• 01:03 Move Tool
  • Default Short Cut is "V"
  • Probably the most used tool in Photoshop.
• If you have an unlocked layer, you can drag your entire image around the canvas.

• 01:29 Artboard Tool
  • A feature brought over from Illustrator.
• click and drag on your canvas, creates a square/rectangle containing a part of your image,
  • while it's size is growing, it displays its size in width and height as pixels
  • when you let go of the cursor, the rest of the original image is disregarded
• it made a new artboard and names it “Artboard 1”
• you can make many artboards on your canvas by clicking those plus sign buttons
• the point of having many artboards
  • Is to have different designs or photos on the same canvas.
  • you have one photoshop file
    • and you can have all kinds of different comps in that photoshop file
    • the different artboards
      • are listed by name in the "Layers" panel on the right
      • as he deletes them, their names disappears from the panel
    • This can be handy if your doing multiple variations on the same project.

• 02:31 Rectangular Marquee Tool
  • click and drag the mouse, to select a square or rectangle from your image
  • things you can do with the selection
    1. create a layer from what you selected with a Copy or Cut
    2. you can hide that new layer or hide the other layer and your left with your selection

• 03:11 Elliptical Marquee Tool
  • click and drag the mouse, to select a circle or ellips/oval ?? from your image
    1. you can Cut that out, Paste it on to a new layer

• 04:15 Single Row Marquee Tool
  • selects a single row of pixels

• 04:40 Single Column Marquee Tool
  • selects a single column of pixels

• 04:58 Lasso Tool
  • allows you to freehand select
  • as an example he enlarges an image and uses his mouse to select the area he wants
  • then he goes back to the Move Tool and drags the selected image away, he cut that straight out of the image

• 05:38 Polygonal Lasso Tool
  • its a freehand selection tool with anchor points and straight lines
  • he uses the previous image example to demonstrate how to use the anchor points
    • to get a tighter selection from the image
  • and again he can go to the move tool and cut them straight out,
    • or paste them on to another layer

• 06:28 Magnetic Lasso Tool
  • this tool will attempt to detect edges
  • he uses as an example a rock in the foreground, and a lake in the background, inside of his image
  • he uses the mouse to stay close to the line that is part of the rock,
    • and the tool places anchor points on its own
  • he also semonstrates that if he made a mistake, and some anchor points are off the mark,
    • he can use the Delete key or Backspace Key to undo some of the anchor points,
    • so he can try again to continue selecting the rock.
  • he clicks on the original anchor to close the selection
  • he can then cut and paste that on to another new layer
  • drag it around, replace it with something else, etc
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• 00:00 Object Selection Tool
  • no description in this video,
  • he refers to the button as the Quick Selection Tool

• 07:56 Quick Selection Tool
  • you use this tool to click and drag over the object you want to select
  • it then tries to find the edges of the object you selected
  • sometimes this does not work well on certain images
  • he tried another rock with more constrats
  • he demonstrates this again with an image that has a logo on it
  • that was more successful because of lines are so crisp and the stark constrats and colors used

• 09:06 Magic Wand Tool
  • this is a one click selection tool
    • in his demonstration he tries to select the sky
    • because the sky is gradiently going from a light blue to a darker blue
    • it selected a layer, one slice of the similar color, within the gradients of colors used
  • however, when he raised the "Tolerance" from 10 to 100, the tool selected the entire sky
    • unfortunetly, it also selected the lake below, so he tries a lower "Tolerance" of 50

• When he goes to the other image with the logo, one click and the image is selected properly
  • it also selected the letter O, so he turns on "Contiguous" (within the bounds of the object)
  • and this time it selects the logo without the letter O below it.
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• 10:42 Crop Tool
  • we would crop things using this tool
  • you can set screen ratio, preset width, hight, ppi
  • he did drag around one corner, effecting the objects width and hight

• 11:26 Perspective Crop Tool
  • once you click and drag what you want to crop
  • you can catch a corner tab and move it about, now using curvature display
  • it will crop the image and make it match the width and hight of its setting

• 12:14 Slice Tool
  • with the Slice Tool you can go around and make selections
  • this is a tool used in web design, so that when you save it,
    • the pictures can be put back together like in a puzzel

• 12:47 Slice Select Tool
  • you can select a particular slice that you made
  • if there were multiple slices, with this tool you can select them and move them around

• 00:00 Frame Tool
  • reserve for description

• 13:18 Eyedropper Tool
  • the Eyedropper Tool is used to select a color and move it into a color palet
  • it shows up in our "Color Picker (Foreground Color)" screen and (24) Background/Foreground" color set

• 00:00 3D Material Eyedropper Tool
  • description

• 14:08 Color Sampler Tool
  • when he single clicks in the sky of the image
    • a screen pops up, gives us RGB value
  • when you click on the eyedropper icon on that screen,
    • a submenu pops up displaying other settings including different color settings, greyscale, 8, 16, or 32 bit
  • this tool is used to check the status of multiple colors and create a color scheme out of that

• 14:54 Ruler Tool
  • the Ruler Tool is handy if you want to figure out the distance between two objects
  • he uses the mouse to go from the first object to the second
  • and when he's done, the speaker points out the "L1: 1873.31" in pixels
  • "A: 15.3" degrees our angle is 15.3 degrees
  • he uses the "Clear" button to clear out the line

• In another example:
  • he slightly tilts the picture, causing the line between the lake and the mountains to no longer be level, but tilited.
    • he is setting up the image so he can show you another way to use the Ruler Tool.
  • the object of this example is to strighten out the horizon or the line between the lake and the mountains
  • he clicks and drags a line just above the seperation of the lake and the mountains
    • maintaining the same angle as the seperation of the lake and the mountains
    • at the top of the screen is a "Straighten Layer" button that he now clicks
      • and the image is pretty close to where it originally was
      • with the separation of the lake and the mountains now horizontally correct
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• 16:03 Note Tool
  • the Note Tool is great if your calaborating or want to make a note for yourself
  • when you click inside your image, a "Notes" tab displayed itself, in a panel, on the right side of the screen
  • he wrote "Remove these people." obviously from the image
  • The little yellow Note icon will stay displayed on the image
  • when someone else or you sees that little icon, you click on it,
    • the Notes dialog box is displayed with the note for you to read.
  • you can even add an "Author:" in the text box above to identify yourself as the Note's author
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• 16:43 Count Tool
  • to demonstrate how to use the Count Tool
    • he uses another image with a lot of office supplies and laptops being used
  • he then starts clicking objects, and as he does so it leaves behind a number
    • so the first object has a label displaying the number one.
  • He then adjust the "Marker Size:" from 2 to 10 and the "Label Size:" fom 12 to 57
  • when he clicks the color box, the "Color Picker (Count Color)" dialog box appears
    • he then changes the color so you can see it better
    • which changes the font color of that number one icon he left behind
  • He then clicks an aditional 5 objects leaving behind a label with the next number 2, 3, 4, 5, & 6
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• 17:35 Spot Healing Brush Tool
  • he goes back to the image of the lake, mountains, and a few people
  • he zooms into 2 people walking
  • he verifies that the layer is selected in the Layes tab on the right side panel
  • On top of the screen, "Type:" has "Content-Aware"
  • after selecting the tool, he clicks and drags over the person on the left
  • when he lets go of the mouse, the person is gone from the image,
    • and replaced by the background of the mountain side.
    • it filled in the space with image data it collected from the surrounding space
  • he does this again with the second person, and it did a good job of replacing her image with the background.
  • he also had to erase their reflections in the lake.

• 18:44 Healing Brush Tool
  • this tool is based on a selection you make
  • he holds the ALT key on his keyboard, click the mouse, and make a selection in the water of the image,
    • he then uses that, to get rid of the second reflection from the previous tool description
  • the tool then tries to copy that information over the reflection
  • it worked moderately well, a little smudgey
  • he admits that the Spot Healing Brush Tool worked a little bit better

• 19:42 Patch Tool
  • he zooms in on two other folks standing on a hill
  • he says: its kind of like the freehand margue tool
    • and he starts to draw a line around the two people with this tool
    • when he connects the line,
    • the line itself is displayed as black and white short lines around the object he's selecting
  • then you have a choice, "Source" or "Destination"
    • he points to these two buttons above

• he selects "Source"
  • what this will do is replace the selected object
    • with the object he can drag around looking for the best match to replace the people with
  • and then its going to blend it
  • you can sort of see the edges of the replacement selection
    • but it did a pretty good job of getting rid of those people

• he's going to undo that, that places the two people he replaced back to where they were

• next he selects the "Destination" button
  • as he moves around the mouse, you can see that he's ready to reposition the copies of those two people elsewhere,
    • leaving the original people where they are
  • it does a pretty good job about copying them and blending the edges
  • he undo's that move to prepare the image for the next tool demonstration
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• 21:03 Content-Aware Move Tool
  • this is very similar to the Patch Tool with a couple of different options
  • he uses the mouse to draw a line around the two people, and when he connects the lines,
    • they turn to the black and white lines
  • he drags them over, he moves them a few feet from where they were by clicking the OK button
    • the OK button displays with a checkmark near the top of the screen.
  • the difference is that the tool literally moved the object for you
    • and replaces the original location that was cut out, with content aware fill
  • he undo's that move to prepare the image for the next tool demonstration
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• 21:38 Red Eye Tool
  • this should be very self explanatory, there have been red eye tools around for a long time
  • he displays an image of himself with red eye, and enlarges it to make the red eye bigger
  • he places the mouse cursor over one red eye and clicks the mouse, then moves to the other eye and clicks that,
    • the red "spot" becomes a black "spot"
  • he points to two settings above
    • the "Pupil Size" and the "Darken Amount" settings
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• 22:18 Brush Tool
  • when he clicked the Brush Tool, the mouse cursor turned into a circle
    • and some of the Brush Tool's property buttons are displayed on top of the screen
  • he clicks the size button and a pop up screen displays:
    • Size, Hardness, Soft Round, Hard Round, and some other settings
    • Size of the brush
    • Hardness - softness of the edge of the brush, 0 is max softness

• Next he selects the "Color Picker (Foreground Color)" dialog box
• from the left toolbar's "Set Foreground or Background Colors" button
  • he selected red, and clicked it's OK button, the dialog box disappears, the circle mouse cursor is displayed
  • and when he clicks the mouse it looks like he's painting red lines all over the image

• 22:46 Pencil Tool
  • The Pencil Tool reminds the speaker of Microsoft's Paint, and their Pencil Tool.
  • Very rudentary, basic kind of tool for drawing
  • he draws a continuous line through out the image
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• 23:03 Color Replacement Tool
  • he switches to the image with the logo and name of a company
  • he opens the "Color Picker (Foreground Color)" dialog box
    • he selects bright red
  • the tool is trying to find the edges of whatever he is painting
    • and what's really happening is that there are two letter O's
    • he is aiming the mouse cursor for the inside of each letter O
    • and it's blending the colors of the O's from its original color to blend with that bright red
    • different shades of red are created depending on the original color of the object
      • and the color choosen for the Color Replacement Tool
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• 23:43 Mixer Brush Tool
  • with the red still selected
    • he drags the mouse over part of the logo
    • actually dragging back and fourth with the cursor as if you were painting a wall with a brush
  • its trying to mix the two colors
    • the original color and the color selected for the tool
    • and have a little bit of a natural brush feel
  • its a nice tool if you are doing some digital painting
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• 24:31 Clone Stamp Tool
  • he goes back to the image of the lake and mountains
  • that tool displays either a small circle with cross lines and an x inside of a smaller circle,
    • or a plain circle as its cursor when something is selected
  • to make a selection with this tool, he presses the ALT key on the keyboard
  • he selects one persons head and upper torso
  • and when he moves the cursor away from what he selected
    • it gives you a preview of what he is cloning
  • he clicks the mouse and drags around the figure's head and around where their bodies should be
    • and the rest of the two people are placed in their new cloned spot
    • just several feet behind the original

• With the brush settings you can control the hardness and the size
  • brush setting is one of the first buttons near the top on the left
• there are more settings that he won't go into now,
  • but he's pointing to the different settings displayed near the top of the screen
  • example: Mode, Opacity, Flow, Aligned, "Sample: Current and Below"

• 25:15 Pattern Stamp Tool
  • he uses the image of himself holding a large video camera
  • he also adds a new layer
  • his goal is to place a pattern on his face

• once he selects the tool from the left hand toolbar
  • he uses the "Pattern picker" from that top toolbar
  • he selects a pattern from the Pattern picker
• he then clicks and drags the pattern on the cursor to his face

• 25:48 Since he has this other new layer, he's going to go to his "blending modes" located in the "Layers" panel.
  • On the video it's set to "Normal", and includes a drop-down menu for the blending modes.
  • I noticed the drop down did not work until I added a new layer.
  • He selects "Multiply" from the drop-down menu
    • that will take everything that is bright (from the original image of his face), translucent.
  • He then lowers the "Opacity" field, by using its slider tool, to change from 100% to 24%
    • he says he going to take the opacity down a bit
    • as he does that, the pattern becomes more translucent.
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• 26:15 History Brush Tool
  • he starts with the image of the lake and the mountains
  • and he says: lets pretend we made some modifications
  • he goes to the "Spot Healing Brush Tool"
    • he uses his mouse to go over the two people walking
    • and when he's done, they disappear, no longer displayed in the image, replaced by it's background
  • he uses the same tool to "get rid of this guy", another figure below the two, that are no longer displayed
  • all this is going on in "Layer 0"
  • he then says: you decided to make a change by just taking out the solo guy
    • and keep the two original figures in the image

• 26:41 he goes back to the "History Brush Tool"
  • and he simply aims the cursor at where the two people originally were
  • and when he clicks the mouse they reappear
  • leaving the solo guy out of the image

• 26:55 Art History Brush Tool
  • he says this is a really interesting tool that he doesn't really use
  • he says it "artifies" the image you are working on

• 27:06 there are different styles, located in a drop-down menu from the top toolbar
  • in the video "Style: is set to "Tight Short"
  • he changes the style to "Dab" from the Style's drop-down menu

• 27:10 he than moves the cursor around the sky of the image
  • creating a cloud effect, but it's color is different shades of blue closely related to the original color
  • he says: this is going to dab that sky for me
  • Goggle's dictionary says Dab is:
    • press against (something) lightly with a piece of absorbent material in order to clean or dry it.
    • or: aim at or strike with a light blow.
  • he does this to the entire sky displayed in that image

• 27:33 he now uses the tool on the left side of the image which is a large hill with two people on it
  • he then clicks and drags over that hill creating circles with different colors from that hill
    • light brown, dark brown, grey, black, etc
  • he used the tool on the entire hill
  • he then says: its going to take these colors, the primary colors that it detects from your image
    • as he is saying that he is doing the same thing to the rock on the left side of the image
    • and different shades of grey and brown are used to create those circles left behind from the moving cursor
  • he says: it creates this artistic rendering ...
  • he admidts he doesn't have any finesse when it comes to this tool
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• 28:03 Eraser Tool
  • It erases the image where your cursor is
    • when you drag the mouse, it erases the image where the mouse was
  • it also has it's own tools that you can set in that top toolbar
    • you can change properties on your brushes, size, hardness
    • for softer edges when you erase
  • you can also change "Mode" from "Brush" to "Pencil" or "Block"
  • you can also change the "Flow" and "Smoothing" properties from that toolbar

• 28:26 Background Eraser Tool
  • he changes the image back to the logo
  • he places the cursor next to the outside edge of the logo
    • note: the logo is blue and the background is white
  • and while he uses the tool you can see the white background getting erased
    • and he states that the tool can detect the border of the blue logo and will not erase that
    • he states its only erasing everything behind it or next to it
      • meaning the white background around the blue logo

• 29:01 he made a mistake by accidentally taking out some of the logo
  • I couldn't see any mouse movement on the video
    • so I think he used undo from the keyboard
    • and he lost very little of his work
    • that he can make up in seconds
  • he says if the brush goes on top of that object too much
    • then it will start erasing it because it thinks you're targeting it
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• 29:14 Magic Eraser Tool
  • he says its kind of similar to the Magic Wand Tool
  • he clicks part of the logo, and that entire "section" of the logo got selected and erased
  • it detects edges and colors, contrast, basically ...
  • it will erase what ever you're clicking
  • he starts clicking several parts of the logo, and with each click that section gets erased

• 29:34 you can change the Tolerance above in the toolbar
• 29:42 or you can click on the white background, and the entire background within those boundries will be erased
  • the background within the two letters O's were not erased
    • becase the letter O kept a border around the inside background.
  • he unchecked "Contiguous" from the toolbar and clicked the white background
    • this time the white background and the inside of the letter O's were also erased
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• 29:56 Gradient Tool
  • he displayed the lake and mountain image
  • then he says: if your a photographer, you may use a graduated filter from time to time
    • but inside of Photoshop you can also use a gradient to replicate this filter
    • I'm going to create a new layer, make sure my colors are black and white there
      • I'm assuming in that bottom button where you control the color of background and foreground
  • he clicks and drags from the top of the image all the way to the bottom
    • the image is now a top black to bottom white gradient
  • then he goes to his blending modes
    • and changes it from "Normal" to "Multiply"
  • and in the lake and mountains image, its dark on top, all the way to black,
    • and lighter towards the bottom of that image

• 30:39 he wants to decrease the Opacity from 100% to 27%
  • if you have a really bright sky and you want to try to even it out a little bit, you can use this technique.

• 31:00 there are other settings in the toolbar, ie: the five gradient settings of:
  • 1-Linear Gradient, 2-Radial Gradient, 3-Angle Gradient, 4-Reflected Gradient, 5-Diamond Gradient
  • he chooses Radial Gradient, which displayed a black circle changing to white
    • and he demos the other gradient settings
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• 31:12 Paint Bucket Tool
  • he goes back to the logo image
  • lets say we want to change this background very quickly
    • the background color of this image is white
  • he selects Red from the Color Picker
    • and with a single click the background is now red
  • he undo's his work turning the background back to white

• 31:36 By turning on "Contiguous", the tool is still set to red,
  • he clicks the background again and inside those two O's, are not effected and are still white.
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• 31:47 3D Material Drop Tool
  • since we are not working with 3D Materials, he is going to skip this

• 31:54 Blur Tool
  • he displays an image of himself and friend in front of a large white Amsterdam
    • sign outside a museum with a few people walking around in the background
  • he wants to blur one person face out from the image, so he zooms in on that person's face

• 32:05 he clicks and moves his mouse back and fourth over his face, bluring the person's face
  • he also blurs the face of the female next to him
  • then he zooms out to look at the image, and says: very nice.
• he undo's that

• 32:32 Sharpen Tool
  • he zoom's in to one of his friend's eye, the image looks very pixelated
  • he places the cursor on the eye, and clicks on it a couple of times
  • it sharpens the detail, helps the contrast a bit
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• 32:57 Smudge Tool
  • he zooms into another person's face and says:
    • maybe I want this face to look like a vampire
  • so he places the cursor over the top of his ear and drags it up, it does get longer and looks pointy
  • then he grabs the back of the ear and drags that out a little
  • he pulls his nose out a little bit
  • he widens the mouth verticly

• 33:32 he says: as you can see, this is a entirely destructive
  • it really blured the skin
  • so not a great way to use this tool
    • a better tool to use is under "Filter" from the top menu bar, and "Liquify..." from its sub-menu
    • but he says that's a tool for a different show
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• 33:49 Dodge Tool
  • he zooms into the female's eyes again
  • if he clicks and drags the cursor over the eye, the Dodge tool will increase the brightness of those eyes
    • he uses this tool on four eyes, two for the female, two for himself
  • it sort of like a spot treatment
    • he also uses it on the female's teeth, it made them brighter, more whiter

• 34:29 Burn Tool
  • he undo's his changes from the previous exercise
  • the Burn Tool does the exact opposite of the Dodge tool
  • he zooms into one of his eyes ...
    • he then clicks and drag over the eye, and the white part gets darker and darker
  • he zooms back out and his two eyes look like creepy black eyes, you can't even see a pupil in his eyes
  • he says: it's just a tool for darkening
  • he than attempts to darken his scalp, I thought it works a little
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• 35:10 Sponge Tool
  • there are two different Modes for this Sponge tool
    • "Desaturate" and "Saturate"
  • on the same image, zoomed into their faces
    • he says he looks a little pale
    • so he can saturate his skin, it turns a bit redder
      • spot saturate the skin a little bit
    • so he uses the tool to saturate his and her faces
    • he says: I'm going to make those cheeks a bit more rosey

• 35:36 he can change the mode to "Desaturate"
  • he reduces the size of the tool from 65 to 20
  • and he places the cursor on one of the female's eyes
  • he says he is desaturating the eyes
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• 35:49 Pen Tool
  • he displays the image with the logo
  • he says: Lets say I want to take this jpg and turn into a vector shape
  • the first step is to take my pen, and click on the top of the logo
    • that places a little square at that point called an anchor point
  • he clicks again at the bottom of a curve,
    • that starts on the right side of the point, heading down to where he clicked the second time
    • he holds that and drags out to move/adjust the mouse cursor which is manipulating the curve boundry,
    • he says: and you can see its creating the curve,
      • he is going to match the curve with the logo
    • then he release the button on the mouse, possibly creating another anchor point
  • he is going to hold ALT, to straighten out the line
    • he says: make it match the logo
  • he clicks further down at another point, to create another anchor point
  • he quickly creates the rest of the anchor points needed for this object/logo

• 36:50 he says: we have a couple of options
  • we can right-click, which displays a submenu
  • he selects "Make Selection...",
  • the "Make Selection" dialog box is displayed
    • he points out that "Operation" is set to "New Selection"
  • he then click's it's OK button
  • the borders of the logo that you just created are selected
    • the border lines are now dashed lines slowly moving around the object

• 36:55 he says: Or he wants to define a custom shape
  • from the submenu he selects "Define Custom Shape..."
    • a "Shape Name" dialog box appears
      • with an image of your custom made shape on the left
      • and "Name: Shape 1" text box on the right
      • and OK and Cancel buttons
    • you can save it and it will be inside of Photoshop free to use at a latter time
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Other Pen and Anchor Point Tools

• 37:10 underneath the Pen Tool item in the submenu, there are many other pen and anchor point tools you can use
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Path Selection Tool

• 37:18 however if you go down past the Text Tool, and select the "Path Selection Tool"
  • you can take that path (the object you selected) and you can move it around easily
    • I'm assuming you are dragging the object around the image
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Direct Selection Tool

• 37:29 Or you can use the "Direct Selection Tool"
  • you can change the path anchor point, another words, you can move that anchor point around
  • he demonstrates moving several anchor points around, one at a time,
  • and he says: to create something entirely different
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• 00:00 Freeform Pen Tool
  • Description TBD

• 00:00 Curvature Pen Tool
  • Description TBD

• 00:00 Add Anchor Point Tool
  • Description TBD

• 00:00 Delete Anchor Point Tool
  • Description TBD

• 00:00 Convert Point Tool
  • Description TBD

• 37:50 Horizontal Type Tool
  • is exactly what it sounds like
  • he's going to click and start typing
  • what he types starts at where he clicked and is displayed in a horizontal direction

• 38:04 he switched to the Move Tool so he can move that text he just entered around
  • he deletes or undo's that text

• 38:14 Verticle Type Tool
  • again, its exactly what it sounds like
  • he's going to click and start typing
  • what he types starts at where he clicked and is displayed in a vertical direction
  • one letter at a time is displayed below the letter on top of it as your typing
  • and again he can move it around with the Move Tool

• 38:27 Verticle Type Mask Tool
  • he says: what about these other two tools, the Verticle and Horizontal Type Mask tools
  • works similarly to the Horizontal Type Mask Tool as explained below
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• 38:33 Horizontal Type Mask Tool
  • he wants to demo this one before the verticle one
  • it acts as the Horizontal Type Tool as your typing
  • he than clicks the Check Mark button from the toolbar for the OK
    • and the tool selects the text you just typed
    • you see it on the screen as just the letter's boundries
    • he says it made a selection in the shape of the letters you typed

• 38:52 by going to the "Select" item from the menu bar
  • he selects "Transform Selection" from the "Select" submenu
    • and that will allow us to move that around
    • he positions the text in a center position on the logo

• 39:03 we could do a couple of different things
  • you can add a mask to this layer
  • he does so by clicking the "Add layer mask" button towards the bottom right corner of the Photoshop window
  • or if we undo that we could hit delete or backspace on the keyboard
  • you see the layer white and grey checkered boxes inside the letters
  • he says it cut those letters out of our image
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• 37:18 Path Selection Tool
  • described in this direct internal link to the Pen Tool section on this page

• 37:29 Direct Selection Tool
  • described in this direct internal link to the Pen Tool section on this page

• 39:28 Rectangle Tool
  • he calls all these tools within the "Rectangle Tool" submenu, the shape tools
  • he first selects the Rectangle Tool, which displays its own settings in that top toolbar
  • he clicks the Fill button and the Fill palet is displayed
    • he says: you can fill it with any color you like
  • he says: you can also add a stroke to it, or just an outline if you will
  • you can adjust the size of the outline/border

• 39:52 he then clicks and drags, and a rectangle with the fill color and the size of the border already determined,
  • is displayed in the image
  • and he says: there's our shape

• 39:59 he deletes the new rectangle
  • and he says: if you would like to create a perfect square
  • just hold the Shift key and Drag, and you will always have a perfect square
  • again displayed with the border settings and Fill color
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• 40:08 Rounded Rectangle Tool
  • this particular tool does not show up in the submenu for the Rectangle Tool in Adobe Photoshop 2021
  • the instructor of this video is using an Apple, I'm using Windows

• 40:13 as soon as he selects the Rounded Rectangle Tool
  • some settings are added to the toolbar for the rounded corners
  • if you go over to the Radius setting in the toolbar
    • the slider control for the setting is used for rounding the corners
    • he is going to leave it at "100 px"
  • he then clicks and drags
    • and as he does so, you can see the rectangle with the rounded corners take shape, without a fill
      • and with its width and hight displayed while the mouse button is held,
      • changing its numbers as the object is bigger or smaller
    • when he lets go of the mouse, the fill color and border settings are used
  • and he says: we have a 100 pixel radius on that corner
    • then a slider control is displayed on that left top corner
    • he doesn't use that slider control, it just vanishes from the video without explanation
  • he then deletes that rounded rectangle shape
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• 40:34 Ellipse Tool
  • still using the same border and fill settings
  • just by selecting that tool, he can creates circles or ellipses instantly
  • using the Shift key you can make a perfect circle
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• 00:00 Triangle Tool
  • he does not have the Triangle Tool on his version of Photoshop

• 40:45 Polygon Tool
  • the Polygon Tool has some unique settings
    • he talks about the Sides property, you select how many sides your polygon will display
    • it was originaly set to 19, he reset it to 3
    • click and drag, you have a triangle using the same border and fill settings previously set
    • if you use the Move Tool, you can move the shape around your image
  • he deletes the triangle so he could show us something else

• 41:05 if we change the Sides property from 3 to 5
  • he says: we can create a pentagon, with the same fill and border settings
  • he can move it around with the Move Tool
• 41:13 he says: or we can add 20, meaning change the Sides from 5 to 20
  • a shape with 20 sides is displayed, while creating it, it's width and hight are displayed until you let go of the mouse
  • when you let go of the mouse, the shape is displayed on the screen using your fill and border settings
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• 41:21 Line Tool
  • the Line Tool is based on Weight
  • so if we have a 50 pixel weighted line, he's going to take the stroke off of this one
  • he draws a line up and down, it's red, and is 50 pixels wide
  • he also creates a 5 pixel line that is thinner than the 50 pixel line
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• 41:49 Custom Shape Tool
  • these are shapes you either imported or came with Photoshop
    • he displays them by clicking the Shape button from the toolbar
    • I don't have as many shapes as he has

• 42:06 he chooses a rabbit from his set of shapes
  • by clicking the little square that the rabbit icon occupies
  • then you click and drag until you have the size you want for your shape, on your image
  •  
  • however what the instructor did was first choose the rabbit
    • the rabbit icon now appears in the "Shape" property setting in the toolbar
  • before planting the newly choosen shape on his image
    • he changes the "Fill" color from red to blue
  • then he drags and drops the rabbit on to the image until he gets the size he wants
    • as your dragging the mouse, the shape's width and height are displayed
  • when he lets go of the mouse button
    • the rabbit is displayed in Blue with anchor points on the shape's borders
  • he then chooses the "Direct Selection Tool" so he can use the mouse to move those anchor points around
    • by dragging an anchor point to what ever position you want it to be
    • it keeps it fill color as your doing that
    • he demos this with other anchor points
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• 42:31 Hand Tool
  • the purpose of the Hand Tool is to move the Canvas around
  • very simple to use

• 42:46 Rotate View Tool
  • he zooms out so the entire image containing the logo, the company name, and it's white background
    • does not take up the entire area that we work in, in Photoshop
  • he says: I wonder what this logo will look like sideways
    • he presses the mouse and he can turn the whole page on its side
    • he says: if you hold the Shift key, it will lock into 15 degree increments
      • or something like that
    • as he is turning the page, an arrow displays in the middle of the page, the original top and bottom directions

• 43:19 there is a "Reset View" button in the toolbar
  • so you can reset the page or image back to its original position

• 43:21 Zoom Tool
  • he calls this the magnifying glass or the zoom tool
  • by default its a magnifying glass, so you click on what you want to magnify

• 43:36 if you hold the ALT key and click it will demagnify or zoom out

• 00:00 Edit Toolbar
  • Description TBD

• 43:51 Default or Switch foreground and background colors
  • the icon on the left - Help Tip displays "Default Foreground and Background Colors (D)"
    • he says: these little guy here,
    • they will change your colors back to the default Black foreground and White background colors
    • you can also do this by hitting D on your keyboard
    • and if you want to switch background and foreground colors you can hit X

• 00:00 Set foreground and background colors
  • Description TBD

• 44:13 Edit in Quick Mask Mode
  • he called this the Quick Selection Mask Tool
  • once you have that selected, go ahead and take a brush,
    • and you can brush over top of whatever you want to mask out
  • and if you click the tool again, in that left handed toolbar, it will give you a selection
  • he then clicks the "Add Layer Mask" button located in the panel's the bottom right set of buttons
    • After clicking the "Add Layer Mask" button
    • and it will mask that out

• 44:48 Change Screen Mode
  • on the video, this has 3 menu options
    • Standard Screen Mode
    • Full Screen Mode With Menu Bar
    • Full Screen Mode
  • F is the keyboard shortcut

• 00:00 Standard Screen Mode
  • we still have our toolbars and side panels
  • this is the mode we were in the entire time of this video

• 45:00 Full Screen Mode With Menu Bar
  • we still have our toolbars
  • the user interface is slimmed down significantly

• 45:07 Full Screen Mode
  • this mode is handy when your painting and you want as little distraction as possible