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In this lesson we're going to quickly review some of the major tools in Paint Shop Pro Photo XI. You'll notice at the outset if you do not have a file open, the tools are unavailable. And the tools are located on this toolbar which runs initially the left hand side of the screen. You can undock that and drag that wherever you like, change it's aspect ratio from one tool wide to that, let's try to drag it back to where it was. It can be docked as a horizontal bar or vertical. If you can't drop it exactly where you need to just go to file, workspace, and chose the default workspace. This should take everything back to normal. Now we can close our learning center if we like, organizer and things just fit right back where they belong. OK let's open up an image and we can see immediately the tools appear as colorful choices. I'm just going to walk through them very quickly. You've got the pan tool, which is a hand. If we zoom in we then just click and drag with the pan tool. You can see my daughter Grace. Under that you can see the zoom tool. You'll notice there's a black triangle on this hand, which indicates there are tools underneath it that if you click on the triangle and keep your mouse over this tool area you can access those sub menus. You can also see the keyboard shortcut. Pan is A, zoom is Z. so let's try Z, boom, our zoom tool is now active. If I click on the zoom tool I go in and if I right click I go out. You'll also notice when you select a tool, tool presets and options appear in this toolbar. Many times you've got several different options to choose from. For example the selection tool allows you to choose between all of these different types of selections, modes, whether or not you want to feather the selection, anti alias it, create a custom selection or a selection from one of those options. It's really the skill and experience of learning Paint Shop Pro Photo is learning all these different types and modes associated with each tool. And you'll have your favorite tools you know. There's some tools I hardly ever use, and there's some tools I use all the time. When I scan in an image I will always open it up using the straighten tool to straighten it, then I'll crop it, I hardly ever use the zoom tool because I use my mouse wheel to zoom in and out. I'll usually select a tool and then zoom with my mouse wheel, and if I keep the cursor over what I want to see I get pretty good at centering my zoom action. I also hardly ever use the pan but hey that's me. You got your own choices and the way you want to work. Below that are pick, which allows you to pick an object and then resize it or move it. Let's create something real quick here. Let's create a rectangle which is going to be black with a white border. Now choose the pick tool, we can move with the pick but we can also change the size, shape and rotation of objects. Below that is move, and now for the selection tools. Selection, freehand or magic wand. Below this is the dropper tool and you can see as you hover that over the image you can see a thumbnail of the color where the dropper is located in rgb values. Below that is crop. Now you'll notice some tools like crop have green checkmarks by them, either on the toolbar or where you're applying the tool. This means that this tool isn't until you check the applied checkbox. Straighten gives you the liner which you can drag around, and when you apply straightens the image or layer. You can also correct perspective here. Alright let's activate the bottom layer. You can see the red eye tool, clicking that allows us to change red eye. Followed by makeover tool which has three sub tools not located on the toolbar but appear in the options. We've got our clone brushing, scratch remover, object remover brushes, paint brushing and airbrush. Now we have a boatload of brushes here which allows to perform things like lighten, darken, burn, soften and so forth. These are all essentially organized together as brushes that change these values. We have an eraser, background eraser, flood fill with color changer under that, picture tube which is a cool tool, text tool, rectangle, or other object tool, pen tool, then you see the double arrows there where I can click for more buttons, warp brush or mesh warp and then finally our oil brush and other media art media tools. So there are a ton of tools here on this toolbar. You can see generally how they work, you click it to access it, change any presets at the top that you like or modes of operation and then go ahead and use it. There will be other tools like the paint or the dropper tool where you just click it and you can see what's under there. And then if you click it the color appears in the foregrounds of properties or if you right click the background properties. Alright I think we can wrap this lesson up. That's a quick review of all the tools, where they're located at and some general information on how to use them.