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When you are working in Adobe Photoshop you'll very often be accessing the various tools in the tools palette. That's this tall vertical palette right here to the left of my screen. You can of course reposition your tools' palette wherever you want by clicking and dragging on this little gray bar at the top. And this first icon right here, if you click on it, it will allow us to access Adobe online. And this will take us to a special section for Adobe Photoshop allowing you to add updates that might have been added to the application via your web access. Notice that whenever I pass over a particular tool, the gray tool icon gets colorized, indicating that that is the current tool that I am passing over. Also notice that the tools palette is broken up into various sections. In the top section here are various tools that allow us to select areas using the marquee tool or the lasso tool, and the all important mover tool, allows us to move items on the layers and what not, and the crop tool. This next section of tools are different types of brush tools such as the healing brush, the paint brush, clone tool and some of these other types of tools. This next section here are various vector tools such as the pen tool, the path selection tool and the type tool. And we have another section at the bottom, which have some other miscellaneous tools, which are very important. Such as the hand tool and zoom tool and the eyedropper tool. If you want to select a tool, all you have to do is click on the tool icon and notice when that tool is selected that it looks a little bit darker and depressed, as you've clicked on a button. Also, I want to point out that you're options bar at the top here will change depending on what tool you have selected. Because of course, each tool has its own various options that relates specifically to that tool. Some of the tools have a small triangle in the lower right hand corner of that tool, and that means that there are other associated hidden tools attached to this tool. So if you press and hold on that tool, it will bring up a popup list of these associated tools. Such as my polygonal lasso tool and the magnetic lasso tool. Whichever tool is currently chosen has a black box, a black square next to it. And you can also notice when you choose a popup list of hidden tools that there is a small letter next to many of these tools, indicating that that is the keyboard equivalent that will take you to that tool. So if I want to go to the mover tool, all I have to do is press the 'V' key and that will take me directly to the mover tool. And I am now using that mover tool. And similarly the 'L' key will take me to the lasso tool. If you have tool tips enabled in preferences, and you pass over a tool and don't move a mouse pointer for a moment, it will bring up the name of that tool and in parentheses the keyboard equivalent. And this way you can learn the keyboard equivalent quickly so that you can quickly navigate to that tool without having to go to that tool palette itself. Just type in the appropriate key. For something like the lasso tool notice that there are three tools associated with this tool. If you hold down the shift key and cycle through these various tools by pressing the letter, so all I need to do is hold the shift key and press 'L' and it will cycle through my various lasso tools until I get the one that I want. At the bottom section of my tools palette we have an area which will allow us to choose and manipulate the foreground and background color. The default foreground and background color for Adobe Photoshop is black and white. And this is the icon which allows you to immediately choose the default colors. If you want to choose a new foreground color, one way you can do that is simply click on the foreground color swatch and it will bring up a color picker. I'll just click somewhere and choose a new color, and I'll do the same thing for the background color. I'll just click on the background color swatch here, it will bring up the color picker again, and I'll just choose a different background color. Now if I choose something such as my brush tool, and begin to paint on this image, I will always be painting with the foreground color. If I want to change that to the background color, I need to swap the two by clicking on this rounded arrow double-headed icon. And it will swap the foreground for the background color. These next set of buttons here switch me from working with a selection to what is called quick mask mode. And I'll talk about this more in a special tutorial on working with selections and masks. Essentially you can isolate an effect inside a selection, but you can also edit that using some brush tools such as my brush and paint with white. Now I am painting on the mask and not that the actual RGB image. And now if I switch back to selection mode, you can see how my selection has been updated. I'm going to go ahead and deselect that. Talk about these next three icons here: these are different viewing modes for our document. The standard viewing mode shows our background desktop, we can put our image on a gray background, so everything in the background is hidden. And then finally this last one will put it on a black background and hide the menus at the top. And if you want to get rid of everything, you can just hit the tab key when you are in this mode, and now you are simply looking at your image on a black background. This is a nice way to see your image without all the distracting palettes if you just want to look at your image. I am going to hit the tab key again and bring back my tools palette. And the bottom most icon here is a button which will jump you to ImageReady. So what it will do is it will launch Adobe ImageReady, which is the stand alone application designed for optimizing your images for the World Wide Web.