To restore the default set-tings to a tool, right-click the thumbnail on the Tool Preset picker located at the left end of the Options bar and choose Reset Tool from the con-text menu.A
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Using the Tools panel
The Tools panel, which is illustrated on pages
104–106, contains 60 tools and a handful of
buttons! Believe it or not, by the end of this book,
you’ll be marginally to intimately familiar with
most of them
To display the Tools panel if it’s hidden, choose
Window > Tools To choose a tool, do one of the
following:
➤ If the desired tool is visible on the Tools panel,
click its icon
➤ To cycle through related tools in the same slot,
Alt-click/Option-click the one that’s visible
➤ To choose a hidden tool, click and hold on the
visible tool, then click a tool on the menu
➤ To select a tool quickly, press its designated
letter shortcut (don’t do this if your cursor
is in type) The shortcuts are shown in the
screen captures on the next three pages The
shortcut for each tool is also listed in its tool
tip onscreen If Use Shift Key for Tool Switch is
unchecked in Edit/Photoshop > Preferences >
General, simply press the designated letter to
cycle through related tools in the same slot (for
example, press L to cycle through the three
Lasso tools) With the Use Shift Key for Tool
Switch option checked, you have to press Shift
plus the designated letter
➤ To use (spring-load) a tool temporarily while
another tool is selected, press and hold down
its assigned letter key (see the sidebar at right)
To learn the function of a tool as you’re using it,
read the brief description (tool hint) at the bottom
of the Info panel If you don’t see the tool hint,
choose Panel Options from the Info panel menu,
then check Show Tool Hints (see page 114)
Before using a tool that you’ve selected, you
need to choose settings for it from the Options
bar at the top of your screen For example, for the
Brush tool, you would choose a brush preset, and
choose diameter, hardness, blending mode, opacity
percentage, and other settings If the Options bar
is hidden, you can display it by choosing Window >
Options (see page 100)
The current Options bar settings for each tool remain in effect until you change them, reset the tool, or reset all tools To restore the default set-tings to a tool, right-click the thumbnail on the Tool Preset picker (located at the left end of the Options bar) and choose Reset Tool from the con-text menu.A Or to reset all tools, choose Reset All Tools from the menu, then click OK in the alert dialog
In Edit/Photoshop > Preferences > Cursors, you can control whether the pointer displays as cross-hairs or as the icon of the current tool or, for some tools, as a circle either the size or half the size of the current brush diameter, with or without the crosshairs inside it (see page 392)
SPRING-LOADING YOUR TOOLS
➤ To quickly access a tool and its Options bar settings temporarily without having to actually click the tool on the Tools panel, hold down its
letter shortcut key For example, say the Brush tool happens to be selected but you want to move
a layer, which requires using the Move tool You would hold down the V key, drag in the document window, then release V Or to access the Zoom tool temporarily, you would hold down the Z key
➤ This process is slightly less effi cient if you want
to access a tool that shares a slot with other tools (as most tools do) In this case, the letter shortcut accesses whichever tool happens to be visible on the Tools panel To make this work, you could plan ahead and select the tools that you want to switch back and forth among before using them
A To access these two commands, right-click the Tool Preset picker thumbnail, which is located at the left end of the Options bar.
*The 3D tools, and the 3D, Actions, Animation, Measurement Log, Notes, and Paths panels aren’t illustrated in this chapter because
they aren’t covered in this book.
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AThe upper part of the Tools panel
Creates rectangular selections Creates oval and circular selections Creates 1-pixel-wide horizontal selections Creates 1-pixel-wide vertical selections
Selects areas that it detects within clearly defined shapes Selects pixels that are similar in color to the one that’s clicked
Crops the image Slices images for optimization (for Web output) Selects slices by clicking
Samples colors from an image Places color sampler (readout) points in an image Measures distances and angles or straightens the image ★
Creates Acrobat-compatible annotations
Applies brush strokes Draws freehand lines Changes colors while preserving textures Simulates traditional paint strokes; allows colors to be mixed and smudged ★
Corrects flaws without sampling Corrects flaws based on a sampled area Corrects flaws based on a selected area Corrects red-eye in portrait photos
Clones imagery within or between documents Stamps patterns
Click on or near this collapse/expand button to toggle the panel’s double-column and single-double-column formats.
Moves a layer, selection, guide, etc.; also functions as a transform tool
Creates freehand selections Creates straight-edged polygonal selections Creates freehand selections that snap to high-contrast edges in an image
Tools panel
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A The midsection of the Tools panel
Lightens pixels Darkens pixels Makes pixels more or less saturated
Creates horizontally oriented editable type Creates vertically oriented editable type Creates horizontal type-shaped selections Creates vertical type-shaped selections
Selects whole vector paths Selects path segments and points
Draws curved or straight-edged shapes or paths Draws freehand shapes or paths
Adds anchor points to a path Deletes anchor points from a path Converts corner anchor points into curve points, and vice versa
Creates rectangular shape layers or paths Creates rounded-corner shape layers or paths Creates oval shape layers or paths
Creates polygonal shape layers or paths Creates straight-line shape layers or paths Creates layers or paths from custom shapes
Creates soft blends of two or more colors Fills similarly colored areas by clicking
Erases imagery by clicking or dragging Erases a sampled color to transparency Erases similarly colored pixels by clicking
Blurs edges Sharpens edges Smudges colors
Restores pixels from a History state or snapshot Paints a history state or snapshot in stylized brush strokes
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Use the tool tip to learn
a tool name or shortcut.
GETTING INFO ON PHOTOSHOP FEATURES
➤ If you’re unsure what an icon signifi es, what a menu is
called, or what a panel or dialog feature or tool does, you
may get the information you need from the tool tip Let the
pointer hover on the feature in question without clicking
the mouse button, and a tip pops up onscreen (For this to
work, Show Tool Tips must be checked in Edit/Photoshop >
Preferences > Interface.)
➤ Some dialogs (such as Edit > Color Settings) have a
Description area that contains information about the option
your pointer is currently hovering over
➤ Keep an eye on the Info panel for color breakdown
readouts, document data (e.g fi le size, color profi le,
dimen-sions, resolution), and tool hints (ways to use the currently
selected tool) See page 114
➤ Use the Histogram panel to monitor changes to the
tonal ranges in an image as you apply color and tonal
adjustments See pages 203–204
Puts the document into a mode in which a selection displays as a mask and can be edited using brush strokes; when this button is clicked again, the mask is converted back to a selection
Displays and lets you change the current Foreground and Background colors
Resets the Foreground color to black and the Background color to white
Swaps the current Foreground and Background colors
Changes the document zoom level
A The lower part of
the Tools panel
Moves a magnified image in the document window Rotates the image in the document window temporarily (see page 93)
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Adjustments panel
Unlike commands that are applied via the Image >
Adjustments submenu, adjustment layers don’t alter
image pixels until you merge them with their
under-lying layers They are a great mechanism for trying
out color and tonal adjustments, because you can
edit their settings and delete them at any time Plus,
adjustment layers automatically have a layer mask
By editing the mask, you can hide or reveal the
adjustment effect in specific areas of the image
Using the Adjustments panel, you can easily
create and edit the settings for adjustment layers
The panel also lets you restore the default settings to
any adjustment; hide and show the adjustment effect;
view the previous adjustment state; or, in a
multi-layered document, clip (limit) the adjustment effect
to just the underlying layer See Chapters 12 and 13
BUTTONS ON THE ADJUSTMENT PANEL
Invert Posterize Gradient
Map
Selective Color Threshold
Vibrance Hue/
Saturation Black & White
Channel Mixer
Photo Filter Color
Balance
Brightness/
Contrast Levels Curves Exposure
Clip to Layer Expanded View/Standard
View toggle for the panel
Adjustment buttons for creating adjustment layers
Clip Adjustment
Layer
Expanded View/
Standard View
toggle
Return to
Adjustment
List
Toggle Layer Visibility
The panel menu
Press
to View Previous State Reset to Adjustment Defaults
Delete Adjustment Layer
The controls for
a Black & White adjustment layer are displaying on this Adjustments panel.
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of a brush stroke made with the currently selected tip and settings See Chapter 15
➤ This panel can be opened from the Window menu; by clicking the Brush Panel button
on the Brush Presets panel (see the following page); or when a tool that uses a brush is selected, by clicking the Toggle Brush Panel button on the Options bar.★
Brush panel
You’ll use the Brush panel to choose brush tips and
create custom brushes for many tools, such as the
Art History Brush, Blur, Brush, Burn, Clone Stamp,
Dodge, Eraser, History Brush, Mixer Brush, Pattern
Stamp, Pencil, Sharpen, or Smudge tool Using this
panel, you can also choose options for a graphics
tablet and stylus
Click an options set name on the left side of
the panel to display settings on the right At the
bottom of the panel, the preview shows an example
Brush stroke preview
Open Preset Manager ★
Bristle Brush Preview ★
New Brush
Show the Brush
Presets panel ★
Activate
and access
option sets
Numeral indicating the default diameter
of the tip, in pixels
Bristle Qualities options (available only when a bristle tip is selected) ★
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Brush Presets panel ★
Use the Brush Presets panel to store, display, and
choose from an assortment of predefined and
user-created brush presets You can also use this panel
to change the size of any brush preset temporarily,
and to save a custom brush as a new preset
Via buttons on the panel, you can turn the
Bristle Brush preview on or off and quickly access
the Preset Manager dialog This panel can be
opened from the Window menu or by clicking
the Brush Presets button on the Brush panel See
page 260
USING THE BRUSH PRESET PICKER
Brush presets can also be chosen from the Brush
Preset picker, a pop-up panel that opens from
the Options bar (shown below) Commands for
loading, appending, and saving brushes and
brush libraries are available on the Brush Presets
panel menu and the Brush Preset picker menu
Open Preset Manager
Open or close the Brush panel
Bristle Brush Preview (on/off)
New Brush
Delete Brush
Brush Diameter
Brush presets
The Bristle Brush preview displays a schematic of the current bristle tip and the set-tings you have chosen for it.
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Character panel
You can choose attributes for the type tools from
either the Character panel, which is shown below,
or the Options bar (see page 100) Open this panel
from the Window menu, or when a type tool is
selected, by clicking the Toggle Character and
Paragraph Panels button on the Options bar See
Chapter 20
Channels panel
The Channels panel displays a list of, and the
thumbnails for, all the color channels in an image
To show an individual channel in the document
window, click the channel name or press the
keystroke listed on the panel To redisplay the
composite image (all the channels), such as RGB
or CMYK, click the topmost channel on the panel,
or press Ctrl-2/Cmd-2 (See pages 2–3.)
You can also use this panel to save and load
alpha channels (which are saved selections) See
page 160 And you can use it to create and store
spot color channels, which commercial print
shops use to produce individual color plates for
predefined ink colors, such as PANTONE inks
Visibility icon for showing
or hiding the channel
Load Channel
as Selection
Save Selection
as Channel
Channel Delete New
Channel
A user-created alpha channel
A user-created spot color channel
Font family
Text color Horizontal scale
Font size
Kerning
Vertical scale
Baseline shift
Type styles
Language Anti-aliasing
method
Leading Font style
Tracking
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Clone Source panel
The Clone Source panel lets you keep track of up
to five different sources (documents) when cloning
pixels with the Clone Stamp tool The sources are
represented by a row of buttons at top of the panel
You can also use this panel to hide, show, and control
the opacity and mode of the clone overlay, and flip,
scale, rotate, invert, or reposition the source pixels
before or while you clone them See pages 248–249
Five clone sources
Horizontal offset
Flip Horizontal and Flip Vertical ★
Vertical offset
Horizontal and Vertical Scale
Blending mode for the overlay
Display the clone source as an overlay
Reset transform Rotate the clone source
Hide the overlay while cloning
Display the overlay within the brush cursor
Invert the overlay
Color panel
The Color panel is one of several mechanisms that
Photoshop provides for mixing colors Choose a
color model for the sliders or color ramp from the
panel menu, then either mix a color using the sliders
or quick-select a color by clicking the color ramp
To open the Color Picker (or the Color Libraries
dialog, from which you can also choose colors),
click once on the Foreground or Background color
square on the Color panel if it’s already selected
(has a black border), or double-click the square if
it’s not selected Colors are applied by painting and
editing tools, such as the Brush and Pencil tool, and
by some commands, such as Edit > Fill and Image >
Canvas Size See page 188
Background color square Foreground color square
Warning that the current color
is outside the printable gamut
Color ramp
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Histogram panel
While a file is being edited or while the
Adjustments panel is being used, the Histogram
panel provides valuable feedback in the form of a
graph of either the current light and dark (tonal)
values in the image or its current and modified
tonal values
Via the Channel menu, you can choose to have
the panel display data about the composite
chan-nel (combined chanchan-nels) or just a single chanchan-nel
You can also expand the panel to display a
separate histogram for each channel (as is shown
at right) See pages 203–204
Source channel for the graph
Source of the pixel data (all layers or just the currently selected layer)
Uncached Refresh
Displays the histogram using uncached data