What is Photoshop?

Adobe Photoshop is the predominant photo editing and manipulation software on the market. Its uses range
from the full-featured editing of large batches of photos to creating intricate digital paintings and drawings
that mimic those done by hand.

What is the difference between Adobe Photoshop CS and CC?

Creative Suite was a traditional desktop software product. A major release would come out roughly every
two years. You, the user, would pay once for it and receive a physical box, shrink-wrapped in plastic.
Creative Cloud is continually updated. Updated are automatically installed as the developers get them
working. You pay for it every month like subscribing to a magazine. Beside the desktop application, you
also get cloud-based, sync'd storage.

Photoshop Screen Lay-out

Menu Bar
If you look at the top of the screen you will see the Menu bar which contains all the main functions of
Photoshop, such as File, Edit, Image, Layer, Select, Filter, Analysis, 3D, View, Window, and Help.
Toolbar
Most of the major tools are located in the Toolbar for easy access.
The Image
The image will appear in its own window once you open a ile.
Image Name
The name of any image that you open will be at the top of the image window as shown above.
Palettes
Palettes contain functions that help you monitor and modify images. By default, palettes are stacked
together in groups. These are the palettes that are usually visible: Color, Adjustments and Layers. If none of
the palettes are visible, go to Window in the Menu bar and choose the palettes you need.

Tools and settings

A. Zoom tool
B. Hand tool  Tools in the View group of the Expert mode toolbox
C. Quick Selection tool 
D. Eye tool  Zoom tool (Z)
E. Whiten Teeth tool  Zooms in or zooms out your image. The related tools shown in
F. Straighten tool  the Tool Options bar are Zoom In and Zoom Out.
G. Type tool 
H. Spot Healing Brush Hand tool (H)
tool  Moves your photo in the Photoshop Elements workspace. You
I. Crop tool  can drag your image using this tool..
J. Move tool 
Tools in the Select group of the Expert mode toolbox

Move tool (V)

Moves selections or layers. For more information, see
Move a selection.

Rectangular Marquee tool (M)

Selects an area in your image in a rectangular box. Hold
the Shift key to make the selection a square.

Elliptical Marquee tool (M)

Selects an area in your image in an elliptical shape.
Hold the Shift key to make the selection a circle.

Lasso tool (L)

Selects an area in your image in a free-form shape.

Magnetic Lasso tool (L)

Selects part of an image by selecting the high-contrast
edges around a shape.

Polygonal Lasso tool (L)

Draws straight-edged segments of a selection border.

Quick Selection tool (A)

Makes a selection based on color and texture similarity
when you click or click-drag the area you want to select.

Selection Brush tool (A)

Selects the area where you paint with the brush.

Magic Wand tool (A)

Selects the pixels with similar colors in a single click

Refine Selection Brush tool (A)

Adds or removes areas to and from a selection by
automatically detecting the edges. For more information
on this tool, see Edit and refine selections.

Auto Selection tool (A)

Automatically makes a selection when you draw a shape
around the object you want to select.
Tools in the Enhance group of the Expert mode toolbox

Eye tool (Y)

Removes the red eye effect, pet eye effect, and corrects closed eyes in your
photos.

Spot Healing Brush tool (J)

Removes spots from your photos.

Healing Brush tool (J)

Removes spots from your photo by selecting a part of your photo as the
reference point.

Smart Brush tool (F)

Applies tonal and color adjustments to specific areas of a photo.

Detail Smart Brush tool (F)

Paints the adjustment to specific areas of a photo just like a painting tool.

Clone Stamp tool (S)

Paints with an image sample, which you can use to duplicate objects, remove
image imperfections, or paint over objects in your photo. You can also clone
part of an image to another image.

Pattern Stamp tool (S)

Paints with a pattern defined from your image, another image, or a preset
pattern.

Blur tool (R)

Softens hard edges or areas in an image by reducing details.

Sharpen tool (R)

Sharpens a photo by focusing soft edges in the photo to increase clarity or
focus.

Smudge tool (R)

Simulates the actions of dragging a finger through wet paint. The tool picks up
color where the stroke begins and pushes it in the direction you drag.

Sponge tool (O)

Changes the color saturation of an area

Dodge tool (O)

Lightens areas of an image. You can use the tool to bring out details in
shadows

Burn tool (O)

Darkens areas of the image. You can use the tool to bring out details in
highlights.
Tools in the Draw group of the Expert mode toolbox
Brush tool (B)
Creates soft or hard strokes of color. You can use it to simulate airbrush techniques.

Impressionist Brush tool (B)

Changes the existing colors and details in your image so your photo looks like it was painted using
stylized brush strokes.

Color Replacement tool (B)

Simplifies replacing specific colors in your image

Eraser tool (E)

Erases the pixels in the image as you drag through them

Background Eraser tool (E)

Turns color pixels to transparent pixels so that you can easily remove an object from its background.

Magic Eraser tool (E)

Changes all similar pixels when you drag within a photo.

Paint Bucket tool (K)

Fills an area that is similar in color value to the pixels you click.

Pattern tool (K)

Applies a fill or a pattern to your image, instead of using one of the brush tools.

Gradient tool (G)

Fills in an area of image by a gradient.

Color Picker tool (I)

Copies or samples the color of an area in your photo to set a new foreground or background color.

Custom Shape tool (U)

Provides different shape options for you to draw. When you select the Custom Shape tool, you can access
these shapes in the Tool Options bar.

Type tool (T)

Creates and edits text on your image.

Pencil tool (N)

Creates hard-edged freehand lines.
Tools in the Modify group of the Expert mode toolbox

Crop tool (C)

Trims the part of an image according to the selection.

Cookie Cutter tool (C)

Crops a photo into a shape that you choose.

Perspective Crop tool (C)

Transforms the perspective of a picture while cropping it.

Recompose tool (W)

Intelligently resizes photos without changing important visual content, such as people, building, animals,
and more.

Content-Aware Move tool (Q)

Selects an object in your photo and moves the selection to a different location, or extends it.

Straighten tool (P)

Realigns an image vertically or horizontally. 2

Keyboard Shortcuts

Print
To clear print settings, hold down the spacebar while selecting File > Print.

Blur gallery (Field, Iris, Tilt-Shift)

H: Temporarily hide on-canvas UI M: Temporarily show blur mask

Liquify
M: Load Last Mesh X: Mirror Tool

Crop tool
Double-click inside crop box, or press Enter or Return: Commit crop
Esc: Cancel crop
X: Switch crop box orientation between portrait and landscape
:I (Creative Cloud only) Front Image for Crop tool and Perspective Crop tool
Backspace or Delete: Reset crop box
O: Cycle overlay options
Shift + O: Cycle overlay orientation for Triangle and Golden Spiral overlays
Forward slash (/): Hide and show cropped area
Shift + drag: Create new crop box
Shift + drag: corner handle Constrain proportions
Control (Windows) or Command (Mac OS): Invoke Straighten tool
Control + rotate: Prevent crop box from shrinking
Shift + rotate: Restrict to 15-degree increments
Shift + drag: image Restrict to 45-degree axes
Control + drag: Temporarily disable snapping to edge

Adaptive Wide Angle

Tool shortcuts Hidden shortcuts not visible in interface

L: Toggle transparent matte

X: Temorary zoom
C: Constraint tool
Y: Polygon Constraint tool
M: Move tool
H: Hand tool
Z: Zoom tool

Control shortcuts
P: Preview
W: Show Constraint
E: Show Mesh
T: Correction
S: Scale
F: Focal Length
R: Crop Factor
A: As Shot