Look in the Options bar to see a variety of options you can change.Ī. In this exercise, you will have the opportunity to use the new-and-improved Brush tool and change its options to become even more powerful.ġ With the ps0201_work.psd image open, select the Brush tool ( ). With the selection of most tools comes the opportunity to change options.
Accessing Photoshop tools and their options
Keep the Tools panel set to whichever format works best for you. Click on the double arrows again to bring the Tools panel back to the default, single-column view. Click on the double arrows in the gray title bar area above the Tools panel to bring the Tools panel into the two-column view. The Tools panel is in a space-saving, one-column format. Increases and decreases the relative size of the view.Ĭan't tell the tools apart? You can view tooltips that reveal a tool's name and keyboard shortcut by positioning your cursor over the tool. You can dock it again by dragging it back to the left side of the workspace release when you see the blue vertical bar appear. You can create a floating Tools panel by clicking on the gray title bar at the top of the Tools panel and then dragging it to a new location. Paints with the selected state or snapshot.Įrases pixels-or reverts to a saved history state. Makes freehand, polygonal (straight-edged), and magnetic selections. Makes rectangular, elliptical, single row, and single column selections. Photoshop tools for Selection, Cropping, and Measuring Selection, cropping, and measuring tools. At the bottom of the Tools panel you find Set foreground color and Set background color, as well as Quick Mask.Ī. There are four main groups of tools, separated by functionality on the Tools panel: selection, cropping, and measuring retouching and painting drawing and type and navigation. When you start Photoshop, the Tools panel appears docked on the left side of the screen-by default it is not a floating Tools panel, as it was in earlier versions of Photoshop. Photoshop Tutorial: Discovering the Tools panel in Photoshop CS6