The “toolbox” (toolbox)

Here we find an overview of the available “tools” (tools) in Photoshop.

	Move Tool		Pen Tool
	Rectangular Marquee Tool		Horizontal type tool
	Lasso Tool		Path selection tool
	Magic Wand		Rectangle tool
	Crop Tool		Notes tool
	Slice tool		Eyedropper tool
	Spot Healing Brush tool		Hand tool
	Brush tool		Zoom tool
	Clone stamp tool		Foregound and backgroundColor
	History Brush tool
	Eraser tool
	Gradient tool		Edit in Quick Mask Mode
	Blur tool		Change Screen Mode
	Dodge tool

If we click on a button with a downward pointing triangle, it opens a dropdown menu with even more available tools.

Some of these tools are discussed in lessons 65, 66, 67 and 68 and some tools when we actually start using them in a lesson.

The Options Bar

Under the menubar, we find the Options bar.

In this bar, we set the options for the tool selected in the Toolbox, thus these settings and buttons change continuously.

For example, in the above picture we have the Options bar with the Move tool selected.

And options bar below is with the Rectangle tool selected.

When we learn how to use the various “tools” (tools), we can set the options for the selected “tool” (tool) in the options bar.

We can show or hide the Options Bar by clicking “Window” (Window) – “Options” (Options) in the menu bar.

Picture Window

All photos and / or images that we open are inserted in the image window.
The various open photos / images are displayed in their own windows.

To edit a file we must first select the window of the particular photo or image and only then we must select the tool in the toolbox that we want to use for editing.

Guides (Drawing Guides)

We can use different guides to assist us in making changes in our image.
To insert guides, we click “View” – “Rulers” in the menu bar to make the rulers visible.
If we wish to add a horizontal guide, click and drag down the pointer in the top ruler and let go the mouse button when we reach the position on our line.
Ditto for vertical lines, but then we start in the vertical ruler. I think that is logical.
We can always see the position of the guide and move it by placing the mouse pointer over the guide and when it changes into a double arrow, dragging it to another position.

We can always delete a guide by dragging it back into the ruler.

We can use the “zero” of our rulers by clicking and dragging on the top right of the rulers box.

We bring it back to the default position by double clicking in the square.

 

Another tool we can use to place our modifications and / or objects in an appropriate place, is to deploy the “Grid” (Screen).
Click on “View” (View) – “Show” (Show) – “Grid” (Screen) in the menu bar.
To hide the “Grid” (Screen), click the same commands again in the menu bar.

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