How to remove the toolbar in Photoshop. Toolbar in Photoshop. Description of tools. Changing the order of tools on a toolbar
The toolbar in Photoshop is a window containing devices grouped by purpose or similarity of functions required for work. It is most often located on the left side of the program interface. It is possible to move the panel to any location in the workspace if necessary.
In some cases, this panel may disappear due to user actions or a software error. This rarely happens, but this problem can cause a lot of inconvenience. It’s clear that it’s impossible to work in Photoshop without a toolbar. There are hotkeys for calling tools, but not everyone knows about them.
Restoring the toolbar
If suddenly you opened your favorite Photoshop and did not find the tools in their usual place, then try restarting it; perhaps an error occurred during startup.
Errors can occur for various reasons: from a “broken” distribution ( installation files) to hooliganism antivirus program, which denied Photoshop access to key folders or completely deleted them.
If restarting does not help, there is one recipe for restoring the toolbar.
So, what to do if the toolbar disappears?
In most cases, this operation helps solve the problem. Otherwise, you will have to reinstall the program.
This technique is also useful for those users who use hot keys to select various tools. For such masters, it makes sense to remove the toolbar to free up additional space in the work area.
If Photoshop often produces errors or scares you various problems, then perhaps it’s time to think about changing the distribution and reinstalling the editor. In the event that you earn your living using Photoshop, these problems will lead to work stoppages, and these are pure losses. Needless to say, it will be more professional to use licensed version programs?
So, in a narrow small-sized panel it is arranged a large number of tools, this is, of course, very cool, but it is unlikely that you will need to use all the tools every day. You most likely use less than a third of the tools all the time, some you rarely use, and some you never use at all. And it would be great if we could customize the toolbar to only contain the tools we use, with the ones we use most often being the most easily accessible.
Previously, the toolbar was absolutely not customizable, and only with the release of the new version the situation changed. Now we can group and ungroup tools in an order convenient for us, and simply hide unused tools. We can then completely save our own panel structure and use it as a preset!
Editing the Toolbar
Well, in the November 2015 release of Photoshop Creative Cloud, Adobe has finally added the ability to fully customize the toolbar using an all-new dialog box .
There are two ways to open this window. The first is through the main menu tab Editing --> Toolbar (Edit --> Customize Toolbar).
The second is to right-click on the ellipsis icon (three small dots) at the bottom of the panel, directly below the “Zoom” icon and click on the line “Edit Toolbar”:
Start editing the toolbar from the panel itself by right-clicking on the icon with three dots.
Toolbar Customization Dialog Box
After applying either of these two methods, a new settings dialog box will open. The dialog box consists of two main columns. The column on the left shows the tools located on this moment in the panel, they are shown in the same order and in the same grouping.
The column on the right is called "Extra Tools". We drag tools from the left column into this column to remove them from the toolbar.
New dialog box "Customize Toolbar" in Photoshop CC 2015.
Removing a tool from the toolbar
To remove a tool from the toolbar, simply click on it in the left column and drag it to the right column.
Let's look at this with an example, let's take the Move Tool group as an example. I'll right-click on its icon:
There are two tools in the group, the Move Tool and the Artboard Tool.
I want to remove the "Artboard Tool" because... I rarely use it.
Open the toolbar settings dialog box and drag “Artboard” from the left column to the right:
Move the tool to remove it from the panel.
This is what the dialog box columns look like after moving:
Dialog box columns.
After moving, be sure to click the “Done” button located at the top right of the dialog box; without clicking the button, changes will not be saved. After clicking, the window closes.
Let's look at the Move icon again:
As you can see, the small triangle located at the bottom right has disappeared from the icon, this indicates that there is only one tool left in the group - “Move”. Clicking on the icon with the right mouse button will no longer open any list, but will only activate the “Move” tool.
View More Tools
So where did the Artboard tool go? Actually, when I talked about removing tools, this is not entirely true; in fact, tools are not completely removed. Instead, we simply move them from the main toolbar layout to another, hidden area. In other words, the tools are not deleted. but they are hiding.
We can look at the hidden tools if we right-click (Win) again on the icon with three dots in the toolbar (also, instead of right-clicking, you can left-click on the icon and hold for a couple of seconds, as you like).
Any tools you dragged into the More Tools column in the Customize Toolbar dialog box (like I did with "Artboard" just now) will appear in this list, below the line Edit Toolbar... (Edit Toolbar). This means that these tools are simply hidden and you can activate them at any time:
List of tools hidden from the toolbar
Restoring a tool in the toolbar
To restore a tool, simply click on it in the column additional tools on the right and drag it back into the column Toolbar left. Notice the blue horizontal bar that appears as you drag. It specifies in which area of the toolbar the tool will be inserted.
For example, in the image below, the Artboard tool will take its own place on the toolbar, between the Move and marquee tools:
Restoring the tool to its own place on the panel, the blue bar indicates a gap between groups.
This is what the panel looks like now:
The Artboard tool has taken its own position in the toolbar
This figure shows that the blue bar is on the “Move” tool, therefore, the dragged “Artboard” this time will take its own place on the panel, and one group with the “Move” will be located below it:
The restored tool is placed next to the Move tool, forming a group with it.
If you now right-click on “Move”, a list will open:
The group again contains two tools, the Move Tool and the Artboard Tool.
Grouping and Ungrouping Tools
Actually, if you think about it, the Move Tool and the Artboard Tool have nothing to do with each other, so why are they in the same group? It would make more sense for them to appear as separate, independent tools. But then how to ungroup them?
Nothing could be simpler. All you have to do is click on the tool and drag it to another group until the right group no blue bar appears, then release the mouse:
In the picture, I'm moving the Artboard tool from the Move group to the Marquee tools group.
In addition, I can position the tool separately from any group:
The tool moves into the space between the groups, as indicated by the blue bar.
To do this, I just need to move the desired tool into the gap between the groups. This is what the panel looks like now:
The Artboard Tool is in its own place in the panel, below the marquee tools and above the Lasso group.
Choosing the main instrument for the group
Each group of tools has a tool located at the top of the list of tools in the group, it is displayed on the toolbar and is activated by clicking the left mouse button, in other words, it is the most quickly accessible in the group.
Here's what the default selection group looks like:
Default view of the Selection Panes tool group
To make another instrument quickly accessible (main), you just need to move it to the top within your group.
In the picture, I use the “Oval Area” tool as my main tool. By default, the main one in this group is "Rectangular area"
And here’s what the group looks like on the panel now:
After moving, the main tool in the group became the "Oval Area" tool.
Moving entire groups
Previously we looked at how to drag individual instruments from one column to another, but we can drag entire groups in the same way. For example, let's take a group where the first tool is the “Croop Tool”. To drag this or any other group, hover your mouse over a corner of the group and the group should be highlighted with a blue border, letting you know you've selected the entire group:
Moving the entire group to the "Additional tools" column
Now the group has been moved and is missing from the toolbar, this is shown in the screenshot:
The tool group has been removed from the toolbar.
Changing the order of tools on a toolbar
The new toolbar has one more useful feature- you can move the tools you use most often to the top of the toolbar, and move those you rarely use to the bottom. You can do the same with a group of instruments as a whole.
Disable hotkey shortcuts for additional tools
A very useful new option for tool activation hotkeys. For example, in the “Frame” group there are four tools, each of which is activated by the C key. As a rule, I only use the “Frame” tool; I rarely need the others. That's why. It’s clear that I don’t really need the rest of the tools in this group not to be activated using the C key. Using the new panel, this is easy to do. Opening the panel:
By default, all tools in the Frame group are activated using the C key.
Disabling hotkeys
Changing keyboard shortcuts to activate tools
In the same way you can change hotkey activation, only instead of the Backspace key you should press one of the letter keys from A to Z:
Example quick replacement hotkeys for tools.
Clear Tools button
So far, we've spent most of our time dragging tools from the left column of the main tools on the left to the tools column on the right. But if you only want to keep a few tools on the toolbar, only the ones you use all the time, click the Clear Tools button in the top right corner of the dialog box, this will make the main (left) column empty and drag everything to the right :
All tools have been moved to the right column.
The figure on the left shows the toolbar as it will look after clicking the "Done" button.
Hide additional toolbar options
At the bottom of the toolbar there are four additional icons, this is the ellipsis, including the toolbar settings, the Foreground/Background Colors icon, the Quick Mask Mode on/off, and the Screen Mode switch icon. . All these icons correspond to the icons in the lower left corner of the "Customize Toolbar" panel:
Disable additional options.
If you click on one or more icons, they will be deactivated and the corresponding additional options will be hidden:
Hide additional toolbar options. At the moment I only have the option to switch foreground and background colors (Foreground/Background Colors)
Saving a custom toolbar customization template as a preset
When you're done customizing Customize Toolbar, you can save the new layout as a preset by clicking the Save Preset button. A new window will open where you can give the set a descriptive name, then click the "Save" button. You can save multiple layouts as presets, each customized for a specific task (such as photo retouching, digital painting, web design, and so on).
Restoring the Toolbar Customization
To return to the original default settings, click the Restore Defaults button.
The figure below shows graphic tools Photoshop editor CS5 with their modifiers. Tools are divided into logical groups by horizontal lines. Most of these tools and their modifiers are included in older versions of this program. Each a new version Photoshop is supplemented with new tools and/or modifiers, and some “old” tools may also be improved. We will not consider all the tools with their modifiers in this series; we will only talk about the main Photoshop tools and their modifiers, which are most often used for photo editing.
The toolbar is the main panel in this graphic editor. Almost every processing step is not complete without one or another tool from this panel. The panel can be attached to the right/left border of the Photoshop desktop. It can also be detached from the border and placed anywhere on the desktop. graphic editor, see screenshots below.
In order to move toolbar to another location, move the cursor to the top of the panel, press the left mouse button while holding the key pressed, move the panel to your chosen area of the editor's desktop, see the screenshot above, or attach the panel to the opposite border of the desktop, see the screenshot below.
To change the appearance of the toolbar, move the cursor to the top of the panel and click on the arrows, the panel will become a little shorter and wider, see the screenshot above. To move the panel, press the left mouse button, while holding the key down, move the panel to the desktop area of your choice, see the video below.
When can such manipulations with the toolbar come in handy? For example, you have a small monitor, but you need to open the file being processed to the entire desktop so that you can enlarge the file to one or another peak of the optimal scaling percentage.
You can close the toolbar completely by clicking on the cross in the panel header, or uncheck the box next to the “Tools” item in the “Window” menu.
To call the toolbar, you can use hot keys by first specifying the combination in the “Keyboard Shortcuts” settings. You can enter the keyboard shortcut settings menu using the “Edit” menu, or by typing the key combination “Alt+Shift+Ctrl+K”. In the “Keyboard Shortcuts” settings, select the “Window” item, and in it edit the “Tools” item.
Now that we've sorted out the toolbar, in the next article we'll take a detailed look at some of the tools on this panel. Let's start our acquaintance with Photoshop tools, from instruments and modifiers of the first logical group -
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We will devote the next lessons on working with Adobe Photoshop to tools.
The toolbar plays an important role in working with Photoshop. Some commands can only be performed from the toolbar, for example, working with text, or with drawing tools.
Let's look at the tools. The first group, selection tools.
1.Rectangles Marquee Tool– (Rectangular selection). Selection is made by moving the cursor while holding down the mouse button. If we select an area and then try to select another area, the old selection will disappear. In order to add a new selection to the old one, before starting the selection, you need to press and hold the key Shift. To subtract a new selection from the old one, press and hold the key Alt. If you hold down a key together Shift and Alt,this will lead to the fact that the selected area will be the area combining the old and new selection.
Elliptical Marquee Tool(Elliptical selection) – allows you to select an elliptical area. Keys Alt and Shift, are used similarly to rectangular selection.
Single Column Marquee– selecting a column of pixels.
Single Rou Marquee- selecting a line of pixels.
2.Lasso Tool (Lasso)– allows you to make a selection of any shape. Selection is made by dragging the cursor while holding down the left mouse button. Once the area is defined, you can subtract a specific area from it. If you hold the button Alt pressed, you can select another selection area within the first block. Key combination Shift+Alt– to set the selection area.
Polygonal Lasso Tool(Polygonal lasso). Let's say we need to select a triangle. Click left button mouse and move the cursor to the base, then release the mouse button again, click again and select the base of the triangle, release again and press the button, select the second side until the selection reaches the first side. Double click left click to activate selection.
Magnetic Lasso too l – (Magnetic lasso). Allows you to make a selection along the contrast boundaries. Let's say we need to highlight light on dark. Select the magnetic lasso tool and move the cursor to the desired place in your image and, with the left mouse button pressed, start selecting. Photoshop It will look for areas with maximum contrast and will draw a selection outline along them. During the selection process, the program automatically sets anchor points. By pressing a key Backspace, you can delete the last anchor point and continue the selection. Pressing this key multiple times will remove anchor points step by step.
17.Magic Wand– (Magic Wand) – a tool for selecting solid areas filled with one color. Select the magic wand tool and move it to the desired area of the image. Click with the left mouse button and you will have a section of one color selected. The Alt and Shift key combinations work the same as with rectangular selections.
16 .Move(Move). Once an area is selected, it can be moved. Select a tool move and move the cursor to the selected area. With the left mouse button pressed, drag your area where you want it. If you hold down the key Alt, a copy of the moved area will be created. If you need to move the selected area strictly horizontally or vertically, then hold down the key Shift. Also, if you need to precisely place the selection at a certain point, you can use the arrow keys on the keyboard; when you press the key, the selection moves by 1 pixel, and if you hold down the key Shift, then the movement will occur in increments of 10 pixels.
3.Crop(Cropping), is intended for cropping the raster area of documents, followed by cropping those parts of it that are not included in this rectangular area. Select a tool Crop and move it to the desired part of the image, and while holding down the left mouse button, select the desired area. You'll see that the selected area is lighter in color than the rest of the image, and that's the area that will remain. Once you have set the desired selection, press Enter and the conversion will be done.
18.Slice Tool(Cutting), designed to form a rectangular cut of a certain shape. Used on the Web to reduce file size, i.e. you can cut the image into three, four, etc. parts, and apply a different format to each part.
19.Brush Toll(Brush), is the main drawing tool, draws lines with soft edges. We draw by moving the mouse with the left button pressed over the image. Before you draw, you need to set the tool parameters. You can select the brush diameter, color, transparency, and pixel blending mode.
Pencil Tool(Pencil), produces lines with sharp, jagged edges. Has the same settings as the brush tool.
20.History Brush Tool(History Brush) - allows you to return to any previous state of the image, undoing one or more editing operations. Before use, in the history palette you need to check the box in front of the item you want to return to. Using a brush will erase all history items that are below the checkbox.
7.Blur Tool– (Blur). To blur local areas of the image. Place the cursor at the desired location in the image and activate the blur tool. Select the desired size in the options bar, and while holding the left mouse button, blur the desired area using circular movements.
Sharpen(Sharpness), for local image correction. Increases the sharpness of processed image areas. Works the same as the blur tool.
Smudge Tool(Finger). The operating principle is the same as the first two tools.
22.Dodge Tool(Brightener) is designed to locally brighten the image. The work occurs when the tool is moved around the image with the left mouse button pressed.
Sponge Tool(Sponge) - designed to reduce or increase the color saturation of image areas processed by tools. In the attribute bar you can select parameters for this tool - brush diameter, Flow– impact force, Mode-Saturate– increase in saturation, Desiderate– decrease in saturation. All the same, with the left mouse button pressed, we move over the desired areas of the image.
5.Clone Stamp Tool(Clone Stamp), allows you to copy one part of an image to another. It is necessary to determine the area of the image that will be copied. To do this, press the key Alt and while holding it, click the mouse in the right place, after which you can release the key and start drawing as if with a brush in the right place, only the drawing will be carried out with an image taken from the copied area.
Pattern Stamp(Pattern stamp), the stamp works similar to the cloning stamp. Just first you need to determine the pattern. This is done in the attribute line, in the column Pattern.
6.Eraser(eraser), designed to remove part of an image, regardless of color.
Magic Eraser– allows you to erase an area filled with one color with one click. The color on which the mouse was clicked will be erased. The actions of this tool are similar to those of a magic wand, only the eraser does not select, but erases the image.
Background Eraser(background eraser), removes everything but leaves the background if the option is enabled Protect Foreground Color.
21.Paint Bucket–(Fill) paints an area of the image with the color you specify. The foreground color is used. Select a tool, select a color. Then move the cursor to the place that needs to be filled, the cursor will take the shape of a bucket, and click the left mouse button. If there are no selections, the entire document will be flooded. To fill with texture, select Pattern(Texture).
Gradient Tool(Gradient) – this tool produces a fill with a smooth transition of colors. Maybe two basic colors or more. First, select the gradient type in the attributes panel by left-clicking on the desired type. Then select the gradient fill method, these are the five buttons next to the gradient type list. To fill, place the mouse cursor in the desired location and, while holding down the left mouse button, move the cursor to the desired distance; when you release the mouse button, the image area will be filled with the selected gradient.
4.Spot Healing Brush(Spot Healing Brush), works the same as the clone tools. But unlike a stamp, the Healing Brush tool takes into account the structure, lighting and shadows of the image area being processed. Select the Healing Brush tool, click Alt, holding the left mouse button at the location you specify in the image. Drag the tool over the areas of the image that require restoration. For example, this tool is good for removing shine from some parts of the image.
Patch(Patch) – allows you to restore a selected area by cloning pixels taken from another area or sample. To get high-quality results, choose small areas for correction.
9.Pan Tool(Pen) - allows you to draw paths, i.e., anchor points are created, which Photoshop automatically connects with segments.
Freeform Pan Tool- (Free pen).
Add Anchor Point Tool–(Add anchor point).
Delete Anchor Point Tool– (Delete anchor point).
Convert Point Tool- (Corner).
24.Tools for constructing figures:
Rectangle Tool- rectangle.
Rounded Rectangle Tool– a rectangle with rounded corners.
Ellipse– ellipse.
Polygon Tool– polygon.
Line Tool– line.
Custom Shape Tool– arbitrary figure. Allows you to create a variety of shapes that are immediately filled with the foreground color. To create all shapes except an arbitrary shape, you need to select a shape, place the cursor in the desired area of the image, and while holding the left mouse button, create the shape by moving the cursor. If, after the shape is created, you press the spacebar, the shape can be moved to any point in the image. If you hold down the key Alt When creating a figure, the figure will be created from the center. To create a custom shape, you need to select it in the tool settings line in the item Shape. To change the radius of the curves of a rectangle shape with rounded edges, in the same settings line, set the desired value in the Radius item.
8.Path Selection Tool–(Outline selection).
Direct Selection Tool– (Direct selection).
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Horizontal Type Tool– (Horizontal text). To enter text, select a tool. Place the cursor at the desired location in the document. Click the left mouse button, a flickering cursor will appear. Enter text using the keyboard.
Vertical Type Tool–(Vertical text) is the same, only the text will be entered vertically. In the options bar you can set the font typeface, text size and paragraph formation mode, text color and format.
25 .Eyedropper ( Pipette ) transfers the color of the image area where we clicked the mouse to the color fields of the toolbar, or displays digital color values in the palette Info.
Color Sampler(Color comparison), allows you to set up to four points from which color values will be read. These values are displayed in the Information palette Info, For each new point, a new field opens in this palette into which the values for this point are entered. In order to delete all points, you need to click the Clear button in the settings line.
Measure Tool(Ruler) – designed to measure distances and angles in an image. Click on the starting point of measurements, drag the cursor to the end point of measurements, on the palette Info The distance between the start and end points will be displayed.
10.Notes Tool-(Notes).
Audio Annotation Tool–(Sound annotation).
11.Hand( Hand ) – if the image does not fit into the screen frame, we can drag it.
26.Zoom Tool(Scale), if you hover the cursor over the image, it takes the form of a cross in a circle, and with each left click the image will be enlarged. If you press the key Alt, then with each click, the image will become smaller.
13.Quick Mask–(Quick mask mode).
12.Color squares- main and background colors
14 Document viewing modes. The first, standard mode, is set by default, the second is full screen with a menu bar, the third is full screen. You can also switch between modes by pressing the key F.
15. Transferring images to Image Ready and back.
In the next article on Adobe Photoshop, we will look at the settings and tools line.
Good afternoon, dear readers of the site. Well, let's begin to slowly master the wonderful image editor - Adobe Photoshop. Do you want to learn how to use this program? Have you even seen what he is capable of? This is simply amazing. And the most important thing is that these tools are available to anyone, the main thing is to simply master them.
But this takes time and effort. This is what we will do. Today we will look at the description of the Photoshop toolbar, i.e. We’ll find out why it’s needed and what it actually is.
The toolbar is a very important thing in the famous photo editor, since we will use it most often. Don't worry about the version of your program. This panel has not undergone any important changes. Well, are you ready? Then go ahead! To begin with, of course, you need to turn on your Photoshop.
As you can see, there is a long vertical bar on the left side of the program. This is the famous toolbar. Although some tools are somewhat similar to each other and can do the same things, they are all unique and do it differently.
In general, to be honest, I really don’t like this dry theory with names, descriptions, etc. in 95% of courses, everyone likes to devote entire lessons to reviewing interfaces, panels - “This panel is called the blah-blah-blah panel and it serves for blah-blah-blah” and stuff like that. And if it carried something useful, then I wouldn’t mind. But there is continuous water and 90% of this water is erased from memory. Anyway, then, as a rule, each part is analyzed in detail. And then everything is fine.
Therefore, there will be no review of tools as such. Here I will not consider what tools are available and what they are used for. I will only say that with the help of these tools we will select objects, move them, draw, erase, paint over, crop, write texts, remove defects, adjust sharpness, clarity and much more.
In order to select a specific tool, you just need to left-click on it, or press a specific hotkey. From now on, the tool is activated and you can use it.
In addition, for convenience, tools are combined into entire groups based on similar functions. Of course this is convenient, otherwise can you imagine how much space the toolbar would take up? In order to open all the tools in a given group you need to click on this tool right click mouse, or you can hold down the left mouse button. Then an additional menu will open with tools from this group. Select any by clicking the left mouse button.
Do you see the picture? I clicked on one group of tools and a list of .
And now I’ll tell you that we will look at each tool separately and how to use it on practical examples. So don’t worry, you won’t be left without practice and help!
Well, as I said above, we will look at everything in more detail in the following articles. By the way, I would also recommend you watch a great video course on photoshop. I watched it myself, and even emphasized something new for myself. The course is very worthwhile and everything is perfectly described from beginning to end, and the presentation of the material is simply excellent. If you want to really learn Photoshop in short time, then be sure to check out this course.
We're still learning the basics, but it won't be for long. So get ready. Your work life will soon begin and we will learn how to Photoshop like adults. Well, I say goodbye to you and I will be very glad if you subscribe to update my blog articles. See you in the next lessons. Bye bye!
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