Beginner's Guide to Photoshop: 26 steps to quickly master basic PS application tools

[Tutorial for beginners] Many beginners have no idea where to start when facing Photoshop. If there are so many tools, you should forget this one. What tutorials can you use to finish learning at one time? Therefore, we will share this tutorial with you today. As long as the children's shoes are working hard, they will be able to understand the basic tools in two hours! It is definitely a good opportunity for beginners to quickly become Photoshop! Hurry to learn!

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3D panel: As part of Adobe Photoshop Extended, you can find it in Adobe Photoshop CC. The 3D panel shows the component operations allowed in all 3D files.

3D object rotation tool (k): rotates the selected 3D object around the X axis.

3D object rolling tool (k): rotate the currently selected 3D object around the Z axis

3D object translation tool (k): translates the currently selected 3D object along the X or Y axis

3D object slide tool (k): Move an object to the side when you click and drag the object horizontally. When an object is dragged vertically, the object moves forward and backward.

3D object scaling tool (k): this tool is very simple. Drag up or down to scale the object.

3D camera rotation tool (n): This tool rotates the camera around the object along the X or Y axis of the file, rather than rotating the object itself.

3D camera rolling tool (n): similar to a 3D camera rotation tool, this tool rotates the camera, not the object, and is rotated along the X axis.

3D camera slide tool (n): similar to the 3D object translation tool, which moves the camera along the X or Y axis

3D camera roaming tool (n): this tool is similar to a 3D object slide tool, but it is a mobile camera rather than an object. When you click and drag horizontally, move the camera to the side. When you drag vertically, the camera moves forward and backward.

3D camera scaling tool (n): This is a very useful tool that can change the camera's field of view so that it is close to or away from objects.

A

Action Panel (Alt + F9): an action is a set of actions that can be recorded and played back. This panel helps you manipulate, organize, and edit these actions. It can improve your workflow, especially for repetitive tasks.

Adaptive wide angle (Alt + Shift + Control + a): allows users to correct any lens distortion caused by wide-angle lens shooting.

Add anchor tool: a tool used to edit a work path. For this tool, you can use it to add an anchor point on the working path to control or extend the path.

Adjust panel: This panel controls all the color and tone adjustments you can operate on the image.

B

Background eraser tool (e): Used to erase some parts of an image as transparent background. When you drag a part of the image, it is erased immediately. You can change the tolerance, restriction, and sample size of the tool.

Black and White (Alt + Shift + Control + B) a tool that helps you convert a color image into a grayscale image. You can control its gray scale during conversion.

Blur: A series of soft Image filters that make the image over smooth by moving pixels. The intensity of the blur filter depends on which one you use.

Fuzzy tool: this tool soften and blur the hard sides of an image. When you drag your paint brush, the pixels near the image are averaged. The more times you use it, the stronger the effect.

Brightness/contrast: a tool that adjusts the tone of the entire image by increasing or decreasing the brightness and contrast.

Paint panel: This Panel contains all the default and user-defined brushes stored in your Photoshop. You can add, delete, or edit these brushes in this panel.

Paint preset panel: This Panel allows you to manage your own preset paint brush library. Replace or add the paint brush in the library, or create a new library completely. Keep the paint brush preset to speed up the workflow when drawing or editing images.

The brush tool (B) is very simple. It is a pen used for painting.

Deepening tool (o): This tool makes the painted part darker in color.

C

Camera Raw filter (SHIFT + Control + a): allows users to change the image filter non-destructive.

Channel mixing: a tool that helps you change the color of an image. It is generally used to adjust black-and-white images.

Channel panel: This Panel stores the color information of the grayscale version of the image being edited, including color information, transparent channels, and special colors.

Character panel: This Panel applies to setting and displaying the attributes of the input text. You can use this Panel to set a few texts, or drag the overall text format entered by the horizontal text tool or direct text tool.

Character style panel: added in Photoshop CS6 and CC versions. This Panel is the control center for your character styles, attributes, and settings, the content saved here can be applied to the text later.

The Imitation stamp tool (s), which allows users to select a sample from an image and draw the same content using the pixel information of the alternative area.

Copy Source Tool: a set of settings for the copy stamp tool and the repair paint brush tool.

Color balancing (Control + B): This adjusts the color mixing of the image.

Color search: use options to create a special style for the image.

 

Color panel: This panel displays the current selected foreground color and background color, as well as the color slider to select a new color.

Color replacement tool (B): This tool replaces the selected color with another color.

Color sampling tool (I): displays the color values of selected areas 1-4.

Content-aware mobile tool (j): this tool was introduced in CS6, which allows users to select and move a part of the image, and fills in the holes left by moving the surrounding image content by computation.

Conversion Tool: used with the pen tool. This tool can change the point on the path to a corner or curve point.

Count tool (I): a tool used to calculate the number of images. Photoshop Extended introduction, which can be used in CC

Cropping tool (c): a very useful tool that is often used to reconfigure image combinations.

Curve (Control + M): a tool that allows you to adjust the curve of the image's tone range.

Custom shape tool (u): This tool allows users to create vector images in the custom shape list.

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Delete anchor tool: this tool must be used with the pen tool to delete anchor from a path.

Saturation (SHIFT + Ctrl + u): This adjustment allows the user to erase the color from the image without changing the color mode.

Direct selection tool (a): This tool allows users to select a part of the active path drawn using the pen tool.

Distortion: A filter used to distort an image. It is often used to reshape an image. The effects include replacement, ripple, water wave, and extrusion. These effects all occupy a lot of memory.

Fade-down tool (o): This tool makes the painted part brighter in color.

E

Elliptical tool (u): used to create an elliptical and circular path

Elliptical box selection tool (m): used to create the path of an elliptical selection. Select a tool and drag it to change the size of the selection area, and hold down shift to keep the selection area as a positive circle.

Color uniformity: Set the brightest area of the image to white, the darker area to black, and other colors to be evenly distributed based on gray scale. Adjust the brightness of the image by allocating pixels.

Eraser tool (e): This tool deletes pixels in an image (change it to transparent) or changes it to the selected background color. In addition, this tool can also restore the image of a region to this version through the selection of the history panel.

F

Filter Library: This is an interface for adding filters to the selected part of the current image or visible layer. Available filters include various artistic effects, paint brush shapes, distortion, sketch effects, and textures.

Free pen tool (P): This tool allows users to draw freely and generate a path like a brush tool or Pencil tool. It is similar to the pen tool, but it is not limited to moving.

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Gaussian Blur: a blur effect, which controls the number of blurts in the selected area through the effect settings.

Gradient ing: adjusts the gray scale of the Image Based on the selected gray scale.

Gradient tool (G): This tool allows users to create linear, radial, angle, and symmetric gradient color mixing in the selected area.

H

Hand capture tool (h): This tool selects a canvas rather than a layer object and moves it within the window. It is especially useful when the canvas is enlarged and masked by other parts of the window.

HDR tone: This command allows users to apply HDR contrast and exposure settings to images.

Repair Brush tool (j): this tool is similar to the imitation stamp tool to repair images with samples in the image.

Histogram panel: This Panel provides a complete view of the image's histogram, showing the distribution of pixels in each color level in the image.

History panel: This Panel allows users to jump between the states (whenever you use tools, effects, etc.) created in the image.

Horizontal text tool (t): This tool allows users to enter text in a horizontal path.

Horizontal text mask tool (t): This tool creates a selection border with input text.

Color/saturation (CTRL + u): displays on the adjustment panel to control the color, saturation, and contrast of the activated image.

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Information Panel: This panel displays the coordinates, colors, and other information of the current pointer.

Reverse (CTRL + I): This adjustment filter reverses the color of the entire image.

J

Stain Repair Tool (j): This tool automatically collects peripheral color information to fix image defects.

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Kuler: the Kuler panel is linked to the Adobe User Kuler account, where you can create, manage, or delete color themes.

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Plug-in tool (l): This tool allows you to create a free selection area.

Layer Composite Panel: This Panel allows users to create partial states of pages for reuse, display to customers, or use for their own purposes.

Layers panel: This Panel organizes all layers in the document. You can apply or delete various attributes, blending modes, and effects on layers in this panel.

Lens blur: this filter is used to blur the depth of field.

Lens correction (SHIFT + Ctrl + r): this filter is added to cs5. it allows automatic removal or repair of distortion, chromatic aberration, and virtual focal problems.

Level (CTRL + l): This adjustment allows you to correct the color balance by changing the shadow, median, and highlight tones.

Line tool (l): A shape drawing tool in the toolbar. This tool is simple, that is, draw a straight line in the image.

Shift + Ctrl + X: allows users to push, pull, rotate, expand, or fold the image filter, which can be done through smart filters or deformation tools.

M

Magic eraser tool (e): This tool changes a color similar to the selected color to transparent. If the transparency of the layer is locked, it is changed to the background color.

Magic wand tool (W): This tool selects the same or similar color as the selected vertex. The options of this tool allow multiple selection types (new, add, subtract, and cross), and define the selection edge (tolerance, de-sawtooth, continuous, and sample all layers ).

Magnetic cable plug-in (l): This selection tool captures the edges of the area defined in the image. The selection type is the same as that of the magic wand tool, including width, comparison, frequency, and drawing board pressure. All options will affect the captured results.

Match Color: This command allows you to match colors between images, layers, or selections. You can also adjust the brightness, color range, and skewness of the image.

Measurement record panel: This Panel records the measurement data of the measurement tool in the document. Each row of the record represents a measurement group, and the column represents the data value of the measurement group.

Mixer paint brush tool (B): This session tool allows users to mix colors when painting, just like painting in reality. You can mix the color on the canvas, the color on the paint brush, or change the humidity of the paint brush to simulate the true feeling of painting.

Motion Blur: this filter uses fuzzy variables to create a fast motion sensation. You can select a direction in the effect option.

Mobile tool (V): This tool moves the selection, layers, and guide in the document. It is one of the most useful tools for users to interact with documents.

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Navigation panel: This panel displays the view of the current window of the user's active document, and allows the user to quickly move the document without a manual tool, it also allows the user to quickly zoom in the document.

Variegated colors: This set of filters allow users to process variegated colors in an image in multiple ways. Add colors to create a series of random pixels in an image or selection area. This function detects the image edge and blur the content outside the edge to remove the noise. Dust and scratches, median, and reduced colors all reduce the noise in the image in different ways.

Comment panel: This Panel tracking comment added to your document using the annotation tool.

Annotation Tool (I): This tool allows you to connect the Annotation with a part of the document. Share or record with customers and colleagues.

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Oil Painting: An art filter that allows users to change the image into a style of oil painting.

P

Paint bucket tool (G): Fill in the foreground color in the selected area or similar areas.

Section panel: This Panel allows you to change the format of paragraphs and columns.

Section style panel: introduced in CS 6. This Panel allows you to create a section and text Definition Format and can be saved, applied, edited, or deleted.

Patch tool (j): this tool is used to repair the selected area of the image, using samples from other areas of the image or the selected pattern.

Path panel: This Panel allows you to control all activation and non-activation paths. Here you can save or load the path, and change the path to a selection or delete path.

Path selection tool (a): This tool allows you to select the drawing path for further editing.

Pattern stamp tool (s): This tool allows users to draw the selected part of the image with the selected pattern.

Pen tool (P): This tool allows you to draw a smooth curve by adding an anchor.

Pencil tool (B): This tool allows users to draw lines of hard edges of different sizes.

Photo Filter: allows users to adjust the image with a variety of color filters (different color temperature, tone, etc.

Pixel: A series of filters that create hard edge images by reducing the document color quantity. Including creating a color half-tune image, creating a polygon to minimize the number of colors in the lattice, similar to lattice but more abstract color block, after four copies of the image are moved and opened, the fragments of the blurred image are generated. The copper engraving of points or lines is randomly allocated to the image, similar to lattice and square mosaic creation, it also converts the selected area color into vertices.

 

Polygon tool (u): This tool allows you to draw a Polygon Shape by specifying the number of edges.

Polygon seek tool (l): This selection tool creates a selection area in the shape of the straight line edge selected by the user. It is similar to the seek tool in use, but is more in use.

Color Separation: it allows users to adjust the color of the image by color order.

Property panel: This Panel provides you with information and controls to adjust layers.

Q

Quick selection tool (W): This selection tool allows users to draw an area, just like using a brush, and render it as a selection area.

R

Radial blur: this filter slightly simulates the Blur caused by a fast motion or scaling of the lens. You can define the Blur degree in the effect options.

Redeye tool (j): This tool removes the redeye effect from the eyes of the shooting object. This is a very convenient tool that restores the eyes of your photography object to their original colors.

Rectangle tool (u): One of the shape tools, which allows users to create a rectangle or square path, can fill, stroke or as a selection area.

Rectangle selection tool (m): This selection tool draws a rectangle or square selection area.

Rendering: These filters create 3D shapes, light effects, and patterns in an image or selection.

Color replacement: This dialog box allows you to select various color ranges and replace them with colors from other images. This adjustment does not give users full control over the color conversion method, but it can quickly complete a comprehensive replacement.

Rotate View tool (R): This tool rotates the canvas inside the window without rotating the document itself, nor changing its pixels.

Corner rectangle tool (u): this tool is the same as the rectangle tool, but it creates not a right rectangle, but a rounded rectangle according to the user-defined Corner radius.

Ruler tool (I): This measurement tool helps you measure the distance between two selected objects. It can also be used to measure the angle or position.

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Optional color: the command to adjust the total color of each color component.

Shadow/highlight: This command changes the intensity of the shadow or highlight.

Sharpen: This Filter and its related filters sharpen the image edge.

Sharpen tool: this tool sharpen the Soft Edge and image part to reduce blur.

Single-Column box selection tool: this tool selects a vertical selection.

Single Row selection box tool: this tool selects the selection area of a horizontal row.

Slicing tool (c): This tool divides documents into several parts for network publishing.

 

Slice selection tool (c): This tool selects the slice created by the slice tool and can be edited, converted, or deleted.

Smear tool: This trimming tool moves pixels in the image in the direction you move when you click and drag the tool icon.

Style panel: This panel shows the style that can be used for layers in the current document. This is a fantastic way of organizing layers that have been used before, especially for repetitive tasks.

Style: these filters are used to add effects to selected images or layers. It includes a raised or concave relief for a selected area, a 3D protruding image, and a neon illuminating edge for the image edge or selected area, reverse the color of the image to make it look like the exposure of the photo negative, and so on.

Color Palette: This Panel allows users to organize and edit colors they have created, adjust the color palette, and save it for use.

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Threshold: this filter converts an image or selection area to a high contrast black/white image.

Timeline panel: This panel is used for videos and public calls in Photoshop. It classifies and manages users' key frames and image sequences, and allows you to create, edit, or delete key frames when necessary.

Tool preset panel: This Panel allows users to create, save, or load tool settings. Users who need to use a non-destructive failover tool can speed up their work processes.

U

USM sharpening: this filter is used to sharpen the Image Edge Based on Pixel differences within the user-specified threshold range.

V

Disappear point: this command allows users to edit or create a disappear point.

Change: This command allows you to see the thumbnail of the current image after various color changes are applied. And allows users to change their contrast and tone. It is not an adjustment layer, but directly applies changes to the image layer, so it is difficult to change it later.

Direct text tool (t): This tool creates vertically arranged text. Similar to the horizontal text tool.

Forward text mask (t): This tool creates a border selection for vertically arranged text.

Natural saturation: This function adjusts the overall saturation of images in the document. It only adjusts the colors that are not saturated, not all colors.

W

Embedded watermark: one of the features of digimarc in Photoshop. This filter is embedded with a watermark that has been registered by digimarc. This watermark contains the user's unique ID and displays the copyright year, license, and other image attributes.

Read watermark: this filter allows users to read Digital Watermarks placed on images. It displays the metadata input by embedding the watermark filter.

X

Switching colors (x) or (SHIFT + x): clicking these cases allows you to switch between the foreground and background colors without selecting them in the color or panel.

Y

History Art Paint Brush tool (y): Creates styles from the data source of the specified history. It is a creative tool. Similar to the history paint brush tool, it uses data from other images to create stroke content.

History paint brush tool (y): This tool allows you to draw images in the selected state or snapshot on the history surface to the current image.

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Zooming tool (z): This tool looks like a magnifier. You can close the screen to see the details or to see the whole picture.

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Beginner's Guide to Photoshop: 26 steps to quickly master basic PS application tools