Most commonly used Photoshop tools at a Glance Move Tool – To move a part of any image. Marquee Tools – To give any particular shape of an image. Lasso Tools – To make any selection on an image. Quick Selection Tool/Magic Wand Tool – To make a quick selection.

When you start Photoshop, the Tools panel appears at the left of the screen. Some tools in the Tools panel have options that appear in the context-sensitive options bar. You can expand some tools to show hidden tools beneath them.

Customizing the Photoshop Toolbar

1. Click on Edit > Toolbar to bring up the Toolbar edit dialog.
2. Click on the icon with three dots.
3. Customizing the tools in Photoshop is a simple drag and drop exercise.
4. Create a custom Workspace in Photoshop.
5. Save the custom Workspace.

There are four main groups of tools, separated by functionality on the Tools panel: selection, cropping, and measuring; retouching and painting; drawing and type; and navigation. At the bottom of the Tools panel you find Set foreground color and Set background color, as well as Quick Mask.

Click on Edit Toolbar to open the Customize Toolbar window. Within this window, you can customize which Photoshop tools appear on the Toolbar. Tools you rarely use can be moved into Extra Tools so they won’t appear in the Toolbar.

Window Menu and Tab Key Photoshop provides built-in methods of hiding and showing all, or almost all, open panels simultaneously. If your Tools panel disappears because you’ve hidden all your open panels, press “Tab” to bring it and its companions back into view.

Switching Back To Tabbed Documents Going to Window > Arrange > Consolidate All to Tabs. All floating windows have reverted back to tabbed documents.

The taskbar may be set to “Auto-hide” Right-Click on the now-visible taskbar and select Taskbar Settings. Click on the ‘Automatically hide the taskbar in desktop mode’ toggle so that the option is disabled, or enable “Lock the taskbar”. The taskbar should now be permanently visible.

Approach #2: right-click in an empty area next to the tabs, or on the Favorites button, and you’ll see a dropdown menu, one item of which is “Menu bar”. Make sure that’s checked, and the menu toolbar will reappear. Now it won’t go away when you use it.