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USING THE TOOLS PANEL
The Tools Panel contains a collection of tools that enables you to create, edit, and enhance images.
Various tools in the Tools panel can be grouped into following categories:

Move Tool (V) Rectangular Marquee Tool (M)
Lasso Tool (L) Quick Selection Tool (W)
Crop Tool (C) Frame Tool (K)

Eyedropper Tool (I) Spot Healing Brush Tool (J)

Brush Tool (B) Clone Stamp Tool (S)
History Brush Tool (Y) Eraser Tool (E)
Gradient Tool (G) Blur Tool (O)
Dodge Tool (D) Pen Tool (P)

Horizontal Type Tool (T) Path Selection Tool (A)
Coustom Shape Tool (U) Hand Tool (H)
Zoom Tool (Z)

Foreground Color
Selection Box Background Color
Selection Box
Foreground Color Background Color
Selection Box Selection Box

To use any tool, click its icon in the Tools panel. Most tools in the
Tools panel have a small triangle at their bottom right corner which
indicates more tools hidden under it. Click and hold the mouse
button on a tool to open a fly-out menu to view the hidden tools.

Changing Background and Foreground Colours
Photoshop uses a foreground colour to paint fill and stroke selections, and a background colour for
gradient fills and the erased areas in an image. The default foreground and background colour is black
and white respectively. 3 4
To change the foreground or background colour:

1. Click the Foreground or Background colour
selection box in the Tools panel.
The Colour Picker dialog box opens.
2. Drag the Color slider to choose a colour.

3. Click in the Color selection box to choose the
shade of the selected colour.
4. Click the OK button.
The foreground or background colour is 1
changed as per the selected colour.
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