-row or single-column selections, click with the appropriate tool on the...