Adobe Photoshop

1. Selection Tools

The first tool that we are going to discuss is selection tool. The selection tool is used to create selection of any object or image. This tool is considered as one of the essential tools of photoshop. Within selection tool there are several tools available for designers to choose as per their convenience like Rectangular marquee, elliptical marquee tool, polygon selection tool, lasso tool and others.

2. Brush Tools

Brush tool  works as a digital paint brush. It basically works like traditional painting tool. In Photoshop, designers get option of various brush tips to choose from . They can adjust their diameter, rotate the angle and can maintain the hardness and smoothness of the brush according to their requirements.

Photoshop offers a gallery of brush tips. Other than that, you can also download different brush sets from various websites available on the internet.

3. Crop Tool

As the name suggests, crop tool let you crop a part of image or object. To activate crop tool you can press ‘C’. It is one of the popular tools designers used to remove the unwanted area of the image.

4. Spot Healing Brush Tool

Photoshop is ruling the image editing industry with its powerful editing tools. Photoshop offers advanced retouching palette to correct the image imperfections. Spot healing brush tool is one of the retouching tools available in photoshop.The spot healing tools works by automatically taking the samples from the surrounding area and then you can adjust the uneven skin with it. This is a not to skip tool and should be included in an ideal Photoshop course for photographers.

5. Healing Brush Tool

Similar to spot healing brush tool, healing brush tool allows you to correct the blemishes, uneven skin tone and imperfections of the image by taking samples. The only difference in between these two is in spot healing tool, it detects the sample automatically but in healing brush tool,one has to take sample manually.

6. Clone Stamp Tool

Clone stamp is used to copy a certain area of the image to another. With the help of clone tool you can duplicate a certain part of the image and then you can place it on any image of the same mode.

7. Gradient Tool

You can blend two or more colors using the gradient tool. Gradient tool allows the designers to smoothly merge multiple colors into one.

You can select Gradient tool by pressing ‘G’ there are total 5 types of gradient available in Photoshop : Linear, radial, angular, diamond and reflect gradient

8. Pen Tool

Pen tool is vital part of Photoshop that is used to create selection and path of certain area. Initially people find it hard to operate the pen tool but once you get comfortable with it, you can create wonders with the tool.

9. Dodge and Burn Tool

Dodge and burn tool is part of image editing palette in Photoshop. You can make areas dark or light using these tools. They help you to adjust the highlights, shadows and midtones of the image.It is always advisable to use them in a limited manner to avoid image destruction.

10. Blur and Sharpen Tool

Blur and sharpen tool as the name suggests, are used to blur or sharpen the image pixels. Using blur tool, you can modify any sharp areas or edges in the image. The sharpen tools works in the same way. You can use it to highlight certain areas of image for example, you can use sharpen tool on certain model to make her/ his eyes and brows sharp and can use the blur tool on areas like hairs, lips to make them little smoother.So these are the top 10 tools that Photoshop offers to designer. Besides this, there is so much in Photoshop that you can explore like layer masking, filter gallery, blending modes, layer styles etc to master this software.