Interactive Photoshop Tool Guide
This is an online version of a comprehensive
Adobe Photoshop Toolbox reference.
Click on a tool's
icon to view animated usage instruction.
| Icon | Tool |
Key | Purpose | Icon | Tool |
Key | Purpose | |
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Elliptical Marquee | M | selecting |
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Single Row Marquee | - | selecting | |
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Rectangular Marquee | M | selecting |
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Single Column Marquee | selecting | ||
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Lasso | L | selecting |
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Move | V | transforming | |
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Polygonal Lasso | L | selecting |
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Magic Wand | W | selecting | |
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Magnetic Lasso | L | selecting |
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Crop | C | transforming | |
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Slice | K | web design |
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Slice Select | K | web design | |
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Healing Brush (Photoshop7) |
J | retouching |
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Patch (Photoshop7) |
J | retouching | |
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Brush |
B | painting |
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Pencil | B | painting | |
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Clone Stamp | S | painting |
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Pattern Stamp | S | painting | |
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History Brush | Y | restores to selected history state |
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Art History Brush | Y | painting | |
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Airbrush | J | painting |
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Eraser | E | erasing | |
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Background Eraser | E | erasing |
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Magic Eraser | E | erasing | |
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Paint Bucket | G | painting |
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Gradient | G | painting | |
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Blur | R | unfocusing |
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Sharpen | R | focusing | |
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Smudge | R | painting |
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Sponge | O | color adjustment | |
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Dodge | O | tonal adjustment |
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Burn | O | tonal adjustment | |
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Horizontal Type | T | typing |
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Vertical Type | T | typing | |
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Horizontal Type Mask | T | typing |
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Vertical Type Mask | T | typing | |
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Direct Selection | A | drawing |
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Path (Component) Selection | A | drawing | |
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Pen | P | drawing |
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Freeform Pen | P | drawing | |
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Add Anchor Point | - | drawing |
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Delete Anchor Point | - | drawing | |
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Convert Point | - | drawing |
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Rectangle | U | drawing | |
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Rounded Rectangle | U | drawing |
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Ellipse | U | drawing | |
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Polygon | U | drawing |
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LIne | U |
drawing
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Custom Shape | U | drawing |
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Eyedropper | I | choosing color | |
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Color Sampler | I | color information |
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Measure | I | geometrical measurements | |
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Notes | N | non-printable data |
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Audio Annotation | N | non-printable data | |
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Hand | H | navigating |
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Zoom | Z | image viewing | |
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Color Selecting box | - | displays current color |
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Color Replacement | J | retouching | |
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Mode Selector | Q | selecting |
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Jump to Image Ready | Shift+ Ctrl+ M |
web design
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