1. Photoshop skills.

2. The toolbar:
Quick selection tool:
This tool try’s to
select what you want Selection tool: Lets you
it to select. Selects move items on your page.
pixels based on tone
and colour. Marquee tool: Lets you
select areas that are in
The crop tool: ready set objects e.g.
Crops areas of the squares
page/picture.
Deletes excess The lasso tool: Lets you select areas
room in an area on the page by doing it yourself.
you don’t want on (freehand) Several other options
your page. including the magnetic lasso which
clings to the outside of the area you
The slice tool: allows
want to select.
you to create multiple
images from one
image or a layered
Photoshop file.

3. The spot healing
The brush tool: brush: Eliminates
Lets you draw imperfections on a
on the page in picture or on areas of
specific areas of the page.
your choice.
The History Brush: used Clone stamp tool:
to selectively restore Copy's the exact
colour, detail, same pixels so you
smoothness and can fill in areas of the
saturation from an earlier page/picture.
point in a picture's
Eraser: lets you
history.
delete parts of an
Gradient: Lets you image.
apply a gradient to
a background or Blur tool: Lets you blur
image. parts of a picture, also
Dodge tool: the smudge tool which
Brightens the pixels smudges areas.
you paint.

4. Textbox tool: Lets Pen tool: Lets you
you apply text to the draw on the canvas
canvas. but fills in the areas
you draw which a
colour of your
Shape tool: Allows choice.
you to draw
Select tool: Lets you
different shapes on
select images/texts on
the canvas.
the canvas.
Eyedropper tool: Lets Note tool: allows you
you to select colours to make notes on the
from different parts of canvas.
an image to use on
another. Hand tool: Allows
you to drag areas
pictures or texts
which re on the
Magnifying tool: lets canvas into different
you zoom in and out of areas.
specific areas on the
document.