The move tool allows you to move a selection or entire layer by dragging it with your mouse or using your keyboard arrows keys.

Short Cut Key: "V"

Rectangle Marquee

Make a rectangular selection. Hold the shift key down to constrain the selection to a square.

Elliptical Marquee

Make an elliptical selection. Hold the shift key down to constrain the selection to a circle.

Single Row Marquee

Make a horizontal selection 1 pixel high.

Single Column Marquee

Make a vertical selection 1 pixel wide.

Short Cut Key: "M"

Lasso Tool

This is a freehand selection tool. Click and hold your left mouse button on the image and draw your selection.

Polygonal Lasso Tool

Similar to the lasso tool, except that instead of holding your mouse button down to draw, left-click on various points to create a selection with a series of straight edges.

Magnetic Lasso Tool

Left-click at the starting point of your selection and simply move the mouse along the edge.

"Fastening points" are automatically made at various points along the edges. Left-click at any time to add a fastening point manually.

To Complete a Selection

To finish drawing a selection, either click on the selection starting point or double-click anywhere.

Short Cut Key: "L"

The Magic Wand Tool and the Quick Selection Tool allows you to select an area of an image based on its color.

Short Cut Key: "W"

The Crop tool allows you to select an area of an image and discard everything outside this area.

Short Cut Key: "C"

The Eyedropper tool is used to sample a color from an image to use this color further. Short Cut key "I"

Spot Healing Brush Tool

Quickly removes blemishes and imperfections from photographs with a uniform background.

Healing Brush Tool

Paints with a sample or pattern to repair imperfections in an image.

Patch Tool

Repairs imperfections in a selected area of an image using sample or pattern.

Content-Aware Move Tool

Recomposes and blends pixels to accommodate a moved object.

Red Eye Tool

Removes red-eye in flash photos with one click

Short Cut key "J"

The patch tool retouches images using sampled pixels or pattern. It works as a combination of the healing brush tool and lasso tool

Short Cut key: "J"

The Content-Aware Move tool taps the technologies behind Content-Aware Fill and the Clone Stamp Tool allowing you to move elements within a scene while Photoshop automatically fills in the missing details.

Short Cut key: "J"

Paints brush strokes. Short Cut key "B"

Paints hard-edged strokes. Short Cut key "B"

Substitutes one color for another. Short Cut key "B"

Blends sampled color with an exisitng color. Short Cut key "B"

Clone Stamp Tool

Paints with a sample of an image.

Pattern Stamp Tool

Paints with a part of an image as a pattern.

Short Cut key: "S"

Paints a copy of the selected slate or snapshot into the current image window. Short Cut key: "Y"

Eraser Tool

Erases pixels and restores parts of an image to a previously saved state.

Background Eraser Tool

Erases areas to transparency by dragging

Magic Eraser Tool

Erases solid color areas to transparency with a single click.

Short Cut key: "E"

Gradient Tool

Creates straight-line, radial, angle, reflected, and diamond blends between colors.

Paint Bucket Tool

Fills similarly color areas with the foreground color.

Short Cut key: "G"

Blur Tool

Blurs hard edges in an image.

Sharpen Tool

Sharpens soft edges in an image

Smudge Tool

Simulates the actions of dragging a finger through wet paint. The tool picks up color where the stroke begins and pushes it in the direction you drag.

Short Cut key: "None"

Dodge Tool

Lightens areas in an image.

Burn Tool

Darkens areas in an image

Sponge Tool

Changes the color saturation of an area.

Short Cut key: "O"

Draw smooth-edged paths. Short Cut key "P"

Type Text. Short Cut key: "T"

Draw shapes and lines in a normal layer or Shape. Short Cut key: "U"