| A | B |
| Thumbnail | Small picture of what is on a layer |
| Active | Layer or image selected and ready to be worked on |
| Application Bar | Bar containing PhotoShop menus and other commonly used tools. |
| Panels | Small windows that contain a variety of related settings (ie: layers, channels, history) |
| Fastening Points | Points created by Magnetic Lasso to hold the selection border to the edges of the image |
| Tools Option Bar | Located below the Applications Bar; changes depending on the tool selected |
| Flatten | To merge layers using a single command |
| Menus | Lists of commands that are related to each other |
| Layers | The parts of the PhotoShop file that keeps different parts of the design separate from each other |
| Foreground Color | The color applied by painting tools |
| Icon | Picture or symbol representing a tool |
| Layer Styles | Special effects such as drop shadow, beveling, and stroke that can quickly be applied to an entire layer |
| Menu Bar | Contains all the main functions such as File, Edit, Image, Layer, Select, Filer, View, Window, and Help. |
| Tool Bar | Contains most of the major tools for easy access |
| Marquee | Tools that select by drawing a rectangle or ellipse around it |
| Lasso | Tool that selects by drawing a freehand border |
| Polygonal Lasso | Tool that selects by drawing a straight-edge border |
| Magnetic Lasso | Tool that selects by drawing a border that sticks to the edges of the object |
| Magic Wand | Tool that selects by using color. Can specify a tolerance to control how much it selects. |
| Colorize | Allows you to make changes to your image |