Using the Differant Photoshop Tools
Posted on 20. Jul, 2009 by admin in Basic
Photoshop gives us simply the most amazing set of tools for any type of creative graphic work. Showing you what can be done with adobes flag ship product i could easily spend years typing. While i would love to it is not the goal of this mini tutorial. Ill start by letting you explore the extensive tool set tool by tool.
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Using a tool from the tool panel.
The Tools panel—the long, narrow panel on the far left side of the work area— contains all types of tools for you to use, selection tools, painting and editing tools, foreground- and background color selection boxes, and viewing tools. In Photoshop Extended, it also includes 3D tools. You’ll start by using the Zoom tool, which appears in many other Adobe applications, including Illustrator, In Design, and Acrobat.
1 Examine the tool bar to the left. Click the double-arrow button just above the Tools panel to toggle to a double-column view. Click the arrow again to return to a single-column Tools panel and use your screen space more efficiently.
2 Examine the status bar at the bottom of the work area (Windows) or image window (Mac OS), and notice the percentage listed on the far left. This represents the current enlargement view of the image, or zoom level.
A-Zoom level B-Status bar
3 Move the pointer over the Tools panel and hover it over the magnifying-glass icon until a tool tip appears. The tool tip displays the tool’s name (Zoom tool) and keyboard shortcut (Z).
4 Click the Zoom tool as shown above in the Tools panel or press Z to select it.
5 Move the pointer over the image window. The pointer now looks like a tiny magnifying glass with a plus sign (+) in the center of the glass.
6 Click anywhere in the image window. The image enlarges to a preset percentage level, which replaces the previous value in the status bar. The location you clicked when you used the Zoom tool is centered in the enlarged view. If you click again, the zoom advances to the next preset level, up to a maximum of 3200%.
7 Hold down the Alt key (Windows) or Option key (Mac OS) so that the Zoom tool pointer appears with a minus sign (-) in the center of the magnifying glass, and then click anywhere in the image. Then release the Alt or Option key. Now the view zooms out to a lower preset magnification, so that you can see more of the image, but in less detail.
8 Using the Zoom tool, drag a rectangle to enclose the area of the image that includes the headlight.
Note: You can use other methods to zoom in and out. For example, when the Zoom tool is selected, you can select the Zoom In or Zoom Out mode on the options bar. You can choose View > Zoom In or View > Zoom Out. Or, you can type a new percentage in the status bar and press Enter or Return.
The image enlarges so that the area you enclosed in your rectangle now fills the entire image window.
You have now used three methods with the Zoom tool to change the magnification in the image window: clicking, holding down a keyboard modifier while clicking, and dragging to define a magnification area. Many of the other tools in the Tools panel can be used with keyboard combination’s, as well. You’ll have opportunities to use these techniques in various tutorials on this website.
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