Lesson Info
9. Tools and The Options Bar
Lessons
Class Introduction
00:52 2Introducing Photoshop
02:37 3The Class Materials
01:36 4How To Open Files
01:42 5Using The Home Screen
02:35 6Exploring The Interface
03:30 7Getting Additional Help
01:36 8Understanding Workspaces
05:11Tools and The Options Bar
03:50 10Why You Should Use a Tablet
04:31 11Finding Hidden Tools
04:23 12How to See What You’re Working On
08:12 13Selecting Things
08:01 14More Selection Tools
12:25 15Testing the Magic Wand and Quick Selection Tools
07:25 16The History Palette – Undoing Things
05:24 17Resolution and Bit Depth
07:03 18Photoshop Preferences
01:31 19Menu and Item Shortcut Keys
02:39 20Non-Destructive Editing
02:57 21Working with Layers
12:19 22Groovy 3 Exercise
11:43 23Layer Effects and Styles
05:38 24Layer Masks – Karen on Beans
08:33 25Using Adjustment Layers
05:38 26Martian Karen
03:37 27Advanced Compositing Using Layers
08:43 28Non-Destructive Editing Techniques
05:22 29Understanding Smart Objects
07:28 30Smart Sharpen
06:42 31Understanding Histogram
06:24 32Adjusting Curves
03:48 33The Healing Brush Tools
10:26 34The Clone Stamp Tool
07:47 35The Burn and Dodge Tools
05:55 36Understanding RAW Files
01:44 37Adobe Camera Raw
04:18 38XMP Sidecar Files
02:14 39Camera Raw: Edit
12:24 40Camera Raw: Crop & Rotate
03:13 41Camera Raw: Spot Removal
04:56 42Camera Raw: Adjustment Brush
08:17 43Camera Raw: Graduated Filter
05:40 44Camera Raw: Radial Filter
05:11 45Camera Raw: Red-Eye Removal
02:04 46Camera Raw: Snapshots and Presets
09:39 47Neural Filters
10:09 48Portrait Retouching Session
36:53 49Scenic Retouching Session
11:25Lesson Info
Tools and The Options Bar
let's take a look at the toolbar and the options bar and understand how those two things work together. So on the left hand side of the screen you can see that we have all these different tools here on the left hand side. Now there are six basic categories of tools, loosely speaking. We have tools for selecting things, stuff like this. We've got a little marquee tools so we can select different areas of our image. We have crop and sliced tools so that we can crop out areas of the image that we don't like. We have our retouching tools. So these are things like the healing brush to fix skin blemishes and things like that, the clone tool to go and take something from one part of the image and put it somewhere else. Um, we have our painting tools, those are brushes and paint buckets, stuff like that. We have drawing tools, we've got a little pin tool down here, we've got a text tool so we can add type and things. That's great for thumbnails for Youtube and then we have our navigation tools...
. So like our little hand here to take a look at what's going on here, maybe zoom around and zoom out. So all that navigation stuff. Then we have annotation and measuring tools and so those are tools like this little eyedropper here and some of these things that pop out something that maybe the scientific community would use in addition to some of us photographers as well. So it's not important right now to understand what all of those tools do, but the important thing is to understand that the tools are connected to the options bar at the very top of the screen. I'll click on this little guy right here, you can see that we have this bar right at the top. So let me just zoom in really fast, see this little bar right at the top. It has some options that work with this tool. So let me put this into practical terms. So think about your house and how things work in your house. For example, if you have a washing machine, let's say that washing machine is a tool, the washing machine has options. So maybe you wanted to soak a long time and use cold water and then spend an extra cycle or maybe you want it to be hot water and you want it to turn on at night. It doesn't matter if you have a tool and then you have the options of how that tool behaves the same might be true of your microwave oven. So you want to make some microwave popcorn, you're gonna put the popcorn in the tool and then you're gonna tell the tool to cook on high for three minutes, whatever that is, you have a tool and then you have options for how that tool behaves the same is true in Photoshop. So if we go back over here to Photoshop and we click on a tool, you can see that this little arrow tool up here. If I look at this, you can see that we have how it selects either a layer or a group or the transform controls. All these things are up here. But if I click on this little selection tool, those options change. So the option bar is context sensitive, it changes based on the tool you have selected. So each of these tools have options that tell the tool how to behave. And so as we go forward, we're gonna be using these different tools and I'm gonna show you the different options for how they behave for selecting every touching and different things. So the important key item in this session is we have tools on the left and at the top we have the options bar that tells the tool how to behave and we can look at one of these tools. This is the brush tool. This allows us to brush things on and off. I'll undo that. One of the options is right up here. It's a little target looking thing. I can turn that on and off. That is to let this tool know that I want to use a tablet for the pressure sensitivity and the brush size and using a tablet in Photoshop for retouching is a very good idea
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Ratings and Reviews
Katie
Mark did a great job at explaining things and going over them multiple times throughout the lessons. My only issue was that sometimes it went a little faster than I could keep up and I needed to rewind it a bit and start again. But from someone who has never worked in photoshop before I 100% recommend this class to anyone trying to learn.
Terri Schwartz
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