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| Move | Moves selections, layers and guides. |
| Marquee | Makes rectangular, elliptical (oval), single row column selections. |
| Lasso | Makes free-hand, polygonal (straight-edged) and magnetic (snap-to) selections. |
| Quick Selection | Let's you quickly "paint" a selection using an adjustable round brush tip. |
| Magic Wand | Selects similarly colored areas. |
| Crop | Trims images. |
| Paintbucket | Fills similarly colored areas with the foreground color. |
| Gradient | Creates straight-line, radial, angle, reflected, and diamond blends between colors. |
| Eyedropper | Samples colors in an image. |
| Color Sampler | Samples up to four areas in an image. |
| Ruler | Measures distances, locations and angles. |
| Note | Makes notes that can be attached to an image. |
| Count | Counts objects in an image. |
| Slice | Creates slices |
| Slice Select | Selects slices |
| Spot Healing Brush | Quickly removes blemishes and imperfections from photographs with a uniform background. |
| Healing Brush | Paints with a sampler or pattern to repair imperfections in an image. |
| Patch Tool | Repairs imperfections in a selected area of an image using a sample pattern. |
| Red Eye | Removes red-eye in flash photos with one click. |
| Brush | Paints brush strokes. |
| Pencil | Paints hard-edged strokes. |
| Color replacement | Replaces one color for another. |
| Clone Stamp | Paints with a sample of the image. |
| Pattern Shape | Paints with part of an image with a pattern |
| History Brush | Paints a copy of the selected state or snapshot into the current image window. |
| Eraser | Erases pixels and restores parts of an image to a previously saved state. |
| Background Eraser | Erases areas to transparency by dragging. |
| Magic Eraser | Erases solid-colored areas to transparency with a single click. |
| Gradient | Creates straight-line, radical, angle, reflected, and diamond blends between colors. |
| Paint Bucket | Fills similarly colored areas with the foreground color. |
| Blur | Blurs hard area in an image. |
| Sharpen | Sharpens soft edges in an image. |
| Smudge | Smudges data in an image. |
| Dodge | Lightens areas in an image. |
| Burn | Darkens areas in an image. |
| Sponge | Changes the color saturation of an area. |
| Pen | Draws smooth edge paths. |
| Type | Creates type on an image. |
| Type Mask | Creates a selection in the shape of type. |
| Path Selection | Makes shape or segment selections showing anchor points, direction lines, and direction points. |
| Shape and Line | Draws shapes and lines in a normal layer or shape layer. |
| Custom Shape | Makes customized shapes selected from a custom shape list. |
| Hand | Moves an image within its window. |
| Rotate View | Nondestructively rotates the canvas. |
| Zoom | Magnifies and reduces the view of an image. |