Exploring the Toolbox

You can use the tools in the toolbox to paint, draw lines and shapes, fill shapes with color, view and navigate documents, and make selections. Under the toolbox is a color selector, plus six content selectors that let you choose papers, gradients, patterns, looks, and nozzles.

The following table provides descriptions of the tools in the Corel Painter toolbox.

Tool	Description
Color tools
	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.
	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.
	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.
	The Eraser tool lets you remove unwanted areas from an image. For more information, see Erasing Image Areas.
Selection tools
	The Layer Adjuster tool is used to select, move, and manipulate layers. For more information, see The Layer Adjuster Tool.
	The Transform tool lets modify selected areas of an image by using different transformation modes. For more information, see Transforming Selections.
	The Rectangular Selection tool lets you create rectangular selections. For more information, see Creating Selections.
	The Oval Selection tool lets you create oval selections. For more information, see Creating Selections.
	The Lasso tool lets you draw a freehand selection. For more information, see Creating Selections.
	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.
	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.
	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.
	The Crop tool lets you remove unwanted edges from an image. For more information, see Cropping Images.
Photo tools
	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.
	The Dodge tool lets you lighten the highlights, midtones, and shadows in an image. For more information, see Dodging and Burning.
	The Burn tool lets you darken the highlights, midtones, and shadows in an image. For more information, see Dodging and Burning.
Symmetry tools
	The Mirror Painting mode lets you create a perfectly symmetrical painting. For more information, see Using the Mirror Painting Mode.
	The Kaleidoscope mode lets you transform basic brushstrokes into colorful and symmetrical kaleidoscope images. For more information, see Using the Kaleidoscope Painting Mode.
Navigation tools
	The Grabber tool lets you scroll through an image quickly. For more information, see Repositioning Images.
	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.
	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.
Selectors
	The Color selector lets you choose a color. For more information, see Using the Color Panel.
	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.
	The View Mode selector allows you to switch between Full Screen and Windowed. For more information, see Switching Document Views.

Some features described in the Help are available only in Corel Painter 12, and are not included in Painter Lite. Visit www.corel.com/painter for more information about Corel Painter 12.

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