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This tool trims an image deleting or hiding the rest of the image. When using it the “Rule of Thirds” Grid shows up.
What is the Crop Tool?
100
This tool resembles freehand painting. The size, style, opacity, and color are just some options that you have with this tool.
What is the Brush Tool?
100
This tool fills similarly colored areas or selections with the foreground color. You can also buy these at Lowe’s by the gallon.
What is the Paint Bucket?
100
This keyboard shortcut allows you to deselect a selection.
What is control + D?
100
This tool allows you to magnify or reduce the view of the image. It is represented by a magnifying glass.
What is the Zoom Tool?
200
This tool allows you to re-position an object in a layer. It is the very first tool.
What is the Move Tool?
200
This tool retouches images using sampled pixels. It works as a combination of the Healing Brush and the Lasso Tool. A pirate typically has one of these.
What is the Patch Tool?
200
This tool removes pixels and shows what is on the layer below the removed pixels. If nothing is below it will show the transparent background. These are also often found on pencils.
What is the Eraser Tool?
200

What is the keyboard shortcut to undo?

What is CTRL + Z?

200
This is the preferred resolution in pixels for print images.
What is 300 dpi?
300
These tools allow you to select rectangular or circular areas of a layer and are shown by a dotted line.
What is the Marquee Tools?
300
Some of the Retouching Tools require you to sample another part of the image to use to paint with. This requires you to use this key long with clicking in order to grab that sample.
What is the alt key?
300
This tool allows you to create blends of color by straight-line, radial, angle, reflected, and diamond options.
What is the Gradient Tool?
300
This is the file extension for Photoshop Files. The ideal file format for saving all layers, masks, effects, etc. in your composition.
What is PSD?
300
This tool allows you to create and edit vector-based text. It creates a new layer automatically.
What is the Type Tool?
400
This tool selects similarly colored areas to make selections with just one click. Harry Potter probably has this tool.
What is the Magic Wand Tool?
400
This tool paints with a sample of pixels on the image. The icon looks like a stamp.
What is the Clone Stamp Tool?
400
The front box in the Color Selecting Box that shows the color white when you start a new Photoshop project.
What is the Foreground Color?
400
This is the standard resolution in pixels for web images.
What is 72 dpi?
400
These are like stacked sheets of paper that you can see through and the basic building up of an image in Photoshop.
What is layers?
500

This tool allows you to quickly select or deselect parts of an image.

What is the Quick Selection Tool?

500
This tool allows you to paint with a sample or pattern from the image to repair imperfections. Typically used to correct skin blemishes and the icon is a band aid.
What is the Spot Healing Brush Tool?
500

This tool allows you to select the foreground and/or background color by a colored pixel in the image. 

What is the Eyedropper Tool?

500

What is the keyboard shortcut to transform or change the size of an image?

CTRL + T

500
This layer by default is locked.
What is the background layer?