Tools Moodboard
Lasso Paint brush Paint bucket Eraser
Clone Blur Shapes Pen Burn & Dodge
What do they do?
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Lasso
The lasso tool is mainly used to create a selection of an image. This is done by the user selecting the lasso (right click to select choices of lassos) and drawing free hand around the part of the image they want to select. This tool is very useful for carefully choosing which part of an image your want to remove or perhaps highlight. The choices of lasso are: lasso, polygon lasso and magnetic lasso.
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Paint brush
As stated in the name, the pain brush tool is for painting over a selected image. It is used as a way to create paths in images using coloured paint strokes (or black and white). In the options bar, you can choose the size and intensity of the paint stroke, as well as the colour. You can also select the opacity which controls the lightness of the colour.
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Paint bucket
The paint bucket is another painting tool. This tool is used to make an area of your image a specific colour or shade. The way this tool works is that pixels that are adjacent to the ones you have chosen to colour will also become that colour. The paint bucket primarily fills the image based on how the original colours blend.
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Eraser
The eraser tool flows similarly to a brush. The different options of erasers are: eraser, magic eraser and background eraser. You can change the size of the cursor to control the amount your want erased. This tool ensures a blanked out area for you to perhaps insert another image. The end result of using the tool is either the checkered background (as shown) or it is transparent.
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Clone
Clone stamp tool:
As the word 'clone' suggests, this tool duplicates a part of the image that you select and transfers it to another area or it is just another tool you can use to get rid of an area you do not want. Pattern stamp tool The patter stamp tool allows you to select a patter that you want from the options bar and fill areas of your image with that pattern. |
Smudge
Shapes
The different options for this tool are: rectangle, rounded rectangle, polygon, triangle, line and custom shapes. This tool is clearly used to create new shapes or pathways in your image. It can also be used as a fill and can help with the effect of double exposure.
You can choose what colour to fill your shape with in the options bar. For example, you could select a triangle and colour it red by pressing the 'Fill' button. |
Pen
Burn and Dodge
The burn and dodge tools are the opposite of each other. The dodge tool is used to lighten areas of your image and the burn tool is used to darken it. In the options bar, you can choose the size of your cursor and the opacity (which controls the opaqueness). As you can see in the image the burn tool as been used on the background and the dodge tool on the foreground. This demonstrates how suing both tools together can be good at emphasizing a specific part of an image.
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