Basic Photoshop Skills

Josh Illingworth

Eraser Tool

Selecting the Eraser tool will make the selection path delete the layer it is selected. In this case there is no layer behind the deleted layer so it is translucent.

Brush Tool

Selecting the Brush Tool will allow the marker to paint over the selected area. O will need to select the layer you want to paint over. There are options to edit the brush such as opacity and different style of brushes.

Clone Stamp Tool

The Clone Stamp tool will allow you select an area to be cloned (alt + left Click) and write over another area on the select layer. An example is shown above where I have removed the pool ball from the table.

Text Tool

The text tool will allow you to inset text onto your project file. You simply select an area where you want text, add the box and type.

Above you will see where you can edit the text you have written. You can change the size, style, font spacing and many other attributes of the text.

Shape Tool

The shape tool can create many different types of shapes. You can edit the opacity in the layer settings. My shape is blue due to me using the paint bucket tool.

Paint Bucket Tool

As you can see by the above photo the paint bucket tool has been used to fill in the shape with the colour blue. The tool fill fin in the selected layer with the colour that you choose.

Crop Tool

The crop tool will crop a selected area to the dimensions you choose. On the left I select an area I wish to crop and on the right I have pressed enter to crop it.