Secondary Step

This is the Photoshop Main Toolbar:

Tools (For selection and editing)			Color Control Tool (for applying color and editing)
1.	Rectangular Marquee Tool	1.	Foreground Color Tool
	Elliptical Marquee Tool
	Single Row Marquee Tool
	Single Column Marquee Tool (M)
	(Right click on the icon for showing all sub tools)
2.	Lasso Tool (L)	2.	Background Color Tool
	Polygonal Lasso Tool (L)
	Magnetic Lasso Tool (L)
3.	Crop Tool (C)	3.	Switch Colors Tool (D)
4.	Healing Tool (J)	4.	Default Color Tool (X)
	Patch Tool (J)
	Color Replacement Tool (L)
5.	Clone Stamp Tool (S)
	Pattern Stamp Tool (S)
6.	Eraser Tool (E)		View Mode Icon (for changing screen view or outlook)
	Background Eraser Tool (E)
	Magic Eraser Tool (E)
7.	Blur Tool (R)	1.	Standard Mode (Q)
	Sharpen Tool (R)
	Smudge Tool (R)
8.	Path Selection Tool (A)	2.	Quick Mask Tool (Q)
	Direct Selection Tool (A)
9.	Pen Tool (P)	3.	Standard Screen Mode (F)
	Freeform Pen tool (P)
	Add Anchor Point tool
	Delete Anchor Point tool
	Convert Pont tool
10.	Notes Tool (N)	4.	Full Screen with Menu Bar Mode (F)
	Audio Annotation Tool (N)
11.	Hand Tool (H)	5.	Full Screen Mode (F)
12.	Move Tool (V)	6.	Jump To (Shift + Ctrl + M)
13.	Magic Wand Tool (W)
14.	Slice Tool (K)
	Slice Select Tool (K)
15.	Pencil Tool (B)
	Brush Tool (B)
16.	History Brush Tool (Y)
	Art History Brush Tool (Y)
17.	Gradient Tool (G)
	Paint Bucket Tool (G)
18.	Dodge Tool (O)
	Burn Tool (O)
	Sponge Tool (O)
19.	Type Tool (T)
20.	Shape Tool (U)
21.	Eyedropper Tool (I)
22.	Zoom Tool (Z)

Note: Right click on the icon for showing all sub tools.

Photoshop tools:

Photoshop software has many tools to edit photo/image and any work perfectly. Without knowledge of Photoshop tools, none will perform any work perfectly in Photoshop. Therefore, it is very important to learn Photoshop perfectly.

Tools Explanation:

1. Marquee tools:

Marquee tools are described below.

  RectangularMarquee tool:

  Elliptical Marquee Tool:

  Single Row Marquee tool:

  Single Column Marquee tool:

2.Lasso tool, Polygonal Lasso tool and Magnetic Lasso tool :

3.Crop Tool:

4. Healing Brush, Patch Tool and Color Replacement tools:
5.  Clone Stamp tool and Pattern stamp tool:

6. Eraser tool, Background Eraser tool and Magic Eraser tool:

7. Blur tool, Sharpen tool and Smudge tool:

8. Path selection tool and Direct Selection tool:

9. Pen tool:

10. Note tool and Audio Annotation tool:

11. Hand tool:

12. Move tool:

13. Magic Wand Tool:

14. Slice and Slice selection tools:

15. Pencil and Brush tools:

16. History Brush tool and Art History Brush tool:

17. Gradient and Paint Bucket tools:

18. Dodge tool, Sponge tool and Burn tool:

19. Type tools:

20. Shape tool

21. Eyedropper tool

22. Zoom tool


Click here to know Photoshop up-grade version’s tools .

Adobe Photoshop CS 5 and 6 version’s tools are given below:

1. Mixture Brush tool

2. Quick Selection tool

3. Red Eye tool

4. Rotate View tool

5. Ruler tool/Measure tool

6. Spot Healing Brush tool

7. Perspective Crop tool

8. Content-Aware Move tool