Magic wand tool

*this tool is used to select some particular colours. Suppose you want to change the colour of the face, cloth or any part of the image which has almost same colour pattern. With the help of magic wand you can select it very easily. Just like in fig 134

*now you can take any action with the selected portion of the picture. Suppose you want to change the color of that part of the face.
*just go to ‘layer’<<’adjustment new layer’<<’color balance’ just like in fig 135

Crop tool

*this tool is used to crop some part of the image. Just select the crop tool as pointed by arrow in the fig 136.
* before using crop tool, one thing is important to remember. If you want to select any part freely then don’t set any value in height and width column. But if u want to cut the image in fixed ratio. Then write some values in height and width box

Heal tool

*this tool is used to select some part of the image and paste it to neighbourhood part.


This tool is mostly used when some part of the image is damage or distorted. Then select

the neighbourhood part and paste it on the damage part.

*select heal tool as shown in the fig 137
 

* press ‘alt+left click’ to select the area which you want to repeat.

*release the left click

*again press the left click and keep it on moving on the damage area.

Just in fig 137

Just as i select the eyes and keep it on moving on other parts

Patch tool

*patch tool is also similar to heal tool.


*drag the image to select the area you want to repair, and select source in
the option bar.
*drag the image to select the area from which you want to sample and select destination in
the option bar

Pencil tool

*this is very easy tool. Just select the pencil & write anything on the image as a pencil.

Just as in fig 140.

Clone stamp tool

*this is very useful tool used for various purposes like erase something, copy some parts

in the image.
*look at the image fig 141

*to remove these unwanted part select the clone stamp tool as pointed by arrow in fig 141

*press alt+left click to select the area which you want to repeat. As you see the image,

the background is similar every. So you can select any area from the background by clicking

alt+left click.

*now press left click and start dragging the pointer in the unwanted part. Now your image

is look like as in figure 142

you can remove the unwanted part from very complex situations also like in fig

*while removing the part, one thing shoud be take care is that you have to select the


neighbourhood points by clicking alt+left click, many times as depend upon the necessity

Of the image.

Pattern stamp tool

*this is almost similar to clone stamp tool.

*simply click the tool and choose the pattern which you want to add. By dragging the cursor
by clicking left mouse, you can fill the pattern anywhere. As I fill it in the background
in the fig 145

Paint bucket tool

*this is a simple tool just as in windows paint. Select the paint & its colour as in fig


146. And fill it where you want to fill in the image

Blur tool

*blur tool is often used when the quality of the picture is low, means it has very low pixel value but you want to view it in large mode. Then you have to use the blur tool. Now look at the picture 147. There is lot of noise distortion on the image because it is a low quality image. Common example is images from the low quality mobile are not good visible. So blur tool is very helpful to overcome these problem.

*select the blur tool. Choose the mode as you want. There are different modes but by default mode is normal which is best mode for blur tool.

*after selected the blur tool dragging the mouse on the image, and you will get a good visible image just as in fig 148
 

Sharpen tool

*sharpen tool is usually used to sharpen the edges of the image. When the edges are


intermixed with the neighbourhood layers then this tool is used to sharpen it.

Just look at the image 149 & 150
 

Sharpen tool

*sharpen tool is usually used to sharpen the edges of the image. When the edges are


intermixed with the neighbourhood layers then this tool is used to sharpen it.

Just look at the image 149 & 150
 

Smudge tool

*this tool is used liquify the colours of the image. This is usually used when we want to


show the picture in motion view. Just look at the images 151& 152

dodge tool

*this tool is used to lighten the image. When we want to light some part of the image like


boundries etc then this tool is used. Just look at the picture 153 & 154

Burn tool

* this tool is used to darken the parts of the image, or may be the


whole image. It is very useful tool for brightening some parts. For use of this tool look

at the figure 155 & 156

sponge tool

*this tool is used for colour balancing with one major colour. Just look at the fig 157 &


158. Here I selected the blue colour. So after using this tool on the image. It increase

the blue intensity in the RGB mode of the image

Line tool

*this tool is used for various inbuild graphics function like line,arrow, double arrow,


rectangle, ellipse etc as shown in fig 159

Eyedropper tool

*this tool is used to pick colour from anywhere in the image. You can pick any foregroung



or any background colour as shown in fig 160 & 161