Sucheta's Blog: Photoshop Tools

When you start Photoshop, the Tools panel appears at the left of the screen.
Some tools in the Tools panel have options that appear in the context-sensitive options bar.
Using the small triangle at the right of the tool icon signals you can see the hidden tools.
You can view information about any tool by positioning the pointer over it. The name of the tool appears in a tool tip below the pointer.

Selection Tools

Move Tool: Move tool allows you to move objects. Usually it is used to move layers around after it has been placed.

Marquee Tool: The marquee tools make rectangular, elliptical, single row, and single column selections.

Lasso Tool: The lasso tools make freehand, polygonal (straight-edged), and magnetic (snap-to) selections.

Magic Wand Tool: The Magic Wand tool selects similarly colored areas.

Crop and Slice Tools

crop Tool: It helps you to cut the area of graphics which you want to crop.

Slice Tool: Through this tool you can frankly slice the page and design the wonderful menu, sidebar, button, header etc.

Measuring Tools

Eyedropper Tool: It is a greatest color picker tool. Through this you can pick a color of any pixel from the narrow places as your requirement.

Color Sampler Tool: The Color Sampler tool displays color values for up to four areas.
Count Tool: Used to count the objects in image.

Retouching Tools

Spot Healing Brush: It used to remove blemishes and objects.

Healing Brush Tool: The healing brush tool points with a sample or pattern to repair imperfection in a image.

Patch Tool: It repairs imperfection in a selected area of an image using a sample or pattern.

Red Eye Tool: Remove the red reflection caused by a flash.

Clone Stamp Tool: It points with a sample of an image.

Pattern Stamp Tool: It points with part of an images as a pattern.
Eraser Tool: Erase pixels and restores part of an image to a previously saved state.
Background Eraser: It erases areas to transparency by dragging.
Magic Eraser Tool: It erases solid-colored areas to transparency with a single click.
Blur Tool: It blurs hard edges in an image.

Sharpen Tool: It will sharpen soft edges in an image.
Smudge Tool: Smudges data in an images.

Dodge Tool: This tool used to lightens areas in an image.

Burn Tool: It darkens areas in an image.

Sponge Tool: Changes the color saturation of an area.

Painting Tools

Brush Tool: It paints the brush stroke.
Pencil Tool: It paints hard edges strokes.
Color Replacement Tool: It used to replaces a selected color with a new color.

Mixer Brush Tool: Simulates realistic painting techniques such as blending canvas colors and varying paint wetness.
History Brush Tool: It paints a copy of the selected state or snapshot into the current image window.
Art History Brush Tool: It paints with stylized strokes that simulate the look of different paint styles, using a selected state or snapshot.
Gradient Tool: It create straight-line, radial, angle, reflected, and diamond blends between colors.

Paint Bucket Tool: It fills similarly colored areas with the foreground color.

Drawing and Type Tools

Path selection Tools: Used to make shape or segment selections showing anchor points, direction lines, and direction points.

Type Tools: Used to create text on an image.
Type Mask Tools: Used to create a selection in the shape of type.
Pen Tool: It let you draw smooth-edged paths.
Shape Tools and Line Tool: Used to draw shapes and lines in a normal layer or a shape layer.
Custom Shape Tool: It makes customized shapes selected from a custom shape list.