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Working with Photoshop Tools
Photoshop has an abundance of tools; located in the toolbox, they give a Photoshop designer tremendous control over any creative designing problems that may crop up. For example, the Photoshop toolbox contains eight selection tools (you can never have enough selection tools), 10 painting or shape tools, 4 type tools, and 12 tools dedicated to restoring and manipulating old images. Add to that mix, slicing, sampling, and view tools and you have a total of 59 dedicated tools. When you work on a document, it's important to know what tools are available, and how they help in achieving your design goals. Photoshop likes to save space, so it consolidates similar tools under one button. To access multiple tools, click and hold on any toolbox button that contains a small black triangle, located in the lower-right corner of the tool button. Take a moment to explore the Photoshop toolbox and get to know the tools.The Photoshop toolbox contains the tools needed to work through any Photoshop job, but it's not necessary to click on a tool to access a tool. Simply using a letter of the alphabet can access all of Photoshop's tools. For example, pressing the V key, switches to the Move tool, and pressing the W key, switches to the Magic Wand tool. In addition, if a tool has more than one option, such as the Gradient and Paint Bucket tool, pressing the Shift key, along with the tool's shortcut lets you cycle through the tool's other options. You can refer to Adobe Photoshop CS2 Keyboard Shortcuts (available for download on the Web at www.perspection.com) for more information on all the letter assignments for the various tools. To really get efficient in Photoshop, you need to learn to use both hands. Use one hand for your mouse or drawing tablet, and the other on the keyboard to make quick changes of tools and options. Think of playing Photoshop, like a pianouse both hands.[View full size image]
Using the Options Bar
The Options bar displays the options for the currently selected tool. If you are working with the Shape Marquee tools, options such as Feather, Styles, Width, and Height appear. When working with Brushes, tool options such as Brush size, Mode, Opacity, Style, Area and Tolerance appear. Airbrush and Paintbrush tools shows some of the Brushes options, but also includes Flow. The Pencil tool shows Auto Erase, along with the standard Brushes options. The Standard Shape tool Options bar includes Fill Pixels, Geometry, Blending Modes, Opacity, and Anti-alias. The important thing to remember is that the Options bar is customized based on the tool you have selected. For more information on these options, refer to Chapters 4, 6, and 9.
