Adobe 101

Getting To Know Your Tool Bar

This is your Tool Bar. Here is where you will find the tools you need to create your cartoon dolls.		Although this tutorial is for adobe Photoshop 7.0 The tools here are basically the same for most paint programs. And work the same.
Marquee tools-allows you to single out a selected area		Move tool-moves selections, layers and guides
Lasso-makes free hand, selections		Magic Wand-selects similar colored areas
Crop-trims images		Slice tool-slices into segments
Airbrush-paint soft-edge strokes		Paint Brush-paints brush strokes
Stamp-paints with a sample of an image		Art History Brush
Eraser-erases pixels and restores parts of an image to previously saved state		Gradient-blends colors
Blur-blurs/smoothes hard edges		Dodge-lightens areas in an image
Path Selection-makes point selections showing anchors		Type-creates type on a image
Pen-lets you draw smooth edge paths		Shape-makes custom shapes selected from a custom shape list
Notes		Eyedropper-samples colors in a image and selects
Hand Tool-moves an image within its canvas area		Zoom-magnifies and reduces the view of an image
Foreground Color-Color Which you draw with		Background Color-Background Layer Color
Standard Mode		Quick Mask Overlay
Standard Screen Mode		Full Screen Mode

Jumps to Image Ready		Continue Below For More In Depth Explanation of Tools

OK Here I am going to explain what some other tools do.

These tools for the most part are hidden under the tools in the main tool bar.

Some of these tools you will never use. So I may not have explained much about them but what they do.

Your Marquee Tool Short Cut (M)	The Rectangular Marquee Tool allows you to single out a rectangular selection with in the image.
Your Marquee Tool Short Cut (M)	The Elliptical allows you to single out oval or circle selections with in the image.
Leti's Tip#1: You Can Use The M button to toggle between the Rectangular and Elliptical Marquee tools. Most of the tools have keyboard short cuts to help you save mouse miles. And will be listed in the title bar in each section.	The Single Row Marquee allows you to single out single rows within your image. This works very well when trying to target small areas.
Leti's Tip#2: When using your marquee tool you can hold down on the space bar, which allows you to move around the image with out selecting an area.	The Single Column Marquee allows you to single out single columns.

The Lasso Tool Short Cut (L)	The Lasso Tool Allows you to make free hand selections from your image.
	The Polygonal Lasso Tool
	The Magnetic Lasso Tool (Snap To)

The Paintbrush Tool Short Cut (B)	Hidden Under the paint brush tool you will find the Pencil Tool
	The Paintbrush Tool
	The Pencil Tool

The Paintbrush Tool Short Cut (B)	Hidden Under the paint brush tool you will find the Pencil Tool
	The Paintbrush Tool
	The Pencil Tool

The Paintbrush Tool Short Cut (B)	Hidden Under the paint brush tool you will find the Pencil Tool
	The Paintbrush Tool
	The Pencil Tool

The Paintbrush Tool Short Cut (B)	Hidden Under the paint brush tool you will find the Pencil Tool
	The Paintbrush Tool
	The Pencil Tool

The Paintbrush Tool Short Cut (B)

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Hidden under that shape tool are several different kinds of shapes. Which basically all work the same. They are great for creating patterns on cloths for you dolls or even for making backgrounds etc.

When using the custom shape tool a drop box will appear in the menu toll bar above. And will give you more shape options. (Picture B

The Blur Tool

The wonderful Blur tool. Basically it allows you to soften sharp edges and blend in images. This is to me the greatest tool. And is a key factor in creating tool. You will see this tool used a lot in tutorials for all paint programs.

Leti’s Tip # Use the sharpen tool to restore edges and blurry look on bases when you paste them to you new image.

The Sharpen tool sharpens the effect of an image. Is good in restoring edges.

The Smudge Tool also smoothes edges and allows you to bleed in edges as well. Helps to achieve smooth borders.

Underneath the pen tool are hidden.

Freeform, add anchor, delete anchor and convert points. All of these are used in correspondent with each other. The pen tool can be used to outline a picture in making bases.

It is a detailed tool. It can also be used for tracing in making freeform drawings. The will be a tutorial on making bases and other things with the pen tool. It is one of the important ones in creating dolls.

	Hidden Under the path selection tool is the direct selection tool. These are used in creating bases. To trace an outline of a picture
	More to be explained soon.

	Hidden under the clone stamp is the pattern stamp. More to be explained soon.
	Hidden under the eyedropper is the color sampler tool which basically works the same as the eyedropper but you have to double click in order to default the color.
More to be explained soon.	Also hidden under is the measuring tool. This for the most part isn’t used in creating dolls.
	The Note Tool for the most part you won’t use when creating dolls. But this toll does allow you to add notes and audio annotations to your files.
Audio Annotation Hidden Under Notes	More to be explained soon.

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