Photoshop Part 3

So today is the day you finally learn about part 3 of the Photoshop tool bar. I know you're excited, now you can finally make all your pictures look perfect! The Tools I am about to show you are some of the most useful ones (in my opinion) for basic photo editing.

Eraser Tool

This works just like any old eraser, it will delete the pixels as you drag it across your picture. Just like the Paintbrush toll, you can change the hardness and the size of the eraser. If the layer is unlocked it would be transparent but if the layer is locked it will show your background color you've selected in the tool bar. 

Background Eraser Tool

This tool lets you remove the background of an image. With this tool, it does not matter if you layer is locked or not, it will erase and make the background transparent. 

Magic Eraser Tool

The magic eraser tool will save you lots of time if you're trying to delete a lot at once. It detects color like the Magic Wand Tool. Just Click on what you want to erase and it will erase everything that color. 

Gradient Tool 
This tool lates you make a gradient with your foreground and background colors. Its pretty simple.









Paint Bucket Tool
This is another pretty simple tool. It fills an entire section with "paint." Just like Microsoft paint lol.






Blur Tool
This tool obviously blurs parts of your image. Like the Paint Brush Tool, you can select different brushes and different hardnesses.






Sharpen Tool
This tool will tighten up the pixels in your image. Like the Blur tool you can adjust the hardness of the brush.







Smudge Tool
This tool will take the color you've chosen and will smudge where ever you click over the picture.







Dodge Tool
The Dodge Tool is used to lighten things in a picture. I like to use this on people's eye's and something on hair to bring out highlights.








Burn Tool
The Burn tool is used to darken things in a picture.






Sponge Tool
This tool lets you saturate or desaturate a picture. Just like the other tools in this group it is done by "painting" on the picture.








I'm sure you've noticed that there are still some tools left that I haven't explained yet.

These tools will be explained next week when I go over the Adobe Illustrator Tool bar.

I have chosen not to explain the first two tools in this section because there are for 3D work and I am not entirely comfortable with them. The bottom two will also be explained next week when I explain the Illustrator