Painting Tools

 

Rectangle Selection

To define a rectangle or square selection region

                                                                           

Move Selected Pixels

To move currently selected pixels

                                                                               

Lasso Select

To draw a free form selection

                                                                                

Move Selection

To move the selection without affecting the pixels that are selected

                                                                                

Eclipse Selection

To draw an eclipse or circle selection region

                                                                                  

Zoom

Used to zoom in and out of the canvas

                                                                                 

Magic Wand

To select colours similar in the the same layer

                                                                              

Text Tool

Used to place text on the image

                                                                            

                                                         Paintbrush

Freeform darwing

                                                                        

Colour Picker

To pick up colour from the active layer

                                                                         

Clone Stamp

Copying layers

                                                                   

Recolour Tool

For replacing one colour with another

                                                                      

Paint Bucket
Useful for filling in areas of similar colour

                                                                         

Line/Curve

To construct straight or curved lines with this tool.

                                                                          

Rectangle

To draw rectangles or squares

                                                                           

Rounded Rectangle

Rounded rectangles and rounded squares

                                                                   

Eclipse

Eclipses and circles

                                                                                     

Tolerance Slider
How the magic wand, the recolour tool and paint bucket work.
                                                                                                

 

Freeform

This can be used to draw a shape with a freeform outline.

                                                                                          

Colour Display

Shows the primary and secondary colours.