This is the final section in this tutorial. this will cover the Tool Palette. Here is where you will find all the tools (19 tools) needed to create shapes, fill with colors, use the picture tubes and much more.
- Zoom Tool: This tool is the one that looks like the little magnifying glass. When you pick this tool you have the ability to zoom in and out on the active Image.
- Deformation Tool: This tool will allow you to rotate, skew, resize, distort layer, floating selections and images. You need to have the active Image floating to make this Icon active.
- Crop: Used to crop a selected area of an Image.
- Mover: Used to move selected areas around in the active Image.
- Selections: Used to make specific selections you will have four options, Rectangle, Square, Ellipse and Circle.
- Freehand: as the name implies you can draw freehand or make specific areas selected. I use the tool when I am trying to remove a background from a round an image I want to use.
- Magic Wand: This tool allows you to select content of the Image not the edges as with the other selection tools.
- Eye Dropper: Used to pick either a foreground or background color in the 16 million color selection on the Paint Palette or from the active Image on the screen.
- Paint Brush: Exactly what the name implies. You can do freehand painting from the Control Box you will have different brush tips and much more.
- Clone Brush: Used to copy part of and Image to a different location.
- Color Replacer: This you can use to replace one color in an Image with a new color.
- Retouch Brush: Used to retouch Images has 19 Retouch Modes found on the Control Box.
- Eraser: Set the background color to the background of the Image and you will appear to erase the active Image.
- Picture Tubes: These are Images that come with PSP 5 that will automatically be placed in the Image Box when you click the mouse. You select the Tube you want from the Control Box. There are many site that have custom made Picture Tubes for you to download.
- Air Brush: Acts like a can of spray paint. Again you have a good group of different effects in the Control Box.
- Flood Fill: Looks like a paint can. you will do all your filling of selected areas with this or the Air Brush. Some options are Solid Color, Linear Gradient, and Pattern.
- Text: The big "A" near the bottom of the Palette. Used to apply text to your Image.
- Line :Used to draw straight line and bezier type lines.
- Shapes: Again like Selection you have the same four options, the difference is these create the shapes either in the outline width you define in the Control Box and in the Color of the selected foreground color, or completely filled.
Well that is the vary basics of the Menu Bar, Tool Bar and the Tool Palette. Now you just need to start using them and experimenting.
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