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ptg Panels 103 The Photoshop panels illustrated* Using the Tools panel e Tools panel, which is illustrated on pages 104–106, contains 60 tools and a handful of buttons! Believe it or not, by the end of this book, you’ll be marginally to intimately familiar with most of them. To display the Tools panel if it’s hidden, choose Window > Tools. To choose a tool, do one of the following: ➤ If the desired tool is visible on the Tools panel, click its icon. ➤ To cycle through related tools in the same slot, Alt-click/Option-click the one that’s visible. ➤ To choose a hidden tool, click and hold on the visible tool, then click a tool on the menu. ➤ To select a tool quickly, press its designated letter shortcut (don’t do this if your cursor is in type). e shortcuts are shown in the screen captures on the next three pages. e shortcut for each tool is also listed in its tool tip onscreen. If Use Shift Key for Tool Switch is unchecked in Edit/Photoshop > Preferences > General, simply press the designated letter to cycle through related tools in the same slot (for example, press L to cycle through the three Lasso tools). With the Use Shift Key for Tool Switch option checked, you have to press Shift plus the designated letter. ➤ To use (spring-load) a tool temporarily while another tool is selected, press and hold down its assigned letter key (see the sidebar at right). To learn the function of a tool as you’re using it, read the brief description (tool hint) at the bottom of the Info panel. If you don’t see the tool hint, choose Panel Options from the Info panel menu, then check Show Tool Hints (see page 114). Before using a tool that you’ve selected, you need to choose settings for it from the Options bar at the top of your screen. For example, for the Brush tool, you would choose a brush preset, and choose diameter, hardness, blending mode, opacity percentage, and other settings. If the Options bar is hidden, you can display it by choosing Window > Options (see page 100). e current Options bar settings for each tool remain in eect until you change them, reset the tool, or reset all tools. To restore the default set- tings to a tool, right-click the thumbnail on the Tool Preset picker (located at the left end of the Options bar) and choose Reset Tool from the con- text menu. A Or to reset all tools, choose Reset All Tools from the menu, then click OK in the alert dialog. In Edit/Photoshop > Preferences > Cursors, you can control whether the pointer displays as cross- hairs or as the icon of the current tool or, for some tools, as a circle either the size or half the size of the current brush diameter, with or without the crosshairs inside it (see page 392). SPRING-LOADING YOUR TOOLS ➤ To quickly access a tool and its Options bar settings temporarily without having to actually click the tool on the Tools panel, hold down its letter shortcut key. For example, say the Brush tool happens to be selected but you want to move a layer, which requires using the Move tool. You would hold down the V key, drag in the document window, then release V. Or to access the Zoom tool temporarily, you would hold down the Z key. ➤ This process is slightly less effi cient if you want to access a tool that shares a slot with other tools (as most tools do). In this case, the letter shortcut accesses whichever tool happens to be visible on the Tools panel. To make this work, you could plan ahead and select the tools that you want to switch back and forth among before using them. A To access these two commands, right-click the Tool Preset picker thumbnail, which is located at the left end of the Options bar. * e 3 D t o o l s , a n d t h e 3 D , A c t i o n s , A n i m a t i o n , M e a s u r e m e n t L o g , N o t e s , a n d P a t h s p a n e l s a r e n ’ t i l l u s t r a t e d i n t h i s c h a p t e r b e c a u s e they aren’t covered in this book. ptg 104 Chapter 6 A e u p p e r p a r t o f t h e T o o l s p a n e l Creates rectangular selections Creates oval and circular selections Creates 1-pixel-wide horizontal selections Creates 1-pixel-wide vertical selections Selects areas that it detects within clearly dened shapes Selects pixels that are similar in color to the one that’s clicked Crops the image Slices images for optimization (for Web output) Selects slices by clicking Samples colors from an image Places color sampler (readout) points in an image Measures distances and angles or straightens the image ★ Creates Acrobat-compatible annotations Applies brush strokes Draws freehand lines Changes colors while preserving textures Simulates traditional paint strokes; allows colors to be mixed and smudged ★ Corrects aws without sampling Corrects aws based on a sampled area Corrects aws based on a selected area Corrects red-eye in portrait photos Clones imagery within or between documents Stamps patterns Click on or near this collapse/expand button to toggle the panel’s double- column and single-column formats. Moves a layer, selection, guide, etc.; also functions as a transform tool Creates freehand selections Creates straight-edged polygonal selections Creates freehand selections that snap to high-contrast edges in an image Tools panel ptg Panels 105 Continued on the following page A e m i d s e c t i o n o f t h e T o o l s p a n e l Lightens pixels Darkens pixels Makes pixels more or less saturated Creates horizontally oriented editable type Creates vertically oriented editable type Creates horizontal type-shaped selections Creates vertical type-shaped selections Selects whole vector paths Selects path segments and points Draws curved or straight-edged shapes or paths Draws freehand shapes or paths Adds anchor points to a path Deletes anchor points from a path Converts corner anchor points into curve points, and vice versa Creates rectangular shape layers or paths Creates rounded-corner shape layers or paths Creates oval shape layers or paths Creates polygonal shape layers or paths Creates straight-line shape layers or paths Creates layers or paths from custom shapes Creates soft blends of two or more colors Fills similarly colored areas by clicking Erases imagery by clicking or dragging Erases a sampled color to transparency Erases similarly colored pixels by clicking Blurs edges Sharpens edges Smudges colors Restores pixels from a History state or snapshot Paints a history state or snapshot in stylized brush strokes ptg 106 Chapter 6 Use the tool tip to learn a tool name or shortcut. GETTING INFO ON PHOTOSHOP FEATURES ➤ If you’re unsure what an icon signifi es, what a menu is called, or what a panel or dialog feature or tool does, you may get the information you need from the tool tip. Let the pointer hover on the feature in question without clicking the mouse button, and a tip pops up onscreen. (For this to work, Show Tool Tips must be checked in Edit/Photoshop > Preferences > Interface.) ➤ Some dialogs (such as Edit > Color Settings) have a Description area that contains information about the option your pointer is currently hovering over. ➤ Keep an eye on the Info panel for color breakdown readouts, document data (e.g. fi le size, color profi le, dimen- sions, resolution), and tool hints (ways to use the currently selected tool). See page 114. ➤ Use the Histogram panel to monitor changes to the tonal ranges in an image as you apply color and tonal adjustments. See pages 203–204. Puts the document into a mode in which a selection displays as a mask and can be edited using brush strokes; when this button is clicked again, the mask is converted back to a selection Displays and lets you change the current Foreground and Background colors Resets the Foreground color to black and the Background color to white Swaps the current Foreground and Background colors Changes the document zoom level A e l o w e r p a r t o f the Tools panel Moves a magnied image in the document window Rotates the image in the document window temporarily (see page 93) ptg Panels 107 Adjustments panel Unlike commands that are applied via the Image > Adjustments submenu, adjustment layers don’t alter image pixels until you merge them with their under- lying layers. ey are a great mechanism for trying out color and tonal adjustments, because you can edit their settings and delete them at any time. Plus, adjustment layers automatically have a layer mask. By editing the mask, you can hide or reveal the adjustment eect in specic areas of the image. Using the Adjustments panel, you can easily create and edit the settings for adjustment layers. e panel also lets you restore the default settings to any adjustment; hide and show the adjustment eect; view the previous adjustment state; or, in a multi- layered document, clip (limit) the adjustment eect to just the underlying layer. See Chapters 12 and 13. BUTTONS ON THE ADJUSTMENT PANEL Invert Posterize Gradient Map Selective Color r e s h o l d Vibrance Hue/ Saturation Black & White Channel Mixer Photo FilterColor Balance Brightness/ Contrast Levels Curves Exposure Clip to LayerExpanded View/Standard View toggle for the panel Adjustment buttons for creating adjustment layers Clip Adjustment Layer Expanded View/ Standard View toggle Return to Adjustment List Tog gle Layer Visibility e p a n e l m e n u Press to View Previous State Reset to Adjustment Defaults Delete Adjustment Layer e c o n t r o l s f o r a Black & White adjustment layer are displaying on this Adjustments panel. ptg 108 Chapter 6 of a brush stroke made with the currently selected tip and settings. See Chapter 15. ➤ i s p a n e l c a n b e o p e n e d f r o m t h e W i n d o w menu; by clicking the Brush Panel button on the Brush Presets panel (see the following page); or when a tool that uses a brush is selected, by clicking the Toggle Brush Panel button on the Options bar. ★ Brush panel You’ll use the Brush panel to choose brush tips and create custom brushes for many tools, such as the Art History Brush, Blur, Brush, Burn, Clone Stamp, Dodge, Eraser, History Brush, Mixer Brush, Pattern Stamp, Pencil, Sharpen, or Smudge tool. Using this panel, you can also choose options for a graphics tablet and stylus. Click an options set name on the left side of the panel to display settings on the right. At the bottom of the panel, the preview shows an example Brush stroke preview Open Preset Manager ★ Bristle Brush Preview ★ New Brush Show the Brush Presets panel ★ Activate and access option sets Numeral indicating the default diameter of the tip, in pixels Bristle Qualities options (available only when a bristle tip is selected) ★ ptg Panels 109 Brush Presets panel ★ Use the Brush Presets panel to store, display, and choose from an assortment of predened and user- created brush presets. You can also use this panel to change the size of any brush preset temporarily, and to save a custom brush as a new preset. Via buttons on the panel, you can turn the Bristle Brush preview on or o and quickly access the Preset Manager dialog. is panel can be opened from the Window menu or by clicking the Brush Presets button on the Brush panel. See page 260. USING THE BRUSH PRESET PICKER Brush presets can also be chosen from the Brush Preset picker, a pop-up panel that opens from the Options bar (shown below). Commands for loading, appending, and saving brushes and brush libraries are available on the Brush Presets panel menu and the Brush Preset picker menu. Open Preset Manager Open or close the Brush panel Bristle Brush Preview (on/o) New Brush Delete Brush Brush Diameter Brush presets e B r i s t l e B r u s h p r e v i e w displays a schematic of the current bristle tip and the set- tings you have chosen for it. ptg 110 Chapter 6 Character panel You can choose attributes for the type tools from either the Character panel, which is shown below, or the Options bar (see page 100). Open this panel from the Window menu, or when a type tool is selected, by clicking the Toggle Character and Paragraph Panels button on the Options bar. See Chapter 20. Channels panel e Channels panel displays a list of, and the thumbnails for, all the color channels in an image. To show an individual channel in the document window, click the channel name or press the keystroke listed on the panel. To redisplay the composite image (all the channels), such as RGB or CMYK, click the topmost channel on the panel, or press Ctrl-2/Cmd-2. (See pages 2–3.) You can also use this panel to save and load alpha channels (which are saved selections). See page 160. And you can use it to create and store spot color channels, which commercial print shops use to produce individual color plates for predened ink colors, such as PANTONE inks. Visibility icon for showing or hiding the channel Load Channel as Selection Save Selection as Channel Channel Delete New Channel A user-created alpha channel A user-created spot color channel Font family Text color Horizontal scale Font size Kerning Vertical scale Baseline shift Type styles Language Anti-aliasing method Leading Font style Tracking ptg Panels 111 Clone Source panel e Clone Source panel lets you keep track of up to ve dierent sources (documents) when cloning pixels with the Clone Stamp tool. e sources are represented by a row of buttons at top of the panel. You can also use this panel to hide, show, and control the opacity and mode of the clone overlay, and ip, scale, rotate, invert, or reposition the source pixels before or while you clone them. See pages 248–249. Five clone sources Horizontal oset Flip Horizontal and Flip Vertical ★ Vertical oset Horizontal and Vertical Scale Blending mode for the overlay Display the clone source as an overlay Reset transform Rotate the clone source Hide the overlay while cloning Display the overlay within the brush cursor Invert the overlay Color panel e Color panel is one of several mechanisms that Photoshop provides for mixing colors. Choose a color model for the sliders or color ramp from the panel menu, then either mix a color using the sliders or quick-select a color by clicking the color ramp. To open the Color Picker (or the Color Libraries dialog, from which you can also choose colors), click once on the Foreground or Background color square on the Color panel if it’s already selected (has a black border), or double-click the square if it’s not selected. Colors are applied by painting and editing tools, such as the Brush and Pencil tool, and by some commands, such as Edit > Fill and Image > Canvas Size. See page 188. Background color square Foreground color square Warning that the current color is outside the printable gamut Color ramp ptg 112 Chapter 6 Histogram panel While a le is being edited or while the Adjustments panel is being used, the Histogram panel provides valuable feedback in the form of a graph of either the current light and dark (tonal) values in the image or its current and modied tonal values. Via the Channel menu, you can choose to have the panel display data about the composite chan- nel (combined channels) or just a single channel. You can also expand the panel to display a separate histogram for each channel (as is shown at right). See pages 203–204. Source channel for the graph Source of the pixel data (all layers or just the currently selected layer) Uncached Refresh Displays the histogram using uncached data [...]... manually when you convert one or more layers in a Photoshop image into a Smart Object, or automatically when you place an Illustrator or PDF file, another Photoshop file, or a Camera Raw file into a Photoshop document Double-click a Smart Object layer and the object reopens in its original application for editing; save and close it, and the object updates in Photoshop (See pages 308-311.) To learn more... pages 189 –190 Color swatches New Swatch of Foreground Color Delete Swatch Tool Presets panel A tool preset is a saved collection of settings for a particular tool By using the Tool Presets panel, you can store settings for your favorite tools This is a great way to customize and personalize the Photoshop interface, and the possibilities are infinite The presets on this panel are available for all Photoshop. .. Web-hosted Adobe application that lets users create and upload color groups, called color themes By using the Search field Kuler panel in Photoshop, you can access and and menus browse through those themes To open the Kuler panel, choose Window > Extensions > Kuler (Also go to Edit /Photoshop > Preferences > Plug-Ins, and check Allow Extensions to Connect to the Internet.) To use the Kuler panel efficiently,... discarded The oldest history states are deleted from the panel as new edits are made — that is, when the Current source maximum number of history states is reached, for the History as specified in Edit /Photoshop > Preferences > Brush tool Performance, under History & Cache) All states are deleted when you close your document The New Snapshot command creates states that stay on the panel until you close... solid-color Background or a transparent layer, depending on what Background Contents you choose in the New dialog or whether you opened a digital photo On top of that, you can add layers of many types; some Photoshop features create layers automatically Using the Layers panel, you can create, hide, show, duplicate, group, link, lock, unlock, merge, flatten, delete, and restack layers You can also change the... State slider The Art History Brush does the same thing, but in stylized strokes New Document New Delete from Current State Snapshot Current State USING THE THREE UNDO COMMANDS Windows Mac OS Undo the last Photoshop edit (not every edit can be undone) Ctrl-Z (Edit > Undo) Cmd-Z (Edit > Undo) Undo multiple editing steps in reverse order (step backward) Ctrl-Alt-Z Cmd-Option-Z Step forward through your editing... dialog, for selecting areas to be masked, and the Invert button swaps the black and white areas in the mask Load Selection from Mask Disable/ Enable Mask Apply Mask 117 Add a Vector Mask Delete Mask 118 Chapter 6 Mini Bridge panel Go to Parent, Recent Items, or Favorites Home Page Panel View menu for displaying the Path bar, Navigation pod, and Preview pod Go to Bridge Search Close button Navigation... First Color Readout and Second Color Readout In the same dialog, you can also change the Ruler Units for the panel (under Mouse Coordinates), check which Status Information you want displayed in the lower part of the panel, and check Show Tool Hints to display context-sensitive information about the current tool or edit ➤ To choose a unit of measurement for the Info panel (and for the rulers in the document... personalize the Photoshop interface, and the possibilities are infinite The presets on this panel are available for all Photoshop documents Say, for example, you frequently resize and crop images to a particular set of dimensions with the Crop tool By saving a preset for the tool with those width and height parameters, the next time you use the tool, instead of having to choose the same settings, all... Preset picker thumbnail on the left end of the Options bar.) By using the Tool Presets panel or the Tool Preset picker, you can create, save, load, sort, rename, reset, and delete the presets for any Photoshop tool To have the panel or picker list the presets for just the current tool (for a streamlined approach), check Current Tool Only, or uncheck that option to display the presets for all tools . or more layers in a Photoshop image into a Smart Object, or auto- matically when you place an Illustrator or PDF le, another Photoshop le, or a Camera Raw le into a Photoshop document. Double-click. Photoshop interface, and the possibilities are in- nite. e presets on this panel are available for all Photoshop documents. Say, for example, you frequently resize and crop images to a particular. this panel. See pages 189 –190. Color swatches New Swatch of Foreground Color Delete Swatch Tool Presets panel A tool preset is a saved collection of settings for a particular tool. By