The Tool Palette

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The Tool Palette

Here are the tool buttons and what they do.
The Tool Palette is the vertical panel on the left side of PSP.

Each button has its own Control Palette that
you can see by clicking the Tool Control button,
this button is here in the toolbar picture below.

The ARROW button lets you make less moves over a large picture than using the scroll bars to move the picture. Handy when doing detail work on a very large picture.

This tool ZOOMs your picture, bigger = left click. smaller =right click

When your working on a picture that you have added layers to, but need to change the layer, try DEFORMATION for resize, moving, rotating, or skewing the layer picture.

The CROP tool is so easy, click and hold at top left, where you want to start. Then while holding the click drag to bottom right where you want to stop. Let go the click and then double click in the picture to Crop it.

Need to move a layer around on a picture? Click the MOVER button and the left mouse button moves the layer to where you want it.

Now this is a very versatile tool. SELECTION lets you crop or add multiple parts of the picture to itself. Shift lets you have multiple selections at the same time. Make a selection, then hold the ALT key and you can add to the picture by moving with the mouse. Click the tool button

, and you will see that there are 4 different selections that you can make.

You might like the FREEHAND tool to cut a outline of a picture from the background to use as a layer in another picture. I like to use Point to Point, and expand the picture to make outlining easier. Play with this one, youll like it.

Much like the Freehand tool, MAGIC WAND can remove background colors from a picture, but in a different way. Click on a background color and with a high tolerence set it will remove those colors by holding ctrl key and hitting the x key.

Want to have 2 pictures with the same background color? The DROPPER will let you set it by rightclicking the bg color you want. Then right clicking the other picture. Left click for the foreground color.

There is a wide variety of adjustments on the PAINT BRUSHes. You will play a lot with this one just to see what it can do. Make your own background pictures with the paper textures.

AH, the CLONE BRUSH. Copy one part of a picture to another part by first right clicking what you want cloned, then left click and hold to copy the same area to another area. Great for covering what you dont want.

Long explanation here, better to read the Help file on the COLOR REPLACER

Hey, need to replace only a few colors here and there? Use the RETOUCH tool to do this. Infinite adjustment on this one.

Another way to get rid of backgrounds is the ERASER tool. It erases to the background color you have set. To erase to a transparent color transfer the pic to a blank that you have set background to transparent.

This is the PICTURE TUBE brush. Thats all it does, How many tubes do you have?

AIRBRUSH can touch up pics with any color, with many adjustments. Good for lightly changing colors when they look wrong.

For backgrounds that are not transparent FLOOD FILL does this quickly with different gradients available.

So, what does this tool do? Just draws a LINE. You can use the Bezier tools with this.

Need to outline a area and set it off? Use the SHAPES too lto do this. Also lets you make borders around pictures with the foreground color.

OK, thats all the Tool Palette Tools. I hope this helps you understand the tools better.