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=Tool groupings in most graphic design programs.= //-when to use them, when not to use them.//

Let's take a quick look at the tools available to use with Photoshop.



In Photoshop, or any other picture editing program, the toolbar comes grouped to make tools with similar function with each other easily intuitive and accessible. For example, in the pixel selection portion of the toolbar in Gimp and Photoshop, there is a basic square/circular pixel selector. The trick with graphic design programs is knowing what tool is fastest to accomplish each job.

We have briefly considered some pixel selection tools (from the top portion of the toolbar in Photoshop). Our tutorial today will cover a few of the basic tools for manipulating pixels including the brush, the eraser, the fill, the blur-group and the burn-group.

To that end we are going to practice our skills by taking a picture of ourselves. We are then going to re-touch our eyes to make them slightly bigger, to edit lashes, and to alter things like bags and eye colour.

Photoshop Keyboard Shortcuts

[[image:TGJ2O_keyboard_shortcuts.png width="800" height="618" caption="http://sixrevisions.com/photoshop/photoshop-keyboard-shortcuts/ art. Jacob Gube"]]

NEXT: Touching up static object