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What were once palettes are now panels, and what was once the options bar is now the control palette. I know I'm confused to. All this little switching of names because I'm not a person who likes a lot of change in their life. Now as you see here this area in Photoshop is context sensitive based on whatever tool you currently have selected. For example we currently have the rectangle and marquee tool selected and in the control palette we are able to change how this tool works. So we can add a feather we can anti alias and we can choose a style which means we can use normal and in this case we can draw whatever size we'd like. I'll go ahead and de-select that by pressing command or control D. Or we can choose to put a fixed size or a fixed ratio or as we can enter our own numbers here. For example I could put 25 times 25 and when I draw I'm gonna get a fixed size. I can't change that when I draw so I can go back to normal if I want to and then I can draw whatever size I like. Let's take a look at some of the other ones here, so if I grab let's say the crop tool I am able to choose a width and a height and I can also change some of the other options. And once again if I grab another tool such as the brush I can change my brush size by going to the master diameter I can change the hardness or softness of that brush. I can choose the mode, I can choose the opacity of the brush and so on. So what the control palette will do for you is give you context sensitive options for your tools. Now in some applications what you would normally do is double click on the tool itself to open up a different dialog but their all located up here and its very convenient actually because you don't really want to open up another panel if you don't need to, when the tools gives you options way up here. And this is really helpful when you have some like text or type. As you see here I can easily choose the font that I want to use and I can choose how that font's gonna be, like for regular, bold whatever as far as the style. I can choose the size of the text, up here I can either type it or go to the drop down menu. I can choose the sharpness or the crispness of that font and it's arrangement or alignment. So in as well as the color, so once again this is the area you want to go to whenever you choose a tool and you want to change the way that tool works in Photoshop CS3.