Rectangular Marquee Tool
This tool is used to focus on a certain part of the image by putting a box around the specific area. Advantages are it have sharp lines and is easy to use. Disadvantages are it can only be used in squares and rectangles, it cannot be used for triangles etc.
Elliptical Marque Tool
This tool is used to mostly focus on circle areas. The disadvantage is its kinda hard to get the exact circle where you want it. the advantage is it helps so that way you can take circle images and edit them. The tool is also very easy to use.
Magic Wand Tool
The tool was used for highlighting an area where you want to import something into the photo. Disadvantages was the tool took a while to use to get the exact place highlighted. The advantage was after importing the clouds into my photo the photo came out really nice. The tool was somewhat easy to use but a little bit hard at the same time.
Quick Selection Tool
This tool is used for basically changing the color of an object or background. Some Advantages is you can highlight the object very easily and if you mess up you can change it so that you can take off little parts that you over marked without having to do it all over again. some disadvantages is sometimes the tool didn't want to highlight exactly what needed to be highlighted so some parts of the picture came out with the color it wasn't suppose to be.
Lasso Tool
This tool is used for basically cutting an image out of a photo. Some advantages were the tool was extremely easy to use and did not take up a lot of time at all it was quick and effective.A disadvantage is it cannot do sharp corners.
Polygonal Lasso Tool
This tool is used for taking objects out a photo. Some advantages for this tool is it was very easy and quick to use. It made the corners very sharp and crisp. Some disadvantages was it cannot do round corners it can only be used for sharp corners.
Magnetic Lasso Tool
This tool was very easy to use and effective. All you have to do is move the cursor over the area and it selects it for you. Some advantages was it was easy to use and didn't take up a lot of time. Some disadvantages were it didn't make the lines as straight and crisp as i would of wanted them to be in some areas.
Pen Tool
This tool took a very long time to use it was very time consuming. Some advantages was it makes crisps straight lines. Some disadvantages was it took forever to use and was kinda hard to use it.