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Most Tools Have Options:
When you click on a tool, any features or controls for that tool appear up at the top of the screen in the Options Bar (here are some of the Magic Wand
tool’s options). To return these options to their default settings, Right-click on the tool’s icon on the left side of the Options Bar and choose Reset Tool
from the pop-up menu.

Keyboard Shortcuts:
Most tools have a one-key keyboard shortcut assigned to them. Some are obvious, like you’d press L to get the Lasso tool or B to get the Brush tool, but
then there are some that are not so obvious, like pressing V will get you the Move tool. This one-key shortcut thing is great, but the problem is there are 71
tools, but only 26 letters in the alphabet. So, nested tools have to share shortcuts. For example, pressing the letter I will get you the Eyedropper tool, but
there are two other eyedropper tools, plus a few other tools, all nested under the Eyedropper tool, and they all share the same shortcut. To toggle through
any nested tools, just add the Shift key. For example, each time you press Shift-I, it brings the next nested tool to the front as the active tool.

Foreground & Background Colors:
There are two large color swatches at the bottom of the Toolbar: the top one is your Foreground color and the bottom one is your Background color. If
you’re painting with a brush, the Foreground color swatch will show you the color you’ll be painting with (here on the left, our current Foreground color is
black). The Background color swatch is used with other tools, like the Gradient tool (here, it’s white). To change colors, click once on a swatch to bring up
Photoshop’s Color Picker. Click in the gradient bar in the center to choose your color, then click in the large square on the left to choose how vibrant the
color will be. To reset the color swatches to their defaults (black/white), press the letter D. To swap the Foreground and Background colors, press the letter
X.