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| Rectangular marquee | When dragging a new selection, you can constrain the rectangular marquee to draw a perfect square by holding down the Shift key while dragging your selection. |
| Elliptical marquee | Shift key while dragging your the elliptical marquee tool will get you a perfect circle. |
| Lasso | To choose the polygonal, or magnetic lasso, click on the regular lasso’s icon in the toolbox, and select the tool you want from the pop-up menu. |
| Crop tool | Drag a rectangular selection with this tool, and then press Enter to delete that portion of the image outside of the dragged outline. |
| Custom Shape | The custom shape tool is grouped with the other shapes in the toolbar. To find it, click on the shape icon which is showing and select it from the pop-up list. |
| Airbrush | This tool imitates the airbrush used by commercial artists. It gives a soft edged stroke, similar to spray painting |
| Paint bucket | The paint bucket will recolor pixels of any color you click on to be the current foreground color. |
| Eraser | Choose the eraser you want to use by clicking on the eraser in the toolbar and holding the mouse button down. Pick the one you want from the pop-up menu. |
| Blur | The blur and sharpen tools are referred to as the “focus” tools as they work to harden, or soften edges within an image. |
| Sponge | The sponge tool will increase or decrease the color saturation of areas you drag over. How rapidly the effect occurs is determined by the setting in the Flow |
| Red eye brush | To use the red eye brush, select the tool in the toolbox, and then select your target color which is the one you want to remove |
| Clone stamp | The clone stamp, and pattern stamp tools are grouped together in the toolbar. Click on the one which is showing to see the pop-up menu, and choose the one you want |
| Hand | The hand tool will move the image around like a scroll bar, or paging up or down, but it works in any direction. |
| Foreground color | In the illustration at the top of this page, the large black square is the foreground selection square. |
| Default colors | Clicking on the box behind the foreground square, shown with the default white color in the icon above, will activate the same color picker where you can choose a background color. |
| Move | To move a selection with the move tool, simply placed the pointer inside the selection border and drag to where you want it. |
| Magic wand | This tool selects all pixels that are the same color as the one you click on |
| Type | The horizontal and vertical type tools are grouped together in the toolbar. Click and hold on whichever one is showing in the toolbar to access the pop-up list and choose the other. |
| Gradient | The linear gradient is applied by dragging over the entire length of the area you are applying it to |
| Paintbrush | The brush tool is grouped with the Impressionist brush in the toolbar. Click and hold on the icon that is showing to get the pop-up group. |
| Pencil | This tool is used when you need a harder edge than what you get with the brush. |
| Impressionist brush | Painting on an multi-colored image with this brush causes the colors and shapes to be distorted to simulate the Impressionist painting style. |
| Sharpen | The sharpen tool works by increasing contrast at distinct edges. Be aware that this will cause you to lose detail |
| Smudge | This tool is supposed to simulate finger painting. Color is displaced |
| Dodge | The dodge tool will lighten the pixels dragged over according to the percentage chosen in the tool’s options bar |
| Eyedropper | The eyedropper can be used for gathering color data for adjustment, and comparison purposes. |
| Zoom | Clicking in the image when the zoom tool has been selected in the toolbox will increase or decrease the magnification of the image by a preset amount. |
| Switch colors | the large black square is the foreground selection square. |
| Background color | If you click on this, the Color Picker, shown below will be activated, |
