10 Practical Tutorials to Get You Started with Photoshop Tools – Part I

If you have just started learning Photoshop, you will most likely encounter a set of little icons on the left of your screen at first glance. They are Photoshop Tools – If used wisely, they will make your design life so much easier and in the mean time, maximise your creativity. There is so much to discover about those tools and that’s why I decide to have a series here on PSD Vault and share some tutorials I found useful with you guys.

In each post of this series here on PSD Vault, I will share 10 hightly practical tutorials to get you started with Photoshop Toolset, along with some tips and tricks to increase your workflow efficiency.  There will be two tutorials for each tool and eventually cover every single tool in Photoshop.

For Part I, I will be focusing on the Move Tool, Marquee Tool, Crop Tool, Slice Tool and Magic Wand Tool. Hope you enjoy those tutorials and find them useful!

Move Tool

A Look At The Move Tool

This tutorial is the first part of a series of photoshop video tutorials covering each of the tools in the tools palette. In this tutorial, we cover the Move Tool, also sometimes referred to as the Pointer Tool.

Six Move Tool Tips For Photoshop

So naturally enough, the main function of the Move Tool in Photoshop is to move objects around the document window. It’s basically your index finger for pushing stuff around, but by combining it with some modifier keys you can add to it’s functionality. Here’s six MoveTool tips to speed up your workflow.

Marquee Tool

Select With the Marquee Tool in Photoshop

In this video tutorial, you will learn how to select with the marquee tool in Adobe Photoshop CS3.

The Photoshop Marquee Tool

There is almost nothing you can’t do to a picture in Photoshop. Learn how to use the marquee tool in this free video clip on this great computer program.

Crop Tool

Photoshop’s Crop tool explained

The crop tool is probably one of the easiest tools to use, but probably not used as often as it should. Use the crop tool to help the appearance of your image by enhancing the composition.

Using Photoshop Crop Tool: Beyond the cropping

Generally cropping is process to removing portions of an image to create focus or strengthen the composition. But with Photoshop Crop tool, its provide much more option to crop and more flexible.

Slice Tool

How to Create a template using slice tool in Adobe Photoshop

This is a tutorial about how to use slice tool in Adobe Photoshop and export it as a web page.

Image Slicing in Photoshop CS3

No doubt you’ve heard about image slicing, but do you know what it is and how it works? Image slicing is a technique for creating a web page (or a component of a web page, like a header or navigation menu) visually in Photoshop (Fireworks and Illustrator also allow you to slice images, too). But how does it work?

Magic Wand Tool

Select With the Magic Wand Tool in Photoshop CS3

The magic wand tool can be used to make a precise selection to an image in Adobe Photoshop CS3. In this video tutorial, you will learn how to select with the magic wand tool in Photoshop CS3.

To make quick selections, just wave the Magic Wand

Photoshop’s Magic Wand tool makes it quick and easy to select large areas of an image with just a few clicks.

Ok that’s it for Part I of 10 Highly Practical Tutorials to Get You Started with Photoshop Tools! Hope you enjoy those tutorials and if you would like to add any site you find useful, simply drop me a comment below.

Meanwhile, if you have any tips and tricks about those tools, you’re more welcome to share them here by leaving a comment below.

Thanks and have a very creative day!