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= Photoshop = by Frederick

**Introduction**
Ever heard of Photoshop? No? Well, I didn't know about it until about a year ago. Photoshop is a very cool tool with awesome features and can just about do anything. Photoshop has a variety of tools, too many to list, but the simple ones that I used are Magic Selection Brush, Rectangular Marquee Tool, Eraser, Magic Eraser, Zoom Tool, Paintbrush, and Layers. I usually just use Photoshop just to combine a few pictures to depict an event. I hardly use it for it's intended purpose; to enhance pictures to make them look good. There is a tool that can automatically make a wart or dimple disappear from a face, and cover it with skin! With no harassment! Actually, the tools I mentioned above are only a fraction of the tools you can use. To name a few, there is Clone Stamp, Sponge, Gradient, Spot Healing Brush, Magic Wand, Red Eye Fix, Contrast, and so much more! I have a friend who uses Photoshop for hours upon end, what he produces is amazing. He can take an airplane, a city building, and some flames to make a reincarnation of 9/11. There are so many possibilities with Photoshop! But, this tool is a complex tool. You would need some help in order to fully appreciate it.

**Body**
The first things that you should know are the tools. The tools make everything possible. However, these tools can be very complex, so I will give you a breakdown on them. The Move Tool is the default tool that is there when you open up Photoshop. This tool allows you to move a selection (or multiple selections) from one place to another. It also lets you bring selections from one picture into another picture. The next tool is the Zoom Tool. This tool allows you to zoom in or out of the picture. This is useful for editing corners or small objects, mainly because zooming in allows you more room to erase/add stuff, which would be hard in normal view because you might accidentally erase something that you don't want to. The Hand Tool allows you to drag the screen by clicking on a point and moving the mouse, which is like a scroll, but you can move it in different directions. The Eyedropper Tool allows you to click on a color to copy that color, and then you can use that color on a drawing tool such as the Paintbrush or Paint Bucket. The Marquee tools allow you to create a border so that you can copy/paste stuff that's in the border or edit inside just that border. The Red Eye Removal Tool is kind of self explanatory, but just in case, it removes red eye from an area (red eye is a glitch in the camera that makes your eyes red). The Spot Healing Brush is (I think) one of the coolest tools in Photoshop. It can detect irregularities on skin (pimples, warts, dimples, etc.) and cover them up with skin! I once made a huge dimple on my friend's face in Photoshop, and he got really mad, but it was funny how he looked. I haven't used Photoshop professionally, but i have taken multiple pictures and put them together to make something that looks good.

**Conclusion**
Photoshop is used for many things as well! It is used for magazines, newspapers (unfortunately), books, internet and advertisements. Photoshop is one of the most popular picture editing tools in the world. Now, why would someone use Photoshop? Well, magazines sometimes use it to make models look prettier or to make special effects. Newspapers sometimes use it for removing background or making someone get more attention on a photo, books sometimes use it for covers, people on the internet like to post their work online so people can see their achievements, and advertisements use it to make their ads look better. As you can see, Photoshop is very important, and one of the most advanced, easy to use picture editing tools in the world.

**Works Cited**
Obermeier, Barbara, and Ted Padova. __Photoshop Elements 5 for Dummies__. John Wiley & Sons Inc, 2007. Adobe Photoshop Elements 5.0 Help Program