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I decided to start at the beginning. The very beginning. For those
people who just “picked up” a copy of Photoshop and have no idea what to
do with it. The keyboard shortcut is in ( ).
Rectangular Marquee Tool (M)
Use this tool to make selections on your image, in a rectangular shape.
This changes the area of your image that is affected by other tools or
actions to be within the defined shape. Holding the [Shift] key while
dragging your selection, restricts the shape to a perfect square.
Holding the [Alt] key while dragging sets the center of the rectangle to
where your cursor started.
Move Tool (V)
Use this tool to, well, move things. Usually you use it to move a Layer
around after it has been placed. Hold the [Shift] key to limit the
movements to vertical/horizontal.
Polygon Lasso Tool (L)
Ok, this should be the Lasso Tool, but I use the Polygon Lasso a lot
more often. Use this to draw selections in whatever shape you would
like. To close the selection, either click on the beginning point
(you’ll see the cursor change when you’re on it), or just double-click.
When holding the [Ctrl] key, you’ll see the cursor change, and the next
time you click, it will close your selection.
Magic Wand Tool (W)
Use this to select a color range. It will select the block of color, or
transparency, based on wherever you click. In the Options Bar at the
top, you can change the Tolerance to make your selections more/less
precise.
Crop Tool (C)
The Crop Tool works similarly to the Rectangular Marquee tool (see above
if you have no short-term memory). The difference is when you press the
[Enter/Return] key, it crops your image to the size of the box. Any
information that was on the outside of the box is now gone. Not
permanently, you can still undo.
Slice Tool (K)
This is used mostly for building websites, or splitting up one image
into smaller ones when saving out. It’s kind of an advanced tool, and
since you’re in here for the basics, we’ll kind of skip over it. Kinda
makes you mad I made you read all that for nothing, huh?
Healing Brush Tool (J)
This is a really useful tool. Mildly advanced. You can use this tool to
repair scratches and specs and stuff like that on images. It works like
the Brush tool (see below). You choose your cursor size, then holding
the [Alt] key, you select a nice/clean area of your image. Let go of the
[Alt] key and paint over the bad area. It basically copies the info
from the first area to the second, in the form of the Brush tool. Only,
at the end, it averages the information, so it blends.
Brush Tool (B)
This is one of the first tools ever. It’s what Photoshop is based off
of. Well, not really, but it’s pretty basic. It paints one your image,
in whatever color you have selected, and whatever size you have
selected. There’s a lot of options for it, but this is basic, so you
don’t get to learn them. Ha.
Clone Stamp Tool (S)
This is very similar to the Healing Brush Tool (see above). You use it
the exact same way, except this tool doesn’t blend at the end. It’s a
direct copy of the information from the first selected area to the
second. When you learn to use both of these tools together in perfect
harmony, you will be a Photoshop MASTA! Not really, it’s just less
irritating.
History Brush Tool (H)
This tool works just like the Brush Tool (see above) except the
information that it paints with is from the original state of your
image. If you go Window>History, you can see the History Palette. The
History Brush tool paints with the information from whatever History
state is selected.
Eraser Tool (E)
This is the anti-Brush tool. It works like an eraser (duh) and erases
whatever information wherever you click and drag it. If you’re on a
Layer, it will erase the information transparent. If you are on the
background layer, it erases with whatever secondary color you have
selected.
Gradient Tool (G)
You can use this to make a gradiation of colors. Gradiation doesn’t
appear to be a word, but it makes sense anyway. It creates a blending of
your foreground color and background color when you click and drag it.
Like a gradient.
Blur Tool (R)
The Blur tool is cool. It makes things blurry. Click and drag to make
things blurry. The more you click and drag, the blurrier things get.
Dodge Tool (O)
This tool isn’t as crappy as the car brand. It’s actually used to
lighten whatever area you use it on. As long as it is not absolute
black. Absolute black won’t lighten.
Path Selection Tool (A)
You use this tool when working with paths. Since this is all about the
basics, I won’t go into details. It’s related to the Pen Tool (see
below) though.
Horizontal Type Tool (T)
It makes type. Or text. Or whatever you want to call it. You can click a
single point, and start typing right away. Or you can click and drag to
make a bounding box of where your text/type goes. There’s a lot of
options for the Type Tool. Just play around, it’s fairly
straight-forward.
Pen Tool (P)
I mentioned this tool above. It’s for creating paths, in which you would
use the Path Selection Tool to select the path. Paths can be used in a
few different ways, mostly to create clipping paths, or to create
selections. You use the tool by clicking to add a point. If you click
and drag, it will change the shape of your path, allowing you to bend
and shape the path for accurate selections and such.
Rectangle Tool (U)
By default it draws a Shape Layer in the form of a rectangle. It fills
the rectangle with whatever foreground color you have selected. It’s
pretty complicated, don’t hurt yourself with this one.
Notes Tool (N)
Like post-it notes, but digital. You can use this tool to add small
little note boxes to your image. These are useful if you’re very
forgetful or if you’re sharing your Photoshop file with someone else.
I’m pretty sure it only works with .PSD files.
Eyedropper Tool (I)
This tool works by changing your foreground color to whatever color you
click on. Holding the [Alt] key will change your background color.
Hand Tool (T)
You can really make short work of your job with the Hand Tool. It’s for
moving your entire image within a window. So if you’re zoomed in and
your image area is larger than the window, you can use the Hand Tool to
navigate around your image. Just click and drag. You can get to this
tool at any time when using any other tool by pressing and holding the
[Spacebar].
Zoom Tool (Z)
Pretty obvious what this tool does. It allows you to zoom into your
image. Don’t be dumb, it doesn’t actually change the size of your image.
Hold the [Alt] key to zoom out. Holding the [Shift] key will zoom all
of the windows you have open at the same time. Double-click on the Zoom
Tool in the palette to go back to 100% view.
BONUS!!
These are your color boxes. Foreground (in the front) and Background (in
the back). Click on either one to bring up the color select dialog box.
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