The move tool in photoshop is quite basically what it says. Once you have selected an area or opened a new image or even placed a new image in you can move it by clicking this tool.

If there is more than one layer the tool will only move the layer selected. If you want the tool to move more layers then press SHIFT and click on all the layers you want it to move.

There is also an option on this tool called 'Show Transform Controls'. I advise you turn this one because it is really helpful when it comes to resizing something quickly or rotating something.

The selection tool should be similar to you in some way or other. You have probably used it before, maybe not in this program but even for simple tasks on your operating system. Whenever you select the icons on your desktop or whenever you select a few files in your folder, you are in fact using a selection tool.

The selection tool is one of the most handy tools in Photoshop and will probably be the one you use the most. You can select an area by simply clicking and dragging your cursor over the area of picture you want to edit. Once you have an area selected you make any sort of adjustments to it with the other tools.

If you right click the selection tool you will find 3 other types of selection tool as well as the default 'Rectangular Marquee Tool'.
The first of the other three is called the 'Elliptical Marquee Tool' which lets you select stuff in circles and/or ovals.
The second is called the 'Single Row Marquee Tool' which lets you select only all the pixels in a single row of the photo.
The third and final is called the 'Single Column Marquee Tool' which does the same as number two except along the columns.

There is three types of lasso tools and all of them are useful. They are used to help you get precision when making a selection and can be really handy when making a render or cutting a certain object out of a photo.

The first type is the basic, 'Lasso Tool', which lets you freehand select the are you want. Selecting the area you want can be very difficult especially if you don't have a steady and/or are using a mouse. This tool can be handy to make quick selections although I wouldn't advise it.

The second tool is called the, 'Polygonal Lasso Tool' and is by far, in my opinion, the best of the three. This tool lets you select an area in straight lines at as many angles as you like, letting you get great precision when cutting out an object. The downside is that it is very time consuming to use. But if you are determined this is the tool for you.

The final lasso tool is the 'Magnetic Lasso Tool' this tool automatically selects around pixels which are of the same or similar colour. The path of the selections can be determined with the mouse whenever the colours are too similar for the tool to figure out. This tool works better with sharper images as it is easy to distinguish where each object ends and a new one begins. This tool can be handy but I prefer not to use it.

The quick selection is a tool which automatically selects around an area pixels which are of similar colour. You can guide over where it selects by dragging your cursor over that part of the image. Again, this only works best for sharper images and is not a very good away of selecting things.

The Magic Tool is a one click tool and pretty much selects around anything with the same colour you have clicked on. This works very well in some cases especially when selecting out a cartoon photo or smiley. Any images where the background is just 1 colour and the object is another colour this works pretty well.

The Crop Tool is a handy tool which lets you get rid of unwanted areas of an image or select one area. It works in a rectangular motion and whenever you select an area to keep the rest of the photo dims out. One you have chosen the area you want you can hit enter and it will resize down to that area. This can be handy whenever you want to quickly get rid of skies or unnecessary areas at the edge of your photo.

The Slice Tool is mostly only used for Web Design. This tool lets you cut your photo into separate segments so whenever it loads on your webpage, each area loads separately. This helps your image load faster and save bandwidth. You more than likely won't use this tool unless designing a website in Dreamweaver.

The Slice Selection tool basically just lets you edit the slices you have made with the Slice Tool. Once you select a slice you can then move it around and make it bigger/smaller.

These four tools can all be handy whenever you are doing big jobs that is taking a while to do.

The Eye Dropper tool is used to capture the colour of a single pixel you click on. This is handy whenever you want to make something the same colour as another image or another part of an image. You just click on the colour you want to copy and it automatically changes one of your foreground or background colours to that colour.

The Colour Sampler Tool is handy whenever you want to get information of certain colours like its RGB scheme. You can select up to four colours and in the information panel it will tell you all the information for that colour.

The Ruler Tool is handy for measuring the area between two points of an image. The information is displayed at the top of the screen and/or in the information panel. This is handy whenever you want to get precise readings to how far away one part is for another.

The Note Tool is simply a tool which lets you put notes in a certain area of an image. Whenever you click an area the note panel will appear which lets you enter text. This is handy whenever you don't want an area edited or are preparing a photo for somebody to edit but don't want them to edit certain parts.

These tools are handy for getting rid of spots, tattoos, rashes or any other unhealthy attributes to the skin.

The Spot Healing Tool is a simple point and click tool which automatically removes the spot you clicked on by sampling an area of image from somewhere else. This is VERY handy for removing a few spots here and there but is not recommended for bigger areas or it will mess up.

The Healing Brush Tool is the same as the Spot Healing Tool except YOU get to choose where the sample area is from. To do this hold down ALT and click an area nearby that you want to use as a sample. Then you can let go of alt and select the area you want to heal, like a wrinkle or something.

The Patch Tool is handy for getting rid of tattoos or other large markings on the skin. To repair an area just select around it with the tool and then drag the selection to the area you want to sample for the repair. Then let go and it will be fixed.

The Red Eye Removal Tool is pretty obvious and removes Red Eye. All you do is point and click on the area of Red Eye and the tool will automatically remove it, simple.

There is four types of drawing tools. The Paint Brush Tool, Pencil Tool, Colour Replacement Tool and The Mixer Brush Tool.

The Paint Brush Tool is probably the best and most common tool in Photoshop. It lets you basically paint an area with the brush you are using, duh. You have the option to add more brushes and change the size of the brush. This can be really handy and there is loads of brushes out there worth downloading. When making signatures downloading brushes is a must.

The Pencil Tool is basically the same as the Paint Brush Tool except it is much sharper along the edges. This is better when drawing smaller things with precision but isn't very good for much larger things as the brush is too sharp.

The Colour Replacement Tool is really handy for emm... replacing colours. You can choose a colour and then simply draw over the area you want to replace it with. This works OK but if you want to get precise you can sample what colour you want to replace for example if you sample red then when you are changing the colour it will only change the colour red.

The Mixer Brush Tool is helpful whenever you want to make a photo look like a wet painting or an oily painting. It is probably not much use to you or me but whenever you want a certain area look more organic this is the tool to use.

The History Brush lets you paint stuff back from your history, for example, if you desaturated your image you could use the history brush to choose where you want to restore the colour to.

The Art History Brush really helps whenever you are trying to make your photo look like a painting. You can use the tool to obliterate the image then restore certain details of the image to make it look like a painting.

The Eraser Tool is fairly obvious. Where you click with the Eraser Tool, that part of the image will be erased. Nothing more to really say about it.

The Background Eraser tool is really handy for rendering images and deletes the background of an image. It works best on images which don't have a lot of detail in the background or are out of focus. You can hold down shift and select colours you don't want deleted.

The Magic Eraser is similar to the Magic Wand Tool except instead of selecting the area, it deletes it.

The Gradient Tool is really handy because it lets you fill an area with two or more colours blending into each other. You can choose as many colours as you want and this tool works dramatically when trying to set a colour scheme or edit the lighting.

The Paint Bucket tool simply fills an area with a single colour of choice. This is handy for filling areas with colour quickly.

The Blur Tool blurs parts of an image and makes it look out of focus. This tool is handy for when you are trying to show the focal point in an image or add depth. It helps make things look further away from the screen.

The Sharpen Tool sharpens an image and makes the edges finer. It makes parts of the image seem more in focus and looks like that part of the image is closer to the screen.

The Smudge Tool simply drags part of an area of an image into another area and the more you drag it the less it moves. You can use the smudge tool to cover up areas like spots and stuff and is really handy when making tags or signatures.

There are three different types of colour correction tools. The Dodge, Burn and Sponge Tools.

The Dodge Tool is normally used to lighten an area of an image. This is useful for an area is too dark or there is a shadow on something that you don't like.

The Burn Tool is the opposite of the dodge tool. It kind of works like the dodge tool except it darkens the image instead of lightning it up. It is good if something is over exposed or you want to add a shadow to a certain item on your photo which is too distracting.

The Sponge Tool is more of a Saturation tool and adds more saturation (more colour) to the selected area. This is handy if an area of an image has very dull colours and you want it to look more colourful and nice.

The Pen Tools are sometimes classified as the hardest to use tools in photoshop but can be used to great effect when you know how to use them.

The Pen Tool is the most basic form of the pen tool. It lets you freely create any shape you want and gives you advanced ways to edit the shape. Your shape doesn't have to be polygonal and you can add curves to your shape if you wish.

The Freeform Pen Tool lets you free-handedly draw the outline of a shape and whenever two points connect it fills the shape in. If you have a steady hand or an advanced way of drawing on your computer this is a good option for you.

The Add Anchor Point Tool lets you add an anchor point to one of your shapes. An anchor point lets you edit the curves of a shape without effecting any of the other curves. This is handy if you messed up one area.

The Delete Anchor Point is the same as the add anchor point tool except you delete the anchor point.

The Convert Anchor Tool lets you edit an an anchor point of a shape whenever it isn't selected.

These tools can be really fun, especially if you download new fonts. DaFont is a good place to get fonts.

The Horizontal Text Tool lets you write a text using your selected font along a horizontal line. You can change the size and colour of the text and of course the font.

The Vertical Text tool is the same as the Horizontal Text Tool except you write along a vertical line.

The Horizontal Type Mask Tool lets you make a selection by typing out text using your font of choice along a horizontal line.

The Vertical Type Mask Tool is the same as the Horizontal Type Text tool except along a vertical line.

These tools are used best with the pen tool once you have made a shape.

The Path Selection Tool lets you show the anchor points within a shape and also lets you move the shape around.

The Direct Selection Tool lets you edit an anchor point if you want to edit a certain part of the shape you made.

The Shape Tools let you create certain shapes depending on what tool you use.

The Rectangle Tool lets you create any size or type of Rectangle. You can also create a perfect square using this if you hold down shift and drag.

The Rounded Rectangle Tool lets you create a rectangle as usual except the edges will be rounded. You can adjust how round you want the edges to be by editing them at the top of the page. The higher number of px you choose the bigger the rounded edge.

The Ellipse Tool lets you create all different types of ovals and also lets you create a perfect circle if you hold down shift when dragging.

The Polygonal Tool lets you create any type of Polygonal shape and you can choose how many sides you want it to have in the toolbar at the top. If you write 6 in the box your shape will have 6 sides.

The Line Tool lets you create a line as long as you want. You can adjust the width of the line by the amount of px in the toolbar at the top of the screen. The more px the thicker the line will be.

The custom shape tool lets you make shapes from a the preset selection (32 in total) or shapes you have defined yourself.

The Hand Tool simply lets you move a whole canvas of an image. Works best in OpenGL mode.

The rotate view tool only works in OpenGL mode and is really handy when painting. This tool lets you rotate a whole canvas while you edit it to let you get a better view. All you do is click and drag to rotate.

The Magnifying Tool simply lets you zoom in on an area of photo to get a quicker look at it.