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Color tools
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The Brush tool lets you paint and draw on the canvas or a layer. Brush categories include pencils, pens, chalk, airbrushes, oil paints, watercolors, and more.
When the Brush tool is selected, you can choose specific brushes from the Brush Library panel. For more information, refer to Selecting and Searching for Brushes.
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The Dropper tool lets you pick up a color from an existing image. The property bar shows the values of the color. When you select a color with the Dropper tool, that color becomes the current color in the Color panel. For more information, see Sampling Colors From Images.
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The Paint Bucket tool lets you fill an area with media, such as a color, gradient, pattern, weave, or clone. The property bar shows options for the areas that you can fill and the media that you can use. For more information, see Working with Color Fills.
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The Eraser tool lets you remove unwanted areas from an image. For more information, see Erasing Image Areas.
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Selection tools
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The Layer Adjuster tool is used to select, move, and manipulate layers. For more information, see The Layer Adjuster Tool.
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The Transform tool lets modify selected areas of an image by using different transformation modes. For more information, see Transforming Selections.
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The Rectangular Selection tool lets you create rectangular selections. For more information, see Creating and Saving Selections.
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The Oval Selection tool lets you create oval selections. For more information, see Creating and Saving Selections.
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The Lasso tool lets you draw a freehand selection. For more information, see Creating and Saving Selections.
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The Polygonal Selection tool lets you select an area by clicking different points on the image to anchor straight line segments. For more information, see Creating Path-Based Selections.
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The Magic Wand tool lets you select an area of similar color by clicking or dragging in an image. For more information, see Creating Pixel-Based Selections.
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The Selection Adjuster tool lets you select, move, and manipulate selections created with the Rectangular, Oval, and Lasso selection tools and selections converted from shapes. For more information, see Transforming Selections.
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The Crop tool lets you remove unwanted edges from an image. For more information, see Cropping Images.
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Shape tools
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The Pen tool lets you create straight lines and curves in objects. For more information, see Using the Pen Tool.
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The Quick Curve tool lets you create shape paths by drawing freehand curves. For more information, see Using the Quick Curve Tool.
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The Rectangular Shape tool lets you create rectangles and squares. For more information, see Using Shape Object Tools.
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The Oval Shape tool lets you create circles and ovals. For more information, see Using Shape Object Tools.
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The Text tool creates text shapes. Use the Text panel to set the font, point size, and tracking. For more information, see Text.
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The Shape Selection tool is for editing Bézier curves. You use the Shape Selection tool to select and move anchor points and adjust their control handles. For more information, see Creating Shapes.
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The Scissors tool lets you cut an open or closed segment. If the segment is closed, after you click on a line or point, the shape path becomes open. For more information, see Cutting and Joining Shape Segments.
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The Add Point tool lets you create a new anchor point on a shape path. For more information, see Adding, Deleting, and Moving Anchor Points.
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The Remove Point tool lets you remove an anchor point from a shape path. For more information, see Adding, Deleting, and Moving Anchor Points.
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The Convert Point tool is used to convert between smooth and corner anchor points. For more information, see Adjusting Curvature.
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Photo tools
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The Cloner tool gives you quick access to the last Cloner brush variant you used. For more information, see Painting in the Clone.
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The Rubber Stamp tool gives you quick access to the Straight Cloner brush variant, and lets you to sample form point to point in an image or between images. For more information, see Performing Offset Sampling.
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The Dodge tool lets you lighten the highlights, midtones, and shadows in an image. For more information, see Dodging and Burning.
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The Burn tool lets you darken the highlights, midtones, and shadows in an image. For more information, see Dodging and Burning.
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Symmetry tools
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The Mirror Painting mode lets you create a perfectly symmetrical painting. For more information, see Using the Mirror Painting Mode.
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The Kaleidoscope mode lets you transform basic brushstrokes into colorful and symmetrical kaleidoscope images. For more information, see Using the Kaleidoscope Painting Mode.
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Composition tools
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The Divine Proportion tool lets you plan compositions by using guides based on a classical composition method. For more information, see Using the Divine Proportion tool.
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The Layout Grid tool lets you divide your canvas so that you can plan your composition. For example, you can divide your canvas into thirds vertically and horizontally to use the compositional rule of thirds. For more information, see Using the Layout Grid.
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The Perspective Grid tool lets you select and move the location of the perspective grid lines, the vanishing point, the horizon line, the ground line, and the picture plane. For more information, see Using the Perspective Grid.
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Navigation tools
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The Grabber tool lets you scroll through an image quickly. For more information, see Repositioning Images.
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The Magnifier tool lets you magnify areas of an image when you are performing detailed work, or reduce areas to get an overall view of an image. For more information, see Zooming Images.
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The Rotate Page tool lets you rotate an image window to accommodate the way you naturally draw. For more information, see Rotating Images and the Canvas.
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Selectors
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The Color selector lets you choose main and additional colors. The front swatch displays the main color, and the back swatch displays the additional color. For more information, see Using the Color Panel.
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The Paper selector opens the Papers panel. From the Papers panel, you can choose a paper texture to alter the canvas surface and achieve more realistic results when applying brushstrokes. For more information, see Paper Texture and Grain.
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The View Mode selector allows you to switch between Full Screen and Windowed. For more information, see Switching Document Views.
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