Roselle Ann V. Araza Grade 10 STEM A Mr. Griv Brown Aguiree The Toolbox Toolbox

Roselle Ann V.
Araza Grade 10 STEM A

Mr. Griv Brown Aguiree
The Toolbox
You select a variety of tools from the Toolbox by clicking on the icons. Within each type of tool you
can select "hidden" tools by dragging the tool to the side or by pressing on the icon until the hidden
options drop to the side. See examples below.
To view the Toolbox Go to Window > Show Tools..

The Pencil and Brush tools:
Click on the tools that have a small

arrow on their lower-right side to
display the hidden tools.
Selecting Tools:
These tools allow you to select areas in various different
ways. Drawing tools and commands only work in selected
areas. If no area is selected, tools and commands will work
anywhere on the document.
Rectangular Marquee
Click once on the Rectangular Marquee tool to choose it.
The icon will turn white and the cursor will turn into a cross
hair when you move it onto the document.
Select an area: Drag out a rectangular marquee of any size
anywhere on the document. Release the mouse and you
should have a rectangular area selected. You can tell it is
selected because it has the line of marching ants moving
around it.
Magic Wand Tool

This tool allows you to select areas of images based on
color similarities without having to trace its outline.
Choose the Magic Wand tool. Click the magic Wand on the
white area or the colored area of your image. You will
notice how it will only select the white areas. You can
specify the tolerance (color range) that you need.
Zoom Tool
This tool allows you to magnify areas of an image when you
are performing close, detailed work, and reduce them to
get an overall view of the image.
Zoom in: pick the Zoom Tool. This tool always defaults to
zoom in (note: the plus sign in the middle of the
magnifying glass icon). This tool works in two ways:
Click the icon once in the area you wish to enlarge. The
area will be magnified by a factor of two.
Click and drag a rectangle around the area you wish to
enlarge and the area will be magnified to fit in the existing
window.
Zoom out: Pick the Zoom Tool and hold down the alt key
(note: the negative sign in the icon). Or, right-click with the
mouse and select the zoom-out option from the drop-down.
Click on the image and the drawing zooms out in a factor of
two.
Type Tools
To insert text into your document, simply click on the Type tool icon on
your toolbox and click on the area of your document where you want to
insert text.
The cursor will highlight and will prompt you to start typing. To change
the character font, size and style you can use the top Menu (shown
below)or the Character palette (shown on the right).
To edit an existing block of text, select the Type tool from the toolbox,
and position the cursor on the text, it will identify the text and allow
you to edit it.
You can apply different styles and formats within one text layer, to do
this, you need to select the text with the cursor and apply the changes.
If you need to apply one formatting style to ALL the text in the layer,
than simply select the layer from the layer window, and make the
choices you need.
Character Palette
To Display: Choose
Window > Show
Character
NOTE: Bitmap Type

Paint and image-editing programs such as Photoshop create bitmap type composed of pixels. The
sharpness of bitmap type depends on the type size and the resolution of the image. For example,
type that has been scaled up may show jagged edges.
NOTE: Photoshop disables many features of its interface while the type tool is selected, for example,
if you want to Save or use another command like Zoom in or out, it will not allow you to do it unless
you de-select the type tool!
Color
Color Tools and Palettes

A. Foreground color B. Default Colors C. Switch Colors D. Background
color
There are several ways to change color. To use the toolbox, just click on
either the foreground or background square (See image above), the
following Color Picker will appear:
Select the desired color with the cursor. Move the Color Slide up and down to view the range of color
levels available for the selected color component.
You can see the color values in various color modes: HSB, RGB, LAB, CMYK (percentages) and
Hexadecimal (Web values).
TIP: You have the option to only display Web Colors, click on the Only Web Colors checkbox on the
lower left side of the Color Picker
Color Palette
Choose Windows > Show Color
Click on the palette options arrow on the top
right side of the window and choose a color
mode set of Sliders..
There is another tool to help you choose colors from, this is the
Swatches palette. Most of the time it shows within the color palette,
as a tab. The swatches palette is a quick access to pick colors, this way
you avoid having to click on the color toolbox, open the color picker to
change the color.
As any other palette, you can click on the palette option arrow to see
more options. For example, you can select "Web Safe Colors.aco" from
the drop-down menu in order to see the so called Browser Safe colors,
see graphic on the right.
About Browser Safe Colors

Web browsers software is based on an 8-bit, 216-color palette. This palette was originally created by
Netscape to solve the problem of displaying color graphics in a similar way on different operating
systems (such as Macintosh, Windows, and UNIX). Because a majority of the Web audience years
ago had 8-bit display screens, 256 colors was the upper limit for the color palette. The 216 colors
chosen by Netscape are identical in both the Macintosh and Windows system palettes.
Most Web users nowadays have computers and monitors set to "thousands" or "millions" of colors,
so the importance of the so-called Web-safe palette has sharply diminished in the past few years, so
there is no longer any need to restrict your color choices to the 216 Web-safe colors.
Paint Bucket
The Paint Bucket tool allows you to fill similarly colored areas with the
foreground color.
Just click inside the selected area. The foreground color you
chose will fill the selected area.
It's hidden tool within the Toolbox is the Gradient tool.

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To view the Toolbox Go to Window > Show Tools..

Click on the tools that have a small

Magic Wand Tool

NOTE: Bitmap Type

Color Tools and Palettes

About Browser Safe Colors

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