Photoshop Interface

The Toolbox contains all the tools you require to manipulate an image. If you see the point 2 named Lasso tools carefully, you will observe a small dot on the lower right hand side of that rectangle. This dot is actually a small triangle on which you have to click and hold to see expanded list of tools of the same tool type.

Corresponding to each tool except Type, Measure and Hand tools, there is a tool palette called option palette. The option palette gives information about the selected tool. If the option palette is not present then double click a tool in the toolbox. The option palette contains two choices in the palette menu. You can see the palette menu by clicking on the triangle in the upper right comer of the option palette. The choices are Reset Tool for restoring the default settings and Reset All Tools for restoring the default settings for all tools in the Toolbox. Note and remember that the palette menu is there for all the option palettes.

Palettes

Other than the Toolbox, Photoshop has eleven floating palettes arranged in four groups. These palettes are required for working with layers, channels, paths, and actions. There are palettes, which helps in manipulating color and brush shape also. We will discuss the palettes as we proceed in this and the coming chapters wherever required.

The palettes are in general grouped together. You can separate them out by dragging the tabs that contain the palette name. You can also select a palette from the Window menu by clicking on the appropriate Show option. Choose the appropriate Hide option from the Window menu to close a palette. Note that in the Window menu the palettes in a group are one below each other and the groups are separated by a horizontal line to specify the group. There are four groups in which eleven palettes are distributed.

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