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Welcome to this lesson on Tools in Paint Shop Pro. We're going to look at the tools quickly from top to bottom on the Tools Toolbar, which is on the left-hand side of the screen. If you had the Learning Center Palette open, it may push that in somewhat. But I typically have the learning center closed. The tools are little icons which give you some indication of their purpose, like the Text Tool has a letter A on it or Red Eye Tool has an eye that is red. To select them you simply click and if you hover over one, you can see a tool tip pop up and tell you the name of the tool and the keyboard shortcut. You can see at the top here a Tool Options Palette, which shows you for each tool specific options that change how it works. So for the Selection Tool, I can change the selection type from Rectangle to Triangle or Star. I can change the mode. I can also change other parameters like Feather, Anti Aliasing and here I can conduct other operations like Custom Selection and selecting from certain parameters. Each one of the tools is going to have a specific set of tool options. You can also load presets. Click on the Presents Button and it bring up the Preset Menu. For the Selection Tool there are none. For the Crop Tool, there are quite a few. The tools all do different things. Here you have the Pan Tool which allows me to pan around if I'm zoomed in. The Zoom Tool zooms in and out. The Pick Tool allows you to pick an object or a layer and manipulate it. Sometimes you'll get these messages telling you to reset a tool and that's OK. You can manipulate, transform a layer or an object with the Pick Tool. You can also move it if you like, rotate it. There's a Move Tool underneath that so I can move an object. There are three different types of Selection Tools so I can conduct rectangular or shape-based selections here. Freehand Selection allows me to draw a selection. Freehand or Point to Point or using a Smart Edge or Edge Seeker; all different options which have different kind of operations. Now I'm going to select None here and show the Magic Wand, which selects all pixels based on a certain tolerance. So if I click in here on the black, that's going to select all the pixels of that color to within a tolerance of 20. Alright, the Eye Dropper Tool; hover that over your image, click it and the color goes into the Materials Palette. If you right click, the color goes into the background color. Crop crops the image. You can click and drag that around your screen. When you double click or click the checkmark it applies it. Here is the Straighten Tool. This allows you to straighten an image that may be crooked or if you click under it, you've got a Perspective Correction Tool which, if you align that up with straight edges in the picture, like if it's distorted from a certain lens distortion, you can straighten that up. Red Eye Removal Tool, Makeover Tool which has five sub-tools under it, which go up in the Tool Options Palette here. You got Blemish Fixer, Toothbrush, Eye Dropper, Suntan and Thinify; all different tools to do makeovers. Clone Brush, Scratch Remover, Object Remover; all items to take blemishes out of photos normally or retouching photos. Here we have Paintbrush and beneath that the Airbrush. So we're getting into painting options. Just click and paint. Now you have several different tools which, again, are retouching tools where I can Lighten, Darken, Dodge, Burn, Smudge, Push, Soften Focus, Sharpen, Emboss and the rest. All very interesting and very powerful tools. You just play around with them and get to know them and they're all, some of them are brush-based here. Got the Eraser. Again, Eraser, another brush that you want to manipulate the size up here, which you can see it showing up in the window. And then you've got Hardness, which is edge hardness from a hundred, which is a perfectly hard edge to zero, which is very soft. I also have a Background Eraser Tool, Flood Fill, Color Changer, Tube Tool is very interesting. It puts existing graphics that you select here randomly where you click in your image. Text, Preset Shapes, which are vector-based. They show up in a new vector layer, which I can then select, move, transform, access their properties. The Pen Tool, which allows me to create vector objects, lines and other very complicated vector shapes. Warp Brushes, which allow you to warp. You can get very creative with that. Under that is the Mesh Warp, which allows you to warp a layer based on its, a grid here. And finally, a selection of Art Media Tools from Oil Brush, Chalk, Pastel and so forth. OK, I think that wraps this lesson up. We've taken a quick overview of all the tools in Paint Shop Pro and quickly, you know, discovered some of the options and how to use them.