I'll start form the bottom and work my way up explaining all the tools that I use.

ImageReady button lets you edit the image in Adobe ImageReady.


Screen Modes - Standard lets you see all the images you're editing in separate windows, the next button maximizes all the windows of the images to the workspace, and the full screen mode maximizes the image to the whole scread over the taskbar.


Foreground and Background Colors - lets you see and change the colors you're editting an image with.


Hand Tool - if you know what it does, tell me.


Zoom Tool - Zoom in a particular part of the image.


Eyedropper - Using Alt you can copy a certain color form an image and draw with that color on the image or a separate image.


Objects Tools - There are Rectangle, Rounded Rectangle, Ellipse, Line, Polygon, and Custom Shape Tools, each of which can be draw on an image.


Text Tools - Let's you put text on an image.


Smudge Tool - Smears the image in the direction you choose.


Blur Tool - Blurs an image in areas you select.


Paint Bucket Tool - Fills a chosen color on to an image with the selected color.


Erase Tool - Erases an image to its background, either white, a selected color, or transparent.


Clone Stamp Tool - Using Alt you can select a part of an image and recopy that part to a different image or to a different area of the same image.


Brush Tool - Draws lines of a selected brush in a direction you choose.


Pencil Tool - Draws lines of a selected brush in a direction you choose, without ati-aliasing.


Crop Tool - Crops the image to the area selected.


Move Tool - Moves the objects or layers in the image, or the image itself.


Wand Tool - Selects a color and its shades so that only that part of an image can be remoddified or added effects to.


Lasso Tool - Lets you select a part of an image to be moddified by itself.


Marquee Tools - Let's you select a defined object of an image or creat a defined object.

Options and Settings:

Photoshop lets you create your own workspace that fits you the best.

You can move or get rid of any options and settings windows in your workspace so that it can be used to your best interest.



When creating a new file(File/New...) and you want it to be transparent make sure you choose Transparent under Contents.








This is where you can select the kinds of brushes you want to use with your tools:


At the end when creating transparent images you should always save them as PNGs, when selecting File/Save As...and click on the drop down arrow and select PNG.

If you weren't done with your work, and have created different layers, you can save it as PSD, so that you can finish later. Photoshop will save all your layers, unfotunately it doesn't save your history.

In the top menus you can edit Layers, Edit images(rotate, colors ect.), you can slect and customize your workspace, and in the Filter menu as I've said you can set lots and lots of effects to images. And under Help you will find tutorials on how to use photoshop.



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