Bhavik

Hi all,
Sorry for such a long delay, in starting with “My series of Photoshop Tutorials”. I have been very busy lately.Finally I thought to start with pre basic tutorials that will help everyone of us to understand the very basics of photoshop and help catching up with other tutorials very fast.

Basic Tools of Photoshop
Here are the basic and main tools, that will help us in working around with photoshop. Without understanding or learning these tools working on Photoshop is impossible.

Icon	Tool	Key	Purpose		Icon	Tool	Key	Purpose
	Elliptical Marquee	M	Selection Tool - Round shape			Single Row Marquee	-	Selection Tool - Horizontal line
	Rectangular Marquee	M	Selection Tool - Square/ Rectangle shape			Single Column Marquee		Selection Tool - Vertical line
	Lasso	L	Selection Tool - Freehand smooth			Move	V	Transforming, Moving, Adjusting, etc
	Polygonal Lasso	L	Selection Tool - Freehand corners (polygons)			Magic Wand	W	Selection Tool - Threshold depended
	Magnetic Lasso	L	Selection Tool - Freehand (Threshold depended)			Crop	C	Cropping Canvas/ Image
	Slice	K	Slicing tool			Slice Select	K	Slice selection tool
	Healing Brush (Photoshop7)	J	Retouching image			Patch (Photoshop7)	J	Retouching image
	Brush (Paintbrush)	B	Paint brush			Pencil	B	Drawing
	Clone Stamp	S	Clonning			Pattern Stamp	S	Clonning only patterns
	History Brush	Y	Restores to selected history state			Art History Brush	Y	Restores to selected art state
	Airbrush	J	Colour sprayer			Eraser	E	Erasing
	Background Eraser	E	Erasing background			Magic Eraser	E	Erasing - Threshold depended
	Paint Bucket	G	Paint bucket			Gradient	G	Paint - gradients
	Blur	R	Blurring tool - Unfocusing			Sharpen	R	Sharpening - Focusing
	Smudge	R	Smudging			Sponge	O	Color adjustment
	Dodge	O	Tonal adjustment			Burn	O	Tonal adjustment
	Horizontal Type	T	Text/ Type tool			Vertical Type	T	Text/ Type tool
	Horizontal Type Mask	T	Text/ Type tool			Vertical Type Mask	T	Text/ Type tool
	Direct Selection	A	Vector/ Shape selection tool			Path (Component) Selection	A	Vector/ Shape selection tool
	Pen	P	Vector/ Shape drawing tool			Freeform Pen	P	Vector/ Shape drawing tool
	Add Anchor Point	-	Vector/ Shape drawing tool			Delete Anchor Point	-	Vector/ Shape drawing tool
	Convert Point	-	Vector/ Shape modfication tool			Rectangle	U	Vector/ Shape - rectangle shape
	Rounded Rectangle	U	Vector/ Shape - Rounded rectangle shape			Ellipse	U	Vector/ Shape - Ellipse shape
	Polygon	U	Vector/ Shape - Polygon shape			Line	U	Vector/ Shape - Line
	Custom Shape	U	Vector/ Shape - Predefined shapes			Eyedropper	I	Choosing color
	Color Sampler	I	Color information			Measure	I	Geometrical measurements
	Notes	N	Adding notes (non - printable)			Audio Annotation	N	Adding notes (non - printable)
	Hand	H	Navigating			Zoom	Z	Zooming
	Color Selecting box	-	Displays current color			Screen Mode Selector	F	Changes screen mode
	Mode Selector	Q	Mode selector - Masked/ Unmasked			Jump to Image Ready	Shift+ Ctrl+ M	Jumps ‘Adobe Image Ready’ software

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