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The descriptions below were written by the Vixen of Verbiage, and may be found in the Paint Shop Pro 7 Help section of the program. This is a good utility to use if you want to learn more about each tool.

 
Arrow Tool Arrow Tool
When you want to move to a different part of the image, you can bring hidden areas into view using the Arrow tool.
Zoom Tool Zoom Tool
At times you will probably want to see some areas of your image close up. At other times you may want to see the entire image. To do this, change the zoom level.
Deformation Tool Deformation Tool
Use the Deformation tool to rotate, resize, skew, and distort layers, floating selections, and images.
Crop Tool Crop Tool
Cropping eliminates areas of an image. It has the same effect as using the Change Canvas Size dialog box to reduce the dimensions of an image.
Mover Tool Mover Tool
Use the Mover Tool to move a selection marquee or a layer.
Selection Tool Selection Tool
Use the Selection tool to create a selection in a specific shape.
Freehand Tool Freehand Tool
The Freehand tool makes selections with three types of borders:
 
  • Irregularly shaped borders
  • Point-to-point straight borders
  • Borders between areas of contrasting colors or amount of light
    • Magic Wand Tool Magic Wand Tool
    Unlike the other two selection tools, the Magic Wand tool works by selecting content rather than defining edges. It uses four types of values for making selections:
     
  • RGB Value
  • Hue
  • Brightness
  • All Opaque
  • Opacity
    • Dropper Tool Dropper Tool
    Use the Dropper tool to select the active foreground and background solid colors. These colors are displayed in an Active Styles box when it contains a solid color and in the Foreground or Background Solid Color box at the top of the Color palette.
    Paint Brush Tool Paint Brush Tool
    Use this tool for freehand painting or straight-line by holding down the shift key. Left-clicking will paint using the foreground color while right-clicking will paint using the background color.
    Clone Brush Tool Clone Brush Tool
    Use the Clone brush to copy part of an image to another location. You can clone within an image, between Raster layers, or between two greyscale or 24-bit color images.
    Color Replacer Tool Color Replacer Tool
    The Color Replacer uses the active styles to replace one color in an image with a new color. Either one can be the foreground/stroke or background/fill color. You can paint with the brush strokes to replace only those areas the brush touches, or you can double-click the image to replace the color throughout.
    Retouch Tool Retouch Tool
    Paint Shop Pro offers several Retouch modes. Some are like the Color Adjustment commands, and others are like photo retouching effects. Use the Retouch brush when you want to paint with the effect rather than apply it to the entire image or selection.
    Scratch Remover Tool Scratch Remover Tool
    Drag this tool along scratches, cracks, and other unwanted objects to remove them from your photographs. You can use it on the background of any 24-bit color or 8-bit greyscale non-transparent image, but not on a layer or on an image with a transparent background.
    Eraser Tool Eraser Tool
    Use the Eraser to replace colors in an image with the background color or with a transparency.
    Picture Tube Tool Picture Tube Tool
    Use Paint Shop Pro’s Picture Tube to paint with a variety of objects. You can add butterflies and beetles to a picnic setting, fill an aquarium with fish, or frame a picture with holly.
    Airbrush Tool Airbrush Tool
    The Airbrush simulates painting with an airbrush or spray can.
    Flood Fill Tool Flood Fill Tool
    The Flood Fill tool fills an area with a color, pattern, or gradient. It has a number of options that control how it recognizes and replaces color.
    Text Tool Text Tool
    Use the Text tool to create raster and vector text.
    Drawing Tool Drawing Tool
    Use the Drawing tool to draw straight lines, freehand lines, bezier curves, and node drawings as raster objects on raster layers or as vector objects on vector layers. When you use the Drawing tool in the vector mode, the objects can be moved, deformed, and edited after they are created without affecting the rest of the image.
    Preset Shapes Tool Preset Shapes Tool
    Use the Shape tool to draw rectangles, buttons, callouts, signs, and polygons as raster objects on raster layers or vector objects on vector layers.
    Object Selector Tool Object Selector Tool
    Use the Object Selector tool to move, resize, skew, stretch, and rotate vector objects, to edit vector object nodes, and to use Edit menu commands on vector objects.

     

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