The vertical scale to the right (rainbow) allows you pick a base color. Clicking the color picker reveals a big square that ranges from high to low brightness and contrast. The small black/white overlapping button reverts the color picker to a default of black foreground with a white background. The switch arrow will change the background color to the active foreground color. Magic eraser tool - selects pixels of the same color and eraser for backgrounds that are a single color.ġ2) Color picker - The color pickers lets you keep two colors at reach. It continually samples the background in your image in cases when your background is not a solid color. Background eraser tool - erases a background. Once you let go of the crop tool you can drag the corners to really get the crop you want.Ħ) Eraser tools - Eraser tool - easy. Click and drag to expand your crop selection. For instance, the outline of a person.ģ) Crop tool - Pretty self-explanatory. The magnetic lasso tool will stick to any contrasting surfaces as you click and drag it along a subject. This is good especially for selecting anything without curvature.
Then continue clicking for a “connect-the-dots” type of selection. The top lasso tool simply depends on your mouse movement. You can right click the selection for a set of options.Ģ) Lasso tools - Here you have a set of three more selection tools. Once you’ve selected which shape you want to use, simply click and drag on your image to make a selection. Click on the button and you’ll see you can choose between a rectangle tool and a circle tool. The ToolboxĪlrighty then! Let’s break down those highlighted tools.ġ) Marquee tools - These are selection tools. We’ll go over other tools that may be less intuitive later on in this article series. A lot of these tools are relatively self-explanatory, so I’ll just briefly touch on them. Some of the labels are highlighted - we’ll go over these tools first because I’ve found them to be the most common and necessary tools for general day-to-day tasks. Let’s go one step at a time as we dissect this complex piece of photo manipulation software.īelow you can see the Photoshop toolbox labeled. When you load up Photoshop CS3 for the first time, it definitely looks more than intimidating.
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The series will be aimed towards beginners just starting out with Photoshop. Welcome to the first article in what will be a series on Adobe Photoshop CS3.
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