Basic Tools

	The rectangular marquee is arguably one of the most useful tools. It allows you to select areas of a layer or picture to change it without changing the rest. It is also used to put on image into another image inside Photoshop via copy and paste.
	The move tool is also one of the most useful and important tools. It allows you to move layer and text to the position that you want.
	The polygonal lasso is very important. It allows you to cutout and select area of an image that aren’t generic. Like a person or a tree. Since it allows you to cut out any shape and since a shape is called a polygon you get the name polygonal lasso.
	The crop tool isn’t as important as the other three above but is still very important. Anyway if you want only one section then you use the crop tool. Also if you are making something and one part doesn’t look quite right but the other part does then use the crop tool and crop it.
	The brush tool in Photoshop does a lot more than in other programs like paint. The brush tool in Photoshop can have different textures added to it and different opacity’s (transparency) but it is very useful overall.
	The clone tool is not used a lot but when it is it really comes in handy. Basically it does what it says…sort of. It will copy a part of a picture and put it inside the same picture again.
	Like the brush tool the erase tool does a lot more in Photoshop. It is not usually used to literally erase a picture but to make a picture look more realistic with more control. For example in space art, when making a planet one side is erased controllably to replicate the dark side of the planet.
	The paint bucket tool is Photoshop is very similar to the one in paint. It puts a solid color over the entire canvas. Except the paint bucket in Photoshop is “smart”. So say you have a field of grass. Half of the picture the grass and the other half is the blue sky. Now for some reason you want to cover the grass with solid red. The paint bucket will distiquish between the green and blue sp the red will only go on the grass. Although it may take a few clicks in different spots on the grass
	The text tool is also one of the more important tools. It allows you to add text to a picture. It’s mostly self-explanatory so I’m not going to go into details. But if you right click on it you can select the vertical type tool that works just the same as the horizontal one.
	The line tool is used every now and then. It basically can put straight, curved or diagonal lines on your canvas. Also the custom shape option has hundreds of unique shapes that can come in handy.
	The colors aren’t technically a tool but are still very, very important. They tell the other tools what color to use. By double clicking on them you can select the color from the color picker. In the color picker you will see a box at the bottom right hand corner with some numbers and letters in it. By putting in different colors and letters you can get an exact match to another color. For example black is 000000 and white is FFFFFF.
	The color switcher is mainly for convenience. If you are using two colors to make an image and you are switching between them quite often the color switch can save you a lot of time. The color switcher makes so that it will switch a secondary color (bottom color) with the primary color (top color) without having to enter the color picker.
	Image ready is basically a scaled down version of Photoshop and is mostly useless. Except it has the ability to add animation to an image. Anyway you would have to save the image in Photoshop and then open it again in image ready but since the programs come together. If you buy Photoshop you get image ready for free. So the programs are inter connected. What I mean by that is if you make a change in image ready on an image that’s open in Photoshop it will change it in Photoshop automatically. Anyway by clicking this button it will open image ready and open the image in image ready for you.