Photoshop skills.

The toolbar:

Selection tool: Lets you move items on your page.

Marquee tool: Lets you select areas that are in ready set objects e.g. squares

The lasso tool: Lets you select areas on the page by doing it yourself. (freehand) Several other options including the magnetic lasso which clings to the outside of the area you want to select.

The crop tool: Crops areas of the page/picture. Deletes excess room in an area you don’t want on your page.

Quick selection tool: This tool try’s to select what you want it to select. Selects pixels based on tone and colour.

The slice tool: allows you to create multiple images from one image or a layered Photoshop file.

The spot healing brush: Eliminates imperfections on a picture or on areas of the page.

The brush tool: Lets you draw on the page in specific areas of your choice.

Clone stamp tool: Copy's the exact same pixels so you can fill in areas of the page/picture.

The History Brush: used to selectively restore colour, detail, smoothness and saturation from an earlier point in a picture's history.

Eraser: lets you delete parts of an image.Gradient: Lets you

apply a gradient to a background or image.

Blur tool: Lets you blur parts of a picture, also the smudge tool which smudges areas.

Dodge tool: Brightens the pixels you paint.

Pen tool: Lets you draw on the canvas but fills in the areas you draw which a colour of your choice.

Textbox tool: Lets you apply text to the canvas.

Select tool: Lets you select images/texts on the canvas.

Shape tool: Allows you to draw different shapes on the canvas.

Note tool: allows you to make notes on the canvas.

Eyedropper tool: Lets you to select colours from different parts of an image to use on another. Hand tool: Allows

you to drag areas pictures or texts which re on the canvas into different areas.

Magnifying tool: lets you zoom in and out of specific areas on the document.