# Photoshop Tools
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/photoshop-tools/12462
**Category:** design
**Created:** [January 31, 2003, 4:21pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/photoshop-tools/12462 "2003-01-31T16:21:37Z")
**Posts on this page:** 13
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### Author:  [@Kitiara](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Kitiara)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2003, 4:21pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/photoshop-tools/12462/1 "2003-01-31T16:21:37Z")
Call me an idiot, but where on earth is the Direct Selection Tool in Photoshop 7? I’m trying to find the thing (it’s the white arrow icon), but I must be blind.
Anyone? :hangover:
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2003, 4:27pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/photoshop-tools/12462/2 "2003-01-31T16:27:38Z")
Hm, in my ps its in the upper right corner, and on the left side of it, there is the black arrow…
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2003, 4:27pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/photoshop-tools/12462/3 "2003-01-31T16:27:53Z")
lol!
it’s right under your nose!
it might be a black arrow for you but just click on the black one and hold and then from the drop-down-menu like menu choose the white one.
[EDIT]c!ryx - i think she’s refferring to the white arrow(direct selection!), not the black one[/EDIT]
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2003, 4:29pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/photoshop-tools/12462/4 "2003-01-31T16:29:22Z")
Thanks a lot guys - don’t know how on earth I managed to miss that. I think I must have gone through every box except that one.
God, do I feel stoopid…:sigh:
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2003, 4:31pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/photoshop-tools/12462/5 "2003-01-31T16:31:51Z")
You feel stoopid? No biggie! If one can’t find a tool in paint \<— no that’s stoopid! but actually it’s just a matter of paying attention (which is very hard after a long-night work for example) 🙂
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2003, 4:48pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/photoshop-tools/12462/6 "2003-01-31T16:48:16Z")
hups, maybe I was confused by this so easy question… ;D
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2003, 4:50pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/photoshop-tools/12462/7 "2003-01-31T16:50:43Z")
Well, it’s 5pm here and I have been at work all day. Still got an hour to go, but I’m playing around with Photoshop making metal interfaces, and couldn’t find the tool to save my \life\…
Argh, I’m too used to drawing in Flash. 😏
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2003, 5:16pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/photoshop-tools/12462/8 "2003-01-31T17:16:24Z")
London and Germany is one hour different, or ?
I don’t like drawing in Flash, maybe you should draw your things in Fireworks, if you are already familiar with this style of progs.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2003, 6:57pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/photoshop-tools/12462/9 "2003-01-31T18:57:34Z")
Kit are you new to photoshop 7? I had a bit of a hard time adjusting to 7 cause they got rid of some features and rearranged some other features. :-\
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2003, 10:19pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/photoshop-tools/12462/10 "2003-01-31T22:19:55Z")
I dont like 7. 6 is the best. Has good tools and the airbrush still worked with a Wacom.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2003, 10:32pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/photoshop-tools/12462/11 "2003-01-31T22:32:46Z")
morse. 7 is way better. six is good for drawing and junk. but if you are serious about it just use Painter, Classic comes with it…a drawing type of PS does too…
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 1, 2003, 12:10am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/photoshop-tools/12462/12 "2003-02-01T00:10:39Z")
I dont have much preference for either - 6 or 7 is fine with me. I DO wish I could find the ‘correct’ way to effectively use the pattern maker though. I was psyched when I first heard about that feature but I totally cant use it the way I think I want to use it… it just all becomes crappy. I dont get it :-\
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 1, 2003, 7:11am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/photoshop-tools/12462/13 "2003-02-01T07:11:47Z")
how so crap?