1) Rectangular marquee 1a) Elliptical marquee 1b) Single row marquee 1c) Single column marquee2) Lasso 2a) Polygon lasso 2b) Magnetic lasso3) Crop tool4) Healing brush 4a) Patch 5) Clone stamp 5a) Pattern stamp6) Eraser 6a) Background eraser 6b) Magic eraser7) Blur 7a) Sharpen 7b) Smudge8) Path selection 8a) Direct selection9) Pen 9a) Freeform pen 9b) Add anchor point 9c) Delete anchor point 9d) Convert point 9e) Magnetic pen10) Notes 10a) Audio annotation 11) Hand12) Foreground color13) Default colors14)Standard mode15) Screen mode16) Jump to17) Move 18) Magic wand19) Slice 19a) Slice select20) Brush 20a) Pencil 21) History brush 21a) Art history22) Gradient 22a) Paint bucket23) Dodge 23a) Burn 23b) Sponge24) Type tool 24a) Vertical type 24b) Horizontal type mask 24c) Vertical type mask25) Rectangle 25a) Rounded rectangle 25b) Ellipse 25c) Polygon 25d) Line 25e) Custom shape26) Eyedropper 26a) Color sampler 26b) Measure 27) Zoom28) Switch colors29) Background color30) Quick mask mode
Use the links above, or click on the icon’s in the toolbar image, above left, to go to individual tool’s pages. To navigate through this section, once you get to individual tool’s pages, please use the Jump menu that appears on the left side of each page.
Please note that this entire tools section has been updated from a Photoshop 6 version (which was updated from a 5.5 version). Wherever the tool is essentially the same as it was in 6, I have continued to use the screen capture illustrations made using that version. So if you notice cosmetic discrepancies in the options bar, menus or palettes, that’s why. In all instances where features were added or changed, I have made new screen captures.
If you double-click on the little blue band at the very top of the toolbar (in the application, not here on the Web page), it will collapse to show only that blue band and the Adobe eye icon. To reopen the toolbar, double click again on the blue band (not the Adobe icon).
The letter in parenthesis next to each reference number in the illustration is the keyboard shortcut for that tool.
If you have doodled with a tool’s options and want to get back to the default settings, right-click that tool’s icon at the far left end of its options bar (Photoshop 6 users, left-click). Choose either Reset Tool to reset only the current tool, or Reset All Tools to restore default settings to every tool.
Please note that all descriptions, and illustrations featured refer to files which are in Photoshop’s .psd format, and which are in RGB color mode. Other file formats, and color modes may generate different options. Some Photoshop features are not available for images not in .psd format, or RGB color mode. To find what color mode your image is in, choose Image > Mode.
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