Using the Move Tool in Adobe Photoshop

Series Summary

Adobe Photoshop is the industry standard for photo editing today. It is a program that allows the user to be very hands on with images and manipulate the characteristics of the picture in whatever way they feel is suitable. It gives the user the ability to add specific features only available through the program to their images. Photoshop is also now being used to create images from scratch at a design level. The impact of this is that anyone with a computer is now able to design and create as they see fit. It is no longer reserved to the established and wealthy designers.

This video clip series will provide tips and techniques for the basic uses of Adobe Photoshop and it's tools. Each video is a step by step visual tutorial guiding you through the basics of the program so that you can start creating right away. Whether a novice or an expert it's a great way to brush up on the foundations of the program. Take a few minutes and check out some of these videos and their methods. They are invaluable.

Video Transcript

"Hi! This is Kyle with Expert Village, I am going to give you some tips on using photo shop. Let us start with very basics, number one, file button, file open, okay I am going to go to Expert this is one that I have, this is a fully completed graphic, so now here is the basics. Okay, first of all is your move tool. This is very basic. You right click, you grab your background and on the side it will show you that you got it. So now in this particular one my background is this layer. So, I can pull this layer anywhere I want, now if you want to hit control Z, you will go back or you can hit edit and you can do, so let us say I move it down and then I will mark add, I don’t really like that, then you go edit, undo move and it will pull it back. This is your magic wand tool. You click on that right click and let us say you go to an image that is let us say I am going to make new layer here. You right click, hit duplicate layer, this will come up and then hit duplicate layer okay. So on this particular image, I want to do a paint bucket. "