Tools

Upon loading Photoshop, a sidebar with a variety of tools with multiple image-editing functions appears to the left of the screen. These tools typically fall under the categories of cropping and slicing; drawing; painting; measuring and navigation; selection; typing; and retouching.^[25] Some tools contain a small triangle in the bottom right of the toolbox icon. These can be expanded to reveal similar tools.^[26] While newer versions of Photoshop are updated to include new tools and features, several recurring tools that exist in most versions are discussed below.

Cropping and Slicing

The crop tool can be used to select a particular area of an image and discard the portions outside of the chosen section. This tool assists in creating a focus point on an image and excluding unnecessary or excess space.^[27]
The "slice" and slice select tools, like the crop tool, are used in isolating parts of images. The slice tool can be used to divide an image into different sections, and these separate parts can be used as pieces of a web page design once HTML and CSS are applied.^[28] The slice select tool allows sliced sections of an image to be adjusted and shifted