How to Use Adobe Photoshop Basic Tools

How to Use Adobe Photoshop Basic Tools: Photoshop is so powerful that it has actually become a verb! Photoshop is one of the best known software applications on earth, and has a reputation for
being hard to learn. However, I am going to make it easy for you to learn. Using Photoshop CS6, we'll show you the basics, and how to keep moving forward.
Read: How to send money to Nigeria from US using wave for free

How to Use Adobe Photoshop Basic Tools.

1. 1. 1. 1. Launch Photoshop. In case you do not currently own Photoshop, you can download a free trial version at Adobe.com web site. Then, on the right side of the page, click on the Try It button. You can get a 30-day, fully-functioning trial to check if Photoshop is right for you.
         2. Open a document. Command+ click (Windows: Ctrl+click) to open a sample picture in a new tab. Drag the photo to the desktop, and open up that image in Photoshop.
         3. Select the Marquee tool (M). You can do this by clicking on the icon, or by typing the letter M. The Marquee tool is the most basic of all tools. It is actually something you are already familiar with; virtually every application and operating system selects things the same way i.e. click and drag to select a region of the screen.
            1. Clicking and holding on the Marquee icon will give you a small popup menu where you can select the variations; Rectangular marquee (the default), Elliptical marquee and a single-pixel marquee for both horizontal and vertical.
            2. For a start, select the Rectangular marquee, place your cursor somewhere in the upper left of the image, then click and drag the mouse. You will see the selection expand, with the pixel values to the right of the selection. Drag towards the center, until the values are roughly W: 300 H: 200, then release the mouse button.
            3. Click and hold in the middle of the selection, and move the cursor, so that the selection moves with you.
               From here, you can copy the selection, move it, apply filters to it, in fact, pretty much anything you can do in Photoshop starts with a selection.
         4. Select the Lasso Tool (L). Just like the Marquee tool, the Lasso is used to make a selection. However, with the Lasso tool, you can make a free form selection. The variants include the Polygonal Lasso tool, and the Magnetic Lasso tool. Select the basic Lasso tool, and try it out.
            1. Click and hold the mouse button, then draw a selection around the small white sailboat that is left of center in the window. When you get to the bottom, release the mouse button for the selection to auto-complete. Now press Command-D (Control-D on a PC). This will deactivate the selection.
            2. Press Shift-L. This will change the cursor to the Polygonal Lasso Tool. (Shift plus the tool shortcut will cycle through the other related tools). Notice the black arrow on the top left of the Polygonal Lasso cursor, that is where the click point is.
            3. Click only once, anywhere on the image. Notice as you move your mouse, the starting point remains pinned, and a dashed line extends towards the cursor. Click again, and that next point becomes pinned. You can continue clicking until your selection is complete, as simple as a triangle, or as complex as you like. When you reach your last click point, double click instead of single click, and the polygon will automatically close.
            4. Press the Escape key at any time to cancel the selection in progress.
            5. Press Shift-L again. This selects the Magnetic Lasso. Like the lasso tools, the click point is the black pointer in the upper left of the cursor.
            6. Try this: click and hold the mouse button with the cursor pointing at the water line of the bow (front) of the boat, and drag around the boat slowly. Notice as you drag, the selection actually snaps to the boat as you move!
            7. At the top of the Photoshop window, you will see some tool modifiers: Feather, Anti-alias, Width, Contrast, and Frequency. As you advance, try each of these and see what effect they have on your selections. Hover over any interface element to see tool tips for that particular tool or setting.
         5. Select the Quick Selection tool (W). This is the advanced version of the Magic Wand tool that is still available as an alternate tool.
            See also: Sickle Cell Treatment Hospital in Nigeria
            1. Try this; click and hold on the tan house in the middle of the picture. While holding the mouse, drag to the left or the right, "scrubbing" the house with the cursor. Notice how the selection grows as you do this. Make sure you select the roof, balcony, and all the rest of the house is selected. When done, you may notice that some of the shrubbery is selected, too:
               There are two ways to eliminate the shrubbery with the Quick Selection tool. The first is to select the Subtract version of the tool.
            2. The other way to subtract from the selection is to simply press and hold the Option (Alt) key, which temporarily switched the tool to the subtracting version.
            3. Either way, click and drag slightly on the offending shrubbery, and it will be deselected: You can adjust the sensitivity of the selection by adjusting the size. The larger the size, the more will be selected. Try it out: click the standard Quick Selection tool, set the size to 100, then try selecting the house again. I hope we have been able to Show you How to Use Adobe Photoshop Basic Tools, for more information, please leave a comment.

Read: Phones with Wireless Charger | Samsung - iPhones