Photo Paint

Toolbox

The toolbox contains tools for editing, creating, and viewing images. Some of the tools are visible by default, while others are grouped in flyouts. Flyouts open to display a set of related tools.

A small flyout arrow in the bottom-right corner of a toolbox button indicates a flyout. The last tool used in a flyout displays in the toolbox. You can access the tools in a flyout by clicking the small black arrow that appears in the bottom, right corner of a toolbox button. After you open one flyout, you can easily scan the contents of other flyouts by hovering over any of the toolbox buttons that have flyout arrows.

Flyouts function like toolbars when you drag them away from the toolbox. This lets you view all the related tools while you work.

In the default workspace, clicking the flyout arrow on the Red-eye Removal tool opens the Touch up flyout.

In addition to the tools, the color control area displays in the toolbox. The color control area lets you choose colors and fills.

The following tables provide descriptions of the tools and the color control area.

Tools

Pick tools
	The Object pick tool lets you select an object.
	The Mask transform tool lets you change the appearance of editable areas.
Mask tools
	The Rectangle mask tool lets you define rectangular editable areas.
	The Ellipse mask tool lets you define elliptical editable areas.
	The Freehand mask tool lets you define irregularly shaped or polygonal editable areas.
	The Lasso mask tool lets you define editable areas that are irregular in shape and surrounded by pixels of similar colors.
	The Magnetic mask tool lets you detect edges of elements in your image, that is, the outline of areas that are in contrasting color to their surroundings, and place the mask marquee along that edge.
	The Magic wand mask tool lets you define irregularly shaped editable areas that include all adjacent pixels that are similar in color to the pixel you first select.
	The Brush mask tool lets you define an editable area by brushing an area as if you were painting.
Crop tool
	The Crop tool lets you remove unwanted areas and straighten crooked images.
Zoom tools
	The Zoom tool lets you change the magnification level in the image window.
	The Pan tool lets you drag areas of an image into view when the image is larger than its window.
Eyedropper tool
	The Eyedropper tool lets you choose colors from an image.
Eraser tool
	The Eraser tool lets you erase image areas or object areas to reveal the object or background underneath.
Text tool
	The Text tool lets you add text to your image and edit existing text.
Touch-up tools
	The Red-eye removal tool lets you remove the red-eye effect from the eyes of subjects in photos.
	The Clone tool lets you duplicate part of an image and apply it to another part of the same image or to another image.
	The Touch-up brush tool lets you remove imperfections, such as tears, scratch marks, and wrinkles, from an image by blending its textures and colors.
Shape tools
	The Rectangle tool lets you draw square or rectangular shapes.
	The Ellipse tool lets you draw circular or elliptical shapes.
	The Polygon tool lets you draw polygons.
	The Line tool lets you draw single or joined straight line segments using the foreground color.
	The Path tool lets you create and edit paths.
Fill tools
	The Fill tool lets you fill areas with one of four fill types: uniform, fountain, bitmap, and texture.
	The Interactive fill tool lets you apply a gradient fill to the entire image, object, or selection.
Brush tools
	The Paint tool lets you paint on an image using the foreground color.
	The Effect tool lets you perform local color and tonal corrections on the image.
	The Image sprayer tool lets you load one or more images and paint them on your image.
	The Undo brush tool lets you restore image areas to how they looked before your last brushstroke.
	The Replace color brush tool lets you replace the foreground color in your image with the background color.
Interactive/Transparency tools
	The Interactive drop shadow tool lets you add shadows to objects.
	The Interactive object transparency tool lets you make the colors of an object fade gradually towards the image background color.
	The Color transparency tool lets you make pixels with a specific color value in an object transparent.
	The Object transparency brush tool lets you brush areas on an object to make them more transparent.
Image slicing tool
	The Image slicing tool lets you cut a large image into smaller sections that can be modified for the Web.
Color control area
	The Color control area lets you choose colors and fills. It consists of three swatches: a Foreground color swatch, a Background color swatch, and a Fill color swatch. The arrow lets you swap the foreground color and background color, and the Reset color icon lets you return to the default colors.

Toolbox