Photoshop is image editing software created by Thomas Knoll in 1987. It contains various tools for selection, painting, and editing images organized in a toolbar. Key tools include selection tools like the marquee and lasso tools, painting and editing tools like the brush and crop tools, and tools to work with layers and colors. Photoshop allows users to open, edit, and save images in various formats like PSD, JPEG, and TIFF. Images can be created or modified using layers, tools, and options like adding text.

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. 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

4. 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.
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?

5. 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?
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

6. Advanced Photoshop
1.What are the steps to use move tool?
Ans: Step1: Open image
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

7. Step4: Click on the image file where the
selected portion to be copied
Step5: Click on edit and copy.
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. 8. What is Resolution
Ans: Resolution is the term used to describe
the number of dots or pixels used to display
an image
9.Define Pixel
Ans: Tiny squares that display an image on a
computer monitor
10. What are Bitmap Images?
Ans:Images that made up of pixels are called
bitmap images
11. Define Vector images
Ans: Images that made up of lines and curves.

9. REVIEW OF PHOTOSHOP
1.What are the kinds of images that are
created?
Ans: Photoshop is a graphical program that
we use to create a new image or modify an
existing one. There are two types of images
a)Bitmap Images
b)Vector images
2.What are the three different modes that we
can choose in photoshop
Ans: There are several modes to choose in
photoshop like
 bitmap
 Gray scale
 RGB
 CMYK( Cyan, magenta, yellow, black)
 lab etc.,

10. 3.How do we create a new file photoshop
describing all the specifications that need to
be given?
To create a New file:
1)Click on ‘New’ from the standard tool bar or
click on new from the file menu
2)A dialog box opens up to choose the
settings for the new page
Required specifications:-
 Name
 size
 Resolution
 Mode

11. 4.List out the different selection tools used in
photoshop
Ans: There are three selection tools in the
photoshop
1)The Magic Wand tool
2)The Marquee tool
3)The Lasso tool
5) What are Foreground and Background
colours?
Ans: The square on top in the icon depicts
the foreground colour, While the one below it
depicts the background colour. There is a
toggle arrow in the right hand corner that
helps in shifting from the foreground to
background and viceversa.
6) What are the different formats in which
we can open and save files in
photoshop?

12. Ans: 1)PSD: photoshop files are saved in
this format(photoshop document)
2)TIF: Tagged image file
3)BMP: Bitmap
4) JPEG: Joint picture expert group
5)PDF: Portable document format
7) How do we insert custom shapes in
photoshop?
Ans: Photoshop comes with some pre loaded
shapes. They are found in the custom shape
tool
a) To insert custom shape , click on the
drop down arrow on the rectangle tool
b) Select custom shape . A palatte with a
variety of shapes open up
c) Click and drag on the layer to draw the
seleted shape.
8) What are the layers in photoshop?
How do we work on them?

13. Ans: We work in layers in photoshop.
Each layer of an image is stacked one on
top of the other in such a manner that
any change made in one layer does not
affect the other.
We can create, hide, duplicate , copy or
delete layers by using the menu that
appears if you right click the layers
palette.
We can also change the order of the
layers by using the layers palette as well
as the layers menu