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| Marquee Tool | A selection tool in which you click the button, then click and drag your screen to select a square or rectangular area. |
| Move Tool | A selection tool in which you click the button, then click and drag your screen to move your layer, selection, etc. |
| Lasso Tool | A selection tool in which you click the button, then click and drag your screen to make selections freehand. To complete the selection, close the loop by dragging all the way back to your starting point. |
| Crop | A selection tool in which you click the button, then click and drag your screen to crop down to whatever you have selected. |
| Wand | A selection tool in which you click the button, then click your screen to select swaths of color that match the color you clicked on. Check Contiguous to only select pixels that touch; uncheck Contiguous to select matching pixels anywhere in the image. Raise or lower your Tolerance to make the color parameters more or less strict. |
| Gradient Tool | An editing tool in which you click the button, then click and drag your image to apply a color gradient to that portion of the image. |
| Eraser Tool | An editing tool in which you click the button, then click and drag your image to erase that area |
| Brush Tool | An editing tool in which you click the button, then click and drag your image to draw freehand. |
| Paint Bucket Tool | An editing tool in which you click the button, then click your image to apply a solid color to that area. |
| Cloned Stamp Tool | An editing tool in which you click the button, then hold down SHIFT and click an area of the image that you’d like to clone. Release SHIFT, then move the cursor over the area where you want the cloned image to be and click and drag; the area around your source will then appear wherever you click and drag. This is a very useful tool for covering imperfections |
| Pencil Tool | An editing tool in which you click the button, then click and drag your image to draw freehand. |