Toolbar

Editing Toolbar

> Work and Crop Area tool:

> With this tool you can define a rectangular region, to crop pictures. After defining an area you can select from Main menu > Edit > Crop to work area or just use the shortcut Ctrl+A. The Work area can also be used similarly to a rectangular selection, but if you want to define a real selection, you should use the correct tools described further.

> Layers tools:

> Move Layer tool:

> After selecting a layer from the Layers Window, you can move it using this tool. Just click and drag to move the layer in a new position. You can move both text and image layers with the same tool. If you shift+click you can use this same tool also to select the most visible layer on which you clicked.

> Erase/Restore Layer tool:

> This tool modifies the opacity(alpha channel) of an image layer. you can use it as a normal brush: when you change the alpha channel, the layer will blend with different intensity with the background. With this tool you can create see-through regions on the layer.

> The same tool, if used in restore mode, can restore the alpha channel thus increasing the opacity of the layer.

> Selection tools:

> Move Selection tool:

> Once you have created a selection use this tool to move it on the picture. This does not move the pixels underlying the selection.

> Create Selection tools:

> Using selections you can later apply any image processing only to selected parts of the picture. You can select complex regions using different tools like the following:

> > -Select by color

> > This selects area of similar color in all the picture, using a tolerance.

> > -Select by Magic Wand

> > This selects area of similar color locally, using a tolerance.

> > -Select by painting

> > You can paint a selection with this tool.

> > -Select by Lasso

> > You can define an irregular region selection by drawing its borders

> > or you can use geometric selection tools like

> > -Rectangular, Elliptic, Linear or Pencil selections

> Editing Tools:

> Color Picker:

> Picks a color from a pixel in the picture. You can also pick a color by right-clicking the picture with the mouse.

> Drawing tools

> Pencil, Lines, Arrows, Rectangles, Ellipses, Bezier curves.

> Text tool.

> Fill tool:

> Fill areas of similar color locally, using different modes (color,texture etc..)

> Color Replace tool:

> Replace areas of similar color in all the picture, using different modes (color,texture etc..)

> Painting Tools:

> Paint Brush tool:

> Can apply by painting color, texture, or retouch operations (depending from the current edit mode).

> Clone tool:

> With this painting tool you can copy a source picture over a target picture .

> Objects Stamp tool:

> This allows you to paint with objects.

> Deformer tool:

> Warp tool, lets you deform pictures.

> History tool:

> This tool restores by painting a picture stored in the undo buffer.

> #### You can control all the parameters and settings of the selected tool by the tool window (example of tool window when the paintbrush tool is active):