1.

COLOR PICKER PALETTE:

To display adobe’s Color picker,click on either the foreground or background color in
the toolbox. The color picker dialog allows you to select a very specific shade, either
by visually choosin g it or by defining the color numerically.

EYE DROPPER TOOL:

If you are retouching a certain area with the paint brush tool, you can use
Photoshop’s eyedropper tool to sample a color from the surrounding area. .If you are
retouching a large gradated area you will want to set your brush value to a lower
opacity and resample in the lighter and darker areas of the tonal gradation.
 SWATCHES PALETTE:
Choose the "Window" menu and click on "Swatches" to open the swatches palette on
your desktop. The swatches palette consists of squares of colors that can be used in
your document.
2.Click a color swatch in the color swatch palette to set that color as your
foreground. Hold down the CTRL key as you click the color swatch to set it
as your background color.

2. Why is it necessary to convert image of a particular color mode into

CMYK mode. Can any image be defined in two colors, if yes, How?

Use the CMYK mode when preparing an image to be printed using process colors.
Converting an RGB image into CMYK creates a color separation with its wide
range of colors.
Although CMYK is a standard color model, the exact range of colors represented
Can vary, depending on the press and printing conditions
Yes, any image be defined in two colors
Firstly convert inot grayscale mode and the to RGB

3. How can free hand selections be made in an image? How can adjacent
areas of same color can be selected in an image? Discuss with example.
The tools used for free hand selection are :-
Magic Wand
•Select the magic wand tool in the Toolbox by clicking the icon
. Bring the cursor to the pixel of the image that must be included into the selection and
left-click it.

Lasso
This tool is used to create freehand selections.
To make a freehand selection you should:
Step 1. Select the Lasso tool from the Toolbox by left-clicking on the icon
, or (if Lasso was not the last tool applied) select it from the floating window.
Step 2. Bring the mouse cursor to the object that must be selected and outline it keeping
the left button pressed.
In magic wand tool is used to select the adjacent areas using the same colors, select
Contiguous

4. Tolerance Settings are important for making Selections in an image. Justify

How?

Sometimes an image may contain a few shades of a similar color..The Tolerance

setting determines the range of color that the Magic Wand tool selects.
To use the Magic Wand tool and adjust Tolerance settings, follow these steps:
1. Select the Magic Wand tool from the Toolbox.
You can also use the keyboard shortcut; press the W key.
2. Click the portion of the image that you want to select; use the default
Tolerance setting
of 32
3. Enter a new Tolerance setting in the Options bar.
If the Magic Wand tool selected more than you wanted it to, lower the Tolerance
setting.
4. Click again on the portion of the image that you want to select.
Changing the tolerance doesn’t adjust your current selection.

5. Can patterns be used in editing a selection? How can

you create a pattern to do so?
The patterns can be used in editing a selection.Photoshop provides us with
patterns which are usually used to tile a portion of our image which we are
editing.
Creating a pattern:-
1.Select a portion of the image.
2.Click the “Edit” menu and Left click on the “Define Pattern…” command.
3.Enter a name and then Left click the “OK” button to continue.
4.Now the Patternis in the list

6. Name the various painting tools available in Photoshop.

Explain any 2 such tools in detail?.

Eraser Tool
We’re not going to go into too much detail with the eraser tool, simply because you should already

have a pretty good understanding of how it works. How so?

Well, like many other tools in Photoshop, the Eraser Tool uses brushes which effect the size,

shape, and hardness of the tool. Essentially, the eraser tool is controlled in the exact same way as

the brush tool, only it erases rather than paints.

The Brush Tool

In order to use the brush tool to its full extent, it’s important to understand what exactly a brush is

in Adobe Photoshop. A brush uses brush presets that are predefined (or user defined). A brush

preset is any brush tip with defined characteristics (such as size and shape).
 Think of brushes in Photoshop as a large collection of different

paintbrushes, each with a different shaped tip. Imagine when you press the tip of one of these

paintbrushes against a canvas, the shape of the tip is imprinted immediately. It’s a rough

explanation, but it gets the basic idea across.

Brushes in Photoshop have plenty of other characteristics which make them entirely unlike a real

world paint brush. By manipulating these attributes, we can create entirely new brushes that act in

unique ways. You could create a brush that changes in shape and size as you are painting, a

brush that scatters itself in random directions, and even a brush that becomes more and less

transparent while creating strokes. The possibilities are literally endless.

Let’s Create a Quick Brush for demonstration purposes.

Create a new document, 200px by 200px with a white background. Select the Brush tool, and in

the options bar select the first brush preset from thebrush preset picker (activated by clicking on

the small down arrow next to the current brush).

 Go ahead and give this brush preset a whirl in your active image area. Select a foreground color

you’d like to paint with, point your cursor to where you’d like to start painting, hold down the mouse

button, and create a stroke.

MODYFYING:

From the Brush Tip Shape settings, a user can select a brush tip shape from a list of available

shapes (predefined or user defined).

By clicking any of the various brush settings on the left, a panel of options will be displayed that

can adjusted to your own preference.

In the Brush Tip Shape area, set the diameter of your brush to 20px. By changing the diameter,

you affect the size of the brush.

Now go to Shape Dynamics and set thesize jitter option to 100%. By changing shape dynamics,

you’re adjusting how a brush mark changes during a stroke.

Finally, go to Scattering, and setscatter to 300% with a count of 1. Scattering will affect placement

and number of brush marks.

Try painting with your brush now, and you ought to see a huge difference from when you first

started! Modifying brushes is really that simple!