Photoshop is image editing software created by Thomas Knoll in 1987. It contains various tools for selecting, moving, and modifying parts of images. The toolbar contains selection, painting, and editing tools as well as options for foreground and background colors. Palettes control the behavior of tools and allow adjusting colors, layers, and other options. Common tools include the move tool, marquee selection tools, lasso selection tools, and tools for cropping, filling, adding text, and painting. Resolution refers to the number of pixels in an image.

1. PHOTOSHOP
COMPONENTS OF PHOTOSHOP

2. Draw the photoshop tool box

3. 1.Define Photoshop?
Ans: Adobe photoshop is one of the most
powerful software application for image editing,
touch up, colour correction , painting and
drawing.
2. What is the use of photoshop?
Ans:Photoshop is used to work with images that
you have been digitalized or film/slide or to
create original artwork
3. Who had invented photoshop software?
Ans: Photoshop software was invented and
created by Thomas Knoll in 1987

4. 4. What is the use of tool bar?
Ans: Toolbar contains selection tools, painting
tools , editing tools , foreground & background
colours, selection boxes and viewing tools.
These tools are used to work with images.
5. What are the types of palletes ?
Ans: Palletes are used to controls the behaviour
of tools. Windows menu displays a list of
palletes like common palletes, colour, swatches,
layers,History.
6. What is the use of Move tool?
Ans: The move tool is used for moving an
image or a part of an image.
7. What is the use of rectangular marquee tool?
Ans: It is used for selecting an image or a part
of an image in a rectangular shape.
8.What is the use of Lasso tool?
Ans: Lasso tool are used to make free hand
selection of an image.

5. 9. What is the use of polygonal lasso tool in
photoshop?
Ans: This tool helps to select an area of an
image with straight edges.
10. What is use of crop tool?
Ans: Crop tool is used to cut an area of an
image.
11. What is the use of paint bucket tool?
Ans: Paint bucket tool is used to fill the colour
in an image.
12. What is the use of elliptical marquee in
photoshop?
Ans: This tool is used to select the portion of an
image in the circular shape.
13. What is the use of magicwand tool?
Ans:This tool is used to select objects in an
image.
14.What is the use of single row/column
marquee tool in photoshop?

6. Ans: This tool is used to select a single
row/column pixels of an image.
15.Write the steps to save a file in photoshop.
Ans: Step1: Select file menu
Step2: Select save option
Step3: Type name in the dialog box
Step4: Click on save
Advanced Photoshop
1.What are the steps to use move tool?
Ans: Step1: Open image

7. step2: Click on the move tool from the tool
box
step3: Place the mouse pointer over the image
Step4: Drag the mouse to move the selected
part to another place.
2.What are the steps to use magic tool ?
Ans: step1: open the image
step2: click on the magic wand tool
step3: click on any one part of the image
step4: The magic wand selects pixels based
on colour values.
3.What are the steps to copy a part of an
image to some other image?
Ans: Step1: Open the image
step2: Select the required part of the image
using marquee tool
step3: Select the edit and copy
Step4: Click on the image file where the
selected portion to be copied
Step5: Click on edit and copy.

8. 4.What is the use of background colour?
Ans: The background colour is filled in the
erased parts of a drawing and also used to
make colour fills.
5.How to add text to an image?
Ans: Step1: Select the type tool from the tool
box
step2: Click on the option bar
Step3: Drag the mouse on the image, a
rectangular box will appear
Step4: Type the text will appear in an image.
6.What is the use of brush tool?
Ans: Brush tool is used for freehand drawing.
7. What is the use of the hand tool?
Ans: Hand tool is used for dragging an image
when zoomed in.
8. What is Resolution
Ans: Resolution is the term used to describe
the number of dots or pixels used to display
an image