Photoshop tools

Ivan Bailey-Wilson

Magic wand tool

The magic wand tool allows you to select areas that contrasts in colour and then move or delete them. You can also change the tolerance of the wand so that it will delete more/less of your image. In the picture on the left the magic wand tool is being used to get rid of a White section from an image of a person

Eraser tool

The eraser tool allows you to get rid of specific parts of an image for example you could cut out a piece of back ground with the magic wand tool and then make it look neater with the eraser tool by erasing the small bits of background that are left by the magic want tool. The example on the left shows a rough edge that could be erased to look better (before) and (after)

Before

After

Move /Select tool

The move tool is just like the normal screen mouse, it allows you to move an object or select one it can also be used to move a highlighted area from the magic wand or any shape tool. In the example to the left I was using the move tool to move a part of an image that I had selected with the magic wand.

The crop tool The crop tool allows you to select a section of an image, and then the rest of the image will be deleted leaving just the part of the image that you selected remaining. The images to the left and below show the process of cropping and image in this example I used the crop tool to focus on someone's face.

Paint Bucket tool

The paint bucket tool can be used to colour a large area such as a shape or text box in one click. For example you might use it to change the colour of a background for a magazine like I am in my media studies production work.