ASSIGNMENT PHOTOSHOP

1. Rectangular Marquee Tool

Make a rectangular selection. Hold the shift key down to constrain the selection to a
square.

2.Elliptical Marquee Tool

Make an elliptical selection. Hold the shift key down to constrain the selection to a circle.

3.Lasso Tool
This is a freehand selection tool. Click and hold your left mouse button on the image and
draw your selection.

4. Polygonal Lasso Tool

Similar to the lasso tool, except that instead of holding your mouse button down to draw, leftclick on various points to create a selection with a series of straight edges.
It can also hold down the Alt key (Windows) or Option key (Mac OS) to draw freehand
sections.

5. Magnetic Lasso Tool

This is a very handy tool for selecting areas which have reasonably well-defined edges. Leftclick at the starting point of your selection and simply move the mouse along the edge.
"Fastening points" are automatically made at various points along the edges. Left-click at
any time to add a fastening point manually.

6. Magic Wand Tool

The Magic Wand tool allows you to select an area of an image based on its colour. The
tool is located near the top of the Photoshop Toolbox.
When you click an area in an image with the magic wand, all areas which are a similar
colour are selected. You can specify various options to determine the exact selection.
Using the Magic Wand Tool

Select the magic wand tool in the toolbox.

In the options bar, select a Tolerance value (0 to 255). This determines how

closely to match colours - higher tolerance means a larger selection.

Check Anti-aliased to define a smooth edge to the selection.

Check Contiguous to select only areas which are joined together.

Check Use All Layers to select areas from all layers.

Click the image in an area which you want to select

7. Crop Tool
The Crop tool allows you to select an area of an image and discard everything outside this
area. The tool is located third from the top in thePhotoshop Toolbox, on the left side.
Although cropping reduces the dimensions of an image, it is not the same as resizing.
Whereas resizing reduces or enlarges the entire image and everything in it, cropping does
not alter the size of the image content at all.

8. Healing Brush Tool

The Healing Brush tool allows you to fix image imperfections such as scratches,
blemishes, etc. By sampling the surrounding area or using a predefined pattern you can
blend the imperfections into the rest of the image.
The healing brush tool is located in the Photoshop Toolbox, on the left side.

9. Spot Healing Brush Tool

Select the Spot Healing Brush from the Tools panel. You'll find it grouped in with the other
healing tools. If one of the other tools is showing in place of the Spot Healing Brush, click on
the tool and hold your mouse button down for a second or two until a small fly-out menu
appears, then select the Spot Healing Brush from the menu:

10.Patch Tool
The Patch tool works like a combination of the Lasso tool and the Healing Brush
tool.

11. Red Eye Tool

The Red Eye tool in Photoshop removes red eye in flash photos of people and
white or green reflections in flash photos of animals

12. Clone Stamp Tool

Photoshop's clone stamp tool allows you to duplicate part of an image.
The process involves setting a sampling point in the image which will be used as a reference
to create a new cloned area.
Select the Clone Stamp tool
, then check the settings in the options bar. Make sure you
have a brush size appropriate for the job. The following settings are fairly typical:

13. Background Eraser Tool

The Background Eraser can be found nested under the regular Eraser Tool in the Tools
palette.
With the Background Eraser selected, your mouse cursor will change into a circle with a
small crosshair in the center of it:

The Background Eraser's cursor is made up of a simple circle with a crosshair in the middle.

14. Magic Eraser Tool

Photoshop's eraser tool can be found in the second group of icons in the toolbox. It has
three variations: Eraser,Background Eraser and Magic Eraser.
The eraser is basically a brush which erases pixels as you drag it across the image. Pixels
are erased to transparency, or the background colour if the layer is locked.
When you select the eraser tool, you have various options available in the toolbar:

15. Color Replacement Tool

The Color Replacement Tool was first introduced in Photoshop CS, and if
you're using Photoshop CS or CS2, you'll find the Color Replacement Tool
nested under the Healing Brush in the Tools palette. To access it, click and
hold your mouse button down on the Healing Brush until a fly-out menu
appears, then select the Color Replacement Tool from the menu.

In Photoshop CS3, Adobe changed things around a bit and moved the
Color Replacement Tool in with the regular Brush Tool, so if you're using
Photoshop CS3 or CS4 (which is what I'm using here), click and hold your
mouse button down on the Brush Tool, then select the Color
Replacement Tool from the fly-out menu:

16. Blur Tool

Select Photoshop's Burn Tool from the Tools panel, which we're going to use to
darken the paper's edges. By default, it's nested behind the Dodge Tool, so click
on the Dodge Tool's icon and hold your mouse button down for a second or two
until a fly-out menu appears showing the other tools available in that spot, then
select the Burn Tool from the list:

17. Sharpen Tool

Sharpening enhances the definition of edges in an image. Whether your images
come from a digital camera or a scanner, most images can benefit from
sharpening. When sharpening images, keep the following in mind:

Sharpening cannot correct a severely blurred image.

Sharpen your image on a separate layer so that you can resharpen it later
if you need to change the adjustment. Set the layers blending mode to
Luminosity to avoid color shifts along edges. If you find that highlights or
shadows are lessened after you sharpen, use the layer blending controls to
prevent sharpening in highlights and shadows.

18. Burn Tool

Select Photoshop's Burn Tool from the Tools panel, which we're going to use to
darken the paper's edges. By default, it's nested behind the Dodge Tool, so click
on the Dodge Tool's icon and hold your mouse button down for a second or two
until a fly-out menu appears showing the other tools available in that spot, then
select the Burn Tool from the list:

19. Sponge Tool

The sponge tool is an amazing but not a well known tool that is incredibly useful.
It allows you to chose a brush to desaturate or saturate a certain area on a
picture. for those of you who do not known desaturate is to take color away and
to saturate is to add more color or brighten a picture.

20. Pen Tool

Photoshop provides multiple Pen tools. The standard Pen tool draws with the
greatest precision; the Freeform Pen tool draws paths as if you were drawing with
pencil on paper, and the magnetic pen option lets you draw a path that snaps to
the edges of defined areas in your image. You can use the pen tools in
conjunction with the shape tools to create complex shapes. When you use the
standard Pen tool, the following options are available in the options bar:

Auto Add/Delete, which lets you add an anchor point when you click a line
segment or delete an anchor point when you click it.