Photoshop has an abundance of tools that give a Photoshop designer tremendous control over any creative designing problems that may crop up.
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 it. Simply using a letter of the alphabet can access all of Photoshop tools. For example, pressing the V key switches to the Move tool, and pressing the W key switches to the Magic Wand tool.
Move tool:
Only one tool allows you to move items in the document window, and this is it. It allows you to move several items, including guides, objects and shapes in shape layers, and text objects.
Shape Selection tools:
Shape Selction tools allow you to quickly select areas of the document. Using rectangle, ellipse, row, and column shapes.
Lasso Selection tools:
Lasso Selection tools allow you to quickly select areas of the document by using the mouse to draw a lasso around them.
Quick Selection tools:
Quick Selection tools can intelligently select areas of the document by detecting areas that are similar to those selected by the mouse.
Crop and Slice tools:
The Crop tool lets you select an area of the document to keep and remove the area around it. The Slice tools are used for creating clickable hot areas for Web images.
Eye Dropper/Ruler/Note/Count tools:
This tool set is a catchall. The Eyedropper tool is used to select foreground colors directly from pixels in the image.. The Ruler tool is used to measure areas in an image. The Note tool allows you to add notes to an image that help you retain things such as to-do editing lists with the image. The Count tool allows you to count and log items in the image, which can be useful if you are working with medical images.
