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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?
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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?
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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?
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This keyboard shortcut allows you to deselect a selection.
What is control + D?
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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?
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This tool allows you to re-position an object in a layer. It is the very first tool.
What is the Move Tool?
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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?
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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?
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This term refers to the resolution of an image and is given the acronym DPI.
What is Dots Per Inch?
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This is the preferred resolution in pixels for print images.
What is 300 dpi?
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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?
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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 Option key?

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This tool allows you to create blends of color by straight-line, radial, angle, reflected, and diamond options.
What is the Gradient Tool?
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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?
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This tool allows you to create and edit vector-based text. It creates a new layer automatically.
What is the Type Tool?
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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?
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This tool paints with a sample of pixels on the image. The icon looks like a stamp.
What is the Clone Stamp Tool?
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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?
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This is the standard resolution in pixels for web images.
What is 72 dpi?
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These are like stacked sheets of paper that you can see through and build up an image in Photoshop.

What is layers?

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This tool is one of three options that allow you to make a selection. This tool makes selections by detecting edges and automatically connecting to those edges.
What is the Magnetic Lasso Tool?
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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?
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This tool allows you to define the foreground and/or background color by a colored pixel in the image. You also use this if you have Pink Eye.
What is the Eyedropper/Color Sampler Tool?
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When adjusting the image size of your document you must make sure this setting is UNCHECKED to show its actual "printed out size."
What is Resample Image?
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This layer by default is locked.
What is the background layer?