Looking At The Work Area - Adobe PHOTOSHOP 5.0 User Manual

Chapter 2: Looking at the Work Area
T
he Adobe Photoshop work area includes the
menu bar at the top of your screen, the
image window containing an image, and a
variety of tools and palettes for editing and
SELECTING TOOLS You select a tool from the toolbox by clicking the tool or pressing the shortcut key shown in paren-
theses in the illustration below. You can select the hidden tools by dragging, or Alt-clicking (Windows) or Option-clicking
(Mac OS).
(M) Rectangular
Marquee
(L) Lasso
(J) Airbrush
(S) Rubber stamp
(E) Eraser
(R) Blur
(P) Pen
(U) Measure
(K) Paint bucket
(H) Hand
Foreground color
(D) Default colors
(Q) Standard mode
Standard screen
mode (F)
Full screen mode with menu bar (F)
adding elements such as masks, layers, and
channels. You can also add commands and filters
to the menus by installing software programs
called plug-in modules.
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Move (V)
Magic wand (W)
Paintbrush (B)
History Brush (Y)
Pencil (N)
Dodge (O)
Type (T)
Linear Gradient (G)
Eyedropper (I)
Zoom (Z)
Switch colors (X)
Background color
Quick Mask mode (Q)
Full screen mode (F)
Elliptical marquee
Single row marquee
Crop (C)
Single column marquee
Polygon lasso
Magnetic lasso
Line
Pattern stamp
Sharpen
Smudge
Burn
Sponge
Magnetic pen
Freeform pen
Convert-anchor point
Direct-selection (A)
Delete-anchor-point (-)
Add-anchor-point (+)
Type mask
Vertical Type
Vertical Type mask
Radial Gradient
Angle Gradient
Diamond Gradient
Reflected Gradient
Color sampler
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