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| Area Type | The text fills in a closed path |
| Brush Tool | Basic painting tool with many options |
| Content Aware | Allows you to replace unwanted parts of the image with pixels near it |
| Cropping | Eliminating unwanted parts of a graphic |
| Eyedropper Tool | Used to pick up a color value from the image and sets it as the foreground color |
| Feathering | A technique used in computer graphics software to smooth or blur the edges of an element, also called blending |
| Fill | The inside color of a closed shape |
| Filters | Preset effects used to quickly adjust a graphic’s appearance |
| Free Transform | Let you apply transformations (rotate, scale, skew, distort, and perspective) in one continuous operation; instead of choosing different commands, you simply hold down a key on your keyboard to switch between transformation types |
| Lasso | Draws freeform segments of a selection border |
| Layer Styles | Preset effects applied to graphics and/or text layer within a design that add depth and dimension |
| Magnetic Lasso | The magnetic lasso tool snaps to the edges of defined areas (color) in the image |
| Marquee | Used to draw selections based on geometric shapes |
| Point Type | Text begins right where you click and does not automatically wrap to the next line |
| Scaling | Changing a graphic’s size dimensions (height and width) Selection – Surrounding specific part(s) of a graphic to make |
| Selection | Surrounding specific part(s) of a graphic to make individual adjustments |
| Selection Tools | Allows you to choose a specific part of the image |
| Shear | Will slant or skew the object |
| Stroke | The outline of a shape, text or image |
| Type on a Path | Allows text to flow along an open or closed shaped path |