Using the selection tool in Photoshop (Very basic) Cont.

Selection and Learning in Photoshop.

In Adobe Photoshop one of the most important concepts  is Selection.

See in your tool area. There is a tool named Rectangular Selection Tool.

Use this tool on your image to select an area of the image. This lets Photoshop know that that's the area you want to work on.

Selection and making a square.

To add to a selection, hold Shift before dragging.

Tomake the selection exactly square, start dragging, then hold Shift.

You can press Ctrl+D to "deselect" and remove the selection at any time.

Elliptical Selections and subtracting Selections

Hold down on the Selection Tool on the Toolbar, and choose the Ellipse.

To move the selection, just click inside it and drag.

Holding Alt while selecting subtracts that area from the selection. I've done that with the Ellipse Selection Tool

Using the Layers window in Photoshop

The Layers window shows the various layers that your image is made up of.

To make a new layer, click the New Layer button, as shown by the red arrow.

To work on a different layer, click on that layer. The eyeball will apear next to that layer.

You can drag layers up and down the list.

Note – create a new layer for each part of your image. More you need. This allows you to go back and edit the layers individually and you can modify easily. Every Adobe Photoshop beginner at some time makes a masterpiece, only to find out that they did it all on one layer, and now they can't remove those pink clouds they put on it. 

The Layer in Photoshop.

Adobe Photoshop Beginners' Guide

Adobe Photoshop Beginners' Guide
Hey Worried about learn to Photoshop. Some people email me to know the very basic of Photoshop. Ok, if you wanted to learn how to use Adobe Photoshop, but had no idea where to start? This wall of writing is for you.
Most Photoshop tutorials for beginners are really for people who are already familiar with the program. This tutorial goes right back to the and is designed to help people who are absolute Photoshop beginners.
This basic, tutorial is not a comprehensive instruction manual. It only teaches you the few simple features you need to know, to start using Adobe Photoshop. From there, you'll quickly discover most of the other features of the program yourself.
The images in this tutorial are from Adobe Photoshop 7.0, but they're very similar to those from newer versions, like Photoshop CS4.
Now you can bookmark this page, start Photoshop, and I will begin the tutorial.

Creating a New Image, and Setting .

Click File > New, and create a new image of any size you desire.
Press Ctrl+K to bring up the Preferences window.
Change your "Redo Key" to Ctrl+Shift+Z. This enables you to press Ctrl+Z at any time, to undo the last thing(s) you did. Remember this.

The healing brush tool
The healing brush tool paints with a sample or pattern to repairs imperfections in a image.


The patch tool
The patch tool repairs imperfections in a selected area of an image using a sample or pattern.


The brush tool
The brush tool paints brush strokes.


The pencil tool.
The pencil tool paints hard-edged strokes.


The clone stamp tool.
The clone stamp tool paints with a sample of an image.

Using Photoshop Toolbar Cont..

The slice tool
The slice tool creates slices of your images or picture.You can more slices of your images. Think you need small slice of a picture , you can do to use of The slice tool.


The slice selection tool
The slice selection tool selects slices.This tool is select the part of your image.


Keep Practicing.Best of luck. Oh-o-o LUCK is nothing but try try and try.

Using Photoshop Toolbar Cont..

The lasso tools
The lasso tools make freehand, polygonal (straight-edged), and magnetic * (snap-to) selections.


The magic wand tool
The magic wand tool selects similarly colored areas.


The crop tool
The crop tool trims images.


The slice tool
The slice tool creates slices.

Using Photoshop Toolbar.

Using the toolbox
The first time you start the application, the toolbox appears on the left side of the screen. Some tools in the toolbox have options that appear in the context-sensitive tool options bar. (See Using the tool options bar.) These include the tools that let you use type, select, paint, draw, sample, edit, move, annotate, and view images. Other tools in the toolbox allow you to change foreground/background colors, go to Adobe Online, work in different modes, and jump between Photoshop and ImageReady applications.

The marquee tools
The marquee tools make rectangular, elliptical, single row, and single column selections.


The move tool moves
The move tool moves selections, layers, and guides.