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Chapter 1 The Toolbox The toolbox is the heart of Photoshop CS3, and where you'll find the tools you need to create your artwork and perform editing tasks. From the toolbox you can access the selection tools, shape tools, type tools, Crop tool, and eraser tools. These are basic tools that any screen printer or graphic artist needs. There are other tools available, of course, and the purpose behind this chapter is to familiarize you with all of them. As a graphic artist, some tools are more important to you and your specific industry than others. For instance, if you have a manual, four- color, four-station screen printing press and no PostScript printer, chances are good that you won't use the Gradient tool as often as you'll use the Paint Bucket tool or the type tools. If you have automatic presses and create and output process color creations, you'll probably use the