Tools and The Options Bar
Lesson 5 from: FAST CLASS: Photoshop for Beginners: Essential TrainingMark Wallace
Tools and The Options Bar
Lesson 5 from: FAST CLASS: Photoshop for Beginners: Essential TrainingMark Wallace
Lesson Info
5. Tools and The Options Bar
Lessons
How To Open Files
01:10 2Using The Home Screen
01:49 3Exploring The Interface
02:36 4Understanding Workspaces
03:04 5Tools and The Options Bar
01:56 6Finding Hidden Tools
02:31 7How to See What You’re Working On
06:19 8Selecting Things
07:06More Selection Tools
10:34 10Testing the Magic Wand and Quick Selection Tools
03:55 11The History Palette – Undoing Things
02:47 12Menu and Item Shortcut Keys
02:28 13Non-Destructive Editing
02:14 14Working with Layers
09:11 15Groovy 3 Exercise
10:38 16Layer Effects and Styles
04:25 17Layer Masks – Karen on Beans
06:41 18Using Adjustment Layers
04:36 19Using Filters
03:06 20Advanced Compositing Using Layers
07:42 21Non-Destructive Editing Techniques
03:17 22Understanding Smart Objects
05:16 23Smart Sharpen
04:36 24Understanding Histogram
04:08 25Adjusting Curves
03:46 26The Healing Brush Tools
07:28 27The Clone Stamp Tool
05:24 28The Burn and Dodge Tools
03:41 29Neural Filters
07:52Lesson Info
Tools and The Options Bar
Let's take a look at the toolbar and the options bar and understand how those two things work together. So, on the left hand side of the screen you can see that we have all these different tools here on the left hand side. Now there are six basic categories of tools loosely speaking. We have tools for selecting things, stuff like this. We've got a little marquee tool so we can select different areas of our image. We have crop and slice tools so that we can crop out areas of the image that we don't like. We have our retouching tools. So these are things like the healing brush to fix skin blemishes, things like that. The clone tool to go and take something from one part of the image and put it somewhere else. We have our painting tools. Those are brushes and paint buckets, stuff like that. We have drawing tools. We've got a little pen tool down here. We've got a text tool so we can add type and things. That's great for thumbnails for YouTube. And then we have our navigation tools. So lik...
e our little hand here to take a look at what's going on here, maybe zoom around and zoom out. So all that navigation stuff. And then we have annotation and measuring tools. And so, those are tools like this little eye dropper here and some of these things that pop out. Something that maybe the scientific community would use, in addition to some of us photographers as well. So if we go back over here to Photoshop and we click on a tool, you can see that this little arrow tool up here, if I look at this, you can see that we have how it selects either a layer or a group or the transform controls. All these things are up here. But if I click on this little selection tool, those options change. So the option bar is context sensitive. It changes based on the tool you have selected. So each of these tools have options that tell the tool how to behave.
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