Give Descriptions of the tools and pic/symbols of the Tools.

1. Rectangular Marquee Tool

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.

2. Elliptical Marquee Tool

Allows us to easily draw oval or circular selections in the shape of a perfect circle.

extremely rounded corners.

3. Lasso tool

The tool allows creating freehand selections.

4. Polygonal Lasso Tool

Use this to draw selections, but its contour is made up of straight segments.

5. Magnetic Lasso Tool

Not need to follow the contour of the object precisely. If the object stands out against

the background the border of the selected area will be traced automatically as you

move the cursor along the object.

6. Magic Wand Tool

This tool selects a consistently colored area. Can set Tolerance in the options palette of the magic Wand Tool. The higher is the value, the more colors will fall into the selected area. The Tolerance value ranges from 0 to 255. At Tolerance equal to 0 the selected area will be represented only by one color ,at Tolerance equal to 255 – all color of the image will be selected, that is the whole image.

7. Crop Tool

The crop Tool works similarly to the Rectangular Marquee tool (see above if you have no

short –term memory). The different 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.

8. Healing Brush Tool

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 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.

9. Spot Healing Brush Tool

Can be used to clone areas from an image and blend the pixels from the sampled area

seamlessly with the target area. The basic principle is that the texture from the sample

area is blended with the color and luminosity surrounding wherever you paint.

10. Patch Tool

When the patch tool is selected, it initially operates in a lasso selection mode that can

be used to define the area to patch from or patch to. For example, you can hold down

the option/Alt key to temporarily convert the patch tool to become a polygonal lasso

tool with which to draw straight line selection edges.

11. Red Eye Tool

If you are not satisfied with the results, change the following options; pupil size:

increase or decrease the area affected.

12. Clone Stamp Tool

This is very similar to the Healing Brush Tool (see above). You see 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.

13. Background Eraser tool

The rubber stamp tool because they both use a sampling technique. In other words,

when click on an image, it samples colors that appear under the crosshair and erases

those colors from within the circular cursor, as you drag it around. Erase the background

from an image while leaving the foreground intact.

14. Magic Eraser Tool

Enter a tolerance value to define the range of colors that can be erased. A low tolerance

eraser pixel within a range of color values very similar to the pixel.

15. Color Replacement Tool

Uses the background swatch as a pre-define sample color.

16. Blur Tool

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.

17. Sharpen Tool

Remove, sets the sharpening algorithm used to sharpen the image. Gaussian blur is the

method used by the unsharp mask filter. Lens blur detects the edges and detail in an

image, and provides finer sharpening of detail and reduce sharpening halos.

18. Burn Tool

This is where light is allowed through specific holes to expose the paper to more light

making it darker. Make areas of an image darker.

19. Sponge Tool

The sponge is a retouching used to alter the saturation of a portion of an image.

Similarly can be used to desaturation or saturate the color where it is applied ta an

image and adjust the exposure. Draw over any of the areas that you want to be

adjusted.

20. Pen Tool

I mentioned this tool above. It’s for creating paths, in which you would use the path

selection tool to select the path. Path 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.