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Well I've talked a little bit about two different tools here on the Tools palette. I want to go into more detail about how the Tools palette works and some of the features of the Tools palette. This is the Tools palette, and as the name implies it has all the tools that you will probably ever want to use in Photoshop. If you are not seeing the Tools palette, go to the Window menu and choose Show Tools. The Tools palette is broken up into different sections for different types of tools and different areas of functionality. The very top icon here is a button that brings up different options for Adobe Online. Adobe Online is a collection of different features that takes you to a section of Adobe website, that allows you to download various things relevant to Adobe Photoshop. The first set of tools right here are, these six, are selection tools. You select tools simply by clicking on it, and you can see it gets dark or looks like the button is a little bit depressed or pushed in. Also notice that my Options palette at the top of the screen changes and gives me options for that tool. Photoshop is modal in nature, so depending on what tool you have selected, you are working in that mode. For instance, the marquee tool allows me to create a selection, so this is, think of this as the selection mode. And when I choose the move tool, I'm now moving pixels instead of moving the selection. So it makes sense that depending on what tool you use, the Options palette changes to reflect options for that particular tool. If you see a tool with a tiny little triangle in the lower right-hand corner of that tool, it means there are more tools associated with it. If you want access to those tools, click and press down and continue holding with your mouse button for just a moment, and it brings up a little list of some of the other tools that we have available to us. If you want to choose a different tool move over into that list, and scroll down and then click once - and now you are using that different tool. So this is a very important thing you should understand that, even though you are seeing this selection of tools here, there are actually many more tools available if you see a tiny little triangle associated with that tool. So these are all selection tools -we have the marquee tool, lasso tool, crop tool. Crop tool allows you to chop away areas outside the selection. The move tool allows you to move data on layers, and we will talk all about that in later movies. Magic wand tool and the slice tool. Slice tool is designed for web output. This next section of tools are marking or image editing tools that allow you to put marks down of different sorts. So we have the airbrush tool, paintbrush tool and pencil tool, cloning tool also known as the rubber stamp tool the history brush, the eraser tool, and various options for gradients. Paint bucket tool, and this teardrop here is the blurring tool which acts as a blurring brush. And it has conversely associated with it a sharpening tool, and there is also a smudge tool. You also have the dodge and burn tool and a sponge tool here. These are, the doge and burn tool are terms from photographic dark room techniques. This next section of tools relate to vector-based objects and type. And type or text in Photoshop is a vector-based object until you rasterize it, or turn it into pixels. The pen tool is a very powerful tool, which unfortunately is not very intuitive to use. However, it is one of the most powerful tools, and if you are familiar with Adobe Illustrator or Macromedia Freehand, you already how to use the pen tool. The pen tool shows up in many other applications, allowing you to describe a vector-based shape using many of its features. This section of tools are sort of miscellaneous - we have an annotation or note tool. And you can also add voice notes if you have a microphone on your computer. The eyedropper tool, or as I sometimes call it the color sucker upper tool, allows you to sample colors in your picture. The hand tool allows you to move your image around the screen and the zoom tool allows you to zoom in or zoom out. This section of the tools palette allows you to perform various functions with your foreground and background color. Whatever color is in this front box here, is the color that you will paint with if you choose a painting tool. Now I can switch that color by clicking this curved arrow icon right here. It will allow me swap the foreground and background color. Now I will be painting with my background color. And as I mentioned, if you use the eyedropper tool, you can sample whatever color you want. Clicking this small icon right here of the black and white box will replace your current foreground and background color with black and white. These objects right here allow you to switch a selection, and I have just created a selection using the lasso tool. It allows you to move from a selection to a mask. And we are going to talk more about the significance of that, and why you might want to do that. These three small buttons are different viewing modes, these do not edit your pictures - they just allow you to see them different ways. This one shows me my image with the desktop in the background. This one puts my image on a middle gray background in Photoshop, and this is the one I use most often. And finally this one puts my image on a black background, and gets rid of the menu items at the top of the screen. Sometimes, I use this to look at my image to see how a composition is coming along, and when I am in this mode I often hit the tab key to get rid of all my tools so I can just see my picture by itself. So I will hit the tab key to bring it back. Finally at the very bottom we have a jump to image to ImageReady button. If you need to do more image editing or web optimization, you will want to take your picture into ImageReady, and that's Adobe's web optimization software. Simply click on this button, and if ImageReady is not already open, it will launch ImageReady and it will open this document in ImageReady. So here I am in ImageReady. And you can see in the background that my Photoshop document or the Photoshop version of this document is grayed out - indicating to me that this is not the one I am editing. The ImageReady one is the one that I am editing. So I am going to go back to Photoshop, and that is a tour of the Tools palette.