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You create and manipulate your documents and files using various elements, such as panels, bars, and windows. Any arrangement of these elements is called a workspace. You can adapt Photoshop to the way you work by selecting from several preset workspaces or by creating one of your own.

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A toolbar is a set of icons or buttons that are part of a software program's interface or an open window. When it is part of a program's interface, the toolbar typically sits directly under the menu bar. For example, Adobe Photoshop includes a toolbar that allows you to adjust settings for each selected tool.

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The Layers palette is the Grand Central Station for managing layers. To display the palette, choose Window–>Show Layers or just press F7. Here's what you need to know to navigate the Layers palette: The Background is the bottom layer in the image.

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A menu bar is a user interface element that contains selected commands and options for a specific program. The Edit menu contains commands such as Undo, Select All, Copy, and Paste. The View menu typically includes zoom commands and options to show or hide elements within the window.

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The Adjustment Layers in Photoshop are a group of a super useful, non-destructive image editing tools that add color and tonal adjustments to your image without permanently changing its pixels. With the adjustment layers, you can edit and discard your adjustments or restore your original image at any time.

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The Hue/Saturation command in Photoshop Elements enables you to adjust the colors in your image based on their hue, saturation, and lightness. Hue is the color in your image. Saturation is the intensity, or richness, of that color. And lightness controls the brightness value.

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In photography and image processing, color balance is the global adjustment of the intensities of the colors (typically red, green, and blue primary colors). An important goal of this adjustment is to render specific colors – particularly neutralcolors – correctly.

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The move tool allows you to move a selection or entire layer by dragging it with your mouse or using your keyboard arrows keys. The move tool is located at the top right of the Photoshop Toolbox. When the move tool is selected, click and drag anywhere in the image.

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As you might imagine, the zoom tool allows you to zoom in on the image to get a better idea of the actual pixel makeup of a section you are working on. It is fairly easy to use the tool. You simply click on the zoom icon and then click on the canvas.

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When the Hand tool is active, you can hold down the Alt key (Option key on the Mac) and click the image to zoom out, or hold down the Ctrl key (Command key on the Mac) and click to zoom in — without needing to press the space bar like you would with the normal keyboard shortcut. Scroll All Windows.

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Magnetic Lasso Tool. This is a very handy tool for selecting areas which have reasonably well-defined edges. Left-click at the starting point of your selection and simply move the mouse along the edge. "Fastening points" are automatically made at various points along the edges.

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Select the magic wand tool in the toolbox. In the options bar, select a Tolerance value (0 to 255). This determines how closely to match colors - higher tolerance means a larger selection. Check Anti-aliased to define a smooth edge to the selection.

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Magnetic Lasso Tool. This is a very handy tool for selecting areas which have reasonably well-defined edges. Left-click at the starting point of your selection and simply move the mouse along the edge. "Fastening points" are automatically made at various points along the edges.

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The selection tools are used to facilitate the process of making selections of shapes, colors, and objects inside of Photoshop, and positioning them in the working image area. With tools like the magnetic lasso and magic wand, Photoshop packs a powerful array of selection gadgets!

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The Marquee tool is the most basic of selection tools and often the one most useful. This tool is used to draw selections based on geometric shapes. Specifically, the marquee tool allows you to draw rectangular and elliptical selections. To form the selection, simply click and drag the mouse.

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ctrl+alt+z

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ctrl+j

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ctrl+shift+j

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hold shift

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hold alt

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ctrl+d

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refine edge

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shift+ctrl+I

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ctrl+E

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alt+mouse wheel

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B

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E

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alt+click color (paint brush tool)

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The Dodge tool and the Burn tool lighten or darken areas of the image. These tools are based on a traditional darkroom technique for regulating exposure on specific areas of a print.

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Increase the exposure to darken areas on a print.

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The Sponge Tool saturates / desaturates image areas: In the Toolbox, select the Sponge Tool. Choose brush size and style.

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llows you to duplicate part of an image.

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Cuts out a defined area deleting or hiding the rest of an image.

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The length of one side of a pixel is in relation to the length of the other. If the ratio is 1:1 it means that each side of the pixel is the same length as the other, in other words the pixel is a square.

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Cropping is the process of removing portions of a photo to create focus or strengthen the composition.

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You create a layer mask either by drawing white on a black background or by building a high contrast image based on the luminance or color of the layer.

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used to paint a blur effect. Each stroke made using the Blur Tool will lower the contrast between affected pixels, making them appear blurred.

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On the Options bar, choose a Strength value, and check Sample All Layers and Protect Detail. Press [ or ] to adjust the brush diameter, then drag across the areas that need sharpening.

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Simulates the effect you see when you drag a finger through wet paint. The tool picks up color where the stroke begins and pushes it in the direction you drag.

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Creates a gradual blend between multiple colors. You can choose from preset gradient fills or create your own

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Specify whether to fill the selection with the foreground color or with a pattern. Specify a blending mode and opacity for the paint.

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Creates and edits vector-based text in a separate layer. In the Toolbox, select the Horizontal Type Tool. On the Options bar, set the font options: family (style), size, color and anti-aliasing method. Click on your image and type.

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Creates and edits vector-based text in a separate layer. In the Toolbox, select the Vertical Type Tool. On the Options bar, set the font options: family (style), size, color and anti-aliasing method. Click on your image and type.

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Used in imaging and photography to reproduce a greater dynamic range of luminosity than is possible with standard digital imaging or photographic techniques.

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A period shortly after sunrise or before sunset during which daylight is redder and softer than when the Sun is higher in the sky.

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A reduction of an image's brightness or saturation toward the periphery compared to the image center. The word vignette, from the same root as vine, originally referred to a decorative border in a book.

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Where the camera determines a proper exposure not on the average brightness levels of the whole frame, but just of one specific spot.

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One of four modes found mostly on Canon cameras to help measure a subject's brightness, enabling the photographer to take a correct exposure.

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A mode of automatic light metering in a camera that compensates for differences in the brightness of the central and peripheral portions of the image.

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Dividing the entire frame into multiple “zones”, which are then all analyzed on individual basis for light and dark tones.

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A painting, especially an altarpiece, on two hinged wooden panels that may be closed like a book.

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A picture or relief carving on three panels, typically hinged together side by side and used as an altarpiece.